Retired NBA all-star has to restrain his daughter in an on-court high school brawl in Seattle
A former NBA All-Star was forced to restrain his own daughter after she got in a fight during a high school basketball game being played in Washington state.
In a rivalry contest between two Seattle high schools – the West Seattle Wildcats and the Garfield Bulldogs – Garfield came out on top with an 11-point win on Wednesday evening.
But at the game’s final buzzer, the proceedings turned violent when West Seattle players tried stealing the ball off a Garfield guard when the latter player tried dribbling out the clock.
The Garfield player wasn’t enthused by the move and threw the ball at her rival – leading to punches being thrown by both sides.
Benches cleared and haymakers started being thrown before coaches, parents, officials, and other staff members tried settling things down.
One of the parents that ran onto the court was former top-10 NBA pick and Seattle basketball legend Brandon Roy – who is the head coach of Garfield’s boy’s basketball team.
A girls high-school basketball game dissolved into a brawl earlier this week
One of the parents attending this game who needed to restrain her daughter was Brandon Roy
Roy is a former All-NBA team selection and three-time All-Star whose career was cut short
Roy’s daughter, Mariah (No. 3 in the video above) was restrained by her father as he prevented her from any further participation in the altercation.
Neither team has received any punishment from Washington high school athletics organizers and neither school has indicated any punishment has been handed out from them.
Roy is coaching his high school alma mater where he became one of the best players in the state in the late-1990s and early-2000s. He was a top-40 recruit in the nation in 2002 when he decided to stay home and played for the University of Washington.
After a strong college career, Roy was selected sixth overall in the 2006 NBA Draft. The pick was owned by the Minnesota Timberwolves, but he was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers in exchange for Randy Foye.
Roy only played seven seasons in the NBA due to injuries that hampered what could have been a phenomenal professional career. Most of that time was spent in Portland before he played one final season in Minnesota.
Across his short career, he won NBA Rookie of the Year in 2007 and was named a three-time All-Star, was an All-NBA Second Team selection in 2009 and an All-NBA Third Team pick in 2010.
After his playing career ended, Roy became a high school basketball coach at Nathan Hale High School – where he mentored future NBA star Michael Porter Jr. and his brother Jontay Porter – and won the Naismith National High School Coach of the Year award in 2017.
