Sparks–Shock brawl
The Sparks–Shock brawl was an altercation that occurred in a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) game between the Detroit Shock (now the Dallas Wings) and Los Angeles Sparks on July 22, 2008, at The Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Michigan, United States. Ray Ratto of The Wall Street Journal wrote, "It was in the classic sense, one of those things that occasionally happens when highly competitive people want the same thing and one can’t have it." This was the second major basketball fight to occur at The Palace of Auburn Hills in four years, the other being the notorious Pacers–Pistons brawl, better known as the "Malice at the Palace", on November 19, 2004, resulting in this incident being referred to as the "Malice at The Palace II".