Puerto Rican basketball league postgame handshake line ended with a massive brawl
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Puerto Rico basketball league post-game handshake line ended with a massive brawl as fans and players exchanged blows
- A second division basketball game was marred by a post-game handshake line fight Wednesday night
- The Adjuntas Suns had just beaten the Salinas Dolphins in overtime when Adjuntas’ Javier Torres hit one of the Dolphins players.
- Dolphins players managed to stop their charging partner in Torres
- He managed to escape and was knocked down while trying to chase a Suns player
- Fans spilled onto the pitch and brawled with players from both sides before order was restored.
- DailyMail.com has contacted the Puerto Rico Basketball League for comment.
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A post-second division basketball game handshake line ended in a wild brawl between fans and both teams in Puerto Rico on Wednesday night.
Players from the Salinas Dolphins and Adjuntas Suns were lining up to shake hands seconds after the final buzzer when Adjuntas’ Javier Torres punched one of the Salinas players in the face.
Footage of the melee showed Torres standing behind one of his teammates waiting in line to shake hands after Adjuntas defeated Salinas 84-79 in overtime at the Rafael Llul Coliseum.
Two Salinas players who were wearing their warm-up jerseys and were not on the court when the game ended walked to the front of the line and approached Torres.
A post-game handshake line after Wednesday night’s Salinas-Adjuntas Puerto Rico Basketball League game ended in a wild brawl after fans and players from both sides brawled on the court after they Javier Torres from Adjuntas will hit a player from Salinas.
Adjuntas’ Javier Torres (#23) is held back during the post-game brawl Wednesday night. The Puerto Rico Basketball League, a second division league, did not respond to a DailyMail.com request for comment.
It seemed as if quick words were exchanged just before Torres landed a right hand on the Salinas player and sent him to the ground.
Torres was carried away by one of his teammates, while another tried to play peacemaker as the Salinas players tried to stop the attacked player from running after Torres.
The fight escalated when the player who was hit by Torres broke away from his teammates and ran towards a Suns player and fell to the ground.
Fans could be seen running around the court as players from both teams traded blows.
Adjuntas’ Javier Torres (white jersey) punches a Salinas player moments after both teams met for the post-game handshake line
A Salinas player (on the left in the red and black uniform) is chased by two Adjuntas players before being knocked over the rail.
Cellphone footage showed two Adjuntas players carrying and swinging a Salinas player before he was shoved from behind and flipped over the railing near the courtside seating area.
Moments later, a fan lunged at Torres and pushed him back, throwing him over the railing before one of Torres’s teammates retaliated and punched the man.
Adjuntas co-owner Angel Irizarry declined to comment to DailyMail.com because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the fight.
DailyMail.com has contacted the Puerto Rico Basketball League for comment.