Oh boy. We got ourselves an old fashioned tunnel confrontation in the NBA playoffs.
Game 5 of the Phoenix Suns’ Western Semifinals against the Dallas Mavericks was nearly over when the Mavs’ Marquese Chriss fouled Bismack Biyombo hard while the Phoenix big man was trying to throw down a last-second dunk in a blowout.
Maybe there was some “unwritten rules” thing Chriss objected to, but it was unnecessary that late. And both players got in each other’s faces, resulting in ejections.
But Chriss jogged into the tunnel where the Suns’ locker room was. And, well, let’s go from there about everything we know: