LSU star Flau’jae Johnson’s brother handcuffed in SEC title game
- Johnson’s intentional foul on an opponent late in the final quarter sparked the fight
- No. 1 South Carolina (31-0) went on to win their eighth SEC title in ten seasons
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The brother of rapper and LSU player Flau’jae Johnson has been led away in handcuffs after storming the field to protect his sister in an ugly, breakaway fight during the Lady Tigers SEC Championship loss to South Carolina.
Tempers flared in the final minutes of the fourth quarter of Sunday’s high-profile match when a deliberate foul by Johnson on Milaysia Fulwiley led to an altercation between the women of both teams. Johnson also pushed Ashlyn Watkins as she tried to taunt the LSU player by celebrating the upcoming win in front of her opponent.
But the battle between the two teams didn’t stop there, as South Carolina’s Kamilla Cardoso came out of nowhere and knocked Johnson to the ground, sending him to both benches.
At that moment, Johnson’s brother – Trayron Lennoris Milton Jr., popularly known as Tray Milz, because of his stage name as a singer – stormed onto the field from the stands. It prompted the highly alerted officers to detain him before removing him from the floor. Milz has 68.8k followers on Instagram wherever he has shared a post about being “the brother of a national champion” last year when LSU won the NCAA title and once enrolled at Georgia Southern University, according to Music industry weekly.
He also tweeted Sunday’s championship game: “LSU VS SC will always be a gamesman, I’m in this arena throwing stuff.”
South Carolina’s Kamilla Cardoso defeats LSU’s Flau’jae Johnson in the SEC title game
Johnson’s brother, who was in the stands, came out of nowhere after Cardoso leveled his sister
He ended up in the middle of the commotion after the benches were cleared after some pushing on the floor
Johnson’s brother has been identified as Trayron Lennoris Milton Jr., popularly known as Tray Milz, due to his stage name as a singer
Milz’s last tweet before he was arrested during Sunday’s championship game in South Carolina
After referees reviewed the incident on replay screens, which led to a 20-minute delay of play, Johnson was called for an intentional foul, while Cardoso was given a disqualifying foul. What’s more is that the final 2:08 was played with LSU without a bench and all of the team’s substitutes ejected for their involvement in the fight.
“I want to apologize to the basketball community,” South Carolina coach Dawn Staley initially said in an ESPN postgame interview. “When you play games like this in our league, things get heated.
‘No bad intentions. Their emotions were so far ahead of them that sometimes these things happen. That is why I would like to apologize for the fact that we played a role in this. That’s not who we are. That’s not what we’re about.
“But I’m happy for the players who were able to finish the game and give us another championship.”
The South Carolina Gamecocks came into Sunday’s game ranked No. 1 in the country and with an undefeated record (31-0). On the other hand, No. 4 LSU (28-4) are the reigning NCAA champions. Players from both teams had many words to say about each other during the high-profile match.
South Carolina captured their eighth SEC title in ten seasons by beating the Lady Tigers 79-72 after the long delay.