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Philippines loses at basketball, wins at nut-punching

Not cool.

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If you’ve ever watched the PBA or read Rafe Bartholomew’s Pacific Rims, you know sneaky dirtiness is particularly popular in basketball in the Philippines. Greece’s Kostas Papanikolaou learned that the hard way when L.A. Tenorio gave him a little downstairs high-five toward the end of Greece’s win Sunday:

Unnecessary. Funny, but unnecessary.

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