Sochan said after the game<\/a>.\u201dHe must have taken it in the wrong way and told me to see him after the game. So, I did. And we just had a polite exchange. I was, I think, intact and very joyful, and the other person wasn\u2019t. Yeah, he just wasn\u2019t emotionally stable in that moment. So, it\u2019s something he has to work on. It\u2019s just life.\u201d<\/p>\nChampagnie, who was unaware of what started the altercation, said he was reacting to protect his teammate.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what happened. Obviously, he talks (on) the bench, and we talked during the game. He\u2019s a funny guy. He plays around a lot. I could imagine he said something that had no ill intent towards it. He may have taken it a certain way. When I walked over, they were talking. I thought they were laughing because he was laughing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Champagnie made it clear his response was about loyalty as much as anything else. \u201cI saw him point his finger and get in his face. For me, last year, I got into a little scuffle. He was there for me, so I figured I\u2019d have his back. That\u2019s how I was trying to go with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lakers stars Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and Jaxson Hayes also stepped in to help Fox separate the players as the verbal back-and-forth continued for a few moments longer.<\/p>\n
Vanderbilt finished with four points on 2-of-6 shooting in 19 minutes, adding a steal. He declined to speak with\u00a0The Athletic\u00a0in the Lakers\u2019 locker room afterward. Sochan, meanwhile, logged six points on a 2-for-2 shooting night with one assist in 11 minutes, contributing to a Spurs win. It marked Sochan\u2019s second straight appearance after a brief stretch out of the rotation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought he competed his butt off, did a great job offensively, shot the ones that came to him, and he was in rhythm, made them,\u201d Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said of Sochan.<\/p>\n
With the trade deadline looming, Sochan opened up about his path to the league and the bond he\u2019s built with San Antonio. \u201cI left home at 15, and this is the first time I\u2019ve been somewhere for more than a year since then. This is my home. I feel like I\u2019ve put in a lot of blood and sweat here to this city,\u201d he said. \u201d It\u2019s up and down. There\u2019s days where it\u2019s sunny and then days where it\u2019s dark.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The buzzer may have ended the game, but it didn\u2019t cool things down Wednesday night in San Antonio.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[1055,355,2116,99],"class_list":["post-395585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}