Isaiah Stewart, DiVincenzo Among 5 Players Suspended by NBA for Pistons-Wolves Fight

The NBA levied its suspensions in the wake of the fight between members of the Detroit Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolves.

Pistons center Isaiah Stewart received a two-game ban. Pistons forward Ron Holland II and guard Marcus Sasser will have to sit out one game. Timberwolves forward Naz Reid and guard Donte DiVincenzo were also suspended one game apiece.

ESPN's Bobby Marks laid out the cost for each player:

Joe Dumars, the NBA's executive vice president for basketball operations, said Stewart received a longer suspension because of his "repeated history of unsportsmanlike acts."

The inciting incident came in the second quarter of Minnesota's 123-104 win over Detroit on Sunday. Reid took exception to a foul by Holland, and that sparked a shoving match that spilled into the front row of fans.

When the dust cleared, Stewart, Holland, Sasser, Reid and DiVincenzo were all ejected from the contest. Pistons head coach J.B. Bickerstaff and Timberwolves assistant Pablo Prigioni were dismissed as well.

"There was things said by their assistant coach and I'm in the same boat our guys are in," Bickerstaff told reporters after the game. "We're going to defend each other. I'm not going to let people say belligerent things about my guys. It's that simple. He said what he said, he knows what he said."

Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch thought that tempers had been building during the game and that a confrontation was unavoidable.

"I think it was a pressure release for what the game needed or where the game was headed, not what it needed," he said. "Certainly, you don't want to say that it needed that, but that was like the only conclusion with the way the game was being played. So it didn't matter how it was going to happen. It was just bound to happen."

Suspensions were inevitable, and some fans might've expected a heavier response from the league when factoring in how the altercation briefly entered the crowd. The bans do, however, represent a fairly sizable chunk of how much is left in the regular season.

The Timberwolves and Pistons each have seven regular-season games remaining.