J.R. Smith

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$126,000
Ten games for his role in the same Knicks-Nuggets melee as Anthony six years ago. Like Anthony, Smith is now a Knick. He just doesn't have the same paycheck -- then or now. (Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

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NBA's Costliest ... When and NBA player fights or otherwise gets in hot water, it isn't a fine that hits his wallet the hardest, it's the lost wages from getting suspended. None have given up more to the league than these 10. (Getty Images)

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Gilbert Arenas $7.3 million
Washington guard got hit with a 50-game ban following gun charges during the 2009-10 season. (AP Photos)

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Ron Artest $4.5 million
As he was known at the time, for being the instigator in the infamous Pacers-Pistons brawl in 2004, missing 86 games (including playoffs). (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

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Latrell Sprewell $4.3 million
Suspended for seven months after choking his coach, the Warriors’ P.J. Carlesimo, during a practice in 1997. Sprewell could have missed a lot more. But an arbitrator ruled the Warriors couldn’t void his contract, which had two more years to run. (Getty Images)

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Jermaine O'Neal $4.1 million
Pacers center got hit with 30 games from the same infamous brawl in Detroit. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

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Stephen Jackson $1.7 million
Yet another Pacer cited for fisticuffs in Detroit, the guard got 15 games.(Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)

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Dennis Rodman $900,000
The Worm got banned for 11 games for kicking a cameraman near the baseline in a 1997 game. (Doug Pensinger/Allsport/Getty Images)

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Carmelo Anthony $641,000
The current Knick got suspended for 15 games as a Denver Nugget in 2006 for his part in a fight between the two teams at Madison Square Garden. (Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

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Vernon Maxwell $182,000
Houston Rockets guard got 10 games back in 1995 for going after a fan in Portland.(Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

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Ben Wallace $400,000
Finally, someone on the Piston's side goes down. Wallace's six-game ban was the most of any Detroit player in the brawl. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)

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J.R. Smith $126,000
Ten games for his role in the same Knicks-Nuggets melee as Anthony six years ago. Like Anthony, Smith is now a Knick. He just doesn't have the same paycheck -- then or now. (Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

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