China Daily (Hong Kong)

Rockets-Clippers beef investigat­ed by NBA

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The NBA has spoken to Clippers star Blake Griffin as well as other players from the Houston Rockets and Los Angeles as part of its investigat­ion into late-game and postgame incidents involving the teams on Monday night. come up with.”

Tempers boiled over during the Clippers’ 113-102 victory, with several security guards needed outside the Houston locker room afterward.

Citing anonymous NBA sources, ESPN reported several Rockets players headed toward the Clippers’ locker room after the game, seeking a confrontat­ion, but were escorted away by security personnel before anything got physical.

“I wouldn’t call it pretty crazy,” Griffin said. “In this day and age everything kind of gets blown a little bit out of proportion.” was provided.

The team said it is “terribly saddened” by White’s passing, calling him a “champion and a gentleman; supremely talented and brilliant on the court, and endlessly gracious off of it”.

White played 10 seasons for Boston, which drafted him ninth overall in 1969. He averaged 17.2 points per game over 13 years, also playing for Golden State and the Kansas City Kings before retiring in 1981.

The Celtics retired White’s No 10 the following year, and he still was working with the club as a director of special projects at the time of his death.

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