The NBA announced a two-game suspension for New Orleans Pelicans guard Jose Alvarado and a one-game suspension for Phoenix Suns centre Mark Williams after their fight on Saturday night. <\/p>\n
Alvarado<\/a> approached Williams<\/a> after a blown whistle and proceeded to instigate a fight in which Alvarado punched Williams on the left side of his jaw.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Suns<\/a> ended up winning the game 123-114<\/a>.<\/p>\n Alvarado had been averaging 8.3 points, 3.2 assists, and 2.7 rebounds per game this season. As for Williams, he’d been averaging 13.1 points, 8.2 rebounds, and 1.1 assists.\u00a0<\/p>\n The two teams won’t face each other again until March 6, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA announced a two-game suspension for New Orleans Pelicans guard Jose Alvarado and a one-game suspension for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-378084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}