NBA Players Had Plenty Of Thoughts About The Rockets-Lakers Brawl

Saturday night’s game between the Lakers and Rockets lived up to the billing as LeBron James made his Lakers home debut, but the game ended with some contentious moments and a rare real fight in an NBA game.

Brandon Ingram was frustrated and upset after getting called for another foul on James Harden and shoved the reigning MVP after the fact. Refs stepped between as Ingram went after Harden some more, with Lance Stephenson pulling Ingram away from the situation. That appeared to cool things down, but then Chris Paul and Rajon Rondo were after each other, with Paul pushing Rondo in his face and Rondo connecting with a punch, causing all hell to break loose.

Everyone on Twitter erupted with shock, excitement, and just general thoughts on what happened, including all the NBA players watching. No one summed it up better than John Henson, as pointed out there will be plenty of fines and suspensions coming, meaning this was going to be an expensive few moments for some of those players.

Donovan Mitchell was just enjoying the action.

Marcus Morris offered his assessment of Rondo’s punching form and CompuBox came in with the fight stats.

Former Laker Jordan Clarkson made his feelings about Brandon Ingram’s involvement known, and gave a bit of a scrapping scouting report on the forward.

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Draymond Green chimed in on his Instagram story.

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Andre Iguodala noticed how there wasn’t a lot of effort being put forth in breaking up the fight.

And Damian Lillard had thoughts on how a fight will tell you who’s with you and who maybe isn’t.

Plenty of others offered their assessment of what went down as well.

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