HEATED Moments & Dirty Plays of 2025 NBA Season

Siakam just hit that big shot, over to Nembhardt, he's wide open, thinks about it, over to Halliburton. Halliburton pushes off, no whiffle, Halliburton drives, swatted away by Giannis, and it'll be pastor basketball. Halliburton may have gotten away with one, and now Houghton and Portis are doing some jobs. Halliburton and Dame, they back at each other. They back at each other. Shades of the fourth quarter from the other day. This is what the play is all about. Listen, nothing dirty going on, it's competitive. I don't like you, you don't like me. Let's settle it on the court. Refs get involved, separating everybody, cooler heads prevail. Siakam now talking. Siakam has a long playoff history against the Bucs. Going back to the 2019 Eastern Conference Finals, where his Raptors eliminated the Bucs. And now a technical foul on who? Past Cal Siakam and Bobby Portis. Is it a double tag? Yes. On the bench together. Game one, Houghton had some foul trouble, so he and Leonard were on the bench at the same time. And Murray just picks up Powell, and Powell's having none of it. And Dunn comes in with force. Playoff basketball, baby. Murray picks up Norm Powell. Foul on Murray, I would think. And then a double technical and nothing else. Rick Carlisle said he knew Milwaukee would play better, particularly with Damian Lillard in the lineup. Siakam, down to Siakam. Now the teams come together. Pushing and shoving. There is clearly a dislike between the Bucs and Pacers, and it's rearing its head here in game two. We had a couple of individual battles going on right there. Matt Thurman and Trent Jr. at the end of that thing got a little tangled up also. Let's take a look at what just happened. Siakam going for the loose ball. Falls to the ground. Harry Trent. And from Portland, free throw shooting down the stretch have hurt the Warriors in some of these close games. As players falling all over the place. Draymond Green just got whistled for a foul. He's got to be careful. Scott Foster will not hesitate to give him a check, and he already has one. Four personal fouls. Now on Draymond Green. First of all, they're not allowed to lock arms, and they didn't lock arms. And then Draymond pulls the bone down. Dre, that's a foul. Good job by Shingun to get to the ball. Steps into the lane. Gets turned back by Smith at the corner. Has to over Grant. No good. Brooks the offensive rebound. And now he and Sharp have to be separated. And now he and Simons have to be separated. Sequence there didn't warrant anything, but it was what transpired after those two ended up getting separated. How about Dylan Brooks in this fourth quarter, man? How huge has he been? And Rockets didn't have anything. But it's Simons who comes out of nowhere. Keep in mind, Dylan Brooks had been shadowing Simons the last two games. I was asked earlier today what the loss of voice will mean. It appeared to go off the foot of Jaron Jackson, Jr. And now Spencer was trying to grab the basketball out of the hands of Devin Booker. And Jaron Jackson, Jr. now trying to get involved. More important duties to tend to as Mowgli running the floor is whacked. Matherin saying he got a hard ball. Matherin just bumps Natalie Sago, and he's out. He's just been tossed. That is huge with four minutes to go, too. A foul, two technicals, I believe, and he's gone. I don't know what he's arguing. Pacers already without Tyrese Halliburton. Halliday to Horford. To the cutting ground. Knocked. Celtics get it back. They're in quite tough shot. Missed it. But a foul on Caldwell Pope. He'll go to the line to shoot three. Everybody on that bench saying challenge this one. My goodness, things flaring up. Porzingis and Batase getting entangled. Boy, there was a lot of time for players to simmer down and get back to their benches. I don't know how that started. Here we go. It's not going to be three free throws. Where did he – Was it the right hand to begin with? Must have been on that approach. Yeah. Two-man game. P.C. Fanagnanis looking for it. Gets slammed out. Guess who. This foul on Stewart is under review to see if it meets the criteria for a flagrant foul. No, without question, it's a flagrant. I think it's – Teammate to half. Poked away. Dyson Daniels. He does it again. And Dyson, they appreciate that push. Sean Corbin there to get in between them. Watch this. You hit him up right around him. I mean, you just smoke him with your forearm in midair. That's a flagrant. I mean, he – Oh, come on. That's wind-up contact. That is not only a flagrant foul. That may be a flagrant, too. Champinney. Picks it up. Gives it to Castle. Finds a cutting. Sohan. We got a scuffle at center court. Lee and Champinney. And the award for best. And you see there. Can't really tell. Doesn't look like punches were thrown. Just a lot of collar grabbing. And then Sohan grabbing Dort by the jersey. About picking a team apart based on their defensive approach. Oh. Talk about that. Nice little statement. Don't skimmy. He gave Bees his boogie right back at him. Bees is not having it. Bees is not acknowledging Yannis whatsoever, but he is embarrassed as all get out. This is a tough, tough, gutsy win. Yannis is trying to make up for Bees. He's not having it. Yeah. And I like that, you know, Bees is not going to play along with it and stay in playoff mode. But he's trying to make up. He's trying to look like Bees. Come on, man. It's me, man. Give me that pound you give before the flight takes off, man. Come on, man. It's not happening. Uh-oh. I think Doc maybe gets Yannis out of here, get him away from Bees or something. I appreciate what Yannis is doing. Just teed him up. 9% three-point shooter. And Nembhard is fouled, and he's not happy. Yeah, but Nembhard, he got a technical issue, remember, in the first half. I mean, he beats Conley. Oh, yeah. No, no, no. I'm telling you what. The official. Look, that's a flagrant foul. That's a flagrant foul there thrown by Gobert. Final second of the quarter. Pippen Jr. runs to the line, drives, drops it off to Bain. Spitzer from the corner. Cam Spitzer barking at Desmond Bain in the face of Kevin Durant. So, where's the swipe? He's still in KD's face. And then Bains puts his head right in his chest. And then Desmond Bain throws his forehead into the chin of Kevin Durant. A team that's had a losing streak, and you start the first of four on the road, this is how you're supposed to come in, especially playing against a Milwaukee team that's playing this good. Well, Giannis got fouled going. Some pushing and shoving. Franz Wagner doing his brother Mo Wagner proud. Mo's not playing tonight, but there's some history between the old Wagner family and the Antetokounmpo family. You got to protect guys that are getting ready to be airborne. Yeah, and again, look, as you say, you were in the bubble when it happened with his brother, Moretz Wagner, who's out for the season with a knee injury, but it's not lost on this, the history here. No, not at all. On the drive. High off the glass. No good. Long rebound taken by Barnes to Barrett. Barrett is fouled by Wagner. That's four on Franz. Now tempers flaring. There's the foul. Foul across the face. The rookie is four for four from three-point range. Mitchell off balance. And timeout Cleveland. As Mitchell in pain. But the New Yorker recognizes, oh, we going to tussle? Then I'm going to make sure I get leverage. I'm getting on top of things right now. And then Jabba Rant gets involved trying to get Donovan Mitchell off of his teammate. Zach Eady comes into the mix. And, of course, it's happening right in front of the Cleveland Cavaliers' bench. So, therefore, no one from the Cavaliers has to leave their bench to be involved in the mix. But you see, as Mitchell gets on top, Baines still on the ground, and that's when guys start to get involved. Alexander Walker. And it's tapped out of bounds. And it'll be Wolves' ball. Seven-second differential between the shot clock and game clock. Alexander Walker has been brilliant off the bench tonight. And the Wolves are going to call one more timeout. Oh, McDaniels. With a finger right towards Devin Booker. Now, Dee Smith. A little pull-up jumper left it short. Oh, is that a flagrant? He's out. He may be out. Ryan was getting ready to get up and go after him. Quinn, he's got to be done. I mean, there's no way you can keep him on the floor. He's going to get all kinds of fines. He'll get a fine for that, too. Yeah, there's no place for that. Excuse me a second. That's a flagrant, too. It escalates from what we saw two weeks ago. Barnes. Oh, it's official. The referees have dinner plans. Barnes hits the three off that Wembley block. Zubac then kind of shoves Victor, and he goes flying. Wembley was hot. Yeah, well, he didn't kind of shove him. He ran right at Victor and throws him into the ground. Can't respond. Okongwu fighting in a straitjacket. Jump ball, and here we go. They're wrestling. We need, we need, we need. They might not need Okongwu. We need Tatum. No doubt. Celtic Security is in there, too. Jomezful is still clapping. It was Tatum and Okongwu wrapped up for the jump ball, still battling after the whistle.