The NBA determined the punishment for the players who were involved in a fight during Sunday’s game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Detroit Pistons.
The Detroit center, Isaiah Stewart, received a suspension of two games for their role in the fight, while four other players from the Pistons and Timberwolves generated single game suspensions, the League announced on Tuesday.
Stewart’s multiple suspension derived in part of “its repeated history of unsportsmanlike acts,” according to the NBA.
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The eaves of the Detroit Pistons Ronald Holland II, center on the left, and the Guard of the Minnesota Timberwolves Donte Divinzzo, center to the right, fights during the first half of a Basketball match of the NBA, on Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Minneapolis. (Photo AP/ABBIE Parr)
The Pistons striker, Ron Holland II, received a prohibition of a game, while his teammate Marcus Sasser will also be forced to sit a game. Meanwhile, the Timberwolves Naz Reid center and the Donte Divincazo guard drawn suspensions of a game.
All those players, in addition to Stewart, were expelled from Sunday’s game. The officials also threw the chief coach of the JB BickerStaff pistons and the assistant of T’wolves Pablo Prigioni of the contest.
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“Obviously, things went too far,” said BickerStaff after that game. “But what you see is that the boys take care of each other, boys who try to protect each other, boys who try to have their backs … those are not negotiable in our costumes.”
The Timberwolves Guard of the Minnesota, Donte Divinzzo (0), Middle and Detroit Pistons, striker Ronald Holland II (00), right, fights during the first half of a basketball match of the NBA, on Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Minneapolis. (Photo AP/ABBIE Parr)
The incident began when Holland committed a lack of Reid with 8:36 remaining in the second quarter of the Timberwolves confrontation with the Pistons in Minneapolis. Reid faced Holland, who then pushed Divinzzo, who then pushed Holland, and ended up falling into spectators sitting along the baseline.
The Timberwolves Guard of Minnesota, Donte Divinzzo (0), Center Back, Timberwolves Center Naz Reid (11) and the center of Detroit, Jalen Duren (0), enter an altercation during the first half of a basketball game of the NBA, Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Minneapolis. (Photo AP/ABBIE Parr)
Stewart and Sasser then entered the altercation, “which resulted in a continuous climbing of the situation,” said the league.
The Timberwolves won the 123-104 game.
Reid and Divinnzo will serve their suspensions of a game on Tuesday when the Timberwolves visit the Denver Nuggets. Stewart will begin to fulfill his suspension on Wednesday when the Pistons face the Oklahoma City Thunder, and Holland and Sasser will also serve their suspensions in that game.
Minnesota entered Tuesday’s action in the seventh place in the classification of the West Conference, while the inactive Pistons remained in fifth place at the Eastern Conference.
