U.S.-China Basketball Game Turns Ugly

U.S.-China Basketball Game Turns Ugly

Beijing — The supposed-to-be a goodwill game between the visiting Georgetown Team from the United States and the host, Chinese Men’s Basketball Team, ended up in a violent brawl and clash among players. The visit of the Georgetown Men’s Basketball Team even has coincided with the visit of Joe Biden, the Vice-President of the United States of America, in the Red Dragon of the East.

While 9 and a half minutes left before the game will end in the fourth quarter, hard fights started in the court and benches were cleared after the clash among the players worsen. The exhibition game was called off after the fight was nowhere to be settled.  The U.S. President did not watch and attend the game between Georgetown University and Bayi Players of China. On Wednesday, however, he was able to watch the game between Georgetown Hoyas Team and Shanxi Zhongyu Brave Dragons. Hoyas won at 98-81 Wednesday before they played another team where the clash occurred a day after Thursday night.

The game between Georgetown Hoyas and China’s Bayi players were neck-to-neck at 64-64 before the violent brawl occurred. The game was intense and foul-plagued.  John Thompson III, Georgetown coach, has been saddened by the incident and sincerely regretted what happened between the two tough and great teams. The two teams will play again and is already scheduled Sunday night.

It was the first the ever recorded on-court violent fighting by China, whose basketball players were fined thousands of dollars by both the World and Asian Basketball Federations for violently starting the fight with the visiting American team. The Georgetown Team is on a 10-day trip in China and was cited by the United States State Department as a good sports diplomatic undertaking between China and the United States.

Posted by Andre Monohan on Sunday August 21 2011, 9:28 AM EST. Ref: Yahoo Sports. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0