Andre Drummond avoided discipline from the league despite dangerously elbowing LeBron James in the neck during Game 3 between the Cavs and Pistons on Friday.
Drummond nearly took LeBron’s head off with this elbow in the first half of Game 3:
After the game, James ignored Drummond when they were within range of each other. James was not pleased about the elbow, though he says he was never concerned it would keep him out of action.
“The only way I wasn’t getting back up was if my head came off and even then, I might still get up and play without one,” James told cleveland.com on Friday. “That’s just the way I was brought up to play the game. You see I’m good now.”
Cavs reporter Chris B. Haynes said on Saturday that Drummond was not disciplined for the play. Instead, Drummond has been indirectly punished as Stan Van Gundy has kept him off the floor late in games because of the “hack-a-Drummond” strategy. Luckily for Van Gundy, the league may want to make a change to that rule.
