{"id":2965,"date":"2004-11-20T18:04:37","date_gmt":"2004-11-21T10:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/21\/basketbrawl\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T14:04:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T22:04:19","slug":"basketbrawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/11\/20\/basketbrawl\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketbrawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9786,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.reuters.com\\\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=sportsNews&amp;storyID=6873531&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050502225226\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.reuters.com:80\\\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=sportsNews&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 22:03:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 16:35:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 02:22:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 02:22:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:401},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9787,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.establishedboard.com\\\/brawl\\\/brawl.rm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060426065732\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.establishedboard.com:80\\\/brawl\\\/brawl.rm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 22:03:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 16:35:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 02:22:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 02:22:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9788,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/abcnews.go.com\\\/Sports\\\/wireStory?id=269613&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050816081124\\\/http:\\\/\\\/abcnews.go.com:80\\\/Sports\\\/wireStory?id=269613&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 22:03:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 16:35:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 02:22:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 02:22:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not much of a sports fan &#8212; the only sport I&#8217;ve ever really gotten into is soccer, thanks to my brother&#8217;s many years of goalkeeping &#8212; but even I am likely to sit up and take notice when reports start hitting the &#8216;net of pro basketball players <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=sportsNews&#38;storyID=6873531\" title=\"NBA Wrap: Pacers Fight with Pistons' Fans\">jumping into the stands and beating the fans<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.establishedboard.com\/brawl\/brawl.rm\" title=\"RealMedia Video stream, 5 minutes\">RealMedia stream here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Just insane. Bad enough that they got into a brawl on the court &#8212; it&#8217;s never a good thing, but it happens occasionally &#8212; but then to jump into the stands and attack people in the crowd? &#8220;He&#8217;s absolutely out of his mind!&#8221; says one of the commentators, soon followed by, &#8220;This is the ugliest scene you&#8217;ll ever see.&#8221; Sounds about right to me.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, then the commentators just get kind of stupid as they scramble to find something to say, when one of them comes up with, &#8220;This is not a pretty sight, but it happens, a very emotional game,&#8221; as the players are bodily hauled off the court under a hail of beer cups, food, and at least one chair. Emotional game or not, something this big doesn&#8217;t &#8220;happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to ABC, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Sports\/wireStory?id=269613\" title=\"NBA Suspends 3 Pacers, 1 Piston for Brawl\">four players have been suspended indefinitely<\/a>, with more precise suspension lengths to be announced later.<\/p>\n<p>On the upside, maybe we&#8217;ll get an update to the old one-liner, &#8220;I went to a fight and a <del>hockey<\/del> basketball game broke out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not much of a sports fan &#8211;rother&#8217;s many years of goalkeeping &#8212; but even I am likely to sit up and take notice when reports start hitting the &#8216;net of pro basketball players jumping into the stands and beating the fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}