Pool Report on the Jimmy Butler Ejection During the Second Quarter of Tonight’s Portland Trail Blazers at Miami Heat Game

The Pool Report interview was conducted by Anthony Chiang (Miami Herald) with Crew Chief Courtney Kirkland following tonight’s Portland Trail Blazers at Miami Heat Game.

QUESTION: Was it Butler’s words or aggression that caused the first technical foul?

KIRKLAND: It was both.  The aggressive manner in which he approached Mousa Dagher and the profanity that he yelled at him resulted in the first technical foul.

QUESTION: What was the reasoning for the second technical foul?

KIRKLAND: The second one was the fact that he yelled egregious profanity at Mousa, and that’s why he was given the second technical foul.

QUESTION: Why the immediacy of the second technical foul?

KIRKLAND: Because of the egregiousness of the profanity he yelled at Mousa.