All 10 players on the floor get ejected. Mardy Collins and JR Smith start it. Nate Robinson and JR go tackling onto the floor. Melo throws a punch. Everyone gets into it and all hell broke lose. I've never seen EVERYONE on the floor get ejected.
Wow! Anthony and Smith are gonna be out for a while and Jeffries and Nate as well. Shame since the Nuggets were playing so well. Carmelo got a good lick off Jeffries, ouch.
Melo and JR will be suspended. JR is probably looking at a longer suspension than Melo. JR could have walked away, but didn't. That said, Nate Robinson has to get the longest suspension. It appeared that JR and Mardy were just in each others face when Robinson started going Stephen Jackson on JR. Then again, I'm biased, so I could be wrong. BTW, I think -- think that all of the players on the court were ejected just because they didn't want this escelating. I didn't see Dre or Camby do anything at all and they were both kicked out.
Unbelievable. Nate Robinson is a complete and utter punk. Wow, that was such a horrible mess!! Melo is in no way in the class of Wade and Lebron. Neither one of those would lose their cool like that and punch a nobody like Marty Collins (and it was one big roundhouse that he landed on Collins). Speaking of Collins, he's another little punk. There was no need for that flagrant and he clearly went for JR's head! J.R.Smith, he of the unstable emotional state. I know why everyone was leery of him and his issues. Even though he was provoked badly, he should've known better. It sucks for guys like David Lee and Najara who were trying to seperate the brawlers. Definite huge supensions for Marty Collins, Jared Jefferies, and Nate Robinson for the Knicks and J.R. Smith and Melo for the Nuggets. Wow, just wow. Such a complete mental and emotional breakdown. Walt Frazier put it best when he stated that "young guys and their bravado. Stuff like this doesn't belong on a NBA court" (recapped to the best of my abilities).
I turned this game off at the 1:18 mark, with a Nugget at the line and nothing happening. Apparently this happened at the 1:16 mark. Screw you, Knicks.
They're saying George Karl just walked off the court with five seconds to go, ignoring Thomas. I will add this: MSG (during the last seconds of what I saw) was talking about Isiah jawing with Carmelo while the Nugs shot a free throw. Not a friendly back-and-forth, either. When your coach is talking smack to a player, I guess what followed isn't that surprising.
Isiah's on ESPNNews right now blaming Karl for the brawl. He's saying Melo and Camby shouldn't have been in the game at that point and that Mardy was just protecting his home court.
hahahaha, this is just too comical. I'm surprised he didn't just say that Mardy Collins was a goon ala John Chaney.
How can he say that with a straight face? Protecting his home court? The guy tried to take Smith's head off :/. Trying to put the blame on Karl is bogus.
OK, I'm a homer so if I'm wrong, please tell me. First of all, JR & Melo were wrong. They shouldn't have done what they did. That said, this whole thing has to fall on Nate Robinson, right? JR and Collins were jawing, but Robinson started the whole thing by shoving JR. The talking head on ESPNNews is saying that the whole thing started when Melo "connected with a haymaker on Collins". It was going before that, right?
Yes, you are absolutely right. Marty Collins and JR were shoving and jawing, but it all exploded when Nate Robinson put his fists up and got into it with JR Smith, no doubt about it.
