Trevor Booker ejected from Jazz-Lakers for slapping Roy Hibbert upside head (Ball Don’t Lie)

Sure, it's still just preseason, but whenever NBA players take the court and get into the flow of competition, temperatures can start to rise and tempers can flare. Case in point: Utah Jazz forward Trevor Booker challenging Los Angeles Lakers center Roy Hibbert to a duel during the teams' Tuesday night tilt in Honolulu: [ Yahoo Fantasy Basketball: Sign up for a league today ] With just over seven minutes remaining in the third quarter, Booker set a screen for Jazz point guard Trey Burke on the right wing. Booker's man, Lakers forward Julius Randle, stayed attached to him on the screen, and I mean that very literally; they stayed tangled up for a few seconds before an angry Booker shoved the 2014 lottery pick away. The play would ultimately result in a double foul assessed by referee Zach Zarba. It would also result in the 7-foot-2 Hibbert — whom the Lakers acquired this summer from an Indiana Pacers team looking to downsize and speed up — lumbering over to have words with Booker, who has established himself over the course of a five-year NBA career spent with the Jazz and Washington Wizards as a man not to be trifled with. Hibbert, looking to stand up for his young...