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Review: 'Malice at the Palace' examines infamous Pistons-Pacers brawl

Detroit News Film Critic

One of the darkest chapters in Detroit sports history gets the deep-dive treatment in Netflix's "Untold: Malice at the Palace," which unpacks the infamous 2004 brawl at the Palace of Auburn Hills when players and fans came to blows.

The story of the near-riot isn't exactly untold, as it's been examined up and down and all around and has been aired and re-aired an untold number of times. But the documentary special, part of Netflix's five-part sports-doc series — other chapters focus on boxer Christy Martin, tennis player Mardy Fish and Caitlyn Jenner — takes on the incident from a unique perspective, at least around these parts, looking at it through the eyes of the Indiana Pacers team at the center of the storm.