Video: Massive brawl breaks out during Australia-Philippines basketball game
Thon Maker, a 21-year-old forward for the Milwaukee Bucks, was involved in a massive brawl during an international basketball game between Australia and the Philippines today. The benches-clearing brawl broke out during the third quarter of the contest.
Rappler.com has details on what happened:
With the game already seething of intensity with the Filipinos seeking to mount a comeback, Gilas’ RR Pogoy pushed Christopher Goulding to the ground before he was decked by Australia’s Daniel Kickert.
That did not end there as a flying Jayson Castro landed a punch on Kickert. It turned into a free-for-all with Thon Maker unleashing flying kicks.
The game was halted for several minutes as referees reviewed the brawl in an OB van outside the stadium to avoid biases.
Videos of the incident are pretty unreal.
Huge brawl between Australia's national basketball team (which includes Delly and Thon Maker) and the Philippines team 😳
🎥: @camillenaredo / ABS-CBN News pic.twitter.com/81uJ2NARXV— SB Nation (@SBNation) July 2, 2018
Disgusting pic.twitter.com/uNBBjaTECu
— afa (@afa_brain) July 2, 2018
This play appears to be what started the fighting:
The elbow from Daniel Kickert that started it all before the Philippines turned it up to 11 #Boomers` pic.twitter.com/S8wt9yE9fS
— Ricky Mangidis (@rickm18) July 2, 2018
Several punches were thrown:
Andray Blatche thinking he's JBL with the Clothesline From Hell #Boomerspic.twitter.com/JOM9yuNbHC
— Ricky Mangidis (@rickm18) July 2, 2018
Thon Maker did a flying knee into an opposing player:
Thon Maker out here throwing knees! 😳 #Boomerspic.twitter.com/feizBcSBkc
— Ricky Mangidis (@rickm18) July 2, 2018
Australia was up, 79-48, at the time of the brawl. It would not be surprising if Thon Maker ends up being punished by the NBA as a result of the incident. Stay tuned.
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