Former Kentucky Star Triggers Bizarre Chinese Hoops Fight

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This is strange. But then again it happened in the Chinese Basketball Association and a former University of Kentucky "star" recruit was involved.

Daniel Orton one of many "Big Time" Kentucky recruits who did not amount to anything in the NBA was a big part of this fight featuring his team, the Sichuan Blue Whales and a team from Tianjin.

You'll have to excuse the jittery video and strange and totally crappy music dubbed in by the YouTube poster. The action is somewhat innocuous until we get a minute or so in.

Orton gets the ball after rubbing off a screen at the top of the key. He takes the ball, drives to the hoop colliding with a defender.

The action moves the other way but the camera cuts back and shows Orton and the defender wrestling. They get up as other players jump in and punches begin flying.

And as Jim Ross once said, we got us a "Slobberknocker"...

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The HQ has always known Stephon Marbury as a competitive athlete... and his time in China has been stuff of the country's growing hoops legend- including a statue after winning his team a title...

So, yeah, if anything bad happens to him...
Woe to the officials and the opposition...

Like in the return from injury for Marbury where he didn't even make the fourth quarter...


Things got so out of control by the Beijing fans that security had to actually lock marbury out of the gym to keep the game going in a timely fashion... which Beijing won, by the way...

The full game wrap by Nick Bedard is hyah...