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.
Yep, you can pin the fights squarely on Artest, who is the actual thug in this mess. He deserved every single thing that happened to him, sorry tis true. And for anyone thinking "oh, DETROIT, I see..." the game was NOT played in Detroit and the majority of those fans were not from there either.