{"id":474905,"date":"2026-02-12T10:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/474905\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:43:25","slug":"nba-levies-suspensions-from-pistons-hornets-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/474905\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA levies suspensions from Pistons-Hornets game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2051922\" class=\"wp-image-2051922 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/hornets-pistons-altercation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2051922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hornets and Pistons were involved in an on-court altercation on Feb. 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Detroit Pistons forward-center Isaiah Stewart has been suspended seven games for leaving the bench area, aggressively entering an on-court altercation, and fighting, it was announced today by James Jones, Executive Vice President, Head of Basketball Operations. The length of Stewart\u2019s suspension is based in part on his repeated history of unsportsmanlike acts.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Charlotte Hornets forwards Miles Bridges and Moussa Diabat\u00e9 have each been suspended four games for fighting and escalating the altercation, and Pistons center Jalen Duren has been suspended two games for initiating the altercation and fighting.<\/p>\n<p>The incident began when Diabat\u00e9 committed a defensive foul on Duren with 7:09 remaining in the third quarter of the Pistons\u2019 110-104 victory over the Hornets on Feb. 9 at Spectrum Center.<\/p>\n<p>All four players were assessed technical fouls and ejected from the game.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart and Duren will begin serving their suspensions tomorrow when the Pistons visit the Toronto Raptors at Scotiabank Arena. Bridges and Diabat\u00e9 will also begin serving their suspensions tomorrow when the Hornets host the Atlanta Hawks at Spectrum Center.<\/p>\n<p>To view the incident, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/watch\/video\/det-at-cha-2-9-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hornets and Pistons were involved in an on-court altercation on Feb. 9, 2026. NEW YORK \u2014 Detroit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,242058,85],"class_list":["post-474905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-pistons-hornets-suspension","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474905","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=474905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}