Dillon Brooks wants to learn ‘how to stay in the game’ after latest ejection, feud with ‘social media junkie’ LeBron James

Dillon Brooks has some regrets about his latest interaction with LeBron James and the ejection that followed.

The Phoenix Suns’ forward said Wednesday that he was “out of character a little bit, out of my body a little but” in his team’s loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday. The Suns rallied back from a 20-point deficit late in that contest, and Brooks drilled a 3-pointer to put the Suns in the lead with about 10 seconds left.

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While James clearly bumped Brooks on the follow-through, which could have been called for a foul, officials didn’t blow their whistles. The league’s Last Two Minute Report deemed that a correct non-call. But Brooks, who has a long history with James, got up and immediately confronted him. Brooks was eventually assessed a technical foul, which was his second of the game and led to his ejection.

“[I need to learn] how to stay in the game and be able to affect the game when I’m in the game,” Brooks said Wednesday, via The Athletic. “That’s my problem through my whole career, is I let those things happen, and then I’m off the floor. Then at the end of the day, how much people hate on me and say I’m not a good player and all that, but when I’m on the floor, it changes the whole game.”

Both Brooks and James picked up early technical fouls in the contest, and James had to be restrained briefly after he thought Brooks tossed a ball in his direction on purpose.

Brooks wasn’t sure why James appeared to get upset with him earlier in the game, but he said he thinks James is tracking him and his comments on social media. He also called James a “social media junkie.”

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James, to Brooks’ point, posted about watching a YouTube golf episode on Wednesday.

“He be all over the socials, so he be seeing I guess what I’m saying,” Brooks said.

“Like I’ve [said] he thinks that people should think a way about him or not say nothing about him or play a certain way, and I’m not going to play that way. He gets in his moods or in his modes or whatever it is. I’m all for that.”

Brooks is averaging a career-high 21.6 points with three rebounds and 1.8…

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Author : Ryan Young

Publish date : 2025-12-17 22:33:00

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