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I'm not sure what video of the game this guy has watched but I think he is off base. I saw Tommy Nunez step in pretty quickly in an attempt to get Artest away from Wallace. It was Wallace who kept coming and continued to escalate the situation on the court. I also felt that although the foul by Artest was a hard one, it was not worthy of ejection. I've seen plenty of fouls harder than that one in the NBA where the player was not ejected. Once a general riot ensued, what the heck are three officials going to be able to do about it? Go into the stands themselves? There is a lot of blame to go around here. I didn't see the whole game so I don't know how the officials handled things up to that point, but once everything hit the fan I'm not sure what else they could have done. Once Wallace came back at Artest I don't think they had the chance to eject anyone, it was already turning into chaos. Harris needs to remember that it is the players and fans who did the fighting and they are the ones to blame.
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