Thursday, August 18th, 2011 at 10:57 am  |  75 responses

UPDATE WITH VIDEO: Georgetown and Chinese Team Have Ugly Brawl

Watch the bench-clearing fight.

by David Cassilo / @dcassilo

UPDATE: Here’s the video via Sports Grid

Like many college teams this time of year, Georgetown is overseas, playing a series of games against international opponents. Unlike many other teams, one of these games ended in a brawl.

The Hoyas are in China right now, and while details are sketchy at this point, according to Gene Wang of the Washington Post, benches cleared in the fourth quarter, with bottles and chairs being thrown at the team. John Thompson III pulled the team off the court, and the game ended.

You can find a few pictures here that show the gravity of the incident, and for now, that is all the information there is.

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  • http://www.slamonline.com Max

    Seed, go watch some 04 tape…

  • John

    Technically, the Chinese players do represent the army, but I doubt that they actually do army sh*t. Their jobs in the army are to play ball.
    And Seed, hate to pile on, but you need to go sit in the corner and reflect.

  • http://360special.blogspot.com/ dev0

    disgustingly dirty bench-clearing + group stomping

  • http://sdfklf.com Jukai

    Teddy: My bad, I assumed Georgetown was playing the national team, I didn’t know it was a CBA team. The fights were very similar, tho, it’s just different from an American basketball fight. I bet that kid thought it was just gonna be him and the Chinese player he was getting into it with and those cats swarmed him. When the other Georgetown players went to get involved in the fight, they were kind of caught of guard too. It’s a different mentality… probably something that should be warned about. “Don’t trash talk these guys, they’re easily offended and freaking swarm”

  • NBP11

    Dude, I just shook my head when I saw this and yelled out “again?!”
    These fools put the Chinese to shame for real. First Puerto Rico, then Brazil, and now G-Town?

    Even if the team is not consisted of the same folks people need to know that they all were representing the country of China. Peeps are seeing these Chinese basketball players losing composure all the freaking time. Gosh, play tough. AND seriously, stop ganging up on the players on the other team. Damn at least fight like a man, mano-a-mano!

    What a shame.

  • http://www.fiba.com Darksaber

    As for the “brawl” itself, what a freaking mess.
    Guys from the CBA team grabbing chairs, one of the guards actually karate-chopped someone, then proceeded to hammer him while he was on the floor…
    Jeeesus, FIBA needs to lay down the law here, seems that things might be getting out of control in terms of conduct in chinese Basketball.

  • http://jayemmbee23.tumblr.com Clutch Performer

    thats a disgrace id love for them to try and pull that on an nba especially a more bad boy team ala the celtics, lakers and to an extent the heat. and stomping mans when they are down already and doing it in group fashion reeks of coward and against guys who are boys in comparison

  • t-sizzle

    this isn’t even about georgetown being boys in comparison or being not tough enough.. no NBA team would dare fight back any more than they did in such an openly hostile territory where it’s freaking 10 against 1 everywhere you turn. nobody’s sane person would fight back there, no matter how how badass they are

  • hagekg

    FINALLY, china basketball is exposed with their true colours

  • http://adventoutpost.com Syl

    The dude on the baseline got chop with a mean right hand then proceeded to get punched three or four times

  • http://twitter.com/BeezKneezy LA Huey

    FIBA should come down on the Chinese team (players and organization) hard. The world would be livid had this been some foreign, college-aged squad getting this kind of treatment against the Austin Toros in Texas.

  • http://n.a. alfonso

    虫 人

  • ktokyo

    Not that it’s any excuse, but this may have had something to do with the Chinese players’ rage:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/19/sports/chinese-athletes-begin-to-challenge-governments-tight-grip.html?_r=1&ref=global-home

  • http://www.bulls.com Enigmatic

    Man, them old “Jailblazers” teams woulda wiped the floor with them though, lol.
    Zach Randolph, Jermaine O’Neal and Rasheed Wallace alone woulda took out half the Bayi squad.
    But I digress…

  • http://thetroyblog.com Teddy-the-Bear

    ^ Nah, I’m not so sure about that. I don’t think any modern (meaning post-’80s and ’90s bruisers) NBA team would actually engage in a bench clearing brawl like that. The exception being, of course, Ron-Ron’s Pacers. I also don’t recall Rasheed Wallace actually fighting anyone–he talks a lot, but rarely have I seen him throw a punch, correct me if I’m wrong. Jermaine O’Neal would be the only one to fear, really, although Zach does like to punch people… Even his own teammates (Ruben Patterson) and people he thinks are kissing him (Lou Amundson).

  • http://www.slamonline.com Max

    Tony Allen could fight against 10 people lol

  • vtrobot

    I don’t care who you are, or what country you’re from, if a fight breaks out and the first thing you do is pick up a chair, I’m pretty sure you’re a pu$$y. Also, stomping on a dude on the ground, who’s already being stomped on by multiple people is rather weak. Shout out to Dark and the real SLAM fam. Peace.

  • fruizm

    pretty shameful for both squads….i just hope that China invites Mexico to play over there….Mexico sucks in basketball, but if a brawl like that starts, its OVER.

  • anonymous

    People have to understand the psyche of people in China. Xenophobia still very much exists in China, especially against Americans. Propaganda from the government has formed an us-against-the-world mentality among Chinese people. Moreover, Chinese people are probably the most proud people in the world and trash-talking and showing someone up is viewed as very disrespectful.

    Also, a lot of top Chinese athletes have titles in the People’s Libertation Army but they’re really not soldiers. It’s mainly a ruse to add more prestige to the army (and the national team), which is yet more propaganda.

  • Kinetik

    i want to kill them all chinese stupid players‼ i want to kill them all‼ they can’t play ball and they can’t fight too‼

  • http://thetroyblog.com Teddy-the-Bear

    @ anonymous: What the hell are you even talking about? Xenophobia exists no more in China than it does in the rest of the world. Us-against-the-world my @ss, China has consistently developed international relations with countries even NATO is afraid of.
    Please, just stop it with the “Red Scare” revisionism! Propaganda is NOT a phenomenon unique to China by any means. What group of countries fights more wars based on propaganda than NATO?

  • bob saila

    Embarrassing for the home team. Wasn’t good conduct. Same goes for elements in the crowd.

    Similar happens everywhere on occasion too. Seen plenty of fights/brawls from America and Europe. Doubtless occurs everywhere else.

    Likely it’ll be a black mark on the record of those involved. Same deal as Artest been mostly known for getting into the crowd.

  • http://philosopher.view@blogspot.com The Philosopher

    Clowns.
    All of them.

  • 王治郅

    I’m in china right now, and basketball fans here are disgusted by the actions of the Bayi Rockets. For the record, The Bayi Rockets are technically in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) but don’t participate with the military. The just have entry level military training to classify them as soldiers.

  • M5

    I can understand how things can get heated when the free throw discrepancy is 57 to 15 in favor of the home team.

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