Tempers started to flare on Friday (AEDT) when the Jazz put their seven-game winning streak on the line against the Suns.
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Midway through the third quarter, Suns' forward Marquese Chriss went to the rim looking to draw the foul and fell to the court hard. Unfortunately for Chriss no whistle came and play continued.
That didn't sit well with Chriss' teammate and Suns' veteran leader Jared Dudley who decided to take justice into his own hands drilling Jazz point guard Ricky Rubio. When Rubio got up he was also smacked by Chriss who had finally gotten off the floor igniting a shoving match between the two teams.
A fired up Joe Ingles came to the defence of his teammate attempting to get ahold of Chriss. All ten players on the floor and the teams' respective coaches came onto the floor to separate the melee.
Cooler heads eventually prevailed, but not before Chriss and Dudley both received ejections.
Earlier this season Rubio was the victim of a hard tackle by Minnesota Timberwolves' point guard Jeff Teague . Teague was also ejected as was Karl Anthony-Towns for an unrelated incident in the same game.
Utah does not play Phoenix again this season, but they do play their Northwest division rival Timberwolves again on April 2 (AEDT).
