Pacers-Pistons Melee Another Black Eye For Detroit
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_ The sight of Detroit fans scuffling with NBA stars at the end of a game and showering players with beer, ice and popcorn gives the city another black eye as it struggles to overcome a well-worn reputation for violence and unrest.
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For starters, the Detroit Pistons played well enough to win their season opener Tuesday night against the Houston Rockets. But down the road, they will need more help off the bench.
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By abc12/Associated Press. (11/20/04)-- The NBA is reviewing last night&#39;s ugly ending of Indiana&#39;s 97-to-82 win over Detroit.
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NBA Commissioner David Stern indefinitely suspended four players who took part in an ugly melee with fans, now regarded as one of the worst in sports history, in a Friday night game between the Indiana Pacers and the host Detroit Pistons.
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The Melee in Motown between the Pacers and Pistons didn&#39;t only shake up the NBA, it laid waste to many a fantasy team&#39;s chances this season.
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Members of the Indiana Pacers who clashed with Detroit Pistons fans in one of the most violent melees in NBA history might be reunited  --  in a courtroom.
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DETROIT -- Police in Michigan are talking to witnesses and reviewing videotape after a Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers game ended in a fight between players and fans.
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An epic brawl involving Indiana Pacers players and angry Detroit Pistons fans turned into a near-riot, the most disgraceful day in National Basketball Association history yet.
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Antonio McDyess and Derrick Coleman understood that coming to the defending NBA champion Detroit Pistons offered the best and worst scenarios for a veteran player.
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A brawl involving players and fans at an overnight (local time) NBA game between the Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons in Auburn Hills, Michigan, may result in serious punishment handed out by the NBA.
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A week later, the tape of the fight between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit fans sticks with me like a bad dream. I am still stunned to watch Ron Artest bound over rows of courtside chairs to attack a fan
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A Michigan prosecutor socked five Indiana Pacers players and seven Detroit Pistons fans with charges yesterday for the basketball brawl that gave the NBA a black eye.
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DETROIT, Michigan : The Indiana Pacers lost their cool on and off the court and brawled with unruly Detroit fans during a 97-82 victory over the Pistons in a chaotic game that was halted with less than a minute to go.
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Indiana Pacers officials backed their players as the National Basketball Association rang with recriminations in the wake of a violent brawl between Pacers players and fans in Detroit.
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Richard Hamilton scored 20 points and Chauncey Billups added 17 to lead Detroit past Indiana 88-76 in the second rematch of two clubs involved in a notorious November brawl.
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For the Indiana Pacers, itâs been a long three weeks since a brawl with Detroit fans scarred the image of what was once considered one of the NBAâs model franchises.
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So now, the second wave of reaction has set in to last Friday night&#39;s Pistons-Pacers-Fans brawl at the Palace. At first, the reaction was shock, dismay, outrage.