Which Players <i> Weren’t </i> Suspended? : Pro basketball: NBA punishes eight Pacers, eight Kings for fighting. Penalties will have to be staggered.

The NBA suspended 16 players Saturday for fighting during Friday night’s game between the Indiana Pacers and the Sacramento Kings, the largest number suspended from one incident.

Dale Davis of Indiana and Michael Smith of Sacramento received the largest penalties: two-game suspensions without pay and $20,000 fines.

The pair fought with 2:43 left in the third quarter of the Kings’ 119-95 victory in Indianapolis. The penalties were announced by Rod Thorn, the NBA’s senior vice president for basketball operations.

Duane Causwell of the Kings was suspended for one game without pay and fined $7,500. The league said he left the bench area while not trying to break up the fight.

The other 13 players penalized received one-game suspensions and $2,500 fines for leaving the bench areas.

“Nobody wants this type of thing to happen, and when it does you expect retribution,” Pacer President Donnie Walsh said Saturday.

Tyus Edney, Byron Houston, Sarunas Marciulionis, Olden Polynice, Lionel Simmons and Walt Williams were the other Kings penalized. The other Pacers punished were Travis Best, Adrian Caldwell, Duane Ferrell, Fred Hoiberg, Mark Jackson, Reggie Miller and Dwayne Schintzius.

Three separate shoving matches developed on the court during the five-minute incident.

NBA rules call for each team to dress at least eight players per game. For the Pacers and Kings to comply with the rule, the suspensions will be served alphabetically.

Causwell, Edney, Houston and Smith sat out the Kings’ game on Saturday night at New Jersey; Marciulionis, Simmons, Smith and Polynice are to sit out Tuesday’s game against the Lakers; and Williams is to sit out Thursday’s game at Portland.

Best, Caldwell, Davis and Ferrell are to sit out the Pacers’ game at Miami on Wednesday. Davis, Hoiberg, Jackson and Miller are to sit out Thursday’s game at Orlando and Schintzius will sit out Saturday’s game against Seattle.