Jazz's Ricky Rubio hits floor after shoves from Suns' Jared Dudley, Marquese Chriss

Tom Gatto

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Ricky Rubio has another team angry with him to the point of taking cheap shots.

Thursday night in Salt Lake City, the Jazz point guard got shoved by the Suns' Jared Dudley and then pushed to the floor by Marquese Chriss. Presumably, the Suns were upset that Rubio stepped over Chriss following a missed dunk attempt on the previous possession. 

Dudley and Chriss were ejected.

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Recall that Rubio was on the receiving end of a running hip check by Timberwolves point guard Jeff Teague just two weeks ago. That incident presumably stemmed from the rivalry between Teague, the Timberwolves' current point guard, and Rubio, the Wolves' former PG.

UPDATE: Dudley tweeted after the game that he was just trying to keep Rubio from starting a fast break. He also put some of the blame on Rubio.

Suns coach Jay Triano thought the Jazz needed to pay for rushing to Rubio's defense, in particular Donovan Mitchell and Joe Ingles.

Rubio, meanwhile, was in no mood to discuss the incident.

"I'm not going to talk about the fight for anybody. I'm not going to talk about the fight. Don't ask me about this s—, OK?" Rubio told reporters, per Jody Genessy of the Deseret News.

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.