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Jaylen Brown's only regret about his first career ejection was that he didn't berate the ref harder.
The Boston Celtics star got the boot in the fourth quarter of his team's 133-123 win over the New York Knicks on Friday, and it all started with foul call he clearly didn't agree with.
Brown found himself matched up against Knicks guard Immanuel Quickley and tried to poke the ball away at the perimeter. He missed, and the result was some contact that official Jason Goldenberg called as a foul.
To be fair, the contact appeared foul-worthy. Even the Celtics' broadcast didn't dispute it after watching the replay. Brown disagreed, however, and some lip-reading appeared to show him complaining that similar contact wasn't called at the opposite end of the floor. That earned him his first technical foul.
Brown kept going, however, even as he was subbed out. That earned him his second tech, and the automatic ejection that comes with it. An official, a Celtics coach and teammate Kristaps Porzingis all stepped in to keep Brown separated from Goldenberg as the player walked backed onto the court.
After a few more choice words, Brown headed for the locker room.
Brown's loss didn't stop the Celtics from holding on to improve their record to an Eastern Conference-best 16-5. Brown exited the game with 17 points on 7-of-13 shooting with four assists.
He was unsurprisingly critical of Goldenberg after the game, calling him "overemotional" and saying he wished he had kept going after the ref:
"I wish I would have got my money's worth. I always thought my first career ejection would be something a little more exciting. Maybe a tussle or something, guys get folded up, go to the ground. Not some overemotional ref who had a bad day. What I’m most upset about is I should’ve gotten my f***ing money’s worth."
He kept going when asked what caused the second tech that got him ejected:
"I don't know. I think it's a difference between showing emotion and it being disrespectful or derogatory towards another person. I don't think I was directing it towards him whatsoever, especially on the second one. It wasn't even close. I'm on the bench, I'm talking from the sideline. He can't even hear anything I'm saying. So he called a tech from across the court.
"That's for sure have to do with somebody having their emotions too involved in whatever else is going on and they accessing their power with technical fouls. I ain't going to comment on officiating in general, but I am going to comment on this guy in particular tonight. I thought that was bulls***."
Odds are Brown can expect a moderately sized fine from the NBA for those comments. Alas, we won't get the NBA's opinion on the original call though, as the play happened outside the purview of the Last 2 Minute Report.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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