Australia to blame on this one. Filo guy kinda pushes/bumps him off the long haired Aussie guy, then the Aussie guy (Kickert) clearly forearms the guy in the face... and it explodes from there.
Kickert (who drops the guy to floor with a forearm) is like the Justin Hodges / Sam Thaiday of basketball. Cat runs away when they are all closing in for the beat down.
All as bad as each other.
FIBA (who look after the World Cup Qualifier), will probably end up disqualifying both teams from the competition, as well as handing out individual sanctions. Hopefully it doesn't result in either team being banned long term from any FIBA tournament/World Cup or Olympics (but it very well could).
Phillipines team will probably also get in shit for taking selfies and smiling after the brawl just finished, almost glorifying/celebrating the brawl.
Kickerts career is over as a result of this. At 35 you'd suspect at minimum a several year ban. 5 year ban and he's 40. FIBA may even suspend him for life. The elbow was nasty, unwarranted, and kicked the entire thing off.
The officials from Phillipines probably won't work again either, norwill their pissweak security you'd have to think. Ditto the dude pummelling someones face from Phillipines.
The biggest concern though will be for Karate Kid Thon Maker who plays in the NBA. There are now calls to suspend him from the NBA for his effort (lack of discipline).
https://www.news.com.au/sport/baske...l/news-story/51c0c0a5ebd1d462b5add64a1545d1bb
Kickert admits in that article he pretty much started it.