{"id":433895,"date":"2023-04-23T21:27:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T01:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433895"},"modified":"2023-04-23T21:30:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T01:30:38","slug":"dillon-brooks-blames-media-fans","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/dillon-brooks-blames-media-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Dillon Brooks blames media, fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Grizzlies player Dillon Brooks thinks that the determinant element for his flagrant foul 2 call is that everyone thinks of him as the &#8216;bad guy.&#8217;\u00a0 The Grizzlies forward was forced out of the game in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> quarter in Game 3 against LA Lakers after hitting LeBron James in the groin.<\/p>\n<p>Dillon announced that neither of the referees explained why he was thrown out of the match after accidentally hitting James after trying to steal the ball.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The media making me a villain, the fans making me a villain, and then that just creates a different character on me,&#8221; Dillon claims. &#8220;So now you think I tried to hit LeBron in the nuts? I&#8217;m playing basketball. I&#8217;m a basketball player. So if I intended &#8212; and that&#8217;s whatever is in the flagrant 2 &#8212; if you think I did that, that means you think I&#8217;m that type of human.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If you\u2019re reading this, you are responsible for making Dillon Brooks a villain <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZJdxKOMJ9e\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ZJdxKOMJ9e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Barstool Sportsbook (@BSSportsbook) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BSSportsbook\/status\/1650292514186829824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Brooks can play in Game 4 after the National Basketball League and will not seek further punishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis Grizzlies player Dillon Brooks thinks that the determinant element for his flagrant foul 2 call is that everyone thinks of him as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":433897,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18993,16972,16970,16884,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18994,17644,17645,17838,1067],"acf":{"announce":"'Villain' mark influences ejection.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433895"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433895"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}