Basketball: Hapoel Holon punished for firecracker incident
By JPOST.COM STAFF
The National Basketball Association Court punished Hapoel Holon on Thursday for failing to control its supporters after one of it fans, Yossi Malah, threw a firecracker onto the basketball floor during the November 11 game with Hapoel Jerusalem, wounding a security guard.
The court ruled that Holon will have to play four games behind closed doors.
The club was also given a suspended sentence of a further four games without a crowd, which will be enforced if Hapoel doesn't submit an extensive program to eradicate crowd violence.