{"id":483392,"date":"2026-02-12T08:58:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=483392"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:58:05","slug":"nba-hands-down-suspensions-after-pistons-hornets-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-hands-down-suspensions-after-pistons-hornets-brawl\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA hands down suspensions after Pistons-Hornets brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2132\" data-end=\"2609\">The NBA announced multiple suspensions stemming from Monday\u2019s fight between the <strong data-start=\"2212\" data-end=\"2231\">Detroit Pistons<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2236\" data-end=\"2257\">Charlotte Hornets<\/strong>: <strong data-start=\"2259\" data-end=\"2277\">Isaiah Stewart<\/strong> was suspended <strong data-start=\"2292\" data-end=\"2307\">seven games<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2309\" data-end=\"2326\">Miles Bridges<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2331\" data-end=\"2349\">Moussa Diabate<\/strong> <strong data-start=\"2350\" data-end=\"2364\">four games<\/strong> each, and <strong data-start=\"2375\" data-end=\"2390\">Jalen Duren<\/strong> <strong data-start=\"2391\" data-end=\"2404\">two games<\/strong>. The league said Stewart\u2019s heavier penalty was based in part on his \u201c<strong data-start=\"2474\" data-end=\"2518\">repeated history of unsportsmanlike acts<\/strong>,\u201d adding he left the bench area, aggressively entered the on-court altercation and fought.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2611\" data-end=\"3016\">The suspensions began immediately, with Stewart and Duren already missing Detroit\u2019s 113-95 win in Toronto, while Bridges and Diabate sat out as Charlotte beat Atlanta 110-107. The sequence described starts with Diabate\u2019s foul on Duren, a face-to-face confrontation and an escalation involving punches, with Bridges charging in and Stewart later leaving the bench area to confront Bridges during the melee.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3018\" data-end=\"3477\">Detroit coach <strong data-start=\"3032\" data-end=\"3052\">J.B. Bickerstaff<\/strong> pushed back on the portrayal of his team: \u201c<strong data-start=\"3096\" data-end=\"3141\">The narrative&#8230; is completely inaccurate<\/strong>.\u201d Hornets coach <strong data-start=\"3158\" data-end=\"3173\">Charles Lee<\/strong> said he understood the ruling after speaking with James Jones: \u201c<strong data-start=\"3238\" data-end=\"3290\">It is what it is&#8230; we have to take the medicine<\/strong>.\u201d The report also notes a source told ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania that Duren can still participate in the <strong data-start=\"3391\" data-end=\"3412\">NBA All-Star Game<\/strong>, and includes estimated financial costs tied to the suspensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>League cites Stewart\u2019s prior history; Bickerstaff calls the signal \u201ccompletely inaccurate,\u201d Lee says, \u201cwe have to take the medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":483075,"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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-483392","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\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-10-alle-08.01.06.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483392","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=483392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483392"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=483392"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=483392"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=483392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}