{"id":478298,"date":"2024-02-15T05:48:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T09:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=478298"},"modified":"2024-02-15T05:48:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T09:48:28","slug":"detroit-center-stewart-arrested-for-punching-eubanks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/detroit-center-stewart-arrested-for-punching-eubanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit center Stewart arrested for punching Eubanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/detroit-pistons\/\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> player Isaiah Stewart was arrested for assault for punching Phoenix Suns player Drew Eubanks at the venue hours before the organizations competed.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix police shared that Isaiah was issued a citation and released. He was already listed as sidelined for the match because of an ankle injury. Drew finished with 6 points and 8 boards in 18 minutes on the court in the Phoenix\u2019 116-100 win.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Phoenix Police statement on Isaiah Stewart: &#8220;Stewart was arrested for assault and issued a citation and released. The investigation remains active.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wB1QiGn5lM\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/wB1QiGn5lM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1758027512028770556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Eubanks shared before the match that the incident happened as he was coming into the venue. The Suns center added that the argument began before the Pistons center hit him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The assault on Drew Eubanks was unprovoked, and acts of violence such as this can\u2019t be tolerated,&#8221; Phoenix shared after the incident. &#8220;We unequivocally support our player and will continue to work with the police and the National Basketball League.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Detroit revealed that they knew about the situation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our organization is in the process of collecting information about what happened and what provoked it and providing all that we collect to the league and to the police,&#8221; the Pistons shared.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;It&#8217;s supposed to be a brotherhood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kevin-durant\/\">Kevin Durant<\/a> on Drew Eubanks\/Isaiah Stewart deal.<\/p>\n<p>On Devin Booker ejection: &#8220;He was talking to me. I guess he said something that ticked the ref off, but they were on edge because of the situation. They didn&#8217;t want things to escalate.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Suns?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Suns<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EwfJvCRxm8\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/EwfJvCRxm8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Duane Rankin (@DuaneRankin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DuaneRankin\/status\/1757999589012218009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Detroit manager Monty Williams, dismissed by the Suns after the last campaign, shared that he thought Phoenix should not have released a statement before evidence was collected.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aDs2IhJ7fB8?si=tNDImvbBdof3wwJP\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Pistons player Isaiah Stewart was arrested for assault for punching Phoenix Suns player Drew Eubanks at the venue hours before the organizations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":478299,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16727,21909,20391,17837,17005],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18432,21910,22660,17557,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Isaiah was arrested after punching Phoenix player Drew.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478298"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478316,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478298\/revisions\/478316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478298"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=478298"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=478298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}