The Dallas Mavericks hosted the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday night in a matchup of two Western Conference playoff hopefuls. A close game in the first half turned into an absolute blowout in the second half, with the Suns running away with a 132-109 road victory against the Mavs.
Luka Doncic got Suns fan ejected for heckling him about his conditioning
Luka Doncic got a Suns fan booted out of the arena for telling the Mavs star to get on a treadmill.
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.
Unfortunately for one Suns fan braving enemy territory in Dallas, he didn’t get to stick around long enough to watch Phoenix’s big push, because Mavs superstar Luka Doncic asked security kick him out of the building.
The fan started heckling Doncic over his conditioning, telling him to “get (your) ass on the treadmill.” Doncic did not appreciate the comment coming in his home arena, and had security boot the fan from his very expensive seats. Watch the video of Doncic pointing to the fan he had ejected here:
Here’s a video of the fan being kicked out of the arena.
After the game, Doncic criticized ESPN reporter Tim McMahon for posting about the incident in his press conference. Doncic also said the fan was cursing at him the entire first half, and he eventually had enough.
The reaction on social media seemed to be that Doncic should have thicker skin, and that the fan didn’t say something bad enough to be kicked out of the game. Of course, fans at home don’t know exactly what the fan was saying to Doncic throughout the night.
The Suns blasted the Mavs in the third quarter, 43-20, to turn the game into a rout. Doncic was clearly frustrated at how the game was playing out, and he didn’t want to listen to some loud Phoenix fan continue to yap at him.
Are the Mavs too thin-skinned to make a deep playoff run? Earlier this week, Mavs wing Tim Hardaway Jr. got upset at the jumbotron operators in Dallas for showing a clip of Jaylen Brown making Doncic fall down with a nifty crossover dribble.
The Mavs have now lost three games in a row. Dallas would be the No. 8 seed in the West if the season ended today. The team has bigger problems to worry about than heckling fans.
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