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Video: Rockets fan blindsided Pelicans coach with a sucker punch

A man was arrested and banned from Houston Rockets games for life after assaulting a New Orleans Pelicans coach on Saturday night at Toyota Center.

The video below, obtained by ABC Houston, shows a fan, Manuel Garcia, blindsiding Pelicans assistant coach Joe Boylan, causing him to fall to the ground.

“The Rockets won the game. Then one of the assistant coaches for the New Orleans Pelicans was gathering his things and was essentially cold-cocked or blindsided and struck in the face, brutally in my view,” said Nathan Beedle of the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.