Yahoo Sports reports that Indiana Pacers guards Lance Stephenson and Evan Turner we involved in a fight during practice the day before the Pacers' first-round series against the Hawks began.
On the eve of this Eastern Conference series, the wobbling No. 1 seed punctuated its final playoff preparations in a most self-destructive way: Two Indiana Pacers dragged a cursing, cut Evan Turner out of the Bankers Life Fieldhouse court, untangling him from a practice-floor fistfight with teammate Lance Stephenson.
Turner hadn't been the first Pacer to lose his temper with Stephenson these tumultuous several weeks, and Stephenson's relentlessly irritable nature suggests Turner won't be the last. These scrapes aren't uncommon in the NBA, but this confrontation had been weeks in the making and that reflected in the ferocity of the encounter, sources told Yahoo Sports.
"This stuff happens, but the timing wasn't ideal," one witness told Yahoo Sports.
If acrimony naturally lingered into Saturday, make no mistake: Stephenson and Turner weren't the reason the Atlanta Hawks embarrassed the Pacers in Game 1. Maybe it tilted the mood of locker room, but no one dared suggest that it held responsibility for deadening the Pacers into defeat.
via Pacers fight each other on eve of playoffs, finally take swing at Hawks in Game 2 - Yahoo Sports.
Lance Stephenson got on someone's nerves? You must be joking! Say it isn't so!
Link- http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on-bas ... tice-fight
At times, you want to see that competitive flare between guys who are not only competing against each other for minutes but contracts, but this here is too much. No wonder the Pacers played with absolute no chemisty in game 1.
