Specifically, Golden State’s Charles Bassey and Houston’s Marcus Smart.

In a game that saw Stephen Curry leave with an injury and the Warriors’ eight-game win streak snapped, it was an altercation between the two role players that wound up grabbing all the attention.

Bassey and Smart got tangled up under the rim while fighting for a rebound in the dying seconds of the third quarter, which led to the pair converging and exchanging words before the Rockets guard was seen throwing a punch.

Smart’s straight right was all he could land before being separated by a pair of Bassey’s teammates. The vet was ejected upon review as his act was deemed Flagrant 2 worthy for “contact to the nose with a punch.”

“He’s been playing dirty the whole game,” the Warriors forward said of Smart and their interaction. “I remember in the first half, I was trying to set a screen where he grabbed my knees. So, I mean, he was playing dirty.

“… and then he got up on me and just swung. Obviously, that was weak as (expletive) … I just think that was, honestly, fake toughness.”

When asked if Smart’s actions caught him off guard, Bassey doubled down.

“It didn’t surprise me, I knew he was going to do something. I baited for him to do something because I knew he was going to do something. I don’t think he was trying to play. I think he was trying to get himself out of the game.

” … like I said, that was fake. Fake toughness.”