Zaza Pachulia was hot. Too hot.
On a shot late in the third quarter, the Pistons’ big man thought he was fouled by the Raptors Pascal Siakam, a push that allowed Marc Gasol to block the shot. Both Pachulia and Blake Griffin, pushed by Kyle Lowry, ended up on the ground. There was no call. Pachulia was yelling at a referee, appeared to bump the official to the eyes our own Dan Feldman who was in the building (although the video does not confirm that), and quickly got ejected.
Everyone knew what was coming next: Pachulia has been fined $25,000 by the league for “confronting and verbally abusing a game official and failing to leave the court in a timely manner upon his ejection.”
The Pistons went on to win the game in overtime. Detroit has won 9-of-11 and moved into the six seed in the East. Not that any of that impresses Blake Griffin.
#Pistons Blake Griffin on moving up in the standings 🔥🔥🔥: "What have we done? We’ve had a good stretch and a lot of teams have had good stretches. Being in the 6th or 7th seed is absolutely nothing to be proud of. We tricked off two months of basketball."
— Rod Beard (@detnewsRodBeard) March 4, 2019
