TEMPERS FLARED LATE on as the LA Clippers beat the Houston Rockets 113-102 in the early hours of this morning, and the bad blood nearly spilled over into the dressing rooms after the game finished.
Ex-Clipper Chris Paul attempted to lead three team-mates — James Harden, Trevor Ariza and Gerald Green — through a back door into the home team’s dressing room to confront Blake Griffin and Austin Rivers.
The Rockets’ Clint Capela also attempted to access the dressing room, but he tried the front door, according to reports.
However, security in the Staples Center blocked the players before any confrontation could take place.
The attempted row followed what was feisty game that saw Griffin appearing to deliberately go out of bounds to run into Rockets’ coach Mike D’Antoni late on:
Here's the play where Blake Griffin went right at D'Antoni on the way up the court, going out of bounds to bump him. D'Antoni complains about it immediately. pic.twitter.com/dwZeRJlxmv
— ClutchFans (@clutchfans) January 16, 2018
Asked for his response to everything that went on during and after the game, Clippers coach Doc Rivers said:
“We’re honouring Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we’re non-violent.”
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NA PIARSAIGH…. : I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you think you can do in Croke park. If you are looking for a win today I can tell you should be playing football. I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for teams like you. If you let us win today, that’ll be the end of it. I will not hammer you, I will not embarrass you. But if you don’t, We
will out score you, We will hammer you and We will beat you.
Comical read, you look as foolish as your username now. Cmon Na Piarsaigh!
Well he had a point but it went the other way
Well if you didn’t know who they are , you f@cling know now eh?