2018-19 NBA Season Already a Wild One By: Isaac Tomoletz On Tuesday, October 16, 2018, the NBA regular season officially started. Before the season started, there were some big moves by players and teams in this past offseason. Starting with the back-to-back Champions, the Golden State Warriors added a big time player to their already stacked team, Demarcus Cousins, who missed the majority of the season with a torn achilles. Another big shocking move was made by two teams, the Toronto Raptors traded star player Demar Derozan for San Antonio Spurs’ Kawhi Leonard. There were also players such as Jimmy Butler of the Minnesota Timberwolves, who wasn’t happy with his current relationship with his team. So many rumors spread about where he’s going. All of these plus other deals and trades such as Carmelo Anthony signing to the Houston Rockets, one of the biggest deals over the summer was former Cavs forward LeBron James signing to the Los Angeles Lakers have fans wondering about the coming season. All of these changes in teams were months ago, but the NBA season is now underway and we have already seen some interesting things. One of the big talks lately has been about the game played on this past Saturday between the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers. During the fourth quarter between the two, a foul occured on Brandon Ingram, a player on the Lakers. After the foul, Ingram pushed Rockets guard, James Harden, which resulted in him getting a technical foul. As the situation was being handled, Rajon Rondo of the Lakers and Chris Paul of the Rockets started arguing and then all hell broke loose in the Staples Center in Los Angeles when Rondo threw a punch at Chris Paul and then Ingram hopped in and threw a punch as well. The scene was hectic and it resulted in Ingram getting a 4 game suspension. Rondo received a 3 game suspension and for Chris Paul, he got a two game suspension. Rondo threw the first blow after Paul appeared to put his finger in Rondo’s eye. Rondo was also accused of spitting on Paul and that’s what led to Paul using his finger. Now that we are a few games into the season and we’ve already seen a fight break out, let’s check out the standings for the NBA. Only a few games in and we’ve seen teams struggle and teams start out hot. For the Eastern Conference, the Raptors have started off 5-0 as the Bucks and Pistons are behind at 4-0 and 3-0. For the Western Conference, the Nuggets are 4-0 as the Pelicans are behind at 3-0 with the Warriors in third place at 4-1. Lebron and the Lakers are in 13th place at 1-3 and a team that surprisingly is in last place right now are the Oklahoma City Thunder at 0-3. .