Tempers can heat up very quickly in the NBA. While he had just countered Josh Giddey and had gone on the counter-attack, hoping to play the carrot just before half-time, Montrezl Harrell was finally not served by Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, who did not failed to throw it and finally attempted an impossible 3-pointer.
It should have stopped there, but the two Washington teammates, already together at the Lakers before being sent to Washington in the exchange around Russell Westbrook, began to berate each other.
According to The Athletic, the tension thus mounted on the way to the locker room, before it exploded.
Montrezl Harrell and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope tried to punch each other, the two men missing their target before their teammates intervened to separate them and manage to calm the situation.
Upon entering the locker room, the altercation was already over and security had been tightened to prevent it from exploding again. Nothing serious, in the end, especially since Washington won the match with a decisive KCP.
| Shots | Rebounds | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | LF | Off | Def | Early | Pd | Bp | Int | Ct | Fte | Pts |
| Bradley Beal | 34 | 36.0 | 45.5 | 29.8 | 84.0 | 1.0 | 3.7 | 4.7 | 6.4 | 3.4 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 24.0 |
| Kyle kuzma | 39 | 33.3 | 45.2 | 32.3 | 68.1 | 1.0 | 7.6 | 8.6 | 2.8 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 15.6 |
| Montrezl Harrell | 34 | 25.4 | 64.5 | 30.0 | 73.6 | 2.2 | 5.1 | 7.3 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.9 | 14.4 |
| Spencer dinwiddie | 32 | 30.3 | 39.6 | 32.5 | 79.6 | 0.8 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 5.8 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 2.4 | 13.4 |
| Kentavious Caldwell-Pope | 38 | 29.7 | 42.0 | 38.9 | 88.2 | 0.5 | 3.1 | 3.6 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 11.6 |
| Daniel Gafford | 38 | 22.9 | 69.3 | 0.0 | 73.2 | 2.4 | 4.4 | 6.8 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 2.5 | 9.7 |
| Raulzinho Neto | 35 | 20.4 | 44.1 | 24.1 | 74.5 | 0.2 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 2.7 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 7.5 |
| Deni Avdija | 41 | 23.0 | 43.0 | 30.2 | 72.1 | 0.7 | 4.2 | 4.9 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 7.2 |
| Brad Wanamaker | 1 | 27.1 | 40.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 7.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 7.0 |
| Davis Bertans | 28 | 15.8 | 36.8 | 34.6 | 93.1 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 6.6 |
| Rui Hachimura | 2 | 14.4 | 38.5 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 6.5 |
| Aaron Holiday | 33 | 16.7 | 47.2 | 36.5 | 79.2 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 6.2 |
| Corey kispert | 36 | 17.3 | 42.1 | 29.2 | 84.8 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 5.6 |
| Greg monroe | 2 | 8.8 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 5.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 4.0 |
| Anthony gill | 16 | 6.7 | 66.7 | 71.4 | 83.3 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 3.2 |
| Craig sword | 3 | 6.3 | 75.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 2.0 |
| Tremont Waters | 1 | 8.4 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| Isaiah todd | 9 | 3.9 | 33.3 | 40.0 | 50.0 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1.8 |
| Alize johnson | 3 | 6.1 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.3 |
| Cassius winston | 2 | 3.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| Joel Ayayi | 7 | 2.9 | 16.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Jaime Echenique | 1 | 3.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Jordan Schakel | 2 | 7.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Jordan goodwin | 2 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
