Salah Mejri, Russell Westbrook get technicals for bench skirmish
Salah Mejri has made himself a big part of the playoff series between the Thunder and the Mavericks.
During Game 4 between the teams on Saturday, Mejri and Russell Westbrook were hit with technical fouls for a skirmish by Oklahoma City’s bench. Matters developed when Thunder bench player Anthony Morrow would not give a ball that went out of bounds over to Mejri. Mejri and Westbrook ended up trading some talk:
Westbrook and Mejri ended up with technicals.
Things between Westbrook and Mejri have been heated. They had this physical altercation after a screen by Mejri in a previous game:
Best guess on 4th "altercation" Rick Carlisle is talking about — Westbrook rumbling through a Mejri screen pic.twitter.com/DGMzuhRn6D
— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) April 22, 2016
Plus there was this elbow from Durant on Mejri during Game 3 on Thursday:
It’s plays like these that led Dallas coach Rick Carlisle to call the Thunder dirty.
