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August 20, 2010
Greece, Serbia brawl at the Acropolis : Serbia basketball player Nenad Krstic, a centre with the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder, was released Friday after being held in police custody overnight following a remarkable brawl during a match with Greece. The last game of the Acropolis tournament was abandoned with 2:40 to go and Greece leading by one point when the fight broke out. Krstic grabbed Greece forward Antonis Fotsis by the throat and threw a chair toward Sofoklis Schortsanitis, who was pursuing him. The chair hit Yannis Bouroussis, who had not played in the game because of a hand injury, and left him with blood trickling from a wound on the side of his head. The incident occurred just a week before the basketball world championship in Turkey, where both teams will play.
posted by tommytrump to basketball at 05:28 PM - 1 comment
That fight has a lot of peacemakers changing their minds and becoming brawlers. If I ever get into a team fight playing sports, I'm going to pick a mild-mannered member of the other team and we will restrain each other from violence until it is over. Afterwards, we'll look for a nice bed and breakfast in wine country and spend the next day antiquing.