Patrick Mills has no issue with small rooms in the athlete’s village at the Rio Olympics

ANDREW Bogut and Patty Mills proved one man’s shoebox is another man’s castle.

Patrick Mills says he prefers a cuddle with his teammates. Picture: Alex Coppel

ANDREW Bogut and Patty Mills proved one man’s shoebox is another man’s castle.

Pot-stirring Bogut unleashed a series of tweets about the broken shower curtains and the small size of his room and other problems in the athlete’s village but his teammate Mills has no problems.

Nor is he jealous of the USA team who are staying on a luxury liner.

“I much prefer to cuddle with my teammates,” fellow NBA star Mills quipped. “We all grew up together playing basketball, so we are a tight bunch.”

Patrick Mills says he much prefers a cuddle with his teammates than a room on his own on a luxury liner. Picture: Alex Coppel

Damian Martin, a first time Olympian who plays in the NBL, said Bogut’s tweets were humorous rather than venomous.

“Andrew’s quick-witted, he’s intelligent, he tells it how it is and it’s funny for other people to read his tweets,” Martin said.

The cruise liner Silver Cloud that will accommodate the U.S. basketball Olympic team is anchored at the renovated port area of Praca Maua in Rio de Janeiro.

“It’s one of those things that we’ll laugh about, and it’s part of the story of my first Olympics. He’s a funny guy and a lot of it is tongue-in-cheek.”

Australia’s chef de mission Kitty Chiller, herself a vitriolic critic of the village, said she was treating Bogut’s tweets as light hearted.

#IOCLuxuryLodging. Putting together a shower curtain so we can shower and not flood the place. pic.twitter.com/omaBJ7Dlje

— Andrew Bogut (@andrewbogut) August 2, 2016

“He’s the best man to fix a shower curtain as he’s exactly the right height,” Chiller said when asked about Bogut’s tweets. “[The tweet] was a bit of fun. The village is what it is — we’re all mucking in and doing stuff and there’s no harm in it.”

Commenting on the size of Bogut’s bed, Chiller added: “He’s got a big bed with a nice big mosquito net. He’s like a princess in there.”

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