Five players and coaches were expelled from Sunday Detroit Bestone–Minnesota Timberwolvs A game after fighting the crowd in the Target Center.
Early in the second quarter, Timberwolves Big Naz Reed I was hacked by Bestones forward Ron Hollande II While he was leading to the edge and tried to throw the ball. Red exception to the sinner, pointing to the Netherlands while he was saying something to him.
The accident escalated when Timberwolves Donte DivinCenzo He started pushing the Netherlands, whose direction was not looking at his direction. Once the Netherlands looked at DivinCenzo, the closed and wandered arms were around the foundation line. They finally fell into the front class of the stands.
Soon after, all the ten players on the field, coaches and coaches were part of SCRUM. When the players were separated, the Pistons JB Bickestaff coach and Timberwolves Pablo Prigioni screaming on each other and had to be separated by the team members.
The two teams moved for more than 30 seconds until the battle calmed down. After a long review, Red Center, Netherlands, Davinso, Bestone Center Isaiah Stewart And the press guard Marcus Sasser They were expelled, along with Bickestaff and Prigioni.
The entire scene played just 20 feet from the new Timberwolves owner Alex Rodriguez, who walked from his seat in the stadiums in the wake of this and appears to be calling for assistance to an arrested fan in the middle of the quarrel.
The Pistons occupied 39-29 with 8:36 in the second quarter at the time of the accident in a battle between two of hope in the qualifiers. Stewart received a technical error just a few moments ago when Divinceenzo was strongly shocked after a whistle.
Detroit won three consecutive, all with the guard of all the stars Kadi Caningham Outside with a calf injury. However, the loss of three players in the circle in the fight in the second quarter has proven that it imposes taxes on the depth of Pistons. Wolves remained patient with their attack and eventually wore the piston to withdraw for 123-104 victory.
Julius Randel It was 26 points and eight rebounds, Anthony Edwards He added 25 points, and Rudi Jubert He launched 19 points and 25 rebounds to help Minnesota win for the third time in four games.
Malik Pesley Detroit led 27 points. Tim Hardaway Junior. It was 20, and Dennis Schroeder He added 11 points and 11 assists.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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