Nic Claxton got kicked in the groin. Then, he got kicked out of the game. And that has his Nets on the brink of being kicked out of the playoffs.
And that ejection has his Nets on the brink of being kicked out of the playoffs.
But then Claxton, after a dunk on Embiid with 8:48 left in the fourth quarter, was hit with his second technical of the night and gained a hard-learned lesson in the process. It was the Nets’ center, rather than the 76ers’, who was sent off the court and down the Barclays Center tunnel,“Yeah that’s a part of my growth,” Claxton said. “[I] got everybody going, the way I was playing it got the crowd going, but I also have to be out there for my team.
“He and I conversed after the first tech. I warned him no hanging on the rim, nothing extra to get himself kicked out, just because I knew and kind of felt the environment the game was heading towards. But it’s an opportunity for him to grow up, which is great.” Claxton largely outplayed Embiid, finishing with 18 points and four assists while shooting 8-for-9 from the floor. Claxton played switchable defense on everybody from the presumptive MVP to former MVP James Harden, and finished a plus-13.Charles WenzelbergHe helped hold Embiid to 14 points on 5-for-13 shooting with five turnovers. But Claxton wasn’t around to see the end of it.
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