This time, Jordan Clarkson very delicately sent his headband in the stands, towards a local fan. The back of the Jazz had just been expelled after his altercation with Jonathan Kumingaabout twenty seconds from the end of the game against the Warriors.
Part during which the first had repeatedly taken over the second in penetration. On the disputed action, the Warriors winger decided to go more physical, on the verge of fault, to contain the back of the Jazz. After a counter, Kuminga managed to recover the leather while Clarkson clung to him, around the neck, to commit an intentional foul. Because the Jazz was still led by two points at this stage (119-121).
What cause an altercation between the two men who had to be separated. The referees sanctioned the American-Filipino for his gesture with a level 2 flagrant foul, synonymous with expulsion. Kuminga and Malik Beasley both received a technical foul.
” I tried to calm things down “, ironically then laughs the player expelled after the meeting. “(Kuminga) caught the rebound, I tried to foul him. It was a normal fault, like all the others. I tried to hold him back. Yes that’s all. I didn’t hit him in the face “, describes more seriously the back of the Jazz.
The referees, they judged this gesture ” over the shoulder both unnecessary and excessive “, while the cleanliness of the initial defense of the player of the Warriors was not questioned.
As for the sequence of events, Jonathan Kuminga said he had ” no intention of doing anything. It was just funny to see (note: we see him smiling in the heat of the moment), I said nothing, I did nothing. It’s just the fact that it ended like this when he was trying to make a mistake. »
