Because he spent much of the latter half of his playoff series backpedaling and hiding from the media, we couldn’t get the blow-by-blow account and reaction from Dillon Brooks that we deserved. A $25,000 fine from the NBA perhaps helped change his mind as he spoke at his exit interview on Sunday and finally addressed some matters.
And really, to the shock of no one, even with the benefit of hindsight, Brooks stated he did not regret trash-talking LeBron James.
“That’s who I am. I don’t regret it,” Brooks said. “I’m a competitor and I compete.