Dwyane Wade calls Rajon Rondo flagrant foul 'a punk play'

MIAMI — Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade kept his composure when Boston Celtics guard Rajon Rondo fouled him around the neck late in the fourth quarter Tuesday.

Referees issued Rondo a flagrant foul one after reviewing the play on video, and Wade had pointed words for Rondo's foul with 16.9 seconds remaining and the Heat up 118-107.

"It was a punk play by him," Wade said. "The league will take care of it. He clotheslined me – with two hands."

For a split second, it look like Wade wanted to react. But instead, he held the basketball in his hands and did nothing.

"We're in the NBA. I've got my kids watching. So I stopped," Wade said. "I'm here to play basketball. That's what we are, we're basketball players. If you want to do something else, go do something else, boxing and all those other things. Like I said, I was glad I was able to stop myself in that very moment and move on from it."