The Best NBA Fights, Ranked and Dissected
When it comes to the best NBA fights, the Malice at the Palace is the obvious headliner — but Chris, Dex, and guest Siege walk through five of them with footage rolling and commentary in real time.
Modern players get fined for blinking too hard, so revisiting the era when grown men actually swung is its own kind of time capsule. The brothers happily walk you through every elbow, ducked punch, and thrown basketball that mattered.
What gets ranked
- Tree Rollins versus Danny Ainge — 80s small-shorts era, the famous bite, and Ainge’s Goldberg slam earning Chris’s respect.
- Alonzo Mourning whiffing on Larry Johnson, Shaq throwing a basketball at Charles Barkley, and Ben Wallace setting off Ron Artest in Auburn Hills.
- Honorable mentions including Reggie Miller’s eye-poke on Michael Jordan and the 1994 Knicks-Bulls brawl with David Stern stuck courtside watching it unfold.
It runs a little long for a typical list video, and that’s by design — there’s a lot of footage to relive and a lot of bad decisions to break down properly.
Hit play and tell us in the comments which fight got robbed of its spot. Somebody’s getting it wrong, and odds are it’s not Chris.
