Cleveland Cavaliers guard Jordan Clarkson chalked up his decision to throw a basketball at Dario Saric in the waning moments of Thursday's 108-97 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers as "part of the game."
The incident unfolded late in the fourth quarter after Saric dunked the ball with 12.2 seconds remaining to put the Sixers up 10 with the result already in hand.
"Uh, basketball, that's it," Clarkson said when asked about the skirmish, according to ESPN.com's Dave McMenamin. "Part of the game. If anybody say different, that they wouldn't have did that, that they'd have did something different or anything else, they lying.