On March 29, Beijing time, the Denver Nuggets challenged the Charlotte Hornets away, and when the two teams played in the third quarter, Harrell and Aaron Gordon suddenly had a dispute, and Harrell was directly expelled for two technical fouls.
In the middle of the third quarter, Rivers fell to the ground after a foul after a breakthrough, and Harrell stepped directly over his head, a move that directly caused dissatisfaction among the Nuggets' players.
Gordon then pushed him away directly behind Harrell, at which point Harrell was momentarily emotionally unstable and began to spew trash talk with Gordon. Fortunately, Patton and Jokic and others came forward to dissuade them, avoiding a further escalation of the conflict between the two.
The referee pulled the two sides apart after mediation, and after repeated video replays, determined that Harrell crossed Rivers as the first technical foul, and then exchanged garbage words with Gordon to affect the order of the game, and the two each received a technical foul. Harrell was also banished for accumulating two technical fouls.