Although the Knicks won the game, the league's punishment also came down.

The Coalition has always punished fights severely. For example, the fight at the palace of Auburn Hills in later generations. It occurred on November 19, 2004, during the Pacers-Pistons game, and was the largest, heaviest, and most egregious mass assault in NBA history.

With 45.9 seconds left in the game, the Pistons trailed the Pacers by 15 points, and Pacers forward Artest made a rude foul on Ben Wallace, but it may have been due to the fact that the Pistons big man Ben Wallace was in a bad mood to lose, and pushed the Pacers forward Artest hard, triggering a violent conflict between the players on both sides.

But Rashid, who was in the Pistons at the time? Wallace did a good job of holding off the flames from both sides.

Artest was persuaded to return to the field and lay calm on the referee's bench.

Just when the two teams were still angry, suddenly a fan threw a drink cup on Artest lying on the referee's seat, Artest was in a bad mood, which led to a complete anger to Artest, who immediately rushed to the audience and hit the fan they thought threw the cup (later confirmed to be completely innocent).

Then the other Pacers players rushed to the stands and had a big brawl with the fans in attendance, mainly O'Neal Jr. and Jackson helping Artest beat the fans (they were also beaten by the fans), and Fred, who rushed to the stands but was beaten up by the fans? Jones, as a result, the scene was extremely chaotic. Finally, a large group of police officers rushed into the stadium and pulled away the crowd from the fight. But Atay didn't end it, and two young fans wearing piston vests broke into the stadium to provoke Atay. As a result, he was punched by Atai, and there was another chaos, and then O'Neal Jr. rushed at high speed and punched the little blue T fan and knocked him down directly.

At this time, Pistons head coach Larry? Brown Radio wants fans to be calm; Atay was sent away first, but the Pistons fans were very irrational, and when the Pacers players left, they frantically threw popcorn and drink bottles of various colors and some other food brought in to coax, and O'Neal Jr. was smashed by a chair and had another large-scale confrontation with fans near the aisle, and after a period of confusion, an old woman was seen lying on the ground; Tinsley also took something resembling a dustpan and attempted to smash it at the fans, but was taken over. Eventually, all Pacers players left the court. The game whistle is over. A total of nine fans were injured and two were taken to hospital. After the game, the TV left three shots, one of which was a fan still bleeding. One was a stunned and confused woman. There is also a frightened little fan who is being appeased.

Eventually, NBA commissioner David? After reviewing the footage, Stern imposed an unprecedentedly severe punishment.

A number of players, including Artest, were suspended, and Artest was even banned from all the remaining games of the 04-05 season, losing a total of $4.995 million in 73 regular season games and 13 playoff games, Stephen Jackson was suspended for 30 games, O'Neal Jr. was 25 games (later reduced to 15), and Johnson was 5 games. Miller 1; Center Harrison was lucky enough to escape the league's punishment. But this time he will not be able to escape the court's sanctions. Pistons center Ben? Wallace was suspended for six games. Since he was not directly involved in the brawl, he was exempt from prosecution. There was also Billups, Coleman and Campbell who were banned for one game. A total of nine players were banned for more than 140 games. At the same time, the riot was another wake-up call for the Coalition's security efforts, in which as many as a dozen guards at the Palace of Auburn Hills were fired due to unfavorable security measures.

Aftermath the Pacers' three big men: Ron? Artest, Stephen? Jackson and Jermaine? O'Neill was sentenced to one year of probation, 60 hours of community service, and a $250 fine each for his involvement in the Auburn Hills Palace fight. In addition to this, the three of them had to undergo anger counseling. Several fans have also been prosecuted (including those who fight, break into the stadium, throw chairs, etc.). Wallace joins the brawl after pushing Artest. In the end, the Pistons banned five fans from the court again. According to the video footage, Green, the fan who threw the drink glass at Artest, was also sentenced to 30 days in prison, fined $500, and had his Pistons season ticket repossessed. After that, the Pistons sent Green an official letter in which he was clearly informed that he would lose the right to watch the Pistons at home for life. Although it was later heard that he had reconciled with Artest, the Pistons still refused to let him go to the game.

This is the famous Auburn Hills palace fight.

However, this fight in New York was very different from the Auburn Hills palace incident.

The Auburn Hills palace fight really touched David Stern's scales.

David Stern is Jewish, has all the brilliant minds of all Jews, and a heart that values money. Everything that can't get along with money is something that can't get along with him. And the Auburn Hills palace fight incident is a war between players and fans, and as we all know, fans pay to watch the game, they are Stern's gods, benefactors, and financiers, and whoever can't get along with them, Stern can't get along with! So Stern directly issued this heavy penalty. Besides, this is not only an internal matter of the alliance, but also involves legal issues. There has always been a saying in American society that the players in the NBA are a group of people who only know how to fight and collect money, and do not understand real sports, and such brawls are in the hands of those people, and if Stern is not punished more severely, then it is likely to bring disaster to the whole league.

But this time the brawl in New York was not so serious, although there were also remarks slandering the alliance, but this was only an internal matter of the alliance, and it had nothing to do with the outside and no one else. In this way, things will be easy to do. Stop a few games, penalize a few people, and then pay a few more fines and it's gone. Nothing.

Al Harrington, the instigator of this matter, was directly suspended for 10 games and fined 30,000 yuan, Miller, who went to help boxing, was fined once, Jaylen Rose 4 games, O'Neal Jr. 5 games, and Travis Best 7 games.

On the other side, Latrill Sprewell of the Knicks was punished lightly because he was a victim, but he was also one of the instigators of the matter, and it was the most serious one, so he was directly banned for 8 games and fined 20,000 yuan. Others, Alan Houston is suspended for 3 games, Marcus Camby for 3, Kurt Thomas for 3 and Theo Ratliffe for 2.

If you only compare the number of suspensions to the fines, the Knicks gave a lighter sentence. But, in essence, the league's penalty for the Knicks is deadly!

The Pacers' penalties are heavy, but they don't have games anymore and the suspension won't happen until next season. The New York Knicks, on the other hand, have to play in the Eastern Conference Finals, so the ban will be enforced immediately.

Ratril Sprewell, who was sentenced the heaviest, had a ban of eight games, which meant that he would not have to play in the final, because even if he was finished, he would not have anything to do. The others are basically about 3 games, that is, for three games, the Knicks must play with a bench lineup.

For such a penalty, of course, the Knicks will not do it, hurry up and appeal!

But this is clearly useless.

So, the 76ers are cool!

"Great, this time we have made it to the finals!" Aaron shouted excitedly.

"Okay, as long as you don't capsize in the gutter!" Luke said.

"Yes, Aaron, don't be too happy, they may burst out with unprecedented power!" Larry said.

"Not really, Coach!" Luke said, "We're going to destroy them before they break out!" ”

"Yes!" Aaron also said with a smile. "Crush them before they erupt!"

So in the next game, the 76ers did their best even in the face of the Knicks' all-bench lineup, pressing the substitutes on the opposite side, and kept the lead throughout the game, knowing that the game was over. At 2:0, the 76ers managed to win two games at home.

The next step is to move to the Madison Square Square game. (To be continued......)