.ShaneRyanHere on looking back at the ferocious 2004 basketball spectacle that was 'Malice at the Palace,' thanks to Netflix's excellent new docuseries Untold:
If you’re a sports fan, and particularly if you’re a fan of basketball and the NBA, I encourage you to do what I did a few months ago, independent of this essay, and go watch unedited footage of the so-called “Malice at the Palace.
In short, the story is that the Pacers and Pistons were two of the best teams in the NBA, their long-time rivalry had reached a fever pitch in the fall of 2004, a season after the Pistons won the NBA title after beating the Pacers in the conference finals, and both teams appeared poised to compete for a title. When the Pacers came into Detroit on Nov. 19, 2004, and proceeded to beat up on the defending champions, they were understandably ecstatic.
At the time, the answer in the sports media, and hence with NBA commissioner David Stern, was the players. The word “thug” was tossed about liberally in commentary, and thinly disguised racial stereotypes, doled out in phrases like “hip-hop mentality,” were used as a catch-all to paint the guilty Pacers as reactive, emotional, and mean. It will shock you, watching, when you’re reminded that all of this happened not in 1970, but in 2004.
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