Shaun Livingston thought he got fouled on a lay-in with 1:40 left in the first half of Game 4 in the Golden State Warriors-Portland Trail Blazers series. (He was -- Damian Lillard whacked him across the head.)
Shaun Livingston yells at ref after blown call, immediately gets ejected
Livingston was hit in the head and tossed from the game.
So he let referee Scott Foster know it, yelling at Foster as the next play developed. Foster wasn’t having it. He stopped the play to ring Livingston up with a technical foul. But he didn’t stop there; Foster had a quick trigger and whistled Livingston for another tech just seconds after the first, ejecting him from the game.
And he did it with gusto, throwing Livingston out of the game like he was calling a third strike a la Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun. Here’s the missed foul:
Livingston was right to be upset about the missed call, but he might have overdone it on the name-calling.
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It was a quick trigger, but Livingston should have kept his cool. The Warriors have Stephen Curry back, but Livingston was still expected to play big minutes.
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Stephen Curry’s amazing 17-point overtime
