Houston Rockets’ Dillon Brooks poses for a photographer throughout an NBA basketball media day. AP
Houston Rockets swingman Dillon Brooks was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Thursday for putting Indiana Pacers middle Daniel Theis within the groin in a house pre-season victory on Tuesday.
The league mentioned Brooks “recklessly making contact” with Theis together with his left hand whereas shifting round a decide within the first quarter, a blow that left Germany’s Theis doubled over.
Brooks was assessed a flagrant foul 2 on the play and ejected with 4:33 elapsed within the first interval of Houston’s 122-103 overcome the Pacers.
Brooks, who led the NBA in technical fouls final season, mentioned after the sport he felt “picked on” by referees over his popularity, the 27-year-old Canadian calling himself “Dillon the Villain” over earlier misdeeds.
In final season’s playoffs, Brooks — then enjoying for Memphis — landed a left hand to the groin of LeBron James whereas the Los Angeles Lakers star was dribbling the ball solely 17 seconds into the third quarter of sport three, sending the four-time NBA Most Helpful Participant to the court docket in ache and incomes an ejection for a flagrant foul 2.
Memphis misplaced to the Lakers in six video games and Brooks, who had ripped James for being “old” at 38, was traded from the Grizzlies to Houston final July.