{"id":501724,"date":"2025-12-28T19:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/501724\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T19:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:47:12","slug":"pelicans-alvarado-suns-williams-ejected-after-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/501724\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans&#8217; Alvarado, Suns&#8217; Williams Ejected After Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pelicans guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/alvarjo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-28_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jose Alvarado<\/a> and Suns center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/willima07.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-28_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mark Williams<\/a> were both ejected from Saturday\u2019s game in New Orleans after a brief fight late in the third quarter, writes <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/pelicans\/jose-alvarado-mark-williams-pelicans-suns-punch\/article_15fcba1b-7b62-4cc7-9e36-8df99dc4ebbc.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rashad Milligan of NOLA.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-458202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jose-Alvarado-Mark-Williams-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"  \/>Alvarado was whistled for a foul after pushing Williams, who was attempting to set a screen, with two hands (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eCVEPTqae7I\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube link<\/a>). As Alvarado looked to the official to plead his case, Williams returned the favor with his own two-handed shove.<\/p>\n<p>The 6\u20190\u2033 Alvarado confronted the 7\u20191\u2033 Williams, who dismissively tried to forearm Alvarado out of the way. Undeterred, Alvarado grabbed Williams\u2019 left arm and jersey and a brief scuffle ensued, with Williams and then Alvarado both throwing right-handed punches that connected.<\/p>\n<p>Williams also punched down at Alvarado with his left hand as the players were being separated, but it\u2019s unclear from the video if it connected. Both players were ejected for the incident.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, which Phoenix won, Suns head coach Jordan Ott said he had not yet reviewed a video of the altercation, per <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/suns-pelicans-fight-alvarado-williams-3d36731e1beb5ef8d22476d305b9220c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw it start, and then all of a sudden everyone jumped in,\u201d Ott said. \u201cObviously, it happens. It just feels like the lack of sleep the second night of a back-to-back, something always tends to happen. Last night, there were a lot of free throws; tonight there wasn\u2019t as much. They let us play tonight, which is something we enjoy. They got tangled up, and obviously they both got thrown out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NBA tends to be pretty strict when it comes to fights, especially when punches are thrown, so fines and suspensions could be coming for Alvarado and Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pelicans guard Jose Alvarado and Suns center Mark Williams were both ejected from Saturday\u2019s game in New Orleans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,11053,1011,6,2065,472,4045,604],"class_list":{"0":"post-501724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jose-alvarado","10":"tag-mark-williams","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-phoenix","13":"tag-phoenix-suns","14":"tag-phoenixsuns","15":"tag-suns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115798923477996343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}