SEE IT: Russell Westbrook and John Wall accumulate into it, receive double technicals

SEE IT: Westbrook and Wall accumulate into it, receive double technicals in the starting up looked on NBC Sports Washington

As time ticked down within the fourth quarter of the Wizards’ 107-88 loss to the Houston Rockets, Russell Westbrook and John Wall had a verbal altercation that resulted in double technical fouls.

With this being the first time the 2 All-Stars private met since becoming a member of their respective teams in a player-for-player swap in December, emotions had been anticipated to skedaddle excessive.

It wasn’t sure what precisely modified into acknowledged between the 2 stars, but it completely got heated adequate for referees and teammates to intervene.

“I build now not accumulate concerned about gamers talking,” Brooks acknowledged at some level of postgame availabilities. “I build now not know what they had been asserting. They both compete, they’re both winning gamers.”

Wall spent the earlier 10 seasons with the Wizards after being drafted No. 1 overall in 2010, while Westbrook spent ideal one season in Houston sooner than becoming a member of the Wizards. 

“Speaking never wins,” Brooks acknowledged after the Wizards’ 10th defeat in 13 games. “Playing wins and so that they played higher than us.”

We can query extra of the similar when two of the league’s most aggressive personalities meet all all over again on February 15 at Capital One Arena in D.C.