2010 Acropolis International Basketball Tournament

Incident

With 2:40 left in the game and Greece up by one point, the home team had the possession. Receiving a back pass from driving Dimitris Diamantidis who drew a double team, wide-open Greek power forward Antonis Fotsis attempted a three-point shot, while Serbian point guard Miloš Teodosić ran over to cover him and got called for a foul in the process. Within seconds as Teodosić began complaining to the referee over the call, an agitated Fotsis came over and interrupted Teodosić's attempt at talking to the ref by getting in Teodosić's face with a raised hand and a pointed finger, seemingly lecturing and/or threatening him over what had just occurred. Due to a considerable size advantage, 2.09 m and 113 kg Fotsis easily imposed himself onto the 1.96 m and 95 kg Teodosić, pushing him back as Diamantidis and Novica Veličković, as well as one of the refs, quickly joined in an attempt to separate the two. With three people now holding Fotsis and Teodosić apart, Fotsis managed to grab a hold of both of Teodosić's arms to which Teodosić reacted by trying to free himself, moving his hand towards Fotsis' face. Already well agitated, Fotsis reacted by spitting at Teodosić as Marko Kešelj now also joined the group holding the two. Fotsis followed by grabbing the back of Teodosić's head with the left hand and attempting to punch him with the right, but couldn't throw the punch because of being held back by the people around him. Fotsis' spitting and attempted punching of Teodosić drew more players into the fight as Nenad Krstić jumped in from the back, grabbing Fotsis' face with an open hand while Veličković proceeded to do the same, managing to wrestle Fotsis away from Teodosić.

Mayhem then engulfed the entire court as both squads, including the benches, became involved. The pack moved to the bench where Serbia's captain, Nenad Krstić, threw a chair onto Ioannis Bourousis's head. Bourousis was not scheduled to appear on the court due to injury and was watching the game on the bench. After the fight, for safety reasons, the game was terminated with the final score being the score at the time of the interruption (74-73 for Greece). Krstić was arrested and held overnight for assaulting Bourousis. For their roles in the melee, Krstić was suspended for the first three games of the 2010 FIBA World Championship tournament while Teodosić as well as Greece's Fotsis and Sofoklis Schortsanitis were also suspended for the tournament's first two games.