The Pool Report interview was conducted by Brett Martel (Associated Press) with Crew Chief Gediminas Petraitis following tonight’s Portland at New Orleans game.

December 11, 2025

QUESTION: Why was Jones assessed a technical by one official while he was speaking to another official?

PETRAITIS: Jones directs profanity towards one official at first and is given the first unsportsmanlike technical foul. He then continues on and directs profanity towards both officials, subsequently leading to a second technical foul and his ejection.

QUESTION: So, did we just misperceive that he was speaking to a different official than the one who gave him the second technical?

PETRAITIS: He started speaking to one official, received a technical foul, and then started communicating with the second official, receiving the second technical foul.