By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
With Dallas locked in for the playoffs, trouble arises for Luka Doncic who was ejected from the team’s 124-107 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday after hitting Cavs’ Collin Sexton in the groin during a battle for a rebound.
Doncic finished with 15 points, five rebounds and five assists, was assessed a Flagrant 2 foul, which results in an automatic ejection early in the third quarter.
“After I saw the video, I knew I hit him, but it wasn’t nothing on purpose. I think that kind of stuff happens a lot in games, but I don’t know. That’s my explanation. It obviously wasn’t on purpose. It was just two guys fighting for a rebound, I guess”, said Doncic after the game.
This flagrant 2 does not count in Doncic’s technical foul total of 15 this season, as he remains one technical away from an automatic one-game suspension.
Sexton himself also talked about the incident post-game: “It was just a boxout play. Usually, whenever someone is hand-checking, then you punch down or swing down. It was just in the groin, but it’s all good.”
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