SAN FRANCISCO – Not even two minutes into their game Tuesday night, the Warriors and Timberwolves got heated, and it resulted in an ejection for three players: Wolves forward Jaden McDaniels and the Warriors' Klay Thompson and Draymond Green.
The fracas started when Thompson and McDaniels got into a scuffle near midcourt with 10 minutes, 17 seconds remaining in the first quarter. The two got to shoving and grabbing jerseys, and players made their way over to break it up.
Rudy Gobert came over to pull Thompson away from McDaniels, but when he did that, Green put Gobert in a choke hold and dragged him toward the Warriors bench as multiple Wolves players such as Karl-Anthony Towns and Anthony Edwards and even Warriors coach Steve Kerr tried to get him off Gobert.