Rockets antagonist Dillon Brooks discovered himself being tossed from Sunday’s recreation towards the Suns on the Footprint Heart in Phoenix after he obtained into an trade with Kevin Durant.
Durant obtained fouled whereas he began to aim to drive to the basket with 4:48 left within the second quarter, however issues obtained chippier after Brooks tied up Durant after the whistle and the Suns star needed to push Brooks off of him.
The 2 needed to be separated after which Brooks discovered himself giving Nick Richards a little bit of a shove earlier than strolling away. Brooks appeared to say one thing to one of many referees.
As coaches raced over to attempt to quell the state of affairs, Brooks ultimately obtained rung up for a technical foul and was tossed from the sport.
Brooks needed to be held again after referee Justin Van Duyne issued the tech.
So as to add to the already odd state of affairs, moments later, referee Invoice Kennedy had a little bit of enjoyable when he introduced fouls to the group.
Kennedy hammed it up for the group whereas asserting that Durant had been given a technical foul earlier than a dramatic pause after which saying that Richards had been given a technical foul.
He then introduced that two technical fouls had been going to be handed out, however earlier than asserting the title, Kennedy acted as if he forgot who it was and pretended to take a look at a chunk of paper out of digital camera view.
He smirked and introduced that Brooks had been given two technicals and could be ejected from the sport, with the antics of Kennedy amusing the group.
Brooks completed the sport with eight factors in 11 minutes on the ground and had been averaging 13.9 factors per recreation coming into Sunday
The technicals moved him to fifteen whole on the season and one shy from an automated one-game suspension.
The Rockets ended up defeating the Suns 149-109 on Sunday night time
