Dillon Brooks Receives Flagrant Foul for Contact with Chet Holmgren in NBA Playoff Game

Dillon Brooks was assessed a flagrant foul after making contact with Chet Holmgren's face during an NBA playoff game. Officials reviewed the play and determined the contact was unnecessary, resulting in free throws for Oklahoma City. The incident highlights Brooks' physical playing style and its impact on game dynamics.

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They have such a great bench that some of the guys we see today we may not see in other games as Holmgren takes a shot to the face from Dylan Brooks accidentally. They got Watson to look at it for a flagrant review as that's a first foul on Brooks. So bodied up by Jaylen Williams, he goes to make the strip and catches all of Chet's chin. They will go to the monitor. Unnecessary physical act, but does it rise to the level of a flagrant review this foul to see if it meets the criteria for a flagrant foul. That's Mark Davis in his 28th season as an NBA official working his 219th NBA playoff game today.

And Brooks, who's had a couple of run-ins with the Thunder in the last few seasons including when he was with Houston 2 years ago, getting into the mix here in the first 5 minutes of the game. So the first time looks like he's absolutely making a play on the ball. So this is the second swipe at the ball. Right. And I think to your point, Doris, that's it. Initially live, full speed, it looked accidental. This looks a little more That's correct. The first one looks like he's absolutely making a play on the ball. This one looks Upon review, it's been determined that the contact above the shoulder was unnecessary and therefore a flagrant foul penalty one will be assessed. So two free throws

and two free throws and Oklahoma City will take the ball out at the free throw line extended. Please reset the shot clock to 24. Now, it's the right call, but make no mistake, okay? The edge this guy plays with changes every team that he plays on. Like that's an appropriate call. It's unnecessary, really had no chance at it. But his presence and the way he approaches things has clearly had an impact on the culture. I think you saw four-time champions, Steve Kerr and Draymond Green, after that game was over, talk about Dylan Brooks and his influence on this group and its culture.

Devin Booker told us the same thing when we sat down with him before the game today about how Dylan Brooks and the edge that he brings along with the leadership that he brings has been a big factor, but obviously there's no place for that in the game where you you look at how locked in Dylan Brooks is before the game, but if you're the Suns, you can't have that happen in a playoff game. Unnecessary play.

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