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| Last night's brawl between the Nets and Celtics was certainly crazy, with Boston getting the worse end of the long-term ramifications of it |
The Brawl Heard 'Round The Eastern Conference. That would be my headline for last night's Nets-Celtics game, which resulted in a Brooklyn win of course. However, the final score of that game was overshadowed by what happened late in the second quarter: Rajon Rondo going after Kris Humphries for committing a seemingly harmless foul. As we saw, Rondo's initial shove escalated quickly into a full-out fight between the two squads as benches cleared and punches were thrown. The aftermath: Rondo, Hump, and Gerald Wallace were all ejected from the game, with Kevin Garnett somehow escaping blame and an ejection.
Well, today, the NBA doled out its punishments, suspending the instigating Rondo for two games–a reasonable sentence for who started the whole fight in the first place–and fining Wallace and Garnett for their respective roles in the ordeal. Somehow, Wallace was fined more ($35,000) than Garnett ($25,000) when it didn't even seem that Gerald did anything illegal at all. Hump didn't get fined as he was the main victim of Rondo's unjustified scorn.
Now onto the really bad news stemming from last night's game, unrelated to the fight. The Nets announced earlier today that Brook Lopez will miss the team's next two games in Florida (Orlando tomorrow and Miami on Saturday) because of a right foot sprain he suffered in Boston. Yes, it also happens to be the same foot that caused him to miss most of last season. We have to hope this sprain is minor, though, and that taking the weekend off will make Brook as good as new. As shown in the Nets' 22-44 record last season, they need him on the court, not off of it.
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