A fight between UMaine teammates has led to a broken jaw, a campus police investigation and a host of week-long suspensions throughout the roster during the active season.
Maine senior guard Marko Pirovic must’ve been playing some music that annoyed junior guard Wes Myers because when Pirovic didn’t turn his tunes down quick enough; he and Myers got into a fight resulting Pirovic’s jaw to be shattered and wired shut for eight weeks.
Deadspin has the details in full:
On the night of Feb. 14, an officer from the University of Maine campus police department paid a visit to the basketball team’s locker room after an ambulance was called in to pick up a player with a broken jaw. Senior guard Marko Pirovic was taken to the hospital, where he received surgery for two bilateral fractures in his jaw, according to police records. His jaw then had to be wired shut for six to eight weeks.
Word then reached the police, via an assistant trainer, that junior guard Wes Myers had told head coach Bob Walsh that Pirovic hadn’t slipped in the shower. In fact, he and Pirovic had gotten into a fight and Myers punched him.
Basketball staff and players later told police that the fight started after Myers told Pirovic to turn off his music in the locker room. Pirovic refused, and Myers tried to forcibly turn it off. At that point, the police report said, the two players started fighting and Myers broke Pirovic’s jaw with one punch
Whatever it was Pirovic was playing must’ve pissed off the rest of the team too because instead of coming to his defense after he effectively got his face knocked off; they tried to cover up the fight, telling campus police and coaches Pirovic fell in the shower:
The fight abruptly stopped when they realized that Pirovic was hurt and together Myers, Pirovic, and a few teammates cooked up the story that Pirovic had fallen in the shower to avoid getting in trouble. Pirovic didn’t want to press charges, and in a written statement given to police he said that both players were at fault for an argument that got out of hand.
In all, 5 players were suspended for a week; with Pirovic & Myers’ being made indefinitely.
All of this over music? I doubt it but thats the story they are sticking with.