I said earlier on Tuesday that the double technical foul handed out to Russell Westbrook and Patrick Beverley during Game 5 of the Houston Rockets and Oklahoma City Thunder series was the weakest of the playoffs so far.
All I had to do was wait about two hours. The NBA fixed that right up for me.
Late in the game between the Los Angeles Clippers and Utah Jazz, Chris Paul and Gordon Hayward got tied up on a jump ball. The two ended up on the floor, and neither wanted to let go of the ball.
Hayward and Paul wrestled for the ball, with Hayward eventually winning. Paul then gave him a little shove in the back. Both, somehow, wound up with a technical foul.
I would have been perfectly fine if Gordon Hayward threw the ball at Chris Paul's face right here pic.twitter.com/P5JELnsgBI
— Gifdsports (@gifdsports) April 26, 2017
I ... what?
Utah won an exciting game at the wire, 96-92, to take a 3-2 series lead.
