The NBA fined Memphis Grizzlies small ahead Dillon Brooks $25,000 for violating the league’s media entry insurance policies in the course of the first-round sequence in opposition to the Los Angeles Lakers, NBA government vice President Joe Dumars introduced Sunday morning.
Brooks didn’t make himself obtainable to the media in any case three of the Grizzlies’ highway losses in Los Angeles.
Brooks made himself one of many sequence’ main storylines by disrespecting Lakers star LeBron James throughout his media session after the Grizzlies’ Recreation 2 house win.
“I do not care — he is previous,” Brooks mentioned then when requested a couple of heated trade of phrases between the 2 throughout that recreation. “I used to be ready for that, I used to be anticipating him to do this Recreation 4, Recreation 5, he needed to say one thing after I acquired my fourth foul. He should not have mentioned that earlier on. I poke bears. I do not respect anybody till they arrive and provides me 40.”
Brooks was ejected 17 seconds into the second half of Recreation 3 when he was known as for a flagrant foul 2 after hitting James within the groin space.
When Brooks spoke to the media after follow the subsequent day, he complained that he had been portrayed as a villain by media and followers and instructed that it influenced the flagrant 2 name in opposition to him.
Brooks, a six-year veteran who’s the longest-tenured participant on the Memphis roster, struggled mightily within the sequence. He shot 31.2% from the ground and 23.8% from 3-point vary regardless of the Lakers usually scheming defensively to go away him open and clog the paint. He shall be an unrestricted free agent this offseason.
In contrast to you little ?I am a grown ass man
Large sneakers to fill ?, grown ass pants
Prolly hustled along with your pops, go ask your mother and father
Its obvious you are looking at a legend
Who, put a number of little ?within the they place earlier than
Making an attempt to eat with out saying they grace earlier than! ??— LeBron James (@KingJames) April 29, 2023
James, whose Lakers completed the sequence with a 40-point win in Recreation 6 that was probably the most lopsided loss in Memphis’ postseason historical past, made certain to get the final phrases on social media Saturday, quoting lyrics from Jay-Z’s “Hassle.”