Rodney Hood made an early exit from the Jazz’s game on Wednesday night in Washington, as he was ejected in the third quarter by referee Tony Brothers.
The Jazz’s young shooting guard got tossed after he wouldn’t let an argument with Brothers go, continuing to chirp at the veteran official until he got hit with a second technical and tossed from the game.
Hood kept barking at Tony Brothers who told him quickly to cool it. Apparently he didn’t shut up leading to an ejection #WizJazz pic.twitter.com/dhda6mpMue
— J. Michael (@ThisIsJMichael) January 11, 2018
That normally wouldn’t be major news, but what happened as he left the floor is certainly something you don’t see every day in the NBA. Hood was walking down the Jazz bench and toward the tunnel to the locker room, and as he got to the end of the bench a fan with a courtside seat had his phone out taking a video of Hood’s walk of shame. Hood, already frustrated, clearly wasn’t pleased with this and casually slapped the phone out of the fan’s hand and kept it moving.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bdyq2m4hqcJ/
And here it is in GIF form if you prefer to watch it on loop.
Rodney Hood slapped the cell phone right out of that man's hands pic.twitter.com/xHv5E4ISHp
— Kenny Ducey (@KennyDucey) January 11, 2018
Hood might be able to try the defense of him thinking the fan was trying to hi-five him, but I’m not sure anyone will buy it. It’s an extremely smooth slap and an effective one at that. The league doesn’t take kindly to players doing things to fans in a negative manner, and one has to expect an added fine could be coming his way for this one.
