Utah Jazz’s Dante Exum (11) drives previous Cleveland Cavaliers’ Kyrie Irving (2) within the first half of an NBA sport on March 16, 2017. Tony Dejak, Related Press
Former Utah Jazz lottery decide Dante Exum has had a superb season taking part in for Serbian powerhouse Partizan, however on Thursday throughout a Euroleague playoff sport in opposition to Spain’s Actual Madrid, he was concerned in a significant brawl that noticed him get body-slammed onto the courtroom.
With Partizan main 95-80 with lower than two minutes to play, Actual Madrid’s Sergio Llull bumped Partizan’s Kevin Punter whereas defending him.
Punter took exception to it, and shortly a struggle broke out on the courtroom between the 2 groups.
Only a few seconds into the struggle, Actual Madrid’s Guerschon Yabusele (who performed for the Boston Celtics from 2017-2019) actually picked Exum up and slammed him to the bottom.
Guerschon Yabusele and Dante Exum concerned on this large brawl between Actual Madrid and Partizan.
— Cameron Tabatabaie (@CTabatabaie) April 27, 2023
Refs suspended the sport after this pic.twitter.com/EzGjtQiMHL
Exum, who battled quite a few accidents throughout his seven years within the NBA earlier than going to Europe, instantly stood up however was later seen leaving the sector on crutches.
Dante Exum leaving Wizink Heart with crutches #EuroLeaguepic.twitter.com/898T9qzvIv
— BasketNews (@BasketNews_com) April 27, 2023
As famous by Cameron Tabatabaie, the sport was suspended at that time. Partizan, the decrease seed within the collection, leads it 2-0 with Recreation 3 set to be in Serbia on Could 2.
Exum, 27, has averaged 13.2 factors, 2.8 assists and a couple of.4 rebounds in Euroleague video games this season (Partizan performs in a number of leagues).
The fifth decide of the 2014 NBA draft by the Jazz out of Australia, Exum performed in Utah till getting traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers at Christmastime in 2019 for Jordan Clarkson.
Exum then went to coaching camp with the Houston Rockets in 2021 however was minimize and performed one yr for FC Barcelona earlier than going to Partizan for this season.