There was bound to be discipline from the NBA for the massive brawl that ensued Monday night between the Detroit Pistons and Charlotte Hornets, and one player will be out for a lengthy time.
Pistons center Isaiah Stewart, who sprinted off the bench to fight Hornets forward Miles Bridges, was issued a seven-game suspension for his role in the brawl.
Bridges and his Hornets’ teammate, Moussa Diabaté, each received four-game suspensions, while Pistons center Jalen Duren was suspended two games for initiating the altercation and fighting.
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The NBA issued a longer suspension for Stewart for “leaving the bench area, aggressively entering an on-court altercation, and fighting.”
“The length of Stewart’s suspension is based in part on his repeated history of unsportsmanlike acts,” the league’s statement on the matter added.
HORNETS-PISTONS GAME TURNS CHAOTIC WITH MASSIVE BRAWL LEADING 4 EJECTIONS
All four players mentioned were ejected Monday night at Spectrum Center in Charlotte after the wild third-quarter brawl.
The incident began when Duren was backing down Diabaté in the paint, and the latter fouled the former with around seven minutes to play in the third quarter. But the two immediately got in each other’s faces, with Diabate pressing his head against Duren, which set everything off.
Duren shoved Diabate in the face, and despite players on both sides trying to break things up, the usually mild-mannered Diabaté kept looking for Duren.
Pistons veteran Tobias Harris was holding back Diabaté, when Diabaté threw a punch at Duren, escalating the situation. As Duren walked away, Bridges got involved, throwing his own left-handed punch at Duren. The Pistons forward retaliated with his own punch.
Then, with numerous players on the court at this point, Stewart came rushing off the Pistons’ bench to confront Bridges, throwing a punch.
Tempers finally calmed, but the ejections didn’t stop after that. In the fourth quarter, Hornets coach Charles Lee was tossed from the game and needed to be held back after screaming at officials after a no-call when his player, Grant Williams, collided with the Pistons’ Paul Reed.
The Pistons won the game, 110-104, to add to their Eastern Conference-best 39-13 record. The Hornets fell to 25-29, which puts them 10th in the conference.
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