Luka Doncic's ejection proved to be a pivotal swing point in the Los Angeles Lakers' loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night. What was a one-point game at the time turned into an OKC romp as they asserted again that any path to the NBA Finals runs through their gym. It was a very convincing victory in what could be a preview of an intense Western Conference playoff series but the controversial ejection got most of the discussion in the postgame. All because some tattooed courtside dude successfully elicited a reaction with taunts.
The consensus seems to be that Doncic was chirping back at a fan who was chirping at him and the officials thought he was chirping at them and awarded him with a second technical foul. Through that lens, the take from Thunder coach Mark Daigneault doesn't make the most sense but then again he may not have been working with all the information.
