sentences:  The season started with a spike in the number of technical fouls and ejections.There were "one-hundred-four technicals and seven ejections in the first fifty-one games", while "only seven games of the first fifty-one games thus far have had no technical fouls".Denver Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony, who would be suspended for his participation in a fight later that year, was suspended on opening night of the season after two technical fouls.