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The War That Changed the NBA: The Movie About the Battle between Artest and Detroit Fans
"The Untold Story: The Pacers-Pistons Brawl," which aired this week on Netflix, takes us back to the famous 2004 battle.
He is not content with that, but presents images and angles we did not know.
Its strongest feature is honesty, which makes it a must for any sports fan and even beyond
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Indiana Pacers
Ron Artest
Netflix
David Rosenthal
Thursday, August 12, 2021, 4 p.m.
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Trailer for the movie Malice at the Palace (NETFLIX)
Our expectation from sports stars, beyond being phenomena that should please us in their performance in the stadium or on the floor, is to be superhuman in their feelings as well, at least in the space defined as "playing time". You can curse them, wish terrible things on their mother, even throw objects on the field - and they should continue the show. It, by the way, does not exist in other worlds. After all, you would not expect theater actors, singers and even politicians to continue as usual as if nothing had happened, while in the stands there is a mess and objects are thrown in their direction.
It’s not that there weren’t exceptional events where players clashed with fans.
The most famous and documented case up to the early 2000s was that of Eric Cantona of Manchester United, who sent a karate kick in front of a Crystal Palace fan.
We also had an event like ours, when Earl Williams from Maccabi Tel Aviv tried to go up to the stands and beat Panathinaikos fans who threw the famous drachmas at him.
These and other cases were just a trailer for the November 19, 2004 event at the Palace in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
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A horrific outbreak of violence.
Ron Artest (Photo: AP, Duane Burleson)
"The Untold Story: The Pacers-Pistons Brawl", or in its original name: Untold - Malice at the Palace is a 69-minute documentary, which aired this week on Netflix as the first episode in the Untold series on sports stories (the following episodes have nothing to do with the story). He recounts the events that led to the horror brawl between Indiana Pacers players and Detroit Pistons fans in the league game between them, showing unseen photos (and more importantly fun): lots of photos we saw), interviews with the heroes of the affair - Pacers basketball players Jermaine O'Neill, Ron Artst (later) World Peace), Stephen Jackson and Reggie Miller, fans, cops, referees and many others who were involved in the event - and as a whole, relived the evening that changed something in everyone's perception of the NBA, including the league itself.
The film first dwells on the biographical play of O'Neill, who was only the sub-protagonist of the affair. One would think that the main focus would be on Artest, the man from whom it all began. After all, no one thought to open "The Last Dance" with biographical details about Dennis Rodman. It's an editorial choice that seems puzzling at first, and indeed - the first quarter of an hour is not exciting, to say the least - but at the end the reason becomes clear, and it does make order and explain the logic.
Even the attempt to turn Indiana into a story like "We would have taken a championship if not for this evening" is not really successful and credible.
Indiana was a good team, yes, it had a good chance of winning the title that season, but it also had a chance throughout the second half of the 90s and it did not, it was always a better team than it was.
Contrary to the narrative director Floyd Russ tried to produce, this was not a big bunch of life, but another good basketball team vying for the title, and would probably lose it to Greg Popovich's wonderful San Antonio and Tim Duncan, just like Detroit itself who played against them in the final that season.
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A tragic hero, in the end.
Jermaine O'Neill (Photo: AP, Darron Cummings)
These are the least good things in "Untold", and thankfully they are the only ones, because in the end this is a great docu-sport. He relives the big drama moments, excels in small sub-dramas, also provides stories with lots of sub-text (e.g., the fact that Tim Donahi, a judge who gambled on games and went to jail, judged him and was interviewed. Who knows what else was around this game because of him) And mostly gives more angles to a story that was considered "flat" before. After all, what did we have here, all in all? A man threw a glass of beer, basketball players took to the stands, full of beatings, lots of dismissals, some police investigations and appendices of the event that remain in the interests of sports fans.
But the story is much bigger. This is not a story about basketball players, but a story about the people hiding inside the basketball players, and especially about one person who suffers from anxiety and shares his feelings with the world, in the volcano that took place in itself in those moments that led to the violent outbreak. Unlike "The Last Dance", let's say that a circle of quite a few corners in Jordan's problematic personality, "Untold" does not make assumptions for Artest / World Peace. He presents his personality for its plethora of unfiltered problems.
This seems to be the film's strong point - its sincerity. You believe all the speakers in it, for the simple reason that they do not even try for a moment to twist, excuse or paint reality in shades that suit them. Artest talks about the anxieties, Stephen Jackson agrees that "I had no reason to go up to the podium", O'Neill does not forgive Artest's abandonment after the end of the season and Reggie Miller still does not understand how the cops on the floor did not recognize him.This is a document that provides a real and poignant mental account both on the part of the actors and on the part of the media.
Stars are not comic book characters.
They also have feelings, only for us these feelings should remain stored in the locker room and not go up to the arena.
So it was, so it is present and so it will be, and that is the only thing one can expect from an athlete.
The honest explanations, the analyzes and also the taking of responsibility do produce an effect of empathy and compassion towards almost everyone involved.
If Netflix's usual narrative is to start strong and fade later, "Untold" works the other way around.
This is a good docu, which starts slowly, increases and reaches its peak just in time.
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