These technical fouls that Josh Jackson and Devin Booker have been picking up aren’t that big of a deal.
Scrappy, emotional players can be winners.
Dennis Rodman was a five-time NBA champion. Draymond Green is a three-time champ (and counting.) And MVPs from Charles Barkley and Karl Malone to Kevin Garnett and Kobe Bryant were known to get T’d up.
The trick is keeping it on the court.
“On the court, during the game, that’s a basketball fight,” coach Igor Kokoskov said. “That’s completely different than a fist fight. There’s a street fight.