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After Artest deals with the changing NBA policies after the Pacers-Pistons Brawl (also known as the “Malice at the Palace”), the infamous brawl that broke out at The Palace of
Auburn Hills in 2004.
The fight started when an intoxicated fan threw a drink from the stands at Pacers’ forward Ron Artest while there was a fight on the court.
Artest entered the stands to go after the fan, and the ensuing altercation involving both players and fans led to suspensions, fines and assault charges, and ultimately to
significant changes in NBA policy.
Leonard and Zirin discuss how this event changed the view of the NBA towards their players, and changed how they addressed racial and cultural differences within the sport.
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Malice at the Palace
"... The Pacers–Pistons brawl (colloquially known as the Malice at the Palace) was an altercation that occurred in a National Basketball Association game between the Detroit Pistons
and Indiana Pacers on November 19, 2004, at The Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
With less than a minute left in the game, a fight broke out between players on the court. After the fight was broken up, a drink was thrown from the stands at then Pacers player Ron
Artest while he was lying on the scorer's table. Artest then entered the crowd and sparked a massive brawl between players and fans.
The repercussions led to nine players being suspended without pay for a total of 146 games, which led to $11 million in salary being lost by the players. Five players were also charged
with assault, and eventually sentenced to a year of probation and community service. Five fans also faced criminal charges and were banned from attending Pistons home games for life.
The fight also led the NBA to increase security presence between players and fans, and to limit the sale of alcohol. ..."
"... The brawl began with 45.9 seconds remaining in the game, when Indiana led the game 97–82. Piston center/forward Ben Wallace was fouled from behind by Pacer forward Ron Artest
during a lay-up attempt. (Wallace later said that Artest had warned him he would be hit.)
Wallace responded by shoving Artest in the chest, which led to a physical confrontation between several players from both teams.
Pistons coach Larry Brown was not yet very concerned, because fights in the NBA rarely lasted for more than a few seconds. During the argument, Artest lay down on the scorer's table
while putting on a headset to pretend to speak with radio broadcaster Mark Boyle. (The microphone was not live. Boyle recalled that the broadcasting team knew Artest's personality
and "there was no way we were going to put an open mic in front of Ron Artest in that situation".)
Pacers president Donnie Walsh later claimed that Artest lay down following advice he had received on how to calm down and avoid trouble in a volatile situation. A Pistons executive
later stated, however, that Artest's action encouraged audience participation by removing the usual physical barriers, such as tables and benches, between fans and players.
After unsuccessfully attempting to break up the confrontation, referees prepared to eject various players once the game resumed.
90 seconds after Wallace shoved Artest, most of both teams' players and coaches huddled at midcourt, attempting to calm down Wallace. (Tayshaun Prince was the only player on either
team to not leave the bench during the entire incident; others became automatically eligible for one-game suspensions.) Artest remained on the table with the headset;
his appearing to give an interview angered Wallace, who threw an armband at Artest.
A spectator, John Green, then threw a cup of Diet Coke at Artest while he was lying on the table, which hit Artest in the chest. Green later claimed that he had not intended to hit
anyone but "forgot about the laws of physics." Although Boyle fractured five vertebrae by attempting to stop Artest, the player responded by running into the stands and grabbing,
but not hitting, a man whom he mistakenly believed was responsible. Wallace's brother David, who was near Artest on the table, hit Artest.
In retaliation for the cup thrown at Artest, teammate Stephen Jackson also ran into the stands shortly after and threw punches at fans, and eventually players from both teams entered
the stands while many fans spilled out on to the court to escape the altercation.
The teams had stopped fighting; now the fans were fighting the Pacers. Another melee started when Artest was confronted on the court by two fans, Alvin "A.J." Shackleford and Charlie
Haddad. Artest punched Shackleford and knocked over Haddad in the process. O'Neal intervened by punching Haddad in the jaw after a running start; the punch would have been much more
powerful had O'Neal not slipped in liquid, but observers briefly feared that O'Neal would kill Haddad. O'Neal later claimed that arena security had ordered Haddad to leave the arena
because of a history of fights. Well-known sports figure William Wesley pulled Artest away from the fans, but the scene became chaotic and outnumbered arena security struggled to
reestablish order.
Although Auburn Hills police had plans to handle many disorders, and had three officers in the arena, they were unprepared for players entering the stands.
Pacers coach Rick Carlisle said after the game "I felt like I was fighting for my life out there", one reporter who attempted to stop Tinsley from entering the stands recalled that
the player "went through me like I was butter", and NBA Commissioner David Stern, watching the game on TV, recalled that he said "Holy [mouths a swear word]".
(O'Neal later said, "As bad as it looked on TV, it was at least 20 times worse in person.") Pacers assistant coach Chuck Person compared the situation to being "trapped in a
gladiator-type scene where the fans were the lions and we were just trying to escape with our lives. That's how it felt. That there was no exit. That you had to fight your way out."
Players' children and others in the audience cried from fear and shock. Derrick Coleman stood near Brown and his ball boy son to protect them. The remaining seconds of the game were
called off and the Pacers were awarded the 97–82 win. More beverages and debris were thrown at Pacer players and other personnel as they were escorted from the court, including a
folding chair by a father of six children that was thrown across the crowd that had assembled on the court. No players from either team spoke to the media before leaving the arena.
Nine spectators were injured, and two were taken to the hospital.
In the Pacers' locker room, O'Neal and Carlisle almost got into a fight over whether the coaches should have intervened. Artest asked Jackson whether the players would get in trouble.
He responded "we'll be lucky if we have a freaking job", and the conversation convinced an amazed Jackson and Scot Pollard that Artest "wasn't in his right mind, to ask that question."
Auburn Hills police entered the locker room to make arrests, but the team rushed Artest onto the bus and refused to take him off. The police decided to protect the Pacers as they left
the arena, and to later contact the team after reviewing game film. ..."
Synopsis
Explores how the NBA moved to govern black players and the expression of blackness after the “Palace Brawl” of 2004.
On November 19, 2004, a fight between NBA players Ron Artest and Ben Wallace escalated into a melee involving several other players and many fans. The “Palace Brawl,” writes David J.
Leonard, was a seminal event, one that dramatically altered outside perceptions of the sport. With commentators decrying the hip hop or gangsta culture of players, the blackness of the
NBA was both highlighted and disdained. This was a harsh blow to the league’s narrative of colorblindness long cultivated by Commissioner David Stern and powerfully embodied in the
beloved figure of Michael Jordan.
As Leonard demonstrates, the league viewed this moment as a threat needing intervention, quickly adopting policies to govern black players and prevent
them from embracing styles and personas associated with blackness. This fascinating book discloses connections between the NBA’s discourse and the broader discourse of antiblack
racism. Particular policy changes that seemed aimed at black players, such as the NBA dress code and the debate over a minimum age requirement, are explored.
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'After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness' by David J. Leonard
"... In After Artest, David Leonard confirms why he is one of the sharpest minds writing about race and sports in America today. Race is serious business and no one understands better
than Leonard how that extends to the arenas and stadiums that have long been the site of confrontation between black bodies and spectators. ...” Mark Anthony Neal, author of New Black Man
“... David Leonard offers an incisive analysis of race, in a league defined by race, thus adding meaningful dialogue and a sharp perspective to conversations about the ever-evolving
image of the NBA in the post-Jordan era. Though haters will undoubtedly try to call a technical foul, Leonard goes hard in the paint nonetheless, shining another light on the always
complicated racial politics that continue to inform the game of basketball. ...” Dr. Todd Boyd, the Katherine and Frank Price Endowed Chair for the Study of Race and Popular Culture
in the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts
“... The power of the event is that it changes everything. So it is, David Leonard demonstrates in After Artest, in the post-Palace NBA. When Ron Artest went into the stands in the
Palace of Auburn Hills in that fateful game in 2004, he not only subjected himself to unprecedented punishment, he also altered the entire discourse of race in the NBA.
After Artest offers a critique not only of the NBA’s new modes of policing blackness, but it brings to light—and to life—that combustible encounter between ‘new racism’
and postracism in contemporary America. Racial politics, sociology, the nasty underside of America’s history, and sport are brought together forcefully by Leonard in After Artest. ...” Grant Farred, author of What’s My Name? Black Vernacular Intellectuals and Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football
“... After Artest breathes new life into the critical scholarship on sporting-based racial representation, and that of the NBA more specifically, by fleshing out the key political
sites and struggles of the post-Artest moment. Leonard’s combination of rigorous empirical command and nuanced theoretical interpretation generates a compelling and insightful analysis. ...” David L. Andrews, editor of Michael Jordan, Inc.: Corporate Sport, Media Culture, and Late Modern America
Malice at the Palace
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness
Introduction
Guiding Frameworks
Anti-Black Racism and the NBA
The NBA beyond Artest
This Book
2. “I went to a Basketball Game and a Vibe Awards Broke Out”
or “Negroes Gone Wild”:
The Palace Melee and the Racialized Culture War What Else?
Introduction
Opening Up the Wounds: Fan-Player Tensions and Divisions
Thugs and Criminals
Hip-Hop to Blame for Palace Brawl
3. A Crisis Inside and Outside America’s Arena:
Age Restrictions and the Real Color of Money
Introduction
History of Age Restriction
An NBA Crisis:
The Draft, and Children Playing in the Wrong Sand Box
Don’t Believe the Hype: Cautionary Tales and Sad Stories
Physically Weak, Mentally and Intellectually Weaker:
Big Bodies and Small Brains/Hearts
It’s a Man’s Game
Put Down that Ball: Saving America’s (Black) Youth
Policing Hip-Hop
A Raceless Issue?
Race Matter
Young Athletes of Color:
Model Minority Discourse as another Exception
A Note on the Defenders:
The American Dream and Meritocracy
A Crisis Inside and Outside America’s Arena
Hypocrisy or the Consistency?
Conclusion
4. “No Bling Allowed”:
The NBA’s Dress Code and the Politics of New Racism
Introduction
What’s Racism Got to Do with It:
Player Opposition and a Culture of Denial
The Dress Code: Smart Business or Insufficient Change?
Smart Business
You Say Good Business, I Say Racism
Not Enough: Once a Gangsta, Always a Gangsta
Racism: Take 2
The Politics of Respectability and Self-Help
Dressing for the Part: Role models
The Dress Code and Questions of Authenticity
Beyond the Dress Code:
The NBA and the Criminalization of Black Bodies
Conclusion
5. The Palace Brawl and the Colorblind Fantasy
Introduction
The Palace Brawl 2.0: Madison Square Garden Melee
The Culture Wars
The NBA’s Culture War
Five Years Later
David J. Leonard is Associate Professor of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University.
Leonard’s previous book, Commodified and Criminalized, examines the centrality of sports in discussions of racial ideologies and practices, and discusses athletes ranging from Tiger Woods and Serena Williams to Freddy Adu and Shani Davis.
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