""I’m not no guy who is a dirty player or plays like that. If anything, me trying to play dirty, I’ll damn near hurt myself. I just hope he’s all right and they don’t think it was intentional.""
""It looked crazy on camera, but it was not malicious. I was bracing for contact and my arm simply slipped off his shoulder and hit his head.""
""Sengun and Rockets coach Ime Udoka both said the flagrant 2 call was 'soft.' Sengun mentioned he didn't expect Ayton to be ejected for the play.""
Deandre Ayton was ejected from a game against the Houston Rockets after an accidental elbow to Alperen Sengun's head. Ayton received a flagrant foul 2 with 5:41 left in the third quarter. He explained that the contact was unintentional and not malicious. Both Sengun and Rockets coach Ime Udoka criticized the ejection as excessive. Sengun finished the game with 19 points, while Ayton expressed concern for his opponent's well-being and denied being a dirty player.
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