A Grizzlies media guy tried to snitch, but he got the rules wrong.
“Thinking back on G2 and Dillon Brooks Flagrant 2…,” Fischer wrote. “Warriors players left bench, including Jordan Poole, while coaches were actively trying to get them back. Wonder if that is being looked at. We saw @jarenjacksonjr suspended for same thing at @nyknicks @NBAPR @OfficialNBARefs.”
Sure, there are rules preventing players on the bench from walking onto the court. They’re usually invoked during on-court altercations to prevent full-scale brawls from happening, and have led to some pretty famous suspensions. In 1997, Patrick Ewing and multiple othersfor a playoff game against the Miami Heat during a fracas. In 2007, Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw were penalized for rushing to halfcourt after Robert Horry hip-checked Steve Nash into the scorer’s table.
But those rules don’t apply here, and it’s hard to imagine why anything from that moment would be investigated beyond what Dillon Brooks did to Gary Payon II. As Steve Berman of The Athletic
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