Durant: My flagrant foul for pushing Gobert is why NBA gets called 'soft'
Some people think the NBA has gone soft, and Kevin Durant believes he was on the wrong end of a call that encapsulates the problem.
The Golden State Warriors forward got into a "kerfuffle" with Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert during Saturday's Game 3 victory.
Warriors' Kevin Durant blasts Jazz's Rudy Gobert in the back pic.twitter.com/PMPVNmxCYW
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Durant's shove and reaction earned him a tech and a flagrant-1 foul.
"It's just basketball," the superstar told reporters following the 102-91 victory, as quoted by ESPN's Chris Haynes. "You push me, I pushed him, and you move on. But that's why they call our league soft ... because they call a flagrant for stuff like that.
"But I'm sure he didn't mind if we just moved on. I didn't mind if we just moved on with the play."
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Gobert didn't confirm nor deny he agrees with that, only offering the following comment on the play: "I pushed him to get the ball and he didn't like it."