In what could end up being his last game in a Los Angeles Lakers uniform, Dwight Howard was ejected after picking up his second technical foul shortly after halftime in Sunday’s Game 4 against the San Antonio Spurs.
Magic Johnson has been very vocal all season about things the Lakers have and have not done right. Well Magic took to Twitter to vent about Dwight Howard’s ejection. Check out the ejection & what Magic and Stephen A. had to say about it…
Via ESPN:
Howard’s second tech came from arguing with a referee with 9:51 to go in the third quarter and the already-thin Lakers trailing 55-34.
“It’s over with now,” Howard said of his ejection. “I just got to do a better job of trying to keep my cool. It’s very tough to be out there playing. It’s an emotional game, you don’t want to lose, and sometimes when things don’t go your way, sometimes you react the wrong way. I just got to keep my cool.”
Coach Mike D’Antoni defended Howard, saying “I’m sure he didn’t mean to.”
“He takes a pounding and after a while I guess his nerves are shot or whatever, but obviously we were in a deep hole anyways so I felt bad for him,” D’Antoni said. “Understand it’s easy when you sit there like us and just watch, but when you’re playing you’ve got a lot of adrenaline going so it’s a hard situation and obviously that wouldn’t have happened if the series was a little bit different.”
Lakers legend and ESPN analyst Magic Johnson was not so apologetic in a series of critical tweets
*TWEETS ABOVE IN GALLERY*
The Spurs completed a sweep of the Lakers, winning 103-82.
“It’s like a nightmare, it’s like a bad dream and we couldn’t wake up out of it,” Howard said about the season. “That’s what it felt like. It seemed like nothing could go right from the start, injuries and all that stuff, but we can get an opportunity to get some rest for guys who are injured, coming off injuries. A chance to rehab and think about what we can all do to better ourselves.”
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Video of ejection:
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Stephen A Smith Reaction – ‘Straight Up Punk Move’ By Dwight Howard:
