Dillon Brooks has earned a reputation of a villain. Most recently, his exchanges with LeBron James have been at the center of attention.
In Game 3 against the Lakers he was ejected for hitting James in the groin. But the Memphis forward says it is the media and the fans that are making him a villain.
“I’ve been dealing with this two years now. It is what it is,” Brooks said after Game 3. “The fans could sh*t whatever they want to. It doesn’t matter to me. I’ma keep playing my game, get better and better each and every day as long as my career goes.”
He was then was asked to clarify what is it that he has been dealing with over the last two years. “The media making me a villain, the fans making me a villain and then that just creates a whole different persona on me,” Brooks explained.
“So now you think I intended to hit LeBron James in the nuts. I’m playing basketball. I’m a basketball player. So if I intended and that’s whatever is in the flagrant 2 category of having a flagrant 2 and you think I did that, that means you think I’m that type of person and that’s why I don’t rate. And that’s why I don’t rate Mark Taylor at all.”
