The NBA suspended five players on Tuesday for their roles in a fight during the Sunday match between the Pistons Strait and the Minnesota Timberwolves in Minneapolis.
The big man of the pistons Isaiah Stewart was suspended for two games, while striker Ron Holland Jr. and goalkeeper Marcus Sasser were each suspended for one. The center of Minnesota Naz Reid and goalkeeper Donte Divincenzo were also suspended for a match each.
Stewart received an additional “” based in part on its repeated history of assistant acts, “said the league by announcing the discipline.
The fight started after Holland increased Reid on a trip to the basket with 8 minutes, 36 seconds remaining in the second quarter after tensions were already high.
After the whistle, Holland seemed to say something to Reid, who turned around and started agitating his finger in Holland. This triggered even more verbal back and forth between the two.
Divincenzo entered the fray and caught Holland. The two were tangled and fell into the first row of seats on the basic line under the Wolves basket while the trainers of the benches and the security personnel jumped in action.
Piston goalkeeper Marcus Sasser attempted to come with Holland, as is the resident of ErFrus Stewart, while coaches and security surrounded the crashes.
Divincenzo was pinned with his back against the seats with Reid and Holland to his two. When Stewart tried to grasp Reid on the ground, seeming to put him in a strangulation, Divincenzo threw his shoulder in the pile in front of him, trying to open the way.
Even after the separation of the players and that the order began to be restored, Reid, Holland, Stewart and Divincenzo continued to bark each other. The verbal fight has extended to coache staff while the head coach of the Pistons JB Bickerstaff and the Wolves Assistant Pablo Prigioni have launched each other.
Divincenzo and Reid were ejected, just like Holland, Stewart and Sasser. Bickerstaff and Prigioni were also ejected.
The referees distributed seven technical faults during the incident.
Minnesota won the match 123-104.
The Timberwolves hoped that Divincenzo and Reid would avoid suspension, but they were also preparing. As soon as the skirmish spread in the seats and put the fans in danger, there would probably be a discipline of the league.
The absences occur at a very difficult time for the Wolves (40-32), which started the day at half a game behind the Golden State Warriors for the sixth coveted seeded of the West Conference, which would allow them to avoid the game tournament. They have a force test with the Denver Nuggets on Tuesday, a team that they beat five times in a row. Mailing their two best bench players will make things much more difficult to win, and the Wolves work with almost no margin of error during these last seven games.
Although they were placed in a difficult position, Wolves players were fully favorable to the way Divincenzo and Reid responded to pistons on Sunday. They were dominated physically and were late by up to 16 points at the first quarter, but Divincenzo increased the assault when he entered the match and withdrew his team.
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If Divincenzo had not answered as he did, the Wolves could have lost the match and had been even further in the hole. Divincenzo’s ardent personality inserted him into the locker room this season after having come from New York to the trade that sent Karl-Anthony Towns to the Knicks.
With Reid and Divincenzo, Terrence Shannon would normally be online to take part of the minutes of the wing, but he came out with a groin injury. Jaylen Clark will probably see more minutes, and Luka Garza could have time in the first area against Nikola Jokić. – The main writer of Timberwolves Jon Krawczynski
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