Bulls' Robin Lopez tosses chair after ejection against Kings
Chicago Bulls center Robin Lopez channeled his inner Bobby Knight by tossing a chair after he was ejected for back-to-back technical fouls in Monday night's 104-98 loss to the Sacramento Kings.
Lopez, upset about calls not going in his favor, launched the chair down the hall by the visiting locker room following his early ejection — igniting the Sacramento crowd.
After a no-call in the second quarter, Lopez had exchanged words with official Justin Van Duyne. Then after a foul call on Lopez with 4:21 remaining before halftime, the veteran big man jawed back at the referee for his first technical foul. In response to the T, Lopez grew infuriated and stormed at Van Duyne before being restrained by teammates and coaches.
"I disagreed with the call. I told him, 'That's bad,'" Lopez told reporters after the game. "I'm not sure the reason behind the technical, but I suppose the officials are absolute and who am I to discredit that? I was a little bit surprised, in my mind, at such a subdued response."
It was his seventh career ejection.