Per Redick, Bitadze offered unwanted remarks about Doncic's mother, which prompted the Lakers superstar to aggressively respond and pick up his 16th technical foul of the season.
In his postgame presser after the Los Angeles Lakers' dramatic 105-104 road win over the Orlando Magic, JJ Redick revealed that Luka Doncic was simply infuriated about Goga Bitadze's remarks that led to the superstar's 16th technical foul of the season.
Luka Doncic
Luka Doncic
Luka Doncic
MIN: 35.79
PTS: 33.45 (56.96%)
REB: 7.93
AS: 8.38
ST: 1.57
BL: 0.55
TO: 4
GM: 58
According to the Lakers coach, Bitadze spat personal words about Doncic's mom, which prompted the Los Angeles guard to retaliate and keep jawing against the big man.
Redick also noted that they will appeal to the league office about Doncic's technical foul.
"We'll obviously try to get that rescinded. I'm not sure what happened. I do know that there were certain things said in a language the referees couldn't understand that referenced Luka's mom," Redick told reporters.
"[The refs] didn't have really good control of that basketball game."
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