TWO NBA stars got into a heated brawl on Wednesday night.
Mason Plumlee and Steven Adams were both ejected during the Phoenix Suns-Houston Rockets game.
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The two big men were playing a physical game before Plumlee jammed an elbow into Adams’ shoulder.
Adams didn’t take kindly to that shot and got face to face with Plumlee while locking arms.
The Phoenix guard gave Adams a shove and eventually wrestled him to the ground, sparking a scuffle on the court.
Referees, coaches, and players all rushed to the pair who were locked together on the ground and tried to separate them.
The two were eventually pulled apart and it could be seen that Plumlee was bleeding from a cut right above his eyebrow.
Both players were immediately ejected from the game, and Adams could be seen in the tunnel later being held back by trainers.
Adams did get a huge round of applause from the Houston crowd before he left the court though.
Plumlee only had four points and six rebounds before being tossed from the game.
Adams had just one point and four rebounds.
NBA fans didn’t think the fight was serious enough to warrant an ejection and shared their thoughts on social media.
“Not one punch was thrown by either player that’s not ejection worth,” one fan said.
“How do you eject plumlee for getting locked up like that?” another fan said.
“No punches were even thrown, just give out a double tech and move on man,” a third fan said.
“I didn’t think I’d see the day someone put Steven Adams to the ground,” a fourth fan said.
“Lol NBA is beyond soft, he literally fell,” a fifth fan said.
New rights deal
The NBA signed an 11-year deal with three networks for the league’s rights from the 2025-26 season.
And there will be no games on TNT for the first time since the network launched in 1988.
The Walt Disney Company will continue to show the league with 80 regular-season games across ESPN and ABC.
They will also show around 18 playoff games from the first and second round, a Conference Finals series for 10 of the 11 years, and remain the home of the NBA Finals.
NBC will return as an NBA broadcaster for the first time since 2002.
The network will show up to 100 games per season across it’s channels and Peacock streaming service.
It will also be the home of NBA All-Star and show approximately 28 playoff games from the first and second round.
NBC will show one Conference Finals Series for six of the 11 years, rotating with new broadcaster Amazon Prime.
Amazon will show 66 NBA regular-season games including one on Black Friday.
The streaming service is also the home of the latter stages of the NBA Cup and the entire Play-In Tournament.
Prime will also broadcast around one third of the playoff games in the first and second round.
Other NBA fans recollected that Adams once saved Plumlee from taking a hard fall in 2018.
Back when Adams was on the Oklahoma City Thunder and Plumlee was on the Denver Nuggets, Plumlee leaped to block a shot.
However, he ended up tumbling over Adams and went crashing towards the floor.
Instead of finishing the shot, Adams put his arm out to stop Plumlee from hitting the floor.
Clearly that interaction years ago wasn’t enough to stop the two from getting at each other’s throats.
