Video: Basketbrawl at the Garden
posted at 11:18 pm on December 16, 2006 by Allahpundit
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And that’s why I don’t watch the National Ballhogs Association. Remember when Sir Charles said, “Ah am not a ro madoh?” Yeah well, so are these guys–and mighty bad ones too. I get sick from this crap.
smellthecoffee on December 16, 2006 at 11:28 PM
The NBA is a damn joke. It’s turned into joke with nothing but punks and thugs.
zerodamage on December 16, 2006 at 11:40 PM
Good ole American hockey.
infidel on December 16, 2006 at 11:46 PM
Stern’s probably already in a bad mood after having to all but admit the new ball sucked. I highly doubt he is going to take this situation lightly. These guys are nuts.
TheThink on December 16, 2006 at 11:47 PM
Punks.
EnochCain on December 16, 2006 at 11:47 PM
Another year; another fight. It’s almost expected.
lorien1973 on December 16, 2006 at 11:51 PM
I really enjoy watching those overpaid chumps act like the fools they are.
Scot on December 17, 2006 at 12:02 AM
does anyone even WATCH the NBA? These boys are a product of our “touchy-feely” education system. That’s coming from a teacher, mind you. We’ve raised a bunch of spoil-sports.
robblefarian on December 17, 2006 at 12:03 AM
Anthony throws a sucker punch and backpedals down the entire court. Best defense he’s played all season.
MCPO Airdale on December 17, 2006 at 12:17 AM
You ever wonder how so many people can be that good of an athlete and be totally unable to fight a lick?
Damn, I’d put my friend’s kids up against most of them and give even odds…
Lord Nazh on December 17, 2006 at 12:40 AM
It’s the new basketball.
You know, they one they filed a greivance with the DOL over? Stuff like that cracks me up. If any working stiff still supports the NBA in any way, shape or form, they need to have their head examined.
reaganaut on December 17, 2006 at 12:56 AM
mix gansta-ism with basketball what happens?
Defector01 on December 17, 2006 at 1:04 AM
Mello was doing so well to…
He was the star of the national team, he was getting commercials. All he needed was to cut his hair and practice speaking and he could have made it big. Oh well.
Theworldisnotenough on December 17, 2006 at 1:23 AM
Brotha, you got that right!
JetBoy on December 17, 2006 at 1:30 AM
That was an amazing fight! Anthony clocked him!
Say Bye-Bye!
gatewaypundit on December 17, 2006 at 1:36 AM
Remember the old joke…“I went to a fight and a Hockey game broke out”?…I think we should change it to a “Basketball game”.
mlong on December 17, 2006 at 1:41 AM
Whatever happened to sportsmanship?
EnochCain on December 17, 2006 at 1:53 AM
I say again, you’re cute when you sports-blog.
marykatharine on December 17, 2006 at 2:38 AM
I’ll bet this kid could kick all their a**es.
Scot on December 17, 2006 at 2:50 AM
Unreal sucks..lol
EnochCain on December 17, 2006 at 3:00 AM
The catalyst for this fight was the fact that, leading by 19 with a minute left, Nuggets coach George Karl left his starters in. He probably did this because he is good friends with former Knicks coach Larry Brown, who was fired last season. He was running up the score to get some sort of vengeance for a friend.
That being said, I think we all know Carmelo will get the shortest suspension, despite the sucker punch. He’s the only legitimate star that was ejected, and David Stern is nothing if not media savvy. Having the NBA’s leading scorer off the court for an extended period is not good, and he knows it.
mhexel on December 17, 2006 at 4:23 AM
scot: I agree with everything you said…xcept you mis-spelled “chump”.
DoctorDentons on December 17, 2006 at 6:03 AM
Issue brass knuckles for the first round of the playoffs.
It’s a new game for a new age.
No one has been playing BASKETBALL since the media-savvy suits sacrificed the traveling call decades ago. Which begat previously impossible spectacular jams. Which begat SHOWTIME! Which begat the NBA you folks watch and which my remote rolls through.
Stephen M on December 17, 2006 at 6:06 AM
Didn’t see the game but some video. From what I read they left the starters in, so what? If the Knicks can’t take it quit. I do not care what the score is, if you winning, keep the win, keep pushing, don’t fall back after a certain score and relax. Imagine if these people were running a military and fighting the Arabs, they would laugh at them.
StuLongIsland on December 17, 2006 at 7:19 AM
The most fight the Knicks have shown in years.
But Carmelo? What a pu–y. Throws a punch (someone needs to teach him how to box, first of all), then runs like a girlyman downcourt, highstepping it away from 5-foot-nothing Nate Robinson. Give him at least 10 games. Then he can go blow doobies with his boyz.
JammieWearingFool on December 17, 2006 at 8:11 AM
I stopped watching NBA games many years ago, and I’m a big fan of the sport of basketball. It was a different and more watchable game 20-30 years ago with more finesse, less power. There was good defense, better ball handling, superior passing and more diverse shot-making – in a sport played by gentleman athletes who let their game do their talking for them.
Today’s NBA games are a total bore played by overpaid and over-rated Prima Donnas. Nothing but slam dunks, three pointers and in-your-face trash talking does not spark fan interest …. throw in the fist-fights and the foul language and you’ve got nothing less than a back alley game played by a bunch of thugs.
I’ll take a good college B-ball game over the NBA any day. Unfortunately the bad behavior so prevalent in the NBA is beginning to creep into more and more college programs. (Thank you, role models.)
Stern needs to grow a pair and start tossing these pituitary cases out of the game for good when they start throwing punches. Most of them make enough money in one season to last them a lifetime. Well …… maybe not THEM, but most people.
fogw on December 17, 2006 at 8:56 AM
Civilized.
Seixon on December 17, 2006 at 9:01 AM
“why don’t you aks them”?
… wow … just wow.
One Angry Christian on December 17, 2006 at 9:04 AM
Perhaps but what does that make hockey and hockey players? Those white boys beat the crap out of each other every game and fans think they’ve been cheated when a fight doesn’t happen.
Perchant on December 17, 2006 at 9:05 AM
Basketball clip wouldn’t play.
But saw the German kid one.
Keep an eye on him, they’ll be electing him
Chancellor one day…
TheSev on December 17, 2006 at 9:53 AM
They still playing NBA basketball? I gave up on NBA when it became the ultimate “me game”.
Wade on December 17, 2006 at 9:54 AM
Disgusting. Everybody at ESPN, though, is focusing on Carmelo Anthony and saying that he should get the stiffest punishment. I disagree, but he should be treated very harshly. Whatever happens to Anthony I want to see happen to Jeffries as well. Had Jeffries’ jersey not held up, that fight might still be going on.
Mr. Stern, it’s time to live up to your name. May I suggest an inventive punishment? In addition to whatever you need to do against all the players, ban both teams from a postseason at the next point that they would otherwise qualify.
flutejpl on December 17, 2006 at 10:01 AM
Listened to Chris Sheridan, an ESPN.com columnist, who minimized and downplayed the entire incident, and thought Anthony would get maybe 4 games. I shouldn’t have been surprised that a sportswriter shills for a sport AGAIN, but I was. Which is why none of the sportswriters were the oness who broke open the steroids scandal in baseball. These guys aren’t journalists…they’re sports fans who understand grammar and sentence structure, so they have a platform to write articles.
Carmelo Anthony, JR Smith, and Nate Robinson are looking at 10-20 game suspensions. Not 4 games. Just wanted to make sure I put my prediction out there, and if I’m wrong, then you can all call me clueless.
asc85 on December 17, 2006 at 10:16 AM
This fight broke out because of pent up frustrations over the policy that they can’t wear “bling” at the press conferences anymore and must dress professionally.
Dave Shay on December 17, 2006 at 10:59 AM
Ah, those Nugs. What a home team. December 13, 1983 the Nuggets lost a triple overtime game to the Pistons as the two teams played the highest-scoring game in NBA history: 370 total points, 186-184. Looks like after last night they’re now in the history books as part of the game with the most players ejected. 10? 10 players?
I miss Doug Moe. The team had class back then. Then again, so did the sport. Back then, the Pistons had the rep as being the bad boys. Now they all do. I haven’t watched since Moe retired.
GPE on December 17, 2006 at 11:05 AM
I believe the last two words that would fit the NBA are “Professional” and “Role Model”.
darwin on December 17, 2006 at 11:05 AM
MK thinks AP is cute when he sports blogs. Watch this site turn into the blogger’s equivelent of ESPN. :))
How about sitting Anthony out for the rest of the season, with no pay? That would be a good starting point and only punishment like this, where they don’t let marketing get in the way, will get the message across.
My personal preference would be that Anthony be required to work at MacDonalds (in an area that doesn’t give one whit about basketball) for his suspension time(which again should be the rest of the season). A little reminder of about the only other thing he would be qualified for if he screws up again.
Mike O on December 17, 2006 at 11:36 AM
We gotta get “Mello” a new nickname.
shooter on December 17, 2006 at 11:37 AM
Camby’s still in the mix? I thought he was still waiting by his mailbox for his free fleece.
Readymade on December 17, 2006 at 12:03 PM
Someone brought up hockey, and to a certain extent that is a legit point. But where it breaks down is that hockey at least has a “gentlemans” way of handling it. I know, everyone is laughing, but I’m being serious. Usually, there are always exceptions, two guys are left alone to settle their dispute. They’re given a few minutes and then it’s broken up. Now they’re trying to change this and I believe it’s a bad idea. Let the two blow off steam without interference from other players or officials and then break it up. There are always going to be episodes like this in sports….we just have to regulate it so that it doesn’t become a riot. Let the two have a minute then separate them and go on…….
ritethinker on December 17, 2006 at 12:28 PM
I don’t like hockey anymore, and I hate the bench clearing brawl aspect of baseball along with that whole “hitting the batter out of retaliation” crap. However, the difference is, hockey is supposed to be a contact sport. ritethinker is right though about hockey.
Basketball isn’t, well now it is, and that’s why the NBA stinks now. they’re all bulked up and finesse and skill is out the window.
Besides, no one was talking about hockey, we’re talking basketball, sounds like a touch of “moral equivalence” *groan*
reaganaut on December 17, 2006 at 1:47 PM
Why dose this have to be racial? Georges Larocque, Donald Brashir, and Mike Grier are all black and all known for being strong fighters and physical players.
Hockey fights happen for a reason, to combat dirty play, protect your star players, or fire up your team. Ritethinker made a good point also, hockey fights are as close to gentlemen duels as you will get today.
What happened in that bball game was a joke.
liquidflorian on December 17, 2006 at 3:50 PM
Possibly they could implement the hockey rule in badsketball (the misspelling fits). Problem is, I doubt those prima donna gangster types have the guts to stand toe to toe for a period of time, preferring the ’sucker-punch and run’ scenario. They want to act like hockey thugs, lets seem them prove that they are tough enough for it. I’d take Laroque over even the monsterous Shaq any day.
As stated before, hockey fights occur for specific reasons and anything but one-on-one are extremely rare. I am a fan and do NOT feal cheated when the the game is fight-free, and am totally disgusted the one or two times I saw more than one in any given period. Hockey has had brawls before, but the fans and the leage do not condone them.
Mike O on December 17, 2006 at 6:17 PM
Magic, Bird, Dr.J, Earl the Pearl, Russell, etc. are all shaking their heads. The sad thing is that Shaq (who has been in only one fight that I know of, for obvious reasons) probably is too.
Best NBA non-fight I ever saw was in the eighties: Show-Time Lakers and who-knows-what team. Some young punk tried to start a fight with Magic by pushing him. Magic–who, to his honor and detriment, was more of a lover than a fighter–held his hands up and backed off as if to say “man, what’s your problem?” Kareem–who was known to defend himself when provoked–walked up, pushed Magic out of the way and put his goggles an inch from young punk’s face. This time young punk backed off.
baldilocks on December 17, 2006 at 10:37 PM
Kinda OT: I haven’t watched the NBA regularly in years due to the demonstrable brattiness and thuggery that is the subject of this post.
Question for those who are still watching: has any recent player attempted to emulate the grace, beauty and, most of all, the un-defensible-ness of Kareem’s Sky Hook?
If one is doing that, let me know so here I can keep an eye on such a guy. Otherwise I will continue to boycott viewing these twits.
More Sign of the Times: The Cowboys’ Terrell Owens recently spit on another NFL player. I don’t watch the NFL anymore either.
baldilocks on December 17, 2006 at 10:56 PM
When did the hockey game break out?
NHL fights on Youtube…AWESOME! Nothing like 2 goalies slugging it out.
The only colors that matter in any sporting event….are my team colors. To Hades with everyone else. I’ve been to 4 NHL games this year and haven’t seen one fight. I want to see passing, checking, great scoring opport. and great goaltendering.
You fight to keep the other team “honest.” Fighting is becoming the exception instead of the norm.
Basketball fights…..throw a sucker punch and run like hell. At least I repect the hockey player who wades in and goes toe to toe.
VikingGoneWild on December 18, 2006 at 3:38 PM
Exactly… Look at the sweedish elite league; their is no fighting but you’ll get maimed by a flagrant high stick, or slew-foot, or kneed, or speared…. The tough guys keep the game from getting chippy.
I also want to say that Curtis Brown has added a lot of depth to the San Jose Sharks this year. He and Mike Griere are excelent on the penalty kill…. Thats right folks; Brownie is doing a heck of a job! (lol)
liquidflorian on December 18, 2006 at 4:27 PM
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