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[Saba Sports News] Dillon Brooks is gearing up for the playoff showdown he’s been waiting for — and he’s vowing to stay on the court for all of it.
The Houston Rockets are set to face the Golden State Warriors in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs, a matchup finalized after the Warriors secured the No. 7 seed via the play-in tournament. The second-seeded Rockets will now face off against one of their most heated rivals.
When asked Thursday about the potential for ejections in what’s expected to be a fiery series, Brooks made a clear promise: he won’t be one of them.
“I don’t know,” Brooks said, via Jackson Gatlin of *Locked On Rockets*. “I’m not gonna get ejected. I’ll leave that to somebody else.”
Brooks has a well-documented history with the Warriors, dating back to a chippy 2022 playoff series while he was with the Memphis Grizzlies. That series included an infamous ejection after a flagrant foul on Gary Payton II and plenty of jawing — especially between Brooks and Draymond Green, whose mutual dislike has played out publicly over the years.
Though Brooks has a reputation as one of the league’s premier agitators — and was ejected from a game just weeks ago — he insists he’ll keep his cool this time around. Whether he sticks to that promise in what’s sure to be a tense series remains to be seen.