It wouldn’t be the first time a Boston Celtics player has gotten into it with a fan this postseason.
The NBA says it’s looking an exchange during Game 3 of the Celtics-Wizards playoff series, in which Isaiah Thomas appeared to respond to a court-side heckler at Washington’s Verizon Center with a profane comeback.
“We are aware and reviewing,” league spokesman Tim Frank told Boston.com.
Footage of the incident in question was posted online Friday night by an Instagram user and first reported on Monday night by The Big Lead.
According to user who captured the exchange, a male heckler was “screaming all game” at Thomas to “take his toothless a– back to Boston.