VIDEO: Brutal Nutpunch Highlights Spain vs. France Olympic Basketball


While you were at work this afternoon, Portland Trail Blazer Nic Batum was busy punching Spain’s Juan Carlos Navarro in the groin during the Olympics. Batum is playing for France in the London Games and took quite the swing at Navarro’s down-there toward the end of Wednesday’s game against Spain. He later said he hit Navarro there to give him something to flop about. Spain won the contest and advanced to the semifinals where they’ll take on Russia for the right to eventually lose to the United States by a million points. In case you were busy actually working, here’s the clip of the below-the-belt punch:

Also, Deadspin was kind enough to sloooooow that clip down and set it to indie music.

Here’s what the Internets had to say about the incident: