Pool Report on the Ejection of Devin Booker with 6:36 left in the First Quarter of Tonight’s Detroit Pistons at Phoenix Suns Game 

The Pool Report interview was conducted by Kellan Olson (Arizona Sports) with Crew Chief Karl Lane following tonight’s Pistons at Suns Game.     

 

QUESTION:  Why was Devin Booker assessed his first technical foul?

LANE: For continual complaining, and after he’d been warned he continued to complain again towards a game official.

 

QUESTION: Was it more just about the continuance of it? Or was there language involved as well that warranted it was more?

LANE: It was more about the continuance after he had been warned to stop and he continued to complain.

 

QUESTION: After the [second] technical foul he gets ejected, was that the continuance again for the second?

LANE:  No, the second technical foul was for disparaging remarks he made towards a game official, and then he was ejected for the second one.

 

QUESTION: Was it the escalation that warranted the ejection early in the game?

LANE: The comment that he made met our standards and warranted the technical foul, the second technical foul which led to the ejection.

 

QUESTION:  Did the pregame events with Drew Eubanks and Isiah Stewart, Eubanks getting punched by Stewart, did that inkling a potential for more on court tension. Did that lead to any way you guys were officiating tonight or ejecting Devin or keeping it tight early?

LANE: No, all the decisions made were based on what was going on and the merits of the game.