Basketball game between China and Brazil ends in huge brawl

[cowcommander]

Source: Huffington Post


A friendly basketball game between China and Brazil on Tuesday ended after a huge fight reportedly broke out between both teams. The brawl began after China's team coach argued with a referee over a foul that was called. Both teams started to play very physically, eventually leading to the brawl.

Both benches cleared and players started throwing kicks and punches at each other. After they were separated and play was stopped, China's players attacked the Brazilians while they were walking to the locker room. The Brazilians reportedly refused to play the rest of the game.



Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/13/brazilchina-friendly-bask_n_761595.html

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[demosincebirth]

1. So much for China-Brazil relations.

[rpannier]

2. I guess the term 'friendly is inappropriate in this case nt

[rayofreason]

3. I'm waiting for Chavez to weigh in! n/t

[Archae]

4. Hugo was rooting for the Chinese.

[L.Torsalo]

15. Polemic.

[L.Torsalo]

16. Polemic.

From a bigot...sounds right rayofopinion.

[Rex]

5. Ah I remember the days when we would beat the shit out of each

other in a game of basketball...no wait, no I don't!

[TexasObserver]

6. When I was in high school, we had one of those every couple of years.

Except all the fans got down on the floor and slugged it out, too.

Duking it on like that will get you arrested now, if not on national television.

[Art_from_Ark]

12. That's one of the reasons I never went to see a game in H.S.

Too dangerous! :rofl:

[chieffeathers]

14. duking it out

Maybe they all should be awarded with a stovepipe hat! Hard to bang around with a tall hat on one's head.

[gtar100]

7. From what I can tell, they lost perspective about what's really important.

Sure the game's fun. But violence in this case means they have gone mad, even insane.

That's a big problem with nationalism. It's a lot like racism.

[pnorman]

8. What a photo!

[rabs]

9. Video of the brawl

It got pretty rough.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JSVvTfY44A

[Ex Lurker]

10. as best I can tell, China has an American coach

I clearly heard "fuck" and "shit" in his tirade. Chinese players were clearly the aggressors. The Brazilians were just trying to get away. #14 for Brazil wouldn't even fight back as he was being pummeled.

[rabs]

11. You are correct

Brief wiki item:


Bob Donewald, Jr. is an American basketball coach and current head coach of the China men's national basketball team.<1> He replaced his predecessor Guo Shiqiang on April 30, 2010. Donewald, Jr. was an NBA assistant with the New Orleans Hornets and Cleveland Cavaliers from 2001 to 2004, and an ABA (American Basketball Association) head coach from 2004-2005. He is the son of Bob Donewald, Sr., a retired American college basketball head coach.

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The "F" word is clearly audible.

[pampango]

13. BBC: The Chinese Basketball Association has apologised for a fight...

The Chinese Basketball Association has apologised for a fight which broke out during a friendly match against a visiting team from Brazil.

The game on Tuesday degenerated into a brawl as players from both sides exchanged kicks and punches - forcing an end to play.

The Chinese association said training for the Asian Games had been put on hold while it investigated.

It said players found to be at fault would be dealt with severely.

"The CBA apologises to the Brazilian side and all other parties over the incident which created such serious consequences," association vice chairman Li Jinsheng said in a statement.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11531996
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It's pretty obvious which team was at fault.

[Roy Rolling]

17. fire the coach

If China wants to compete, fire the coach. He is a moron and the whole team reflects his moron attitude.

[pampango]

19. Gotta agree. He sounds like a real jerk.

"After the fight with Brazil, China's head coach Bob Donewald told the press that the team acted in self-defense, having endured persistent rough play from the Brazilians, including a foul on Zhang Qingpeng that resulted in him sustaining a concussion and being sent to hospital.

Although the coach's words have some validity, the Chinese team itself wasn't playing that clean either. Additionally, the coach's own irate behavior early in the game (he was given a technical foul for disputing a call), also likely encouraged the players' later violent reactions.

Interestingly, whenever a brawl involving the Chinese basketball team occurs, the Chinese team always wins the fistfight, but does not necessarily win the basketball game. Perhaps this determination to win the fight is actually in keeping with previous head coach Jonas Kazlauskas' speech after the notorious 2005 brawl with the Puerto Rican team. In his speech, Kazlauskas told the team that if a fight breaks out and the Chinese appear to lose, other international teams will believe that the Chinese basketball team is weak and will use foul play as a tool in future matches.

What Kazlauskas said does make some sense, back in 2007 when the Chinese Olympic football squad were involved in a punch-up during an unofficial friendly in England with the Queen's Park Rangers side, the fight resulted in a Chinese team member's jaw being broken and, in the view of many Chinese football fans, China gaining a reputation for not only playing poor football but also not being much good at fighting either. To add insult to injury, China's Football Association required the team to issue a formal apology to QPR. The apology greatly damaged the reputation of the Chinese soccer team."

http://www.eeo.com.cn/ens/homepage/briefs/2010/10/14/182681.shtml

[Blue_Tires]

18. Amateur hour...Ron Artest would have stabbed someone in the chest

and cut their heart out...