They fought the Pacers and the Cavs?
This is why I stopped being a basketball fan 15 years ago.
Pacers, not Cavs.
Pacers whipped their butts and they didn't like it....
KEWL...
Actually - it was the Detroit Pistons and the Indiana Pacers.
I don't watch Bassetbawl.
Back in the 70's when 3/4 of the NBA was on marijuana and/or cocaine, the players were much mellower..We never had any fights like this back then..
Pro Basketball stinks and it's boring. I quit watching the Pro's sometime in the Eighties. It's been downhill since then and now they have too many underclassmen and high school players. As the saying goes "they've jumped the shark". They just don't know it yet.
Fear the Fro Bro.
Great article in the detroit free press by MICHAEL ROSENBERG
http://www.freep.com/sports/pistons/mrosey20e_20041120.htm
Blame Artest for the entire mess; he started by going into stands
Go away, Ron Artest. Go far, far away.
Last week, you were an amusing circus act.
For much of Friday night, you were the best player in the building.
And then you were something beyond Idiot and several miles past Nuts.
And now you need to disappear -- not for a week, not for a month, and not for any amount of time that can be defined in conventional basketball terms. We're not measuring this in games missed. It goes beyond that.
An intense regular-season game morphed into one of the ugliest nights in sports history Friday, and it's all because of Artest, the Pacers forward. Without him, there is no riot at the Pistons-Pacers game. Period.
I have zero sympathy for the fans on the court that got punched. They never should have been there and you're supposed to be subject to arrest for running onto the court, just like running onto a football or baseball field. If a guy runs onto the field of play, I say he's a willing participant to whatever pummeling he gets. And what kind of moron comes right at a huge strong professional athlete with twice their reach and over twice their strength (the fat mexican kid comes to mind, big surprise he dropped like a stone when a basketball player clocked him on the court).
As for a player running up into the stands, that's every bit as stupid. When he does that, any credibility and talk of self-defense goes right out the window. It's better to call time-out, point out the offenders to security, and let them do their job. You may not get justice but it sure beats getting suspended and labeled a problem child.