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Smart doesn't want to be a distraction

"Not about that life?" Marcus Smart disagrees. After a scuffle between Jimmy Butler and Smart in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinal series, Butler questioned Smart's toughness.

"He's a great actor, acting tough, that's what he does, but I don't think he's about that life," Butler said. "And I'm the wrong guy to get in my face. So he needs to take it somewhere else because I'm not the one for that."

Smart is literally laughing off Butler's comments.

"I laugh at that," Smart said. "I ain't gotta talk about what I'm about. I can show you better than I can tell you. Like I said, it's not hard to find me. And you heard him. He said, 'I don't think Marcus Smart's about that life.' Last time I checked if you're going to say somebody ain't about that life you should know, right?"

Smart isn't the only one being questioned after the Celtics' win on Sunday.

Bulls' head coach Fred Hoiberg called out Isaiah Thomas.

"He's impossible to guard when you're able to put your hand underneath the ball and take two or three steps and put it back down," said Hoiberg. "It's impossible to guard him in those situations."

Thomas admits he was taken back by Hoiberg's comments.

"I was very surprised," Thomas said "Out of everything else that I do on the court, you want to bring that up? It is what it is. I'm going to continue to dribble the ball the way I know how."

Thomas, confident in his ball handling skills, says he has been dribbling the same way his entire life and dribbles no differently than his opponents.

"I know I don't carry the ball," Thomas said. "And if I do, every other point guard and every other guard that dribbles in this league carries as well. Dwyane Wade, [Rajon] Rondo, LeBron [James]. I dribble just like everybody else."

Maria Santora is an intern in the Boston 25 Sports Department. Follow Maria on Twitter: @_Maria_Santora_