Isaiah Stewart of the Detroit Pistons
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Isaiah Stewart of the Detroit Pistons would be "suspended for the rest of the season" in a certain case, a former NBA player says.
The Detroit Pistons and Charlotte Hornets had a hot brawl on Monday evening, February 9, and the NBA is talking about the punishment decision lined up for the players who were ejected. The fight resulted in four players getting ejected, according to NBA research, including Charlotte’s Moussa Diabate and Miles Bridges and Detroit’s Jalen Duren and Isaiah Stewart.
While the player ejections happened in the third quarter of the game, another ejection happened in the fourth. As the clock ticked down, Charlotte Hornets head coach Charles Lee was also escorted out of the game after getting into an argument with a referee on a call.
It really couldn’t have been a more dramatic game. Sure, the Detroit Pistons are known for their “Bad Boy” era, but it’s a new era in the NBA, and these fights are not as common. To wrap up the game, the Detroit Pistons prevailed with a 110-104 final score. So, what kind of punishment will Stewart, a player who has plenty of suspensions under his belt, get?
Former NBA Player Says Isaiah Stewart of the Detroit Pistons Would Be Suspended the Rest of the Season In One Certain Circumstance
Speaking about the incident on The Arena on Tuesday, February 10, former NBA player Kenyon Martin dropped a strong comment, saying that in the David Stern-era of the NBA, Stewart would be suspended for the full remainder of the season.
“If it was David Stern’s NBA, he would get suspended for the rest of the season, I can tell you that … [Carmelo Anthony] got 15 games on the floor playing,” he said on the show. “This man is going to get the max.”
Well, it isn’t the Stern-era of the NBA, but Martin says he still believes Stewart will get “the max.” Gilbert Arenas also commented and talked about what led to Stewart’s situation.
“You got to sit back and watch it all unfold. You can see the lead up,” he said on the show. “It was Moussa Diabate. Yea you figure that was about to happen. Because the play before that he got a lil handle, hit him with a lil boom, lil float. Then they called a timeout, then Duren said I do this … myself.”
Arenas added, “They throw it back to him and that happened. When you going against Detroit I think the team should be fined because you know you have a wild pit on that side, that is only coming there for action and when action is happening why do you not have a leash on it, because it’s getting loose and that the job of Stewart.”
Cade Cunningham Stands Up for Detroit Pistons Amid Brawl
Following the game on Monday, reporters asked guard Cade Cunningham in the locker room about the brawl. “I saw the two guys come together. The headbutt was what it was,” he told reporters. “JD was just trying to defend himself. Obviously, everybody in the NBA, we’re all high-level athletes.”
Cunningham added, “Anybody coming at you, a grown man coming at you that way, you want to defend yourself. But there’s a lot going on. I can’t act like I just had the best view of everything. But I thought we tried to defend ourselves, and we move on.”