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He further made it clear: \u201cI wasn\u2019t on no slot. As a kid, they teach you that\u2014one fight, we all fight<\/em>.\u201d That was his mindset. He didn\u2019t see it as an attack, but as standing by his teammates. \u201cIf I\u2019m with y\u2019all anywhere else, y\u2019all would expect me to do the same,<\/em>\u201d Stephen Jackson told Dwight. Jackson\u2019s team\u2019s play on the field that day put him against some tough punishment along with the Pistons\u2019 Ben Wallace.<\/p>\n\n
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Basketball Punishments faced by Ben Wallace and Stephen Jackson<\/h2>\n
The fallout was swift and harsh. Stephen Jackson was suspended for 30 games and fined $3 million. \u201cI feel like I should get my money back,<\/em>\u201d Jackson said on The Dan LeBatard Show<\/em><\/strong>. \u201cIf I was going in the stands just to throw punches, then yeah, fine me. But that wasn\u2019t what it was<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\nHe defended his actions, again and again. \u201cThat was the only incident I had in my NBA career,<\/em>\u201d he said. \u201cI never been in a fight in an NBA game before that.<\/em>\u201d He wanted to protect Ron Artest and responded when he saw another beer being thrown. \u201cI did what any real teammate would do.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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Meanwhile, Ben Wallace, who shoved Artest and started the chain of events, was given a six-game suspension. Jackson never blamed Wallace, but the contrast in punishments always raised questions. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy<\/em>,\u201d Stephen Jackson said. \u201cThey judged me like I was wildin\u2019 out, but I was just trying to hold my guy down<\/em>.\u201d And even now, the memory sticks with him.<\/p>\n\u201cI regret the punch, not the reason I threw it<\/em>,\u201d he once said. He sees loyalty as his strength, even if it comes at a cost. And had Ben Wallace not played that night, maybe none of this would have happened. But he did\u2014and history had other plans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nRead More<\/a> Sharie Block<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Basketball When Stephen Jackson joined Dwight Howard on an episode of Above The Rim with DH 12 show,\u00a0no one expected the conversation to go from basketball memories to one of the most infamous events in NBA history. As they shared laughs and looked back on their careers, Dwight suddenly brought up a question that many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":848740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124942,2758,3681,143939],"tags":[16302],"class_list":{"0":"post-848739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"category-almost","9":"category-basketball","10":"category-ex-pistons","11":"tag-nba"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848739","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=848739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}