Shock deal puts 50-year-old in Women's NBA after fight bans

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

NEW YORK (AFP) — Women's National Basketball Association officials suspended 10 players and an assistant coach Thursday after a brawl, setting up the return of 50-year-old Nancy Lieberman to the league.

The Detroit Shock, which signed Lieberman to a seven-day contract after the bans were announced, and Los Angeles Sparks each had five players suspended after a melee in the final seconds of an 84-81 Los Angeles triumph on Tuesday.

Shock assistant coach Rick Mahorn, a former NBA player with the Detroit Pistons, was banished for two games after escalating the altercation by shoving Sparks' star and US Olympian Lisa Leslie to the court.

Leslie and Candace Parker, the Sparks' top scorers, were each suspended one game for throwing punches during the brawl.

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