Regular Season is back

The NBA made it's official return this week on Tuesday. I have to say that this season has already started off pretty exciting. Star players on their new teams made their official debut. Gordan Hayward returned from a stunning injury that occurred last year. We also got to see many interesting matches, where interesting incidents and highlights occurred. The Warriors kicked off the season in a close game win against the Oklahoma City Thunder, without star player Russel Westbrook. The Hornet's point guard Kemba Walker dropped 41 points against the Bucks, even though the Hornets still ended up losing including a missed game-winning shot by Kemba Walker. Sixer's star player Ben Simmons already dropped a triple-double against the Bulls. Kemba Walker, Ish Smith, and JJ Reddick hit big game-winning shots this week. Many interesting events occurred this week. However, the incident that everyone is probably talking about the most is the Chris Paul and Rajon Rondo fight during a matchup between the Lakers and the Rockets. 

The brawl was initiated after a hard foul on James Harden from Brandon Ingram. Ingram then gave a hard shove to Harden out of frustration. Ingram then got into a ref's face out of more frustration. There was already a little bit of tension already. Just when everyone thought it couldn't get any worse, Chris Paul and Rajon Rondo begin to get in each other's faces. Rondo then spits in his face, Paul then puts a finger in Rondo's face, afterwards Rondo throws a big punch, then Paul throws a punch. Brandon Ingram joins and starts to help Rondo throw more punches at Paul. Punches were continuously getting thrown until the fight was broken off. I would have to say that it was one of the first intense NBA fights we have had in a while, considering the fact that the NBA rules have gotten softer after the "Malice at the Palace". Afterwards, Brandon Ingram was suspended for 4 games, Rajan Rondo got suspended for 3, And Chris Paul got suspended for 2. This fight was discussed for the rest of the weekend, even memes were being posted about the fight:).

On the lighter note, my favorite team, the Los Angeles Clippers are not doing as bad as I thought they were going to do this year. They are currently 2-1 and they were able to close out hard fought games. I still believe we need our guards to put more work in.