The Toronto Raptors are battling for playoff seeding. The Chicago Bulls are battling for their playoff lives. These two teams came together Tuesday in Canada for an important late-season game.
Though, the game itself morphed from a battle for playoff positioning to one with fisticuffs.
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Yes, that’s a pretty impressive melee right there.
It took place with Toronto up double digits in the third quarter and the Bulls obviously pretty frustrated with how everything has been going.
In the video you see embedded above, both Robin Lopez of the Bulls and Raptors big man Serge Ibaka can be seen throwing punches. It came after a Jimmy Butler made three, at which point Chicago’s All-Star guard tried to break up the pretty large skirmish.
Needless to say, both Lopez and Ibaka were thrown out of the game.