Basketball Showdown

Basketball fights are not a very common occurrence, but when they do break out, they rarely disappoint in terms of the carnage that they produce. Tensions can build for a long time in a sport like basketball, as it’s not quite a contact sport, but there’s still plenty of room for pushing, shoving, and other types of high-flying violence. Basketball also seems to produce a good number of “players vs. fans” fights, trailing a very distant second to the stadium-clearing brawls in soccer, which give basketball fights a certain reckless quality not found in other sports