NBA star in hot water after crazy brawl

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Alec Burks scored a season-high 32 points, Saddiq Bey added 28 and the Detroit Pistons overcame the ejection of 2 players aft a scuffle to bushed the Orlando Magic 121-101, snapping a six-game losing streak successful the process.

“I'm truly arrogant of our guys,” Pistons manager Dwane Casey said. “We person had a batch of adversity, and with a young squad it is large to spot them play similar this.”

Burks made his archetypal 10 shots from the floor, including six three-pointers, earlier missing a three-point effort with 28 seconds near that would person fixed him a career-high 35 points. He besides made each six free-throw attempts.

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“I wasn't going to halt shooting,” Burks said. “You don't expect that to happen, but you person to instrumentality vantage erstwhile it does.”

By hitting his past shot, Burks would person besides breached Gary Payton's NBA grounds for astir points successful a crippled without missing a tract extremity oregon escaped throw. Payton scored 32 points for the Seattle SuperSonics connected January 4, 1995, by going 13 for 13 from the level and 3 for 3 from the line.

Killian Hayes and Hamadou Diallo were thrown retired aft the combat conscionable earlier half-time. Moritz Wagner was tossed for Orlando and took a changeable to the backmost of the caput from Hayes and appeared to beryllium concisely knocked out.

“He's fine,” said Franz Wagner, Moritz's younger brother. “I haven't seen the video, but I cognize that's the past happening helium wanted to do.”

Jalen Duren finished with 7 points and 18 rebounds for the Pistons, who got 76 points from their bench, which has led the NBA successful scoring successful December.

“It's pugnacious to play them, due to the fact that they person the starting lineup with 2 bigs (Duren and Isaiah Stewart), and past a wholly antithetic benignant with the 2nd unit,” Magic manager Jamahl Mosley said.

Franz Wagner had 19 points for Orlando, which mislaid connected back-to-back nights aft winning 8 of nine.

“They conscionable started making shots,” Mosley said. “They play overmuch faster with that 2nd group, and some Alec and Saddiq truly got rolling."

With 33 seconds near successful the archetypal half, Moritz Wagner hip-checked Hayes into the Pistons seat arsenic they chased a escaped ball. With Wagner facing the players connected the Detroit bench, each Orlando subordinate successful azygous raced to the spot.

Wagner was ejected for a flagrant foul, portion Hayes and Hamadou Diallo were ejected for their actions successful the aftermath. Hayes got backmost up and struck Wagner successful the backmost of the head, knocking him into the bench.

“I request an mentation astir the determination due to the fact that my knowing is you can’t permission the seat country and escalate a situation," Casey said. “That's erstwhile truly atrocious things tin happen.”

Detroit's 2nd portion outscored Orlando's 42-14 successful the archetypal half, with Bey (16), Burks (14) and Diallo (11) each reaching treble figures.

The Pistons led 66-47 astatine half-time and Orlando was ne'er capable to get the pb backmost to azygous figures.

Franz Wagner, Cole Anthony, Wendell Carter junior, Gary Harris and Mo Bamba were among the Orlando players who near the seat country during the confrontation astatine the extremity of the archetypal half.

They could look one-game suspensions, but said they didn’t consciousness they had a choice.

“We’re alert of the rule, but things similar that usually hap connected the court, not connected 1 of the benches,” Franz Wagner said. “Your interest is that your teammate is down determination amongst the full different team.”

Wagner said, “Oh, for sure", erstwhile asked if his interest was elevated by it being his member being swarmed by the Pistons.

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