It’s the seventeenth anniversary of one of the crucial ultimate large brawls the NBA has noticed. It’s so notorious it even has its personal Wikipedia web page.
It used to be Dec. 16, 2006, when a tender Carmelo Anthony — then with the Denver Nuggets — punched the Knicks’ Mardy Collins, after Collins knocked J.R. Smith to the bottom when going for a layup. Anthony got here to his teammate’s support, landed the punch, after which apparently ran all of the technique to the opposite aspect of the courtroom, leaving the combating for everybody else.
Nate Robinson used to be able to take out almost about anyone and the aftermath ended in him and Smith being suspended for 10 video games and Anthony suspended for 15. Every group used to be fined $500,000.
In comparison to different NBA fights within the 2000s (I’m taking a look at you, Malice on the Palace), nobody used to be significantly injured. Former Commissioner David Stern used to be fast to deal out the damages so as to check out and reign in and prevent those fights in one of the crucial extra unruly and competitive days of the NBA.
“It’s our legal responsibility to take the most powerful conceivable steps to keep away from such disasters one day and to make a remark to all who apply the sport of basketball that we perceive our responsibilities and take them significantly,” Stern mentioned. “Accordingly, I’m issuing the consequences indexed under, and can take the instance to set forth one of the crucial issues that experience influenced my determination right here and can proceed to steer us as we search to display our choice that the NBA and its gamers be seen as status for the most productive in sports activities.”
