The NBA has never experienced a darker hour than the one that took place in The Palace of Auburn Hills on Nov. 19, 2004.
Kermit Washington and Rudy Tomjanovic came close. So did the drug problems of the 1980s, as have multiple other occasions, but nothing was worse than watching the melee unfold as NBA players ran into the stands and engaged in brawls with unruly fans.
There's a psychological principle called "the flashbulb memory," and it involves moments that just remain with you forever. As Saundra K. Ciccarelli and J. Noland White wrote in "Psychology, An Exploration:"
A special kind of automatic encoding takes place when an unexpected event or episode in a person's life has strong emotional associations, such as fear, horror, or joy. Memories of highly emotional events can often seem vivid and detailed, as if the person's mind took a 'flash picture' of the moment in time. These kinds of memories are called flashbulb memories.
It's true for life-changing real-world events like Pearl Harbor and 9/11, but it also happens on a less-significant scale in the world of sports.
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