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Cleveland Cavaliers veteran Tristan Thompson Feathers with flyers in the 131-108 victory of the team over the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday night.
The lifelong center, which only averages approximately 7.8 minutes per game these days, scored a last second dump at the end of the victory of the explosion. Raptors fans He booed Thompson as he ran on the court. Some Raptors players also entered Thompson’s face once the bell rang to indicate the end of the game.
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Tristan Thompson, #13 of Cleveland Cavaliers, has words with the Toronto Raptors in a NBA basketball game in Toronto on Wednesday, February 12, 2025. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press through AP)
The skirmish broke, but the raptor chief coach, Darko Rajakovic, called the last minute “disrespectful.”
“I think what Tristan did had no class or disrespect,” Rajakovic said. “I’m not going to defend that, sure. I love when my team defends itself. That was not a class.”
The guards of the Raptors Scottie Barnes and Jamal Shead were among those who faced Thompson. Barnes declined to comment after the game, but Shead agreed with Rajakovic.
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The center of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Tristan Thompson, #13, submerges the ball against the Toronto Raptors during the second half in Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on February 12, 2025. (John E. Sokolowski-Imagn)
“What he did at the end of the game was a bit disrespectful with the basketball game, not only us,” said Shead. “We had a couple of words of choice. We are adults, we will pass that.”
Cleveland Star Donovan Mitchell He was seen with his hands on the head with disbelief after Thompson’s overtown. Chief coach Kenny Atkinson didn’t have many answers for it.
“I’m not sure what I was thinking,” Atkinson said. “Sometimes, however, you are playing and you only have one reaction. I know that with Tristan, there is no bad intention there. I think you are playing sometimes and the goal of the game is to write down. Unfortunate.”
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From left to right, Scottie Barnes, RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley, of Toronto Raptors, sit at the bank during the second half of a NBA basketball match against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Toronto on Wednesday, February 12, 2025. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press through AP)
Thompson, who is from Canada, had four points in four minutes. He is averaging 1.7 points and 3 rebounds per game in 28 games this season.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
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