The Lakers star pushed his opponent from behind. Then he approached him to show he wouldn’t back down. He then earned a technical foul.
Sounds like something Metta World Peace would do. Or Josh McRoberts. Or Kobe Bryant.
But it was none of those players. It was Pau Gasol. The 18,997 fans at Staples Center expressed displeasure with the Humphries-Kim Kardashian split by booing the Nets forward whenever he touched the ball. But Gasol expressed his displeasure with Humphries by confronting him.
“It’s been a little physical,” Gasol said after the Lakers’ 91-87 victory Tuesday over New Jersey. “I thought elbows were a little too high. I didn’t appreciate that. The referees weren’t making any calls so I had to make sure at least they saw something going on. Not that it changed anything.”
