The Malice at the Palace
https://grantland.com/features/an-oral-history-malice-palace/ An oral history of the scariest moment in NBA history. BY JONATHAN ABRAMS - Grantland - ON MARCH 20, 2012 “I think a lot of us made a lot of selfish decisions that day. I made a selfish decision to stop trying to break it up and to confront Lindsey Hunter and Richard Hamilton. That was my selfish decision. Ron made a selfish decision by going into the stands. We all made selfish decisions, but at the same time, we were protecting each other. It’s kind of hard to see if that’s right or wrong.” — Stephen Jackson The images are just as striking almost a decade later . A cup splashes off Ron Artest in the closing moments of a blowout win against the Detroit Pistons . He leaps into the stands at the Palace of Auburn Hills and into sports infamy . Mayhem follows. Players fight fans, fans fight players, a chair is thrown, bottles are tossed — in seconds, the invisible wall that separates athletes and spectators is demo