LeBron James Calls out Opponent for ‘Dirty’ Play

LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers pulled out an incredible win over the New York Knicks. However, the game will be remembered for the thing between King James and Knicks forward Bobby Portis. The Knicks forward swiped at the head of Lakers’ Kentavious Caldwell-Pope while he was high up in the air, and pushed the guard to the floor. LeBron noticed “the dirty play” and confronted his opponent. The incident was considered a flagrant foul 2 and ended up with an ejection.

King James discussed the play during his conversation with media members in the locker room.

“It was [dirty],” he said. “There was no play on the ball [by Portis]. I saw the windup happen before the actual impact. I saw the way he was chasing KCP down. And then the windup. I saw that play happening before it actually happened. So, I just voiced my words to what happened and then the refs came in between us. But I knew it definitely wasn’t a basketball play.”

Lakers head coach Frank Vogel says something similar.

“Obviously we didn’t like that foul [by Portis] but we knew that the Knicks, one thing we stated about the Knicks, is they were a physical team,” Vogel said. “We knew it was going to be a physical type of game. That’s all we talked about for the last two days, and we handled it and prevailed.”

It looks like Portis doesn’t agree with LeBron and his coach. He actually defended himself.

“It wasn’t intentional at all,” the Knicks guard told reporters. “I went for the ball. My intent was never to hurt anybody or anything like that. Just trying to make a play on the ball. Missed the ball and hit him in the head. My apologies to Caldwell-Pope. Happy to see him go out and do his thing, come back into the game and impact the game.”

Anthony Davis suffered a terrible injury in the third quarter of the game, but his X-ray and MRI came out clean.

The Lakers have a good season, and they have great chances to make the playoffs this season.

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