A teenage basketball player floored two of his opponents with nasty haymakers during a game earlier this month … and the punches were pretty violent, TMZ Sports It is learned that the police are now investigating the situation.
The contest went down in Georgia on Jan. 3 around 6 p.m. … when Sonoraville High School took on Rockmart in Calhoun.
A Rockmart player can be seen in the video pushing a Sonoraville athlete to the ground, with a little less than half bent. Seconds later, after the boy got up from the push, the Rockmart player took him back to the hardwood with a big right hand.
As another Sonoraville player ran to defend his teammate, the Rockmart player then bulldozed him with a big right.
Thankfully, the audience intervened before things got even more physical.
According to a Gordon County Sheriff’s Office incident report we obtained, the 16-year-old’s violent outburst began as his opponent “kept calling him the N-word and he lost his temper.”
The report did not say whether the boy admitted to using racial language. We’ve reached out to Sonoraville High for comment, but have not yet heard back.
Puncher now faces two counts of simple battery, according to police documents.
Rockmart has yet to publicly address the situation.
