Overview
- Suspensions follow a league review of a third-quarter melee that erupted after Moussa Diabaté fouled Jalen Duren in Charlotte on Feb. 10.
- Video and eyewitness accounts describe Duren striking Diabaté in the face before the confrontation spread across the court within seconds.
- Officials ejected Diabaté, Duren, Miles Bridges and Isaiah Stewart during a multi-minute stoppage, then removed Hornets coach Charles Lee in the fourth quarter.
- Arena security intervened to restore order, with police briefly assisting, as the physically charged game continued after the ejections.
- Detroit, which leads the Eastern Conference, completed a 110–104 win, while Pistons coach J. B. Bickerstaff defended his players’ actions as self-protection.