Michael Porter Jr.’s status for Game 5 of the Denver Nuggets’ first-round playoff series against the Los Angeles Clippers is very much up in the air after Porter momentarily left the bench during an on-court altercation that resulted in half of a dozen technical fouls.

The tension is rising in the first-round series between the Clippers and Nuggets. Tempers flared near halftime of Game 4 between LA and Denver, and while six technical fouls were doled out, there were no ejections.