Welcome back, NBA regular season – time to get your Oscar ballots ready. Early in the second quarter of the Oklahoma City Thunder’s game against the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday, a nice little team scuffle went down after Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox and OKC center Chet Holmgren got all tangled up and the big fell to the ground in a Meryl Streep sort of way. Somebody grabs you like that and you’re flying on the floor like that, you got other problems to worry about.
I didn’t throw him to the ground that hard, I promise you.” Either Simone Biles would be proud of Holmgren, or the Hulk would be proud of Fox, who knows. Holmgren’s landing led to a tussle between Victor Wembanyama and Jaylin Williams and coaches had to step in. Wembanyama and Williams received technical fouls along with Jalen Williams and Kenrich Williams.
Fox was hit with a flagrant 1 foul. I don’t totally understand that. So if they want to play physical, we have to match that, and the refs are going to do their job in keeping that within the guidelines.”
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