Why is Ibaka ejected? Just because he got aggressive with getting Griffin off of him?
Barnes I can see because he shoved Ibaka pretty hard when he didn't even need to be involved in that.
That was the weakest reason for ejection that I've seen in a long. I don't think either player did anything worthy of being tossed.
They pushed each other....big deal. T them both up then move on. That's what happens 99.9% of the time. I'd really like to find out the reason why that "scuffle" deserved an ejection, especially since neither player threw a punch.
As for the game itself, I'm going to put an asterisk next to this loss. The Thunder were cruising until Ibaka got ejected. But once he got booted that put us down two big men who we rely heavily on (Perkins DNP due to death in family). So they had to play scrub Ryan Gomes and he immediately picks up 4 fouls in 6 minutes.
Even JVG commented on the effect of the ejection. He said something to the effect of, Ibaka was 6-6 for 13 points and 2 rbs. Barnes was 0-5 for 0 pts. The Clippers will take that trade off any day of the week.
So yeah, this game gets an asterisk because of the garbage ejection.
On a side note, Barnes will likely get fined for a tweet he made after his ejection. He's deleted it since, but it stayed up for about an hour or so. It was:
"I love my teammates like family buy I'm done fighting for this ni**as. All that shit does is cost me money."
Yeah, I think he'll be hearing from the league.
I'm pretty sure that comment was aimed at Blake Griffin. Remember he's the one with the rep for being soft and not standing up for himself.
