Australia and Philippines basketball teams get into a huge brawl, a breakdown
What Happened
In the video, a brawl broke out between the basketball teams of Australia and the Philippines during a FIBA World Cup qualifying match. The altercation started when the Australian team ripped up a slippery sticker in the Philippine Arena without permission, which angered the Philippine team. The fight escalated, with players from both teams throwing elbows, punches, and kicks, resulting in several players being knocked out. The video highlights the intensity and violence of the incident, which was a notable and controversial event in international basketball.
Full Transcript
the beef started with a slippery sticker that's right Australia was practicing and they said hey this is too slippery we don't like it so they just ripped it up they didn't ask permission they just tore it out of the Philippine Arena you know there's money involved so yeah kind of rude I don't think that uh they should have done that bad start Australian team ask before you rip up stickers that aren't yours so in the warm-ups a Philippine player tries to trip an Australian player as they're running past each other Australian player pushes back a Philippine player wrong player but you know that started so there's bad blood jump to the third quarter get ready for some jumping and fighting tries to throw an elbow to the face there misses so he just decks him tries to swing the elbow right there would have loved to get contact didn't get it so and then he says [ __ ] it and just Dex number four right there now number four is Buddy number 12 sees this happen on Australia and he just absolutely lays out number 16 forearm to the brain sends him back to another dimension that dude's out cold look at this boom blindsided hard so number 12 is now big enemy of the Philippines huge and they're all gonna come for him and this guy comes up and runs and tries to jump he misses 12 just looks at him he's like okay takes a seat catches his breath and then throws him to the side now he's fighting a bunch of people off while this is happening we got two more jumpers here this guy right here is gonna jump and throw a punch this guy over here is gonna jump...