The Los Angeles Clippers are currently steamrolling through the Houston Rockets en route to a likely Western Conference Finals berth. With the Rockets being thoroughly outplayed and dominated all series long, Houston has gotten a bit chippy in frustration. This was evident when Rockets center Dwight Howard basically leveled an Clippers forward Matt Barnes with an elbow during Game 4 of their series. The league definitely took notice of the shot, fining Howard $15,000 for the play.
The NBA has fined Dwight Howard $15,000 for making contact above shoulders with Matt Barnes in Rockets-Clippers Game 4.
— InsideHoops.com NBA (@InsideHoops) May 11, 2015
For those who haven’t seen the play, you can check out video of the elbow below.
It will be interesting to see how physical Game 5 between these two teams is.
