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The Lakers would like the NBA to take a closer look at Brendan Haywood’s hard foul against Pau Gasol late in Thursday’s game against the Dallas Mavericks. Haywood knocked Gasol to the court with a double forearm shiver to the head.
Brown said he believed it should have been ruled a flagrant foul, with Haywood perhaps drawing an ejection for thumping Gasol.
The officiating crew, led by veteran Mike Callahan, whistled Haywood for a shooting foul, however.
“After reviewing it on tape, I think the refs missed that,” Brown said. “I don’t know how anybody could think he was going for the ball. I don’t think it was intentional, but that’s not the definition of a flagrant foul.”
Brown said he expected a league review.
“That was definitely not a normal foul,” he said.
— Reported by Elliot Teaford of the LA Daily News
