When you make morons PAY a lot of money to watch morons who MAKE a lot of money, this is inevitable. Lotsa morons in one place is never a good idea.
As a Michigander, and someone who watched the game, it was a disgrace on both the fans and players part. I understood wallace hitting artest, artest fouled him hard late in the game with the game decided. Artest is a punk and a thug. Then you have steven jackson of the pacers running around trying to start a fight. The fan should never have thrown a cup at artest, but he also shouldn't have bolted into the stands throwing punches, followed by jackson who threw a punch at anyone in his view. Now should the fans have acted the way they did, no, but also what are NBA players thinking running into the stands and throwing punches, you think the fans are just gonna stand there and take it??????? It was an ugly incident, first the fan throwing the beer cup, second the pacers charging the stands, that only escalated the incident.