Watch Hassan Whiteside cheap shot a Celtics player from behind
This hit earned a one-game suspension.
Ricky O'Donnell has covered basketball at all levels for more than a decade at SB Nation. He’s currently the Associate Director of Programming.
Boston’s Kelly Olynyk and Miami’s Hassan Whiteside have been going at each other all night, and the frustration finally bubbled over. Whiteside checked Olynyk in the back during the third quarter and was assessed a flagrant-2 foul and ejected. He was later suspended one game for the incident, the NBA announced Tuesday.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen Whiteside scuffle with other big men. A week ago, he body slammed the Suns’ Alex Len and earned an ejection.
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