Nobody Makes Isaiah Stewart Bleed His Own Blood

There’s something truly magical about an NBA fight. One player fouls another player a little harder than normal. That player then randomly freaks out and shoves the player that fouled him. Everyone else immediately starts holding everyone back and the only people who get hit are the little trainers and water boys who physically cannot handle getting pushed by NBA players.

On Sunday night, Isaiah Stewart and LeBron James had one of those magical moments.

LeBron and Isaiah Stewart get into it 😳

Wow. pic.twitter.com/VJFntCo6cY

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) November 22, 2021

With the Lakers down 78-66 in the 3rd quarter against the Detroit Pistons on the cusp of losing another stinker against a worse team, LeBron James let his frustrations out on Isaiah Stewart’s skull with a People’s Elbow into Stewart’s eyeball leading to an ejection and a 3-minute long shoving contest between the two teams.

I don’t have much to say about the fight because it wasn’t a fight. Personally, if I can taste my own eye blood then I too, would lose my shit and try to clothesline everyone in my line of extremely bloody sight.

Except that every time Isaiah Stewart came close to a Laker, he would clearly slow down and wait to be held back again. Understandable. You want to establish that it isn’t okay for guys to casually punch your eye out of its socket. You don’t need to square up with DeAndre Jordan and get punched more. Just want the rest of the league to recognize that you will cause a fucking SCENE if they try something like this again.

But it’s important to talk about whether or not LeBron did this on purpose because there is zero nuance in this conversation. There are either diehard LeBron defenders who will say that Stewart was tugging on his arm and LeBron was simply trying to break free and accidentally ripped Stewart’s eyebrow off his face.

On the other end, there are people who hate LeBron for irrational reasons and think he should be kicked out of the NBA for being so dirty and careless.

It’s obviously in the middle of all that. LeBron James was trying to get Isaiah Stewart away from him. That is correct. He also threw a strong elbow into his cranium. Unfortunately, when you attempt to establish physicality and you want to get a little aggressive with an opponent, you are responsible for the results of that physicality.

No, LeBron didn’t throw an elbow in hopes of seeing Stewart’s eyeball slap onto the hardwood but that’s what happened and now he must suffer those consequences which should probably just be like, a 1-game suspension and then we should move on and never talk about the Detroit Pistons again.