Posted: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 2:20 am | Updated: 2:46 am, Tue Jan 16, 2018.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Paul came back to Staples Center to play against his old team and things got heated.

The final minutes of the game were filled with technical fouls, ejections, swearing, bumping — and that was just the beginning.

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