I have never heard or seen of getting a T for patting you're head. You can dunk...do a muscle flex.....pound your chest while screaming and that's fine...just don't pat your head. Unbelievable
I thought that they said on ESPN that the player wanted a foul call. I have no idea. If that's the case, he could have said something as well as giving the head pat jesture. It just seems really strange that something so minor could bring a T. Maybe there was a build-up that we don't know about. I'm simply trying to think of things that might have led to a technical foul for something so minor.
All that said, there is no excuse for Stackhouse's resonse, imo.