This is the best of outkick the coverage with Clay Travis on Fox Sports Radio.

The drama has gotten elevated quite a bit in the Warrior Spurs series.

The Spurs came out and got up 25 points, 23 points in the third quarter was their lead.

And then, Kawaii Leonard got injured, came down on Zaza's foot as he closed out on a jumper.

Was it or was it not a dirty play? Well Greg Popovich has seen it all and he decided in his press conference yesterday to take this series to a different level and this is what he said.

The play where he took Kawaii down and locked his arm in Dallas and could have broken his arm.

Ask David West, his current teammate, how things went. When Zaza was playing for Dallas and he and David got into it and then think about the history he's had and what that means to a team what happened last night.

It's totally unnatural closeout that the league has outlawed years ago and pays great attention to it and Kawaii's not there and you want to know how we feel about it.

You want to know if that lessons are chances or not. If he would have played and they'd end up winning, I go get dinner, have a glass of wine, wake up the next day, go to practice and move on.

But this is crap and because he's got this history, it can't just be oh it was inadvertent. He didn't have intent. Who gives a damn about what his intent was?

You ever hear a manslaughter? You still go to jail and I think when you're texting and you end up killing somebody but you might not have intended to do that. All I care is what I saw. All I care about is what happened and the history there exacerbates the whole situation and makes me very, very angry.

Now Greg Popovich gets the right to basically say anything in the NBA's because he's considered royalty the best coach in the league and very few people in the media in the NBA will actually call him out when he says something like this.

But I saw this and I thought it was fascinating. This was back in 2006. Greg Popovich 11 years ago after the NBA warned Bruce Bowen who a lot of you will remember as a guy who did chronically exactly what Greg Popovich is complaining about right now.

Stepping under jump shooters here is direct here direct quotes from Greg Popovich from back then. Popovich said Bowen's being singled out citing incidents of other teams doing the same things.

Did the league call them popovich said did they call all those guys Dirk Navitsky landed on when he sprained his ankle to pass three four years.

The answer is no. So why did they call Bruce because it's happened to him twice Bruce guards and all star every night if he was doing what they're accusing him of doing wouldn't have happened to hire percentage of times.

The people who cry about it are just frustrated about having to go against Bruce and then he went on to say the league is just trying to cover its ass.

I told Bruce you be Bruce Bowen you're the best effing defender in this league you will not change the way you play defense and then he continued about the NBA.

Stu Jackson is not going to change my team just because he thinks he's doing the right thing.

Is that anything other than absolute naked hypocrisy by Greg Popovich aka president snow right here railing against exactly what he defended Bruce Bowen for 11 years ago.

Isn't this just a case of a coach who understands that his team is in trouble trying to latch on to any possible any possible way for his team to pull off the upset being frustrated look I understand why he's frustrated his best player is injured.

But I personally did not think that what Zaza did deserve to be compared to manslaughter now if pop a bitch had said look I think it's negligent the way that he closes out that he's going up underneath players and as a result you're not looking at the way that you are you know when you come down after a jump shot.

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