HEATED Moments of 2025 NBA Playoffs

Harden with it. Brown will defend. Screams or buts. Foul right there with Denver having a foul to give. Oh, we got pushing. Oh, we got a shove and it's right in front of us. If you're Gordon, you don't need it. As valuable as you've been playing. By the way, this crew, this officiating crew was in Detroit with us on Thursday and trying to separate the Knicks and Pistons and now they come into this. Crucible of emotion. That's not that hard of a foul by Christian Brown. Playoff passion and they have to break. I mean that was a foul they had to give. See Harden with the shove on Gordon. That's what got him going. This is why Aaron Gordon went ballistic was because of the shove, push, whatever you want to call it, from Harden. And that happened right in front of us. We've got the best seats in the house. That's one thing he may talk about is making orders pay when they double-team Jalen Green. Curry is tripped again and well now up and hit Steph and Raymond is the big brother and so you've got a little uh pushing and shoving and Stephen Adams is going to clean up everything. Well Dylan Brooks just tried to take the ball from Steph. Now Dylan Brooks and Steph are having words and Stephen's backing down. Dylan Brooks is one of those players he'll try to mask his dirty. Probably the best part of last game was when Dylan Brooks fouled out and Steph is pointing at him laughing at him when Dylan Brooks was so salty he went after the ball. Oh you mad bro? Yeah he was mad. He does a lot of other things well but yeah when he was looking to get the ball you had Draymond and Quinton posting that's enough. Giannis is going to take it now. for the first time since 2011 through 2014 when they did it three consecutive times. That is up there with him the last 35 seconds. That is just a shocking way to win and lose a basketball game. Butler and Dylan Brooks having words and then they are not talking about Christmas cards here. Look at this. Look at this. Oh my goodness. I'm loving it. You know whatever he said we got Brooks and stitches. Eason again. Eason. Defense is rebounding his energy and turnover. Green lays it in and that might just do it. Fremont Green was not done. He and Fred Van Vliet come together. They're jawing right in front of that Rockets bench and this is what happened. No punches thrown but bodies started to come in and pushing and shoving. Well that was good though that people getting Draymond Green away. He's probably going to end up with a technical here and be ejected. Turns, shoots and then it's key. Misses the layup. Goodness. Boy Dylan Brooks and Spencer mixing it up underneath it. Now Spencer and Shangoon. Boy look out Jackson Davis shoving Shangoon. Officials quickly trying to defuse the situation. That thing was brewing. It started between Spencer and Brooks and boy a night that looked like it was going to be a huge blowout. This thing continues to get interesting here down the stretch. Right here keep your eye on Spencer. The headbutt right there on Shangoon. So New York had a season low 15 assist reg in game two that they lost. They've got nine already tonight. Oh here we got some pushing at the other end. If you're Reed you got to be careful understanding Stewart is not available tonight and the Pistons don't have a lot of bigs. This is smart what Towns is doing. Robinson. It was Robinson and Reed initially. Don't know what was said or what was going on. It's nothing. That's absolutely nothing. It's going to be fun to watch. Carter kick it out. Caldwell-Polk goes to the mid-range. It doesn't work. Contact and look out. Al Horford took exception. Officials get in between. There were issues in game one between Caldwell-Polk and Horford after the hard foul. You never know what someone's intentions are there but Al Horford not happy. Neither is Jalen Brown and physicality of the magic. That's who they are. That's their identity as a team. I don't know where Shangoon's feet were but if he caught that in the front and now it's going to be offensive foul on Jalen Green. Oh yeah. I mean that's he got him up in the face. Yeah listen. And down 11 with a chance to cut the lead to a single digit. Fancaro rises up. Missed it. Pritchard holding his ground and Porzingis takes a shot from Batase. Batase got fouled on that rebound attempt and you saw him elbow Porzingis. He caught him right in the head. Batase right away trying to let Porzingis know that it wasn't intentional but I mean you've got blood on the bridge of the nose, the nose, and then creeping up the forehead into his crew cut. Here's your clutch player of the year. The award winner in that category. Most points and he lives up to it. He's got it right now. With a whistle it's away from the ball and Towns. Towns and Harris kind of going at it. They're crashing each other and Turin is involved. This is exactly what we wanted. No this is exactly what playoff basketball should be. And this is a huge win on so many levels for Golden State because Butler gets to heal an additional two three days as Jalen Green and Jimmy Butler are having words at the midcourt pardon me circle and Draymond Green. This is a very pugnacious feisty Houston Rocket Squad. They lean into their identity. It's a reason for their success and so did Draymond. There's something along the lines like hey you don't know me like that. In all the sports Wrigley Field and James yelling at Gobert does not seem bothered by any of it. That should be reviewed as a flagrant in my opinion. Now James initiates it with a kind of a shoulder shove but over the over the above the shoulder. They were the other night in game one grabbing and holding Curry on every possession. Making it tough on Curry. Jalen Green knocks the ball out of his hands forces a jump ball and Curry not wanting to give up that basketball. This series is 80s and 90s NBA basketball. Curry having a hard time out on the perimeter. Shangoon got him now green with the strip and they'll jump it at the center circle. Oh boy the contact from Dort and Morant is still down. Jaren Jackson drawing it Dort didn't appreciate boy you don't need much contact when the player is that vulnerable in midair. He lands right on that left side. It's the front of that left hip. Bejimski back on the floor let's keep an eye on him that one oh look out wow Butler goes down hard. Thompson comes underneath Butler he was bumped as well and Jimmy Butler's legs went right out from under him straight contact on the floor. Listen this series is incredible as far as the physicality. Eason will come out on him. Eason foul on Draymond Green the foot remains the jersey being held. Oh we've got some more grappling on the floor. Draymond has to be careful remember he already has that technical foul of when he was trying to get up off the floor here. See there's nothing here and his legs just happen to be on the shoulders of Eason. And a little bit of kick at the end of that I hope that was inadvertent right there by Draymond Green. Great defense by Al Horford matched up against the young star. White shakes KCP and now Carter knocks him off the block. Derek White and now the teams come together here KCP and Tatum pushing and shoving. Mosley out there getting his guys away did not control the environment was his quote and it says if uh if we need a fight we'll have to fight. Just because somebody falls down it can't be a flagrant foul. Giannis on the low block posting up he's just not getting opportunities driving because of the wall defensively that the Pacers have been establishing. 16 points 10 rebounds for Giannis Nismith and there will be a foul Kuzma yanked him. Trying to get in between as the Pacers were going over to help up Nismith and again words exchanged. Looked like Nismith got fouled and while Nismith was on the ground tried to take the ball away from him and a foul call Edwards and James. So again this is two straight possessions where Amp is just turning up the level of physicality and this is on the post now he's got his numbers I thought they were going to enter the ball into the post. That's not even a freedom of movement you know when you're playing against your little brother. Lauren is back there awaiting a report as Dylan Brooks hits a tough shot and Green throws an elbow post drops Steven Adams. Here it is a battle inside Adams hits the deck Brooks jumps right in Green's way. Approaching a minute to go Dotchage hard to the right. They're going to take a look at this this was a landed awkwardly and you can see the shot by Gobert. Oh man they're going to take a look at this well the more I look at it that almost looks like a common foul. Shovels corner Harris can't hit the three and Hart's got the rebound and Anobe and Cunningham go down foul is called. A great defensive possession there by Anobe taking the challenge as Hart and Schroeder now get into it. Schroeder thought Hart threw the ball at him it was actually the official who tossed it. Hart has the ball and he was throwing he was throwing it at a Curtis Blair. Schroeder is throwing at him we've got a timeout with 427 remaining.