NBA suspension looms for brawling, scoring leader
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Another wild melee at the end of a National Basketball Association game has given the league a black eye and likely will bring sucker-punching NBA scoring leader Carmelo Anthony a long banishment.
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NEW YORK: The National Basketball Association and the playersâ union were at loggerheads on Friday over who has jurisdiction to hear the appeal of the record suspensions meted out in the wake the ugly brawl at a Pacers-Pistons game last month.
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The NBA most likely will wait until Monday before ruling on penalties resulting from the brawl between the Nuggets and Knicks.
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An arbitrator on Wednesday knocked 10 games off the penalty Jermaine O'Neal received from NBA commissioner David Stern for fighting with fans during the Nov. 19 Indiana Pacers-Detroit Pistons brawl. Three other suspensions were upheld, including the season-long suspension of Ron Artest.
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Indiana's Ron Artest, Jermaine O'Neal and Stephen Jackson, and Detroit's Ben Wallace were suspended indefinitely by the NBA on Saturday for taking part in one of the ugliest brawls in U.S. sports history, a fight with fans that commissioner David Stern called "shocking, repulsive and inexcusable."
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Indiana&#39;s Ron Artest yesterday was suspended without pay for the rest of the season for fighting with fans during a bench-clearing brawl Friday night in the final minute of a game against the Detroit Pistons in Auburn Hills, Mich.
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The Pacers' Ron Artest was suspended for the season, and two of his teammates must sit out for a combined 55 games.
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The NBA issued indefinite suspensions yesterday for Indiana Pacers Ron Artest, Stephen Jackson, and Jermaine O'Neal, as well as Detroit Pistons center Ben Wallace, disciplining the players for their part in a frightening brawl involving fans at the Palace of Auburn Hills Friday night.
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Ron Artest was suspended for the rest of the season Sunday and two of his Indiana Pacers teammates must miss a total of 55 games for fighting with fans in a melee that broke out at the end of a game against the Detroit Pistons.
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The National Basketball Association suspended All-Star Ron Artest for the rest of the season and Indiana Pacers team mates Stephen Jackson for 30 games and Jermaine O&#39;Neal for 25 following Friday&#39;s ugly brawl.
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The National Basketball Association suspended four players indefinitely at the weekend after one of the worst brawls professional sport in America has seen.
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According to a broadcast report, the NBA has suspended Indiana's Ron Artest for 30 games and teammates Stephen Jackson and Jermaine O'Neal 20 games apiece for their part in a brawl between the Pacers and the Pistons on Friday night.
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The NBA came down hard on the New York Knicks and the Denver Nuggets, and none of the brawlers was spared. Not Carmelo Anthony, the NBA's leading scorer, who got the harshest punishment, a 15-game suspension. And not the teams themselves, who were fined an unprecedented half-million dollars each Monday.
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New York, NY (Sports Network) - The NBA showed no mercy on Sunday, suspending Indiana&#39;s Ron Artest for the remainder of the season for his part in a brawl between the Pacers and the Detroit Pistons on Friday night.
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(NEW YORK) - One of the NBA players who was suspended for his role in a fight with fans during a November game in Detroit has had his suspension reduced by an arbitrator.
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The National Basketball Association suspended indefinitely the four players primarily involved in a wide-ranging fight that went into the stands and resulted in nine fan injuries Friday night.
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The brawl on Friday night following the Indiana Pacers&#39; victory against the Detroit Pistons at The Palace was an unprecedented occurrence for the NBA.