After playing for a rebound, Toronto’s Christian Koloko and Miami’s Caleb Martin staged an embarrassing scene.
The Heat they won a hard fight, in the broadest sense of the word, because they became more than what Raptors by 24 points and finished with a tight 112-109, achieving their first victory of the new season; and also had violent episodes in between Christian Koloko from Toronto and Caleb Martin from Miami.
With 7:46 left until the end of the game, a dispute over a rebound escalated into tension until it ended with the protagonists entangled in the first rows of seats in FTX-Arena after a rebound after a three-point attempt from Pascal Siakam.
silly, 2.16 meterslanded on the ground and Martinof 1.96 meters, punched him. Because of that, the two ended up throwing chairs and a dozen people tried to separate them.
After the fight Raptors they stepped up and achieved a 17-2 run, but it wasn’t enough for them. Both teams have two losses and one win and they meet again tomorrow, again at the FTX Arena in Miami.
Both players were sent off after the referees have carefully reviewed the images and the League’s sanctions are expected.
“It was an aggressive game. That’s usually the game in Toronto, aggressive back and forth. But in the end I think emotions were high and it was a close, back and forth game. Overall, I had to be more professional in the way of handling that kind of situation”said Caleb Martin. For your part Christian Kolok counted: “He just stood there looking at me like crazy. I just got up, I don’t know. I fought back and got ejected. That’s what happened tonight.”
Source: Tycsports
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