Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle was ejected in the course of the third quarter of Tuesday night time’s recreation in opposition to the Denver Nuggets following a no-call on a drive from Pascal Siakam.
After Carlisle was despatched again to the locker room early, the Nuggets had been awarded a pair of technical free throws.
Each Jamal Murray and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope had been desirous to take the foul pictures, and as a way to pretty settle the dispute of who would go to the road, the teammates sorted issues out with a fast recreation of rock-paper-scissors.
Whereas strolling towards the free-throw line, Murray and Caldwell-Pope quickly performed just a few rounds of rock-paper-scissors, earlier than it was decided that the latter could be headed to the charity stripe.
Jamal and KCP performed rock, paper, scissors to see who takes the technical free throws after Rick Carlisle's ejection 😅 pic.twitter.com/DOVRKSpXOp
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) January 24, 2024
Caldwell-Pope emerged victorious within the recreation inside the recreation in opposition to Murray, who appeared to have gone with scissors in the course of the decisive third spherical of their rock-paper-scissors duel. Caldwell-Pope adopted that win up by nailing each technical free throws.
Denver went on to win the sport in opposition to the Pacers, 114–109, with Murray tying Nikola Jokic for a game-high 31 factors. Caldwell-Pope had a powerful night time, too, dropping 14 factors, his most since Jan. 7.
