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Serious Aggression Against a Referee Shakes Brazilian Basketball: Beatings and Violence at the End of the Match

Summary by Doble Amarilla
An episode of extreme violence tarnished a day of the National Basketball League of Brazil (NBB) and set off alarms in the country’s sport. At the end of the match between Pato Basquete and Caxias do Sul, referee Diego Chiconato was brutally attacked within the playing field by at least three people, in a sequence that was recorded in different videos and quickly went viral on social networks. The encounter, which lasted for more than two and a …
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An episode of extreme violence tarnished a day of the National Basketball League of Brazil (NBB) and set off alarms in the country’s sport. At the end of the match between Pato Basquete and Caxias do Sul, referee Diego Chiconato was brutally attacked within the playing field by at least three people, in a sequence that was recorded in different videos and quickly went viral on social networks. The encounter, which lasted for more than two and a …

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Doble Amarilla broke the news in on Sunday, January 11, 2026.
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