Australian And Philippines Basketball Teams Brawl; Includes Flying Kicks By Bucks’ Thon Maker
Jul 2, 2018, 12:00 AM | Updated: Jan 4, 2019, 11:30 am
(Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)
(Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)
Australia was dominating the Philippines 79-48 in the third quarter when things got ugly. The brawl was initiated by Australia forward Daniel Kickert as he elbowed a Philippines player down to the floor.
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
A second angle on the Kickert elbow. Yikes #Boomers pic.twitter.com/jkx8IlPVo0
— Ricky Mangidis (@rickm18) July 2, 2018
Here is the clip of the full scene
A HUGE brawl broke out between the Philippines and Australia teams in a FIBA World Cup qualifier. pic.twitter.com/4jWWZAhVHb
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) July 2, 2018
And as the internet does best, it found a way to make this very serious/scary situation into a meme, this time in the form of Bucks big man Thon Maker.
thon maker's flying kicks are exactly what i'd do in a fight too pic.twitter.com/976nFRn9zk
— Whitney Medworth (@its_whitney) July 2, 2018
Thon Maker is out here spamming that karate kick button pic.twitter.com/AC6ty5rO9C
— Dime (@DimeUPROXX) July 2, 2018
If you were thinking that this brawl ended with both team having to be forcefully put into their locker rooms in an attempt to keep the situation from getting too out of hand, then your mistaken because in the weirdest part of this story, the Philippines, when all the dust settled, gathered together to memorialize the moment with a selfie…
This just happened. After one of the wildest on-court brawls in recent memory, the Philippines team pauses to pose for a selfie, like there’s something to celebrate pic.twitter.com/fTXAaBA5lp
— Mitchell Scott (@WhippingBoySEN) July 2, 2018
