The 6-foot-11 Brown, taking issue with the nature of Ward’s box-out—“He was going for my knees instead of trying to go for the rebound”—flipped out, and flipped Ward over, suplexing a player who stood nine inches shorter and weighed fifty pounds less. The reaction prompted Ward to jump to his feet and run at Brown, the man he had been praying with just three and a half hours earlier.