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Charles Barkley brawls with Bill Laimbeer in epic 1990 Pistons vs. Sixers fight | ESPN Archives



On April 19, 1990 an infamous fight between the Philadelphia 76ers and the Detroit “Bad Boy” Pistons broke out during the game after Isiah Thomas got ejected for landing a punch on former teammate Rick Mahorn and Charles Barkley and Bill Laimbeer exchanged fists, triggering a brawl in the final seconds of the game.

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46 Comments

  1. Strange how nobody calls Barkley out for sucker punching Laimbeer while he was looking at Mahorn. Cheap Shot. Same thing when Parrish sucker punched him from behind. Nobody seems to care that in both incidents, Laimbeer was sucker punched. Nothing brave or bad about sucker punching someone. Thats a coward's game.

  2. Scott Hastings with an absolutely gutless sucker punch to the back of a downed Barkley's head at 1:33

    Weaksauce

  3. LOL lambier always had a black eye… HATED him… but also respect that he was one of the best enforcers in the game and a VITAL piece of that detroit puzzle

  4. Basketball used to be war. Now it's playfight. Love the lockeroom interviews. Was like wcw or wwf with mean gene

  5. “You cant hit somebody and run backwards”
    -Charles Barkley. 😂

    Who here came to this video after seeing Shaqtin A Fool?

  6. What's so messed up is besides the Parish cheap shot Laimbeer was kicking everyone a**. Bird got body slammed. I still dislike Laimbeer

  7. 1 of the many reasons some players didn’t want IT on the USA team

  8. Laimbeer was a dirty player. I remember watching replays of him sliding his feet under other players. No one has any respect for him. I think all the greats players of that era have about the same opinion about bill.

  9. And what do you know? Who wound up winning the NBA title?
    The Pistons, so the Bad Boys got the upper hand psychologically

  10. Bill Laimbeer: "Nobody cares about him. He's a loser." Well Barkley did not ever win a championship so I guess Bill was kinda correct.

  11. Thomas threw that punch knowing he didn’t want to connect that’s why he didn’t connect. Lol he would’ve got folded up like a lawn chair. Had girl Pistons. Bunch of phonies and posers.

  12. hahaha Olberman when he was good..lololol hes an absolute FOOL Now,

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