In the immediate aftermath of the contentious Rockets-Clippers game Monday, reports indicated that former Clipper Chris Paul led a group of Houston teammates, including James Harden, down a secret tunnel at Staples Center to enter the Los Angeles locker room and confront Blake Griffin and Austin Rivers.
It remains unclear whose idea it was to do that, but on Wednesday, the NBA described Paul and Harden as “peacemakers” while it handed two-game suspensions to the other Houston players involved in that expedition party, Trevor Ariza and Gerald Green.
“To go into another team’s locker room immediately after a game, totally inappropriate and very provocative for the players to do that, and so that’s a dangerous situation,” Kiki Vandeweghe, the league’s vice president of basketball operations, told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.