Suns guard Dillon Brooks tried to look contrite as he described his late-game flagrant foul on Steph Curry.
However carrying an outsized leather-based jacket and wraparound sun shades whereas standing at his locker in Phoenix on Thursday evening, the longtime Warriors antagonist hardly placed on a convincing efficiency following the Suns 99-98 victory over the flailing Warriors.
“I’ve got to do some soul searching. It’s the second time, and I’ll learn from it,” Brooks stated with the faintest signal of a smirk.
When requested why he, after contesting Curry’s shot within the nook with 38 seconds left, he determined to load up and swing his arm into the shooter’s midsection lengthy after the shot was launched, Brooks adopted his reasoning with a joke.
“I thought he was going to run and get the rebound, so I tried to stop him,” Brooks stated, earlier than including, “I’ve been lifting too much. I do what the other guys do and lift on gameday. I can’t explain it.”
Curry made each free throws, and Jimmy Butler tied the sport with a 3-pointer on the following possession. Brooks’ 3-point try to win the sport went extensive of the rim, however Jordan Goodwin grabbed the rebound and drew a foul to provide the Suns a win.
Throughout his postgame press convention, Curry made his ideas on the play crystal clear.
“That play happened, which was bush league, but (we) took advantage of it when Jimmy hits a big 3,” Curry instructed reporters.
Brooks’ popularity as a determine who has drawn the ire of the Warriors and different opponents just isn’t up for debate.
Throughout his final sport, a loss to the Lakers, Brooks was ejected after hitting a clutch triple to provide the Suns the lead. He ran into and taunted LeBron James on his journey again downcourt, incomes a second technical foul and an ejection.
Brooks, who’s averaging a career-high 21.6 factors per sport in his ninth season, has lengthy been the topic of disdain in Golden State.
In the course of the second spherical of the 2022 playoffs with Memphis, Brooks’ flagrant foul on Gary Payton II led to the Warriors wing breaking his elbow.
In the course of the spring as a member of the Rockets, Brooks was accused of deliberately trying to harm Curry’s capturing hand on follow-throughs, an assertion Brooks didn’t precisely deny.
“If I had an injured ankle, I would attack that ankle every single time,” Brooks stated. “So, whatever they’re saying on the broadcast, they can keep saying it.”
Brooks later referred to as Draymond Inexperienced a “dirty player” in the course of the extremely bodily collection, and was additionally in the course of a Sport 4 scuffle that noticed Inexperienced push Brooks away from Curry. Even the soft-spoken Jimmy Butler stated, in no unsure phrases, that he didn’t like Brooks.
Will Brooks add one other entry into his already spectacular assortment of Warriors-related incidents? He is not going to have to attend lengthy to do it, because the groups play once more on Saturday, this time at Chase Heart.
