{"id":474358,"date":"2025-12-15T08:52:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=474358"},"modified":"2025-12-15T08:52:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:52:22","slug":"phoenix-suns-dillon-brooks-ejection-flips-momentum-back-to-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/phoenix-suns-dillon-brooks-ejection-flips-momentum-back-to-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns&#8217; Dillon Brooks ejection flips momentum back to Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1127\" data-end=\"1392\">The night for <strong data-start=\"1141\" data-end=\"1158\">Dillon Brooks<\/strong> against the <strong data-start=\"1171\" data-end=\"1193\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> flipped in a moment, right after his go-ahead 3 with 12.2 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1127\" data-end=\"1392\">Going chest-to-chest with <strong data-start=\"1294\" data-end=\"1310\">LeBron James<\/strong>, the <strong data-start=\"1316\" data-end=\"1332\">Phoenix Suns<\/strong> forward was hit with his second technical foul and ejected.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1394\" data-end=\"1696\">It was the latest chapter in a rivalry brewing since the 2023 playoffs, when Brooks called James \u00abold\u00bb and proudly said, \u00abI poke bears\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1394\" data-end=\"1696\">Earlier in the game, Brooks had earned his first tech for repeatedly shoving James on a rebound, while James was T\u2019d up in the third quarter for bodying up Brooks.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1698\" data-end=\"1999\">Crew chief <strong data-start=\"1709\" data-end=\"1723\">Tyler Ford<\/strong> said Brooks\u2019 second technical was for \u00abmaking unsportsmanlike contact during the dead ball\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1698\" data-end=\"1999\">\u00abHe brought his antics. Tonight it cost him\u00bb, <strong data-start=\"1865\" data-end=\"1886\">Jarred Vanderbilt<\/strong> said, while <strong data-start=\"1899\" data-end=\"1915\">Devin Booker<\/strong> backed his teammate\u2019s edge: \u00abI\u2019d rather it the other way &#8212; that it\u2019d be too much\u00bb.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">LEBRON VS. BROOKS! LeBron James got in Dillon Brooks\u2019 face after Brooks hit the ball into him, &amp; the refs had to hold LeBron back! \ud83d\ude33\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Before this play, they bumped into each other &amp; LeBron bumped Brooks into the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts? \ud83e\udd14 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jbrsYoUEKR\">pic.twitter.com\/jbrsYoUEKR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Courtside Buzz (@CourtsideBuzzX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CourtsideBuzzX\/status\/2000401574083109301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DILLON BROOKS GETS EJECTED WITH 12 SECONDS LEFT AFTER GETTING IN LEBRON\u2019S FACE!<\/p>\n<p>Right after Brooks hit a potential game-winner after the Lakers blew a 20-point, 4th quarter lead, Brooks got in LeBron James\u2019 face &amp; was hit with his second technical foul of the game \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>LeBron\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5xspMKopfE\">pic.twitter.com\/5xspMKopfE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Courtside Buzz (@CourtsideBuzzX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CourtsideBuzzX\/status\/2000413670333927654?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The night for Dillon Brooks against the Los Angeles Lakers flipped in a moment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":474357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-474358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-15-alle-08.48.56.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474358"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=474358"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=474358"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=474358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}