Carmelo Anthony, head coach Mike Woodson and Tyson Chandler were ejected from the game as the New York Knicks fell 110-106 to the Chicago Bulls, which saw their own player Joakim Noah take an early shower.
With the Knicks making a furious attempt at a comeback in the fourth quarter, Anthony and Noah got into a tussle leading to both being tossed from the game. The incident happened shortly after coach Woodson had been ejected from the game for a second technical.
However, the drama did not end there with Chandler also getting his marching orders soon after.
"I was actually in here, and then I just heard the crowd screaming and yelling, and I walked to the hallway, and Woody was walking back," Anthony said. "Then I was actually in the shower, came back and Tyson was sitting right next to me. "So once I saw that, that's how the night was going."
Chandler insisted he should not have been ejected from the game because he did not break any rules. "It was just an ugly game in general and then things contributed from there," he said.
For the game itself, Luol Deng scored a season-high 29 points and 13 rebounds to help the Bulls register a second victory of the season over the Knicks.
Marco Belinelli added 22 points for the Bulls, with Kirk Hinrich netting 16 points, eight assists and nine rebounds.
The Bulls outscored the Knicks 30-23 in the first quarter. They again bettered New York 24-16 in the second quarter to take a 15-point lead in first half.
For the Knicks, Anthony was the top scorer with 29 points. He had 10 out of 25 attempts from the field and one shot from beyond the three-point arc. Raymond Felton added 21 points and had two steals against the Bulls. Reserve J.R. Smith finished with 26 points and grabbed 10 rebounds.
Bulls center Noah had 15 points, 12 rebounds and six assists, while Knicks center Tyson Chandler finished with only five points and eight rebounds.
The Bulls scored 29 points in the third quarter against the Knicks' 22 to extend the lead to 22 points. From there it seemed almost impossible for New York to bounce back.
The Knicks, however, scored 45 points in the fourth quarter, while the Bulls could add only 27, but Chicago managed to register their fourth victory in the last five games.
"You get a 25-point lead on the road against a team like this, you're doing a lot of good things," Chicago coach Tom Thibodeau said. "I'm disappointed with our approach and discipline in the fourth quarter, starting with my fourth-quarter technical.
"So we gave up 45 points and that's not good. That's not the way we want to close a game."
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