Steve Scott's Blog

I don't know what was in the water at the United Center Wednesday night...but the Bulls/Knicks game was one of the strangest I've seen in a long time.

It was like Friday the 13th, New Year's Eve and a full moon...all rolled into one.

First, the Bulls' Chris Duhon - one of the nicest, most mild-mannered guys you'll ever see - gets into a fight with the Knicks' much larger Maurice Taylor. Typical basketball fight...lots of shoving, but no real damage done.

But, the real strange moment came in overtime...when former Bull Antonio Davis jumped onto the scorer's table and directly over me to go into the stands. Davis says he saw his wife being hassled by a man who Davis said had had too much to drink. Again, no real damage was done...but it has brought unwarranted comparisons to that ugly incident in Detroit last season.

All I know is that I suddenly looked up out of the corner of my eye...and here was this huge blue blur jumping over me to get into the stands.

The NBA has very strict rules about players going into the stands...and the officials had no choice but to eject Davis from the game. But if, as he says, he was only trying to protect his wife from some drunk...wouldn't most of us do the same thing? "AD" is one of the classiest players in the NBA...he's not some punk (see Maurice Taylor in top photo) looking for trouble. Davis will likely be fined...and possibly suspended. But there's no comparing what happened here with the Pacers/Pistons brawl in Detroit.

Oh, by the way...the Bulls won the game, 106-104, on a Ben Gordon jumper at the buzzer in overtime.