BOSTON — The Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers have played a very physical first-round series, but the action hadn’t gotten out of hand until the second quarter of Game 4.
With 1:44 remaining in the first half, Kendrick Perkins went to set a screen for LeBron James and decked Celtics guard Jae Crowder to the floor.
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Crowder got up in Perkins’ face, and the Cavs center appeared to poke at Crowder’s eye when the referee was between them.
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Perkins and Crowder were both given technical fouls, and Perk also picked up a flagrant 1 foul.
It’s not the first time Perkins has received a technical foul involving Crowder. In February 2013, when Perkins was with the Oklahoma City Thunder and Crowder was playing for the Dallas Mavericks, Perkins picked up a technical for a verbal exchange with Crowder after the then-Mavericks guard scored on him.
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