Five players have been suspended by the NBA for his role in the camp battle experienced last Friday during the Miami Heat’s victory in their visit to the New Orleans Pelicans. Jimmy Butlerwith a match without pay, leads the list of those sanctioned by the league, although they are José Alvarado y Thomas Bryantboth with three penalty matches, who have suffered the worst after the investigation of the events carried out by the competition.
Butler y Nazi Marshall were suspended for one game for “instigating and participating” in the fight, while Nikola Jovic He lost a match for leaving the bench area. The sanction for Alvarado and Bryant was increased to three games for having left the band and having actively joined in the exchange of blows.
The altercation began after the Pelicans power forward, Zion Williamson, stole the ball from Butler and scored a layup. The Heat power forward, Kevin Lovehugged Williamson, who later told reporters he thought the move was meant to protect him from a fall, with 11:19 left in the fourth quarter.
Butler and Marshall got into a fight at that point and had to be separated on the court. Alvarado and Bryant met at the scorer’s table and began fighting after the initial fight broke down.
Butler, Marshall, Alvarado and Bryant were ejected. Love was charged with a common foul.
“I feel like Jimmy shouldn’t have missed a game because of that,” commented Heat coach Erik Spoelstra during group training in Sacramento, where Miami plays today Monday. “It really was kind of a mess and a little bit of pushing and shoving. I don’t think he deserves another game, because he ended up missing the fourth quarter on Friday. But it is what it is. “No one wants to see it escalate to that point.”
Butler will lose $259,968 due to the suspension, by far the most among the five players who received suspensions. Bryant will be deducted 52,308, while Jovic will lose 12,655. For the Pelicans, Alvarado will lose 37,988 and Marshall 11,096.
The Pelicans lost to the Chicago Bulls this Sunday night. Marshall served his suspension then, while Alvarado missed the loss and will miss the upcoming road trip against the New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers.
Butler and Jovic will miss the Heat’s Monday game against the Kings, while Bryant will be unavailable for the remainder of Miami’s road trip, which also has stops in Portland on Tuesday and Denver on Thursday.
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