Massive Fight Breaks Out in Hornets vs. Pistons Game at Spectrum Center after punches were thrown, the bench cleared, four players were ejected, and chaos completely overshadowed the Pistons’ win in Charlotte.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – What was supposed to be a regular Monday night NBA game in Charlotte turned into straight madness.Tempers flared at the Spectrum Center when the Charlotte Hornets and Detroit Pistons got into a full-on brawl, leading to four ejections and completely overshadowing the Pistons’ 110–104 win.
Detroit snapped Charlotte’s nine-game winning streak but nobody cared about that score after what went down.
The mess started midway through the third when Pistons center Jalen Duren drove to the basket and got tangled up with Hornets forward Moussa Diabate. What looked like a hard foul quickly turned personal.
Words were exchanged, faces got close, and then Duren smacked Diabate in the face with an open hand.
That’s when everything went LEFT.
Diabate tried to rush Duren, players flooded in, and suddenly Hornets forward Miles Bridges came in throwing punches. Pistons big man Isaiah Stewart — who wasn’t even in the game — left the bench and charged straight into the brawl.
At that point, the court looked more like a street fight than an NBA floor. After a long stretch of shoving, grabbing, and near-swinging, refs finally got control and started handing out ejections like candy:
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Moussa Diabate
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Miles Bridges
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Jalen Duren
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Isaiah Stewart
Later in the fourth quarter, Hornets head coach Charles Lee lost his cool after a no-call, went off on the refs, and got EJECTED TOO, needing players to physically restrain him.
