Goran Dragic infuriated the fans at the Wells Fargo Center after scoring a last-second layup to give his team a 10-point lead, in what was viewed as a poor sign of sportsmanship with the game already decided in the Miami Heat's favor.
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Dragic was unapologetic following the incident, providing a clear-cut answer to his actions and showing no remorse for paying the Philadelphia 76ers back with the same coin.
“I don’t care,” Dragic said when asked about the Sixers’ reaction to the play, according to Anthony Chiang of The Palm Beach Post. “The first game we were down 30 and they were still running [inbounds plays after timeouts] with seven seconds left in the game. It’s the playoffs. I’m doing everything it takes.”
With the series tied at 1-1 and shifting to the Heat's home court, things are bound to get more interesting with this beef in the crosshairs.
Some in the Sixers locker room were extremely bothered by it, while some others didn't really pay it much mind.
“It definitely matters because you can just dribble it out, everything,” said forward Robert Covington. “But you know, we don’t understand why he did it. But overall, we just said, OK, that gives us anticipation because obviously he didn’t care about the simple fact of the score of the game. They were already winning.”
Covington said he will remember Dragic’s layup going into Game 3. His teammate Ben Simmons had a much different approach to the situation.
“The game’s not over,” Simmons said. “I would have dunked it.”
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