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Matt Bonner blames iPhone 6 for causing elbow injury

Everybody loves the Red Mamba. Except the Red Mamba’s iPhone, apparently.

Free agent forward Matt Bonner just took weird sports injuries to the next level, blaming his iPhone 6 for causing an elbow injury that hindered his shooting last season with the San Antonio Spurs.

Bonner spoke with The Concord Monitor over the weekend:

“You’re about to get an exclusive here. I hate to make excuses, I was raised to never make excuses, but I went through a two-and-a-half month stretch where I had really bad tennis elbow, and during that stretch it made it so painful for me to shoot I’d almost be cringing before I even caught the ball like, ‘Oh, this is going to kill.