Houston ahead Dillon Brooks used to be ejected 4:33 into his first recreation with the Rockets for a flagrant foul 2 to the groin of Indiana Pacers middle Daniel Theis on Tuesday night time.

Brooks stated upcoming the Rockets’ 122-103 win of their preseason opener towards the visiting Pacers that he didn’t cruel to collision Theis and chalked the ejection as much as his recognition.

“I tried to navigate a screen,” Brooks stated, in keeping with the Houston Chronicle. “I might have tapped him below waist. But he got right back up. I don’t know. It’s weird that every time it happens to me, I get picked on. I guess it’s part of reputation.”

Brooks, upcoming with the Memphis Grizzlies, gave a indistinguishable rationalization upcoming being ejected for a flagrant foul 2 in Sport 3 of ultimate season’s playoff layout towards the Los Angeles Lakers, when he struck LeBron James within the groin.

“The media making me a villain, the fans making me a villain and then that just creates a whole different persona on me,” Brooks stated in April.

As for Tuesday night time’s toss, Brooks stated: “For a flagrant 2 foul like that, you got to know if a person is doing it on purpose or intention. That’s really going at who I am as a person. That ref, Mitch [Ervin], that just shows that he just doesn’t know who I am as a person. He’s just going off what’s been said.”

The Grizzlies opted towards making an attempt to re-sign Brooks in detached company this summer season because of his often-antagonistic antics, amongst alternative elements. He therefore indubitably to a four-year, $80 million word with the Rockets.

Rockets tutor Ime Udoka said there’s a belief round Brooks.

“We love his aggressiveness and physicality,” Udoka stated, in keeping with the Houston Chronicle. “But reputations carry in the NBA and people will look for certain things. You got to monitor that better.”

Data from The Related Press used to be old on this document.