Baseball has steroids, football has Terrell Owens, and the NBA has bench-clearing brawls. Try as these sports may, they just can't seem to get rid of these vices, and basketball had its latest relapse during a blowout at the Garden on Saturday night. If you've only seen on SportsCenter, you need to watch the whole video here.

Sparked by a Mardy Collins flagrant foul late in the 4th quarter, an altercation turned ugly after J.R. Smith took Nate Robinson to the floor in response to Robinson's shoving.

The players were eventually separated, but watch closely to notice that Carmelo "don't snitch" Anthony reignites the fight with an open-handed sucker punch on Mardy Collins. Make doubly sure to continue watching to notice that Anthony runs away immediately after.

Unfortunately, this video fails to show what may have truly instigated this debacle. According to Carmelo (as reported on espn.com), Knicks head coach, Isiah Thomas had warned Anthony to stay out of the paint apparently not happy that the Nuggets were continuing to run up the score by keeping in four starters with under two minutes to go. Thanks for snitching, 'Melo.

I was just beginning to feel sorry for Isiah, who will surely lose his job at the end of the season for assembling the highest paid group of losers in the league. But to instigate a hard foul that leads to a brawl and try to justify it by saying they were running up the score is preposterous.

This is the NBA, not a high school game where the talent can be so spread out and it really is unnecessary to embarrass a team. I didn't hear the Raptors complaining when Kobe ran up the score en route to 81 points. Should the four starters have been on the bench? Probably, but that's up to the Nuggets.

Isiah, I'm sorry the Knicks suck. I'm even more sorry that the Nuggets were too much for the roster you assembled to handle at home. However, I'm most sorry that you know your team is so bad that you feel it is unreasonable for the Nuggets to play their starters for the duration of the game. This is the NBA and the fans didn't come to watch three quarters of basketball and, while I know from what I heard you say on SportsCenter that your team had "surrendered," the Nuggets came to play. Maybe you should tell your team to do the same.