OKC's Westbrook gets postgame technical, not suspension, for scuffle with Utah's Gobert

SALT LAKE CITY — Monday’s Game 4 between Utah and Oklahoma City was marked by several incidents of physicality and verbal exchanges between the two teams, with seven technical fouls being called.

Make that eight.

Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook was assessed a “postgame technical foul” for a verbal and physical confrontation with Utah’s Rudy Gobert midway through the fourth quarter Monday night.

There was speculation that Westbrook could be suspended for Wednesday night’s game because of an NBA policy that players who leave the bench during on-court scuffles such as the one between Gobert and Raymond Felton.

Westbrook had been waiting to check in, so he wasn’t on the bench or in the game when…