Trae Young screwed up and he knew it.
“It’s just a play he can’t make,” Hawks coach Quin Snyder said via the Associated Press after the game. “I told him that. He knows it.”
With the score tied at 84 in the third quarter, Young had a 3-pointer disallowed and an offensive foul called on him for tripping the Pacers’ Aaron Nesmith. A frustrated Young picked up a technical foul for something he said.
Then walking back to the bench, Young turned and launched the ball at the referee with two hands. It was an instant ejection.
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“There wasn’t a single part of him that tried to rationalize what happened,” Snyder said.
Young can expect a fine for this. It also was his 15th technical of the season, one more and he will get an automatic one-game suspension.
The Hawks went on to win 143-130, improving Atlanta to .500 at 37-37 and keeping them solidly as the No. 8 seed in the East.
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