{"id":476319,"date":"2025-12-29T09:05:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=476319"},"modified":"2025-12-29T09:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:05:26","slug":"nba-suspends-jose-alvarado-mark-williams-after-pelicans-suns-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-suspends-jose-alvarado-mark-williams-after-pelicans-suns-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA suspends Jose Alvarado, Mark Williams after Pelicans-Suns fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1509\" data-end=\"1832\">The <strong data-start=\"1527\" data-end=\"1534\">NBA<\/strong> announced Sunday that <strong data-start=\"1557\" data-end=\"1581\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/strong> guard <strong data-start=\"1588\" data-end=\"1605\">Jose Alvarado<\/strong> was suspended <strong data-start=\"1620\" data-end=\"1633\">two games<\/strong>, while <strong data-start=\"1641\" data-end=\"1657\">Phoenix Suns<\/strong> center <strong data-start=\"1665\" data-end=\"1682\">Mark Williams<\/strong> received a <strong data-start=\"1694\" data-end=\"1706\">one-game<\/strong> ban, both without pay. The incident happened in the third quarter of Saturday\u2019s <strong data-start=\"1787\" data-end=\"1804\">Pelicans-Suns<\/strong>, a <strong data-start=\"1808\" data-end=\"1819\">123-114<\/strong> Phoenix win.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1834\" data-end=\"2121\">The altercation started after a foul on Alvarado as he tried to fight through a Williams screen to stay on <strong data-start=\"1941\" data-end=\"1961\">Collin Gillespie<\/strong>, who opened the game 5-for-5 from three. After contact escalated, the two grabbed each other and <strong data-start=\"2059\" data-end=\"2076\">threw punches<\/strong>, landing right hands before being separated.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2123\" data-end=\"2348\">Both players were ejected and neither spoke afterward. Suns coach <strong data-start=\"2189\" data-end=\"2203\">Jordan Ott<\/strong> pointed to competitiveness and fatigue, saying \u201c<strong data-start=\"2252\" data-end=\"2277\">Obviously, it happens<\/strong>\u201d and referencing the \u201c<strong data-start=\"2300\" data-end=\"2334\">second night of a back-to-back<\/strong>\u201d as a factor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA handed out bans following the third-quarter fight: Jose Alvarado gets two games, Mark Williams one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":278632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-476319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/NBA-logo-illustration.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476319"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=476319"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=476319"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=476319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}