The brawl in the Los Angeles Lakers - Houston Rockets game clearly didn’t put an end to the animosity between Rajon Rondo and Chris Paul.

The incident ignited it, and the Lakers point guard has gone all in.

In an interview with ESPN, Rondo defending himself from allegations of spitting, while blasting Paul as a "horrible teammate".

"Of course, the NBA went with his side because I got three games and he got two," Rondo told ESPN.

"Everyone wants to believe Chris Paul is a good guy. They don’t know he’s a horrible teammate. They don’t know how he treats people. Look at what he did last year when he was in L.A.; trying to get to the Clippers’ locker room. They don’t want to believe he’s capable of taunting and igniting an incident.

" ... He comes out and says I spit and the media sides with that."

Rondo wasn’t happy with what he thought was unfair treatment toward him, largely demonstrated by the suspensions handed out.

Brandon Ingram received the biggest ban, of four games, Rondo got a three-game suspension, while Paul received a two-game suspension.

There is vision that shows spit coming from Rondo’s mouth, but the 32-year-old said it’s clear that wasn’t intentional.

"I had a mouthpiece in my mouth and I (was) exasperated because I was about to tell him to ’get the (expletive) out of here," Rondo said.

"Look at my body language (in the video). My hands on my hips. I turn away for a second. Look at Eric (Gordon) and Melo (Carmelo Anthony) in the video. If they saw me spit, they would have turned their face up or something. They had no reaction ..."

Rondo continued: "One, if I spit on you, bottom line, there is not going to be no finger-pointing. If you felt that I just spit on you, then all bets are off. Two, look at my body language. If I spit on you on purpose, I’m going to be ready for a man to swing on me.

"You ain’t going to have my hands on my hip and my head look away at someone if I spit on them. After the (expletive) goes down, within 30 seconds, you run and tell the sideline reporters that I spit on you?

"If I spit on you, you are trying to get to me. You not trying to make up a story so you can look like a good guy. It makes no sense to me."