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REVEALED, what Dillon said to Vanderbilt that fird him up to earn an ejection

The Lakers lost to the Rockets, a lot had to do with Vanderbilt being ejected, the reason he had a beef with Dillon Brooks revealed

By James Brown

Dillon Brooks vs Vnado

One of the biggest reasons the Los Angeles Lakers weren't able to stop the Houston Rockets' offensive power was that they didn't have the best Anthony Davis as he was playing through an injury and even left the game early.

Also, LA saw their second-best defensive player, Jarred Vanderbilt be ejected, as the forward had a heated exchange with the Rockets' Dillon Brooks who is known to be a teaser. Now it has been revealed what Dillon said to get Vando all heated up and going against him.

With information via ESPN's Dave McMenamin: "A LAL player told ESPN that Dillon Brooks called Jarred Vanderbilt a 'p---y' during the exchange that led to Vando's ejection. "We're men," Anthony Davis spoke to the press. "No man is going to talk towards another man the way he was talking to Vando."

"He's going for a wide-open dunk and [Brooks] just pushed him in the back," Anthony Davis said. "It's not a safe play. Guys get hurt like that. And you got to know what type of player [Brooks] is. [The referees] kind of let that just keep going on and [Brooks] kind of provoked it. He talks and says whatever he wants to the refs, and to players, and at the end of the day, we're men."

Darvin Ham spoke also about the Vando-Brooks exchange

Lakers coach Darvin Ham said both Brooks' push on Vanderbilt and hit on James were enough to warrant an ejection on their own, in his estimation. "Being competitive is one thing," Ham said. "But ... putting players at risk of injury with certain plays -- I just watched it again [on video] before I came in here, [Brooks] pushes him in the back, a guy that's in the air. Airborne, defenseless. Then Bron's play, Bron goes to the basket and it's a double move with his arms. One arm trying to deflect the ball and it goes back and then it goes across [James'] face."

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