With the Houston Rockets season on the brink of elimination — and ultimately ending with a 118-113 loss in Game 6 of the Western Conference Semifinals to the Golden State Warriors — tensions ran high at the Toyota Center. The Rockets tried to work their way back against a Kevin Durant-less Warriors team that somehow survived and advanced to the Western Conference Finals despite Stephen Curry being stuck to the bench for the majority of the first half.
But the tension wasn’t strictly limited to the court. In fact, things might’ve been more chaotic in the stands than anywhere else. And it wasn’t because Jay-Z, Beyonce and Emilia Clarke were in attendance.
A fight broke out among the crowd and it was caught on camera:
The fight even caught the attention of reporters at the game:
Apparently, it got to the point where the police had to get involved:
From the looks of it, the fans involved were more likely to cause bodily harm to themselves than anyone else. Certainly an odd footnote to a disappointing end for the Rockets.
