{"id":502464,"date":"2025-12-29T04:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T04:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/502464\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T04:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T04:17:10","slug":"nba-suspends-pelicans-jose-alvarado-suns-mark-williams-for-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/502464\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA suspends Pelicans&#8217; Jose Alvarado, Suns&#8217; Mark Williams for fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/new-orleans-pelicans\/3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New Orleans Pelicans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> guard Jose Alvarado and <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/phoenix-suns\/21\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Phoenix Suns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Phoenix Suns<\/a> center Mark Williams were suspended for <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/two-players-ejected-orleans-pelicans-044909820.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:their recent on-court brawl;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their recent on-court brawl<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2005458567583891470\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NBA announced on Sunday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NBA announced on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarado was given a two-game suspension for his role in the altercation. Williams was given a one-game suspension.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Suns earned a <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/summary\/2915307\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:123-114;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">123-114<\/a> victory over the Pelicans, but in the final minutes of the third quarter, the two players started to exchange blows.<\/p>\n<p>Collin Gillespie of the Suns had the ball at midcourt while Williams began to set up a screen, attempting to guard Alvarado.<\/p>\n<p>The officials on the court quickly blew the whistle to call a defensive foul on Alvarado, leading to him briefly turning toward the referee to express his displeasure before he turned back around to exchange words with the Suns\u2019 center.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The two exchanged words briefly and exchanged punches before the benches were cleared to break up the scuffle.<\/p>\n<p>Both players were given technical fouls and ejected from the game.<\/p>\n<p>The USA TODAY app gets you to the heart of the news fast. <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/1el9h6z4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Download for award-winning coverage, crosswords, audio storytelling, the eNewspaper and more;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Download for award-winning coverage, crosswords, audio storytelling, the eNewspaper and more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2025\/12\/28\/pelicans-jose-alvarado-suns-mark-williams-suspended-for-fighting\/87941179007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pelicans&#039; Jose Alvarado, Suns&#039; Mark Williams suspended for fighting;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Pelicans&#8217; Jose Alvarado, Suns&#8217; Mark Williams suspended for fighting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Orleans Pelicans guard Jose Alvarado and Phoenix Suns center Mark Williams were suspended for their recent on-court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,4216,11053,1011,6,470,472,6445,833],"class_list":{"0":"post-502464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-collin-gillespie","10":"tag-jose-alvarado","11":"tag-mark-williams","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","14":"tag-phoenix-suns","15":"tag-the-suns","16":"tag-williams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115800928752004715","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502464","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=502464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}