{"id":838229,"date":"2025-04-01T12:11:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T17:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/the-pistons-timberwolves-fight-proves-detroit-basketball-really-is-back\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T12:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T17:11:47","slug":"the-pistons-timberwolves-fight-proves-detroit-basketball-really-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/the-pistons-timberwolves-fight-proves-detroit-basketball-really-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pistons-Timberwolves fight proves Detroit basketball really is back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basketball <\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"gakeee\">The Pistons are in the midst of one of the most remarkable turnarounds in NBA history. After winning 14 games last season, they\u2019ve won 42 and counting this year and are well on their way to the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nba-playoffs\">NBA Playoffs<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p id=\"UYXGmv\">Detroit has established itself as the team NOBODY wants to mess with, despite being the fourth-youngest team in the entire league. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canishoopus.com\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> found out in a massive brawl during their game on Sunday where seven people combined from both teams were ejected, including Pistons\u2019 head coach JB Bickerstaff.<\/p>\n<div id=\"4O1oU3\">\n<blockquote data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>CHAOS IN MINNESOTA  <\/p>\n<p>The Pistons and the Timberwolves get into a HEATED altercation involving multiple players and coaches that spilled into the stands  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x6vykTIbOF\">pic.twitter.com\/x6vykTIbOF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClutchPoints\/status\/1906496095683051830?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"02ZawX\">Let\u2019s break the tape down and see what happened. So this looks like Wolves\u2019 forward Naz Reid took some offense to how rookie forward Ron Holland\u2019s foul and got in his face, Holland, not being scared by any means, gets right back in his face, as any normal person would. I think Wolves\u2019 guard Donte DiVincenzo escalates the situation by also getting into Holland\u2019s face, and from here the gloves are off. This is real Pistons\u2019 basketball, folks. The game we love is coming back to us. <\/p>\n<p id=\"e8DSrz\">I love the TV angle of this because you can see the fight spill into the front row courtside, and the cameraman ends up getting caught in the wreckage which creates a hilarious visual of the fight:<\/p>\n<figure>\n  <span><\/p>\n<p>    <span data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/25933487\/Screenshot_2025_03_31_at_10.30.42_AM.png\"><\/p>\n<picture data-cid=\"site\/picture_element-1743524594_3650_63488\" data-cdata=\"{\"asset_id\":25933487,\"ratio\":\"*\"}\"><source   type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\"   alt loading=\"lazy\" data-upload-width=\"3024\" width=\"3024\" height=\"1634\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/qjfaDQHks-OrCSIrAINaC5dvN-0=\/0x0:3024x1634\/1200x0\/filters:focal(0x0:3024x1634):no_upscale()\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/25933487\/Screenshot_2025_03_31_at_10.30.42_AM.png\"><\/p>\n<\/picture>\n<p>    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p id=\"GNSC7r\">Someone go help that poor cameraman!<\/p>\n<p id=\"f8tTiN\">Here\u2019s a better angle of when everything spilled over, caught by a fan on their phone. As you can see, Holland is sent into the stands and Pistons\u2019 F Isaiah Stewart comes in to help him out, leading to more craziness.<\/p>\n<p id=\"LxyjLr\">The Wolves ended up winning this game, but the brawl was what everyone wanted to talk about. Bickerstaff was ejected after what he alleges were some not so savory words about his guys was said by Wolves\u2019 assistant Pablo Prigioni (now that\u2019s a name I\u2019ve not heard in a long time).<\/p>\n<div id=\"COr9yg\">\n<blockquote data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>JB Bickerstaff on why he was ejected along with assistant coach Pablo Prigioni from the T-Wolves <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were things said by their assistant coach. I\u2019m not going to let people say belligerent things about my guys and it\u2019s that simple\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Question asked by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CotyDavis_24?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CotyDavis_24<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mSIgssVA9Y\">pic.twitter.com\/mSIgssVA9Y<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Pistons Talk (@Pistons__Talk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pistons__Talk\/status\/1906529877160796558?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"u1Ghb8\">Timberwolves\u2019 head coach Chris Finch offered his perspective on the fight as well:<\/p>\n<div id=\"3eeRms\">\n<blockquote data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Chris Finch on his thoughts after the fight tonight <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo guys went at it and spill over to the crowd which is super dangerous . It kept escalating and escalating mostly from their side. I thought leading up to that the game was way too physical, I thought it was a little\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CsznaYunWy\">pic.twitter.com\/CsznaYunWy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Pistons Talk (@Pistons__Talk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pistons__Talk\/status\/1906534312997970109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"TaOfHf\">Overall, I think this could\u2019ve been avoided, but with the intensity of this game something like this was always going to happen. Reid kind of blew it out of proportion with the reach in foul but everything from there was bound to blow out of the water.<\/p>\n<p id=\"qU1BB9\">However, the Pistons are good and won\u2019t back down from a fight, meaning real hoops is back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nba\/2025\/3\/31\/24397791\/detroit-pistons-fight-timberwolves-video-history-comments-ejections\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> Joseph Acosta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basketball The Pistons are in the midst of one of the most remarkable turnarounds in NBA history. After winning 14 games last season, they\u2019ve won 42 and counting this year and are well on their way to the 2025 NBA Playoffs. Detroit has established itself as the team NOBODY wants to mess with, despite being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":838230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1632,124942,3681,142929],"tags":[16302],"class_list":{"0":"post-838229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fight","8":"category-nba","9":"category-basketball","10":"category-pistons-timberwolves","11":"tag-nba"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}