If you stayed up for the end of the Heat/Pacers game last night, you saw Pacers’ Jeff Pendergraph, Heat’s Norris Cole and Flo Rida’s manager ejected from the game with little more than two minutes left. So what exactly happened?! Watch and find out after the jump…
Via Dan Devine at YahooSports:
With just over two minutes remaining in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals and the Miami Heat holding a very comfortable lead over the Indiana Pacers, coaches Erik Spoelstra and Frank Vogel had largely emptied their benches, resulting in end-game playing time for the likes of Pacers reserve Jeff Pendergraph (who had played just three minutes in this series, all in a blowout Game 3 loss) and Heat backup Rashard Lewis (who’d managed five minutes spread over two games). As Pendergraph attempted to set a screen to free Pacers guard D.J. Augustin, Lewis gave Pendergraph a little shove in the back that sent the Indiana big man into Heat guard Norris Cole.
Pendergraph, apparently, didn’t like getting so close with Cole.
As intrepid TNT sideline maven Craig Sager reported, a courtside patron at the AmericanAirlines Arena seated behind the Pacers bench was also ejected for his role in the late-game trash-talking. That patron?
“It actually was Flo Rida’s manager who was ejected,” Sager said. “He and Pendergraph had been going back and forth. He got to be such a distraction that the officials came over and tried to eject him. He wanted to stay put. However, Flo Rida said, ‘You’re my manager, but you’ve got to get out of here now.'”
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