Full video of the Hawks fan tearing his ACL during the tic-tac-toe halftime game. His opponent continues playing for the win while James writhes in agony. The announcer tries to ask him to “Be kind” and check on James.
This is brutal.
This is why we watch in arena games on league pass!
I illegally stream everything. I had no idea what I was missing on the commercial breaks.
Literal gold.
My illegal stream contains all the fan games too
Streaming is how I learned of the nuggets weird fat guy dance squad
Yeah, this is like 75% of the point of streaming games!
Am I fucked up because this clip is the one that’s got me interested in League Pass?
If you didn’t see this one from last season it’s a classic.
“This is what I do” 💀
That is referenced nearly daily in my house lol
My favourite part is him on the floor then trying to play it off before stumbling like a baby deer learning to walk
This could unlock a very specific fear for people from now on.
Not at all. I’ve been watching streams that use League Pass for years, and the stuff you see in place of the commercials is actually wild. It’s how I learned about Red Panda.
This is the first opportunity I can share this strange League Pass experience. Idk if anyone can corroborate this but around 2010-2012 i was watching a Jazz regular season league pass game and during a break it cut to a wide angle shot of the arena.
The broadcast mic didn’t mute and you could hear two of the announcers casually shitting on the state of Utah and the team while laughing. All while the stream was still on the wide arena angle. I don’t remember who it was and the voice was slightly muffled as if the headset was set down but they were talking close by. But I think it was a national broadcast(?). This was on international League Pass. I still remember being shocked at how candidly they were just bad mouthing Utah.
Recently on a Laker’s game they were doing something like a skill competition, Fan 1 made two points, kind of lame, missing all the shots and layups
Fan 2 get the microphone pointed at him and the announcer asks “How many points you think you’re gonna make?” “Hopefully more than that” he says.
He made 1 point, cracked me up
Some halftime shows are absolutely bonkers. I love it.
the grizzlies have a wrestling match one time😂😭
Funny enough, I remember catching a game on Sling without League Pass where a rapper (can’t remember who) performed his uncensored version of one of his songs. And the cameras were panning to kids in the crowd, dancing to it. 😂
I just genuinely feel such a sinking sadness for this guy. Being on the court of your favourite team playing a little game like this should be a fun moment and a memory to share with others.
Not an embarrassing moment with everyone watching and leaving injured :C
Yeah, this is such a bad luck moment, imagine trying to play a game to potentially win a prize and u leave with a torn ACL.
you win some, you blow out your acl on others, just the way the cookie crumbles.
In a weird way I kind of think it’s not embarrassing?
Like if he just fell (or played the Tic-tac-toe part poorly) then yes, 100% embarrassing. Tearing an ACL like that, woof, that just sucks where I definitely feel bad but he shouldn’t be embarrassed at all.
Young people might be embarrassed. Old people like me know that a body part can go at any time.
I’m actually more embarrassed for the host, who had zero skills in terms of vamping or thinking on the fly. She just looks at the camera and shrugs. Cringe.
The fact that she shamed the other person by saying he should take it easy was so odd. Like the dude was locked in, shut up
She wanted him to just give up because that other guy got hurt. Hell no, I came to win.
Mamba mentality on that guy
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In addition to thousands of dollars in medical bills, potentially losing a job or blowing tons of PTO because you can’t work, pain, and many months of rehab.
That is 1000% on the broom kids.
Yea prob a wet spot
Is it a wet spot or does he have all weight on one leg and he blows out his ACL? You can’t see his lower half well, but it doesn’t look like his plant leg slips at all.
Edited: Apparently a patellar tear, not his ACL.
What a terrible announcer- obviously the contestant didn’t know what happened
The way he almost did a backflip…
It’s the disembodied “ready” followed by immediately tearing his ACL that gets me
She handled that….well….
Why was she giving the other guy shit though? He was just doing what he had to do to win. Not like he was taunting the other guy, he was just going about his business until he won or someone stopped the game. Playing until the whistle.
Did he even realize wtf was going on?
If I am on a court in front of thousands of people I am surely going tunnel vision mode. The announcer made it extra awkward, haha. What is basically a stranger going to do, anyway?
For real, why is she berating that dude for not giving medical help to a stranger? Stop the show or get the medical team out there, damn.
I think he realized something was up when he was at the winning move and realized the other guy hadn’t placed a piece yet. But before that he was probably focussed on the game at hand.
Not really. The other guy is doing his thing, and she makes him seem like an ass. Doesn’t really distract from the guy who got hurt, or even direct empathy to him. She just kinda went “dang, this sucks.” Ok.
really? she comes off worse of all. Calls out the other dude for taking layups all the way on the other end of the court, and then has absolute no ability to think off the cuff.
She’s not getting a promotion any time soon
bro wtf he almost did a backflip…. he most definitely slipped on a wet spot right? This is fucked up
Yep, lawsuit in 3,2,1..
They most likely had him sign his life away before they let him out there so probably not lol
can it really apply though in this situation, when they didn’t take necessary steps to ensure that the area they are participating in is fully safe to participate in?
Lawyer here. You can always sue, guys.
This checks out. Lawyer conformed.
What are we conforming to dammit
The lawyer
OBJECTION!
I’ll allow it.
This guy knows a lot about the law and various lawyerings.
What about bird law?
Uhhhh filibuster
Average Joe here, you can sue for mostly anything in today’s world.
Dude is going to get paid because of the nature of the fall, dimes to dollars there’s someone that works for the arena in his ear trying to explain they will cover medical if he signs something saying he won’t seek more damages
Yea I think in normal circumstances it’s just unfortunate. Here there may actually be something but proving there was negligence would be hard
Waivers for bodily harm are barely ever worth the paper they’re written on. They’re almost exclusively given out to scare the uneducated. Any half-decent PI attorney can get around them easily.
And any half decent PI attorney in the area is trying to find this guy’s phone number tonight.
I’m fluent In bird law. This is an open shut case
Same goes for prenups. People think it’s concrete but it gets thrown out all the time.
You can’t sign away gross negligence tho
Signed illegal clauses doesn’t make them legal either.
Waivers don’t overrule a duty of care in a negligence claim.
Edit: They don’t blanket estop any and all liability in a negligence claim would be a more thorough answer. Tort law is hard okay?
Those waivers only really apply, if he got injured doing the game. Like if he went for a layup, came down and tore his ACL.
But he tore his ACL slipping, so the waiver won’t matter.
Right, if they can prove “gross negligence” then the Hawks insurance could be on the hook.
Yep. Airballed a free throw at a game a few weeks back. You have to sign a bunch of waivers.
Just because you sign something doesn’t mean that document will hold up in court.
He’s a smart contestant. Could win 2,000\( in Chile's winning the tic tac toe game, or instead slip and fall and win 200,000\) in cash.
Having torn my acl before and gone through the recovery/rehab, I think I might need more than 200k to go through that shit again.
Better than tearing it and be $3k in debt because of hospital fee still
Man you must be loaded to have brought that medical fee down to $3K. Did you have to sell your house?
if that’s the case dude deserves it. I hope there isn’t some waiver language bullshit that is going to screw this guy over when they put him in an “unsafe” environment. Feel so bad for this guy
Your first line makes it sound like dude deserves the injury lmao
I will just respond to this and say I mean he fully deserves some lawsuit money from this. Totally does sound like it though lmao my bad
Knee probably gave out Tom Segura style.
Immediately what I thought of.
Edit: Warning to any squeamish for the Segura injury video. He gets all sorts of messed up and spent time in the hospital.
One of the funniest bits of his is describing the interaction he had with the doctor at the hospital.
Doctor walked into his room, looked at his x-rays, turned to him and said,“Car accident?”
Tom, sheepishly says, “Dunk contest.”
The doctor got a confused look on his face and asked, “Did the car hit you on the court?”
Warning it is the funniest thing you’ll ever watch
I’ve never seen someone so unathletic their entire body fails at once
TBH I think a lot of people have lost the plot here. I dont think he slipped because there’s some huge wet spot on the court that they just played half an NBA game on. He slipped because his ACL literally imploded on impact.
Injuries like this are ticking time bombs, I don’t think the slip caused the ACL rather the other way around.
Looks more like a patellar tendon rupture than an ACL tear
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What could this have possibly said to get removed by reddit legal? Did you threaten a billionaire about losing 1/100th of their daily income?
He said “hit him like a good damn banana peel” how was that removed lmao
This is happening more and more across the site in recent weeks. “Promoting violence” removals have really ramped up recently. And it’s all AI detection.
I’m sure it has nothing to do with Elon & Luigi though, total coincidence. Move along now.
Inb4 I get another 3 day ban.
“Jamesss … can you be kind and check on him, damn we know you won, okay” 😂 wtf lady
And then she says, I can’t give you a winner.
Curb-ass halftime segment if I’ve ever seen one.
“He’s hurt you four eyed FUCK! And you just kept shooting your little baskets?”
Atlanta half time always giving me curb vibes. The last one I remember watching they asked a fan to name as many pets as he could in 60 seconds. He then listed off the most random regular people names, Carl, Ralph, George… not even dog names. Then the Jumbotron shows one of the players doing it and says, dogs, cats, iguanas… I was high as balls and couldn’t stop laughing
Haha that’s fucking hilarious
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I can’t stop laughing at this shit lol
I was watching a league pass stream a month or so ago, and they had a contest with a random fan asked to name WNBA players. After about 5 seconds he named Caitlyn Clarke, and then he was just awkwardly apologizing for the next 55 seconds.
Please tell me someone else saw this lol.
I’m dying right now laughing so hard hahaha
lol I have season tickets and the in-arena entertainment is always really nice. The march madness style brackets they do are great too, where players single elim tournament their favorite rappers or favorite cereals, whatever.
“So I don’t win if my opponent gets hurt? Did the Raptors not win in 2019?” “Everybody knows 2019 got an asterisk, Larry.” “There’s no asterisk!”
Why is she so rude? wtf is he gonna do. Guy is not a doctor and there are several world class doctors already courtside. Seems like she just wanted someone to yell at.
You cant blame him on the first one he did because there’s no chance he knows the guy is actually injured but once you see he hasn’t gotten up in awhile it’s pretty lame to keep going
MAMBA MENTALITY
Fuck else is he gonna do? Dude is probably focused on whatever the game is while the Atlanta staff does fuck all for the fan exp got injured on their floor.
Nah, they’d just pull some shit & say there was no winner. Let bro get his bag
I mean it’s to 3 and it’s a race where they’re on other ends of the court. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he didn’t notice the injury, just assumed he was missing stuff. But it’s not that deep, dude came to win he isn’t a jerk here just a freak event.
She is a bad host for that fr. All she had to say was timeout. It’s not like dude was going to offer first aid lol
Yea I’m getting my money, fuck it, ain’t like bro died. If James pulled a Hamlin and bro kept going then that’d be fucked up.
The mascot was motioning to keep playing while she was telling him to stop lol poor guy was doomed either way
That’s why he will be given whatever the prize was. He only stopped because she said he had already won.
Well he technically kept going till he won, he got the line
A horrible job of thinking on her feet. Handled it about as poorly as you could do it
I haven’t felt my heart sunk like this since D Rose
Never want to see a top guy get injured like this
I shudder to think of what might have been
Nearly 13 years ago and it still hurts.
I feel so bad that I’m laughing throughout this whole video at the sheer audacity and the announcer awkwardly “like damn you got the money just be a lil kind please”
This is a goated sideline reporter moment - between the be kind quote, dragging the guy over and then the awkward silence after she pulls him away because paramedics needed space.
10⁄10
It’s a “why are they paying you money” moment
WTF Is that announcer doing? LOL.
She didn’t know what to do lol it’s written all over face… her training didn’t prepare her for a situation like this
is she even a licensed Tic Tac Toe Majordomo in the state of Atlanta
Hands on experience is the best type of experience. She’ll be much better prepared for the next time now.
Of all the arenas and half time shenanigans it would be remarkable if this same announcer gets to experience the next ACL fan injury
They probably aren’t gonna be doing any type of physical activity with fans for a while now
James gave her the ick by tearing his ACL.
Add it to the list
LMFAOOO bro what 😭😭
Yeah homegirl just gotta shut the hell up lmfao. Just talking just to talk
I mean that’s her job? LOL she’s paid to fill the dead space created by fans leaving to get refreshments. This is what it’s like at every arena. There’s not a blueprint for what to do when someone gets injured
She called out the other dude who didn’t look like she noticed. Then she pulls him over, then pulls him away.
The other dude goes on his own to check on James, and she goes away and keeps yapping.
Yea i was gonna say the other player probably didn’t notice at first. You figure he’s at the other hoop. I’d imagine if I were playing some game on the court I’d be focused on not making a fool out of myself.
When he sees, he does go over. I think he was just unaware at that moment.
The impression he probably got was that he thought James slipped but didn’t injure himself badly. But when he sees everyone around him, you can see he stops to see what’s happening and 5 seconds later, the announcer calls him out.
The mascot also comes over at some point to seemingly scold him and yell at him as he’s putting the third piece down, but nobody else told him to stop including the PA announcer prior so what the fuck is he supposed to do?
You can fill dead space without coming across annoyed and confused as to an obvious injury. She made the situation 10x worse.
Is she annoyed? She’s definitely confused and seems to be looking at the cameraman like “wtf do I do?”
She was there for good vibes not to report in a war situation.
looked like a character from The Office lol
Damn feel terrible for the guy 😢
Went from the highlight of his month/year being involved in a contest like this to then being totally injured and maybe needing surgery
Brutal… I hope the hawks help out his medical bills
Maybe a PS5 at a minimum?
He can have it for 5 minutes.
I feel bad for the guy but at the same time the other guy got me laughing so hard. My guy came to win.
I mean what’s the guy supposed to do? It’s not like he’s a doctor or anything lol.
Dude wasn’t fuckin around, he’s got that dog in him
That is some It’s Always Sunny, Mac stepping out onto the ice and immediately slipping and hitting his head level shit. Brutal man.
Not before the dream scenario where he wins that tic tac toe match and the stadium goes apeshit
Is it confirmed that he tore his ACL? Because if so, I’m starting to understand how players get injured so often. So unfortunate.
Normal people tear their ligaments very easily, especially as they get older. You can tear your ACL tripping over an uneven curb. Professional athletes have superhuman durability
I was teaching a class of freshmen and I tore my ACL. Just walking back up to the whiteboard and stumbled over a backpack. Not sure if it was the trip or recovery but it definitely was not pleasant. They called me Mr. Knee the rest of the year
I’m so sorry Mr. Knee is hilarious🤣🤣🤣
Especially if you aren’t super active and go and do something like this
Anytime you’re going into activity and aren’t warm you are risking something unfortunate like this
One of my uncles was a CFL running back and tore his ACL trying to race me while I was in high school.
When you’re not normally active, trying to make explosive movements can end really bad.
I know a bunch of dudes who have had serious knee/foot injuries in their mid to late 30’s because they would play pickup after not being active for a long ass time and they thought oh I’ll just take it easy. Just basic cutting and jumping can cause injury if you don’t take care of your body regularly or put on weight as you get older. Stay active young folks.
Normal people do not tear their ligaments very easily
You can tear it doing literally anything, it all just comes down to wear and tear and genetics. A coworker’s husband was putting putting groceries in their car and she said she heard a pop and he was on the ground.
I knew someone that tore their ACL stepping out of a truck
Y’all making me want to walk around in a human sized protective bubble
Was at the game…they took him out on a stretcher. He might also have a concussion.
Bro didn’t stretch one bit before hitting the floor
She’s screaming “James” repeatedly as the man lies in agony. Then she tries to make up for her awkwardness by scolding the other competitor. In the end, they don’t even check on poor James.
Some say “James” is still writhing on that court to this day.
Anything can happen in an NBA arena.
Where amazing happens
I miss that playoff slogan/commercials
The other guy realized what happened after the third basket and hesitated before laying down the last tic-tac-toe piece.
Then the mascot urged him to finish it.
Guess there’s no mercy in State Farm Arena.
Mamba Mentality
Wait lol - can he sue? Damn prayers up that’s tough
I would think that they would make him sign a liability waiver. But I don’t see that holding up in court.
I’d be willing to bet they’ll just settle for medical bills and a signed jersey or some bullshit like that.
Free tickets to every Wizards home game except nationally televised ones
So every Wizards home game
If the floor was wet which caused the slip, then it doesn’t really matter what he signed, they didn’t provide a safe working environment. He didn’t agree to a slippery floor, that isn’t part of the game.
If he just slipped on his own, then he’s probably fucked.
Omg that poor guy. He went down HARD, damn!
The announcer is just plain dumb lol
I don’t even think the other guy noticed or was paying attention until he got the third basket.
Pretty impressive that he made all three layups in a row, how often do we see people just crumble under the situation?
I think more shell shocked than dumb
Buddy got did up like Tom Segura
First thing I thought of. It’s just crazy how brutal this is and somehow Segura’s was 100x worse.
Well, Tom Segura exploded his knee and had his arm snap during the fall.
…also my dislike of Tom Segura has actually pushed me to like Garth Brooks. Fuck Tom Segura.
i hate how funny i found this, i am in tears
Literally every second is gold.
The way the camera goes from being a split between the two to just focusing on Daz, like, the show must go on.
The moment when he hesitates to put the third piece down and the mascot gestures vehemently, after he does you can see one of the cheerleaders politely clapping in the background.
When the announcer takes them over to James she starts putting her arm around Daz and he goes to do the same but she retracts and he looks around awkwardly, and then as she stands there making the exact facial expression most people are feeling Daz wanders off to check on James.
It’s so sad for the guy but you couldn’t script it funnier.
Same. At the 39 second mark the other guy tries to stop but the mascot tells him to put the piece down
are we sure this wasn’t an april fools prank? literally seems like a parody
He was carted away on a gurney and play stopped for a significant amount of time afterwards.
Gotta commit to the bit
Do you think they had to sign a waiver to participate in this?
As a kid I did something like this for the local minor league team. You sign all sorts of stuff. That said if you get hurt due to negligence, it’s still a liability from the team. They’ll likely cut him a big check and call it a day.
Waiver doesn’t protect against negligence, this is still gucci
I mean how was the other guy supposed to know how bad it was?
The fact that the announcer is one of the new Real Housewifes of Atlanta lmao, plotline next season for Bravo
Warriors vs cavs without kyrie/klove
Be kind and check on James still applies.
Braindead host
Be kind and check on James.
Announcer acting like Daz a medic or some shit 😭
“It’s not really a fair game at this point…”
bruh.
Damn that looked bad bro did a half backflip into a maybe ligament tear but lets hope its not that serious
It has to be embarrassing as hell having this happen live in front of the cameras. Insult to injury
Announcer girl made it 100x more awkward
How fucking brutal that was to listen to her
Ol slippin Jimmy at it again
And just like that on court fan competitions are over