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Mo Bamba and Austin Rivers PUNCH each other and cause a huge bench-clearing fight during the Magic-Timberwolves game, and the fight leads to the ejection of FIVE players!
Mo Bamba and Austin Rivers came to blows Friday night in Minnesota, when both benches were cleared and five players were ejected from the contest.
The incident occurred with 1:32 remaining in the third quarter, with the Magic leading 83-73 at that point.
Rivers and the magic bank seemed to exchange words after the guard missed a 3-pointer early in the game, and tensions finally boiled over when a timeout was called.
Rivers, alone near the Orlando bench after the dead ball, appeared to be hit first by Bamba as he was tackled backwards, before the veteran player attempted to hit back before being tackled to the ground by the Magic’s Jalen Suggs.
The T-Wolves’ Taurean Prince tried to come to Rivers’ aid but was shoved by Cole Anthony, while Anthony Edwards was also seen trying to play peacemaker.
Austin Rivers was thrown into the adults by Jalen Suggs while trying to fight Mo Bamba (left)
Rivers was tackled to the ground, as was his teammate Taurean Prince (second from right).
The incident ended with a scrum on the floor, as players from both sides scrambled to stop it.
Ultimately, Rivers, Prince and Jaden McDaniels were ruled out by the hosts, while Bamba and Suggs were sent off by the Magic.
But the drama did not end there.
According to Minnesota play-by-play announcer Michael Gradythere was a heavy police presence in the back hallways of the arena afterwards, and Bamba ran “around the tunnel” before being apprehended.
Magic’s big man continued the feud on Instagram afterward, posting a popular meme of a graphic on a whiteboard conveying the message “f*** around and figure it out.”
Rivers also took to his Instagram, essentially calling Bamba irrelevant within the sport and suggesting that people didn’t like him in Orlando.
‘Dude I went to you 1 in 5! No backup!!”, she said.
You needed your teammates, otherwise you would have been [choked] outside. speaking of finding out We only know you from an old rap song… not from earrings. Stfu. and Orlando my city. Ask around and really find out. They don’t mess with you there… facts!’
The Magic would go on to win the game 127-120.
The fight comes just a day after Dillon Brooks and Donovan Mitchell were ejected from a Grizzlies-Cavs matchup in Cleveland, when Brooks swiped his arm into Mitchell’s groin, before Mitchell threw the ball at him and shoved Mitchell. his opponent.
Brooks was suspended for one game and Mitchell was fined $20,000.