MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) has invited players of Gilas Pilipinas to a “closed-door meeting” following the national team’s riot-marred contest against Australia in the FIBA World Cup Asian qualifiers last Monday.

The league announced on Twitter that Gilas Pilipinas players have been invited by the league to a meeting on Thursday “to discuss the incident that happened in their game against Australia.”

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Gilas Pilipinas was involved in a brawl with the Boomers with four minutes left in the third quarter, leading to the ejection of nine Filipino players and four Australians.

Only three Filipinos were spared – San Miguel’s June Mar Fajardo, Rain or Shine’s Gabe Norwood, and Meralco’s Baser Amer.

The game continued in a bizarre 5-on-3 setting, but ended with 1:57 left to play in the third quarter after both Fajardo and Norwood fouled out, leaving Amer as the last man standing.

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Also notably thrown out of the game was Australia’s Thon Maker, a player for the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA.

According to Michael McCann, the legal analyst of Sports Illustrated, the NBA in theory could punish Maker for his role in the brawl.

“Article 35 of NBA constitution lets Adam Silver punish players for ‘conduct that does not conform to standards of morality [or] does not comply with all federal, state, and local laws...or is detrimental to the NBA’,” McCann tweeted on Monday night.

It remains to be seen what action the PBA will take in the aftermath of the fracas.

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