Ariza and Gerald Green will both be suspended for Houston's next two games, with the NBA coming down hard on both players Wednesday for what the league said was their "hostile, verbal altercation" in the Los Angeles Clippers' locker room earlier this week.
No other players were disciplined, including Rockets guards James Harden and Chris Paul — both of whom left the Houston locker room with hopes of defusing the situation, the league said.
"You guys had a lot of different stories about what happened, none of them which were true," Ariza said Wednesday in Houston, before the league announced the suspensions.