Dillon Brooks said he likes to poke bears. He might have taken that a little too literally on Saturday in a 111-101 Los Angeles Lakers win.
Three days after the Memphis Grizzlies guard went after LeBron James with some very loud Game 2 trash talk, the Lakers turned the first quarter of Game 3 into a historic bloodbath. After 12 minutes of play, the score stood at 35-9, a deficit the Grizzlies never came reasonably close to erasing.
Even with that first quarter, the low point came in the third when Brooks got himself ejected with a flagrant two foul for hitting James with a clear low blow.