T'Wolves, Pistons players get into scrap during game, leading to multiple ejections

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A scrap betwixt players from the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Detroit Pistons connected Sunday nighttime spilled retired into the fans and led to aggregate ejections.

The incidental occurred successful the 2nd 4th with astir 8:36 near successful the archetypal half. Pistons guardant Ron Holland II slapped the shot retired of T’Wolves guardant Naz Reid’s manus aft helium committed a foul. Reid wagged his digit astatine Holland portion speaking to him, and it was connected from there.

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Donte Divincenzo holds Ron Holland's jersey

Minnesota Timberwolves defender Donte DiVincenzo, #0, and Detroit Pistons guardant Ronald Holland II, #00, combat during the archetypal fractional of an NBA hoops crippled connected Sunday, March 30, 2025 successful Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

T’Wolves defender Donte DiVincenzo stepped successful betwixt the players and grabbed Holland’s jersey arsenic the radical moved into the fans seated adjacent the baseline. Pistons caput manager J.B. Bickerstaff and T’Wolves caput manager Chris Finch were each connected the tribunal trying to chill tensions down.

As the players were separated, Minnesota adjunct manager Pablo Prigioni and Bickerstaff began to shriek astatine each different and had to beryllium separated.

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T'Wolves and Pistons players successful a skirmish

Minnesota Timberwolves and Detroit Pistons players get into a combat during the archetypal fractional of an NBA hoops crippled connected Sunday, March 30, 2025 successful Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

"Obviously things went excessively far," Bickerstaff told reporters. "But what you spot is guys looking retired for 1 another, guys trying to support 1 another, guys trying to person each other’s backs. ... Those are non-negotiables successful our locker room."

Five players and 2 coaches were ejected from the game, including Bickerstaff, Holland, Reid, DiVincenzo, Prigioni, Pistons defender Marcus Sasser and halfway Isaiah Stewart. The crippled itself featured 12 method fouls, the astir successful an NBA crippled since March 23, 2005, according to OptaSTATS.

"I thought starring up to that the crippled was mode excessively physical," Finch said. "It’s unfortunate, but we knew they were a ace carnal team. They deed you, they clasp you, each the worldly that you privation your carnal teams to do. But I conscionable thought it got to a constituent wherever players were going to instrumentality matters into their ain hands. You don’t ever privation that."

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