Donovan Mitchell stormed off the court and kicked a water cooler toward a security guard.
And while the Utah Jazz All-Star apologized to that man, Mitchell was less kind to the three-man crew who refereed and, ultimately, ejected him from his team’s 131-123 overtime loss in Philadelphia on Wednesday.
“I’m never ever one to blame a ref, blame an official, but this is getting out of hand,” Mitchell said. “There have been games like this we’ve one. Games we’ve lost. We’re nice, we don’t complain, we don’t get frustrated, we fight through things. But the fact that we continuously get screwed in a way by this … It’s getting [expletive] ridiculous.