NBA Forces YouTube To Pull Knicks Brawl Video

The world has already seen it dozens of times, but the NBA would rather not have last weekend’s nasty Knicks-Nuggets brawl at Madison Square Garden have a second life on YouTube. The NBA has apparently asked YouTube to remove uploaded clips of the melee, like the one above [for now] from its servers. This isn’t new for the NBA: there was some recent talk of the NBA trying to aggressively remove clips from YouTube.

It’s not uncommon for sports clips to be pulled from YouTube. Major League Baseball was rumored to’ve been working on a deal with YouTube to showcase highlights, but the league doesn’t appear to be in any rush to interrupt mlb.com‘s own success with archived video. Until then, we’ll guess clips “may not reproduced or retransmitted in any form, and the accounts and descriptions may not be disseminated without the express written consent of Major League Baseball.”

NOTE: You can find plenty of classic NBA and MLB brawling on YouTube, however.

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