You know it is playoff run time when the tempers and the games become hot. Last night was no different as the Miami Heat and the New Orleans Pelicans took to the floor and a battle began. The game was hard fought all the way to the end as each team was hitting hard. The Heat took the win 106-95 but not without casualties.
The game was a hard-fought game and as such it is up to the referees to control such a game, not to let it get out of hand, call the right calls and keep it safe. The problem became when the referees did not do that, they did not make the calls they needed and as such tempers were high and hot and it all came out in the fourth quarter.
After Miami’s Jimmy Butler rebounded the ball, Williamson stole it back in the paint, going up for a shot near the net before he was fouled hard by Miami’s Kevin Love. Williamson grabbed Butler’s neck, and both teams ran into a moving scrum of dancing and shouting, as multiple players and coaches from both teams tried to stop the fight. Then as it appeared to be settled down another fight broke out between Thomas Bryant and Jose Alvarado how were also ejected.
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— Heat Nation (@HeatNationCom) February 24, 2024
“Our team is so ready for anything that anybody’s thrown at us,” Butler said after the Heat won for the seventh time in nine games. “We’re so together, playing some incredible basketball. I don’t think it matters who we go up against right now. It’s that time of the year.”
Butler is anything but discreet and this is his time of year. As for the referees, let this be a lesson. The games will be hot and it is up to you to control them. As a fan I thank you, stay out of it, let them play, makes for a fun night for fans.
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