Unsurprisingly, Isaiah Stewart and LeBron James avoided the press following the Lakers’ victory on the Detroit floor. Both expelled, they animated the evening following their collision. It all starts with a rebound struggle. LeBron James tries to get clear and explodes the Detroit interior arcade. The rest is a small period of calm, followed by a furious Isaiah Stewart who wants to fight it out.
“It was a complicated action for Isaiah” defends him Dwane Casey. “He ended up with the arch split right through, and he had reason to be upset. I don’t think James is a bad guy, but once more, it all started from there. »
For Frank Vogel, LeBron James reacted to an elbow in the ribs. ” LeBron took a blow to the ribs, and it was a foul, and he tried to get rid of the arm. It’s accidental contact, obviously sufficient for it to be a disqualifying foul. »
“I had never seen a player try to do that”
Face and mouth bleeding, Isaiah Stewart is not the first to take an unfortunate nudge in the face, and that’s what Anthony Davis does not understand.
“I don’t know what he tried, but nobody in our team, from 1st to 15th player, was going to let him. We were going to protect our brother. Since I started playing, and it’s been ten years, I had never seen a player try to do that. It is unjustified. There is a cut above the eye, accidental, it was not intentional. And we weren’t going to allow him to go following our brother like that. I don’t know what he was trying to do, but we weren’t going to let him.”
The Lakers even received the support of Cory Joseph, ready to prevent his teammate from committing the irreparable. ” Cory had anticipated he might come back the other way, and go following the Lakers bench notes one of the referees. ” He was going to intercept it, and I told Cory that was fine. »
“No one wanted to go back 17 years”
Seventeen years, almost to the day, following the infamous fight between the Pistons and the Pacers, we avoided the worst, and Anthony Davis congratulates everyone. “We were back in Detroit, and there are images that come back… But NBA security, Pistons security, the staffs, and even a few players did a good job so that there was no an escalation of the situation. No one wanted to go back 17 years. »
From now on, place with the disciplinary committee. Rather lenient this season, will she suspend LeBron James and Isaiah Stewart?
“I don’t think he should be sanctioned with anything by the NBA” estime Dwane Casey. “He just didn’t leave the field in time, and the NBA will just have to judge that. I think that’s why he was expelled. »
