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| | Online NewsHour: Sports Experts Analyze the Fight Between Professional Basketball Players During a Game Held in Detroit ... |
 | | Ray Suarez joins Greg Anthony, former NBA point guard and current ESPN analyst, and Jack McCallum, senior writer for Sports Illustrated, for a look at the fallout from Friday's player-fan basketball brawl. |
 | | GREG ANTHONY: Well, firstly, there is no question that Ron Artest was wrong for leaving the court of play, heading into the stands. |
 | | McCallum's comments, and I say this as a former professional athlete, one thing you have to understand, professional athletes on a team are a family in every sense of the word, and to say that he wasn't provoked, again I'm not justifying his actions, but he was provoked. |
| www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/sports/july-dec04/brawl_11-22.html (2211 words) |
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