LeBron James and Joakim Noah received double technical fouls during the third quarter of Game 3.

James beat Jimmy Butler to the rim and slammed on Noah, who was playing help defense.

"I love his emotion as a competitor. I love his emotion, but I think the words that he used to me was a little bit too far," James said. "I'm a father with three kids. It got very disrespectful. I'm OK with competing against Jo. I love the competitive nature in him, but we should leave it there. The disrespectful words that he said to me were uncalled for so the best way to retaliate is by making a play."

Noah claimed to not know what James was referring to.

"Disrespectful?" he asked with more than a bit of sarcasm. "I got mad respect for LeBron. We're just two players trying to win a game. That's all. I don't know what he's talking about. I'm just trying to win games for my team."