From there, mass chaos ensued. Heat guard Terry Rozier went at Thompson to retaliate, taking him to the ground. As players and coaches tried to break up the madness, Thompson and Herro continued to yell at one another as Thompson was pulled away.

Intense, violent on-court brawls were once a regular occurence in the NBA. In one of the most famous brawls, back in 1984, Boston Celtics great Larry Bird got into all-out fisticuffs with the already legendary “Dr.

After the Houston Rockets' Amen Thompson flung the Miami Heat’s Tyler Herro to the ground and started a rare NBA skirmish, key figures from both sides of the Heat’s 104-100 win Sunday night did a little verbal sniping at each other.