The Sparks–Shock brawl was an altercation that occurred in a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) game between the Detroit Shock and Los Angeles Sparks on July 21, 2008, at The Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Michigan, United States. Ray Ratto, of The Wall Street Journal, wrote, "It was in the classic sense, one of those things that occasionally happens when highly competitive people want the same thing and one can’t have it."