“Dillon Brooks: Emerging as the NBA’s latest ‘villain’ and garnering worldwide animosity”

Ein all the movies it takes a villain, the nemesis of the heroes, of the good ones, of the favorites of the spectators. In that macro production that is the NBA, there have always been them and their names have gone down in history: Bill Laimbeer, Rasheed Wallace, Ron Artest, Dennis Rodman, Bruce Bowen, Zaza Pachuliaetc.

Born provocateurs, protesters who became a nightmare for the referees or tough guys who sometimes crossed the line and ended up injuring their rivals. Well, in that list of dubious honor he begins to make a hole Dillon BrooksCanadian forward for the Memphis Grizzlies.

The player of 1.98 meters and 27 years The hatred of the NBA is being earned by hand. There are few meetings in which he is not involved in some controversy. Well, rather, he causes them. He is the player who has received the most technical fouls. He goes for 17 and has already been penalized with the corresponding game without playing when exceeding 16. So far this season he has been expelled twice and has paid $253,242 between fines for unsportsmanlike behavior and techniques.

Here are some of them. In a duel against the Cavaliers, after missing a drive to the basket and falling to the ground, hit Donovan Mitchell in the groin when he was about to get up. Her aggression caused a monumental row.

At a Lakers game he confronted a spectator who told him that, with his size, he could not defend LeBron James. Grizzlies players flocked to the front row, where they saw that the fan was Shannon Sharpe, former NFL player. He also got into the altercation Ja Morant’s father. Two weeks ago, Brooks also had a bite with Nikola Jokic as previously he had them with many other rivals.

The last incident was with a television cameraman in a match against the Heat. The forward was trying to recover a ball that was escaping down the wing and, when it seemed that he had slowed down in his career, he clearly pushed the operator on purpose, who fell to the ground.

In true Rodman stylethat when he was a member of the BullsIn 1997, I kicked a cameraman sitting near the basket. ‘El worm’ was suspended for 11 games, fined $25,000 plus loss of salary for each penalty match, and forced to compensate the victim with $200,000. Brooks was only fined $35,000. Given the precedent, she was lucky.

But the Grizzlies player’s biggest feud is with the Warriors. It all started when Andre Iguodala didn’t want to play in Memphis. From the franchise they took it very badly. Matters were made worse when in May of last year, during the Western semifinals, Brooks tried to avoid a drive-by for a basket. Gary Payton Jr hitting him on the head while he was in the air. His rival fell to the ground in a bad way and broke her left elbow.

Since then, the rivalry has only become fiercer and friction is constant in the duels between the teams. The main protagonists are usually Brooks and Draymond Green, another usual suspect. There are verbal confrontations before, during and after the games.

The Grizzlies player lives his sixth season in the NBA, in which he is averaging 14.3 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.5 points. He trained at the University of Oregon and was selected by the Rockets in the second round of the 2017 draft.

That same night he was transferred to Memphis. His character fit the franchise’s philosophy of ‘Grit and Grind‘ although they were no longer Zach Randolph y Tony Allentwo of the emblems next to Marc Gasol y Mike Conley. But for a long time it seems that the eaves it has gone too far.

The ones from Tennessee were a team that was growing little by little and that, in the medium term, even threatened to assault power at the hands of Morant, the latest megastar in the competition. They were tough and not likeable, but they had earned everyone’s respect thanks to their efforts.

Now, after the extra-sports scandals of their franchise player and with the behavior of the ‘villain’ Brooks, too many enemies are being made in the NBA.