Dwight Howard Got Ejected After Picking Up A Technical For Dunking And Hanging On The Rim


Emotions ran really high on Monday night during Atlanta’s game in Boston. Things got so bad that Dwight Howard got ejected for … well, let’s just say people have done a lot more than this and gotten away without a technical.

Earlier on in the game, Howard and Celtics big man Al Horford got into it after Horford fouled the Hawks’ center. Howard went up for a layup, Horford dragged him down by his arm, and after he got up, some jawing happened because Howard shoved Horford.

No big deal, right? This kind of thing happens during basketball games all the time – things get a little chippy between two players and tensions boil over in the heat of the moment. Whatever. Howard picked up a technical on this play, and odds are everyone will agree that he deserved to get T’d up for this one.

But later in the third quarter, Howard did some serious work on the offensive glass and dunked. It was a powerful jam, and Howard decided to showboat a little bit by hanging on the rim and pulling himself up. It wasn’t much, but apparently, one official thought it was enough to warrant a second technical.

While Howard should know that the referees were probably going to call the game a little tighter because of his prior technical, this is still a bit of an overreaction the official. Howard didn’t deserve to get T’d up here, so ideally the league will rescind this technical later this week.

The Hawks beat the Celtics, 114-98.

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