After the Heat-Pelicans incident, five players were suspended, including Jimmy Butler and Naji Marshall.

 The NBA said on Sunday that Jimmy Butler of Miami and Naji Marshall of New Orleans had each received one game-long suspension for starting an on-court brawl.

The incident took place Friday night during the Heat-Pelicans game.

Both Jose Alvarado of New Orleans and Thomas Bryant of Miami received three-game penalties for fighting and leaving the bench area. The league reported that Nikola Jovic of Miami was also given a one-game suspension for entering the brawl after leaving the bench area.

During Sunday’s Heat practice in Sacramento, where Miami will play on Monday, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra remarked, “It felt like Jimmy shouldn’t have gotten a game on that.” All that was going on was some tangling and slight pushing. He had to skip the fourth quarter (Friday), so I don’t think it warrants another game. Yet things are as they are. Nobody wishes to witness that level of escalation.

“I put my hand around his neck. He put his hand around my neck,” Butler said after the game of his incident with Marshall. “And it just took off the way it did.”

It started when Miami’s Kevin Love fouled New Orleans’ Zion Williamson under the Pelicans’ basket. Butler and Marshall “engaged in a physical altercation” after the foul, the league said, and Alvarado and Bryant then fought.

Alvarado, Bryant, Butler, and Marshall were assessed technical fouls and ejected from the game, which the Heat won 106-95.

Alvarado will miss games Sunday against Chicago, Tuesday at New York and Wednesday at Indiana. Marshall will miss Sunday’s game against the Bulls.

Butler and Jovic will not play when Miami visits Sacramento on Monday and Bryant will miss that game, along with ones Tuesday at Portland and Thursday at Denver. Bryant played for the Nuggets last season when they beat the Heat in the NBA Finals.