Written by Scott Allen at Washington Post.com
Retired boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. went to a basketball game on Wednesday and a fight broke out. A postgame scuffle, anyway.
After the Celtics defeated the Wizards, 117-108, in a chippy game at TD Garden, John Wall and Boston forward Jae Crowder exchanged words on the court. Crowder touched Wall’s nose with his right index finger, prompting Wall to extend his left hand toward Crowder’s face and Marcus Smart to join the fray.
Shoving ensued before players were separated and left the court. Boston police officers stood against a wall in the hallway that separates the teams’ locker rooms, where a shouting match reportedly broke out between Wall and Smart.
Here are a few angles of the Wall-Crowder, Wizards-Celtics argument: pic.twitter.com/75tw37WEqf
— CSN Wizards (@CSNWizards) January 12, 2017
“Just an altercation,” said Wall, who was ejected for shoving Smart in the closing minutes of the Wizards’ blowout victory over the Celtics at Verizon Center in November. “We knew there was going to be some trash talking. It was going to be a physical game, and that’s all it was — a little trash talking and a physical game.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Crowder said when asked about the incident. “I ain’t got no comment about that. You want to talk about the game? Anyone want to talk about the game?”
Beal looking at Marcus Smart pic.twitter.com/spoFrx5KLz
— Danny (@recordsANDradio) January 12, 2017
