Grizzlies announcers after Klay Thompson stood up for Flagg, after a dirty foul by Santi Aldama: “Klay Thompson has never been an enforcer - you’re never going to be an enforcer in this league in any shape, way, or form”
man these grizzlies bout to have me defending the Dallas Mavericks’ Klay Thompson, i’m sick
Honestly I’m almost surprised Thunder fans don’t love the Mavs at this point for gathering all the Thunder killers on our team last year, and then promptly hitting the self destruct button lol
You guys did sort of invite them on a nice cruise and then run that motherfucker right into an iceberg didn’t you
Bro I’m sorry I haven’t been appreciating you guys
We were robbed of a proper Mavs-Thunder rivalry
It’s because you didn’t take AR with you
Psh, not like the Mavs could use a guard like him right now or anything
Christie’s been great, he sounds like he’ll be a coach someday. And all these young guys, playing without AD and Kryie right now might help in the long run. They’ve really been in every game recently, and that’s with limited Lively and if he can have a good run the Mavs probably will too. Basically half a new team with one of those guys out (AD, but look around, more people are starting to be out around the league), the other half still reeling from kind of a big deal, doubt any team would be off to a quick start under those circumstances especially without a PG (Bwill was hurt to start the year too). AR has been in the league only one year longer, but is five years older. Mavs got the right guy with that trade.
You’ll know whether the Mavs are going to do something if AD comes back conditioned. He’s being held out, wants to play, so if he comes back and is ready to run they’ll have a chance. If not, he’s probably traded and they go with the youts.
Find a way to get Andrew Wiggins on your team and we’ll call it good
Nah, it’s still fuck y’all. Glad your franchise is a dumpster fire tho
OKC is 30-1 or something winning games by 50 and i have to watch the warriors and former warriors with the rest of the bottom of the west get involved in useless drama, i’m sick
I remember talking to a Warriors fan at a bar about a week after y’all signed KD and it was like speaking to the giant bejeweled Homer. I’m glad I lived to see the turntables.
You anyone here is actually here for the basketball? We’re all drama sluts and this is a drama sub, we love this shit
This is like when Stalin got attacked by Hitler
lmao fr i am sick they got me defending a splash brother
Same, I don’t even care for the Mavs, but that announcers and the foul is making me dislike the grizzlies
Fuck this team fr
This didn’t resonate until I seen your flare, same I’m there with you.
The good old let’s ignore our guy did something dangerous and focus on a weird tangent to distract everyone.
I mean it’s the bad aspect of having biased commentators. Most of these guys are true fans of their respective teams and that comes with so many moments where they will say some more shit than needed honestly
If I hear that on league pass, it’s an instant switch to the other feed
One of the best features ever
Same
Too bad you can’t do that if it’s your own team’s feed doing it
I still don’t understand what is a good aspect of having biased commentators
The one thing the bulls have to be proud of. Best in the game. Are Adam and Stacy homers? Yeah, big time. But if something dangerous like this happens, Stacy will usually call out our own player or at least stay quiet about it
Pistons best in the game
Lol like everyone says warriors broadcast team are literally the worst in every way but they would never say shit like this.
I’ve always thought that Boston is worse. Their announcers are why I got in the habit of watching games muted
Tommy Heinsohn was so biased I loved him
Yeah watched their broadcast of that Nets loss they were pretty insufferable
Yeah they would?
I watched their feed vs Blazers yesterday and I’ve definitely heard worse. Try watching a Yankees crew.
I know this is the Grizzlies broadcast and all but this is still insane to say about Klay after you watched Aldama intentionally trip an 18 year old rookie lmfao
God forbid a vet tries to defend their rook, the horror!
Such a bitchmade organization from top to fuckin bottom lmao.
Seriously, the biggest bitchmade organization in the league from top to bottom. Truly despise the grizzlies and Memphis as a city. 📉📉📉
Last part a little od
Really went from hate the player, hate the team, hate the org, to hate the city
Bro bout to burn a U.S. flag next.
I know….next he’s hating the county and county says “Da Fuq, what did we do? We busy collecting property taxes here”
Lol wtf
I don’t get that haven’t people saying Klay ain’t that ever been in a fight or scuffle or some kind of fucking fisticuffs or argument? It’s not about who is what, anyone can be that person in some situation, like in a “enough is enough, i’m not taking this anymore” way.
It’s wild what the Grizzlies have done to their reputation in the last 8 years. The Grit and Grind Grizzlies were nearly universally respected and Conley is one of the most likable players ever, I don’t know if I ever heard someone complain about the org seriously until after the Grit and Grind ended.
You have to have been born in like 05 or some shit. Never been respected. Y’all mfs need to look inward.
I had a negative interaction with a Grizzlies fan years ago on Twitter where he got super personal with attacking me and since then have loved seeing Memphis suck. I always think of that bum and hope he’s having a miserable time watching his team. I fucking love watching Memphis suck and Ja be a shit stain on the NBA in terms of PR.
Aldama got a flagrant-1 for this foul, by the way (forgot to mention)
Klay made both flagrant free throws
Edit in case this question comes more often here:
Because it was a transition take foul, any player on the Mavericks can shoot it
Why did Klay shoot the free throws?
It was a transition take foul therefore Mavs could choose any player to take the FTs
Ah that makes sense. Thank you
Why do transition foul allow anyone to shoot the ball? Is it because you could have Steph curry wide open for a layup on the end cherry picking, but you foul draymond green who has the ball brining it up the court?
I believe this is partially why, but I forgot the exact reason. I think it’s also just to further disincentivize doing it at all, especially to some sorry ass shooter like Mitchell Robinson lol
He’s the best shooter on the team
Because it was a transition take foul
afaik coach can pick anyone in the game to shoot the free throws when the flagrant foul was committed.
Grizz not beating the bitchmade allegations
Its insane that they lost Bane and Brooks and still are unlikeable as fuck.
Imagine being unlikeable in a sub full of suburban white teenagers
For real
I miss the Grit and Grind
Bitch and Whine
Tits and swine?
Marc Gasol rolling over in his hammock watching this edition of the Grizz smh
I mean they’re not wrong that I can’t really picture Klay actually throwing hands
But they sound pretty salty saying this given it was their guy who delivered a cheap shot lol
Klay had every right to complain about this play from Aldama this was an obvious dirty play
I think it is important to step up to your teammate in this case, whether you are an enforcer or not.
especially as the vet and he’s a prized rookie
Lol it’s not about actually being able to fight. It’s about defending your young guys from dirty players
Exactly, like old men grumbling on their porch
Ay you should always picture everybody being able to throw hands. You never know based off looking at somebody lol. I’ve seen a 5’2 140 pound cat whip a 200 pounder like nothing. Big boy walked in thinking it was an easy fight and let him get punches off.
just bc everyone at GS was overshadowed by Dray doesn’t mean Klay and others weren’t ready to step to mf-ers when they needed to.
obviously having a dad in the pros helps with picking your battles more carefully, still… gotta love these hilarious old farts pretending to know Klay’s temperament
I don’t he was saying he’s going to wait for him outside and beat him up. He was most likely saying as a respected and accomplished vet don’t do that cheap BS.
This bitchmade announcer talking spicy like that about Klay and clearly would never say that to his face, while ignoring dirty ass giraffe neck Aldama purposely tripping a rookie. Bad character
Exactly, he forgets THEIR player started this chain of events with a clear dirty play vs a rookie
Who the fuck is an enforcer in the league? Stop this narrative immediately. Jason Tatum cant even fucking clap without getting a tech yet you want an “enforcer”
Uhh Draymond? He’s on your team
Draymond is just dirty.
Isn’t that what an enforcer does?
Yeah though this concept was more commonly used during late 80’s through the 90’s era like Pistons vs. Bulls is where it has been made famous from.
Maybe he means at games, not just at practice.
Ya mean like punching a guy in the dick doing a game, tripping a guy during a game, pulling a guy while he’s in midair during a game so he lands harder. All things draymond has done in game.
I mean, chief example is obviously your Draymond Green like wtf. But also definitely Isaiah Stewart. Dillon brooks is more of a heel than an enforcer, but there’s some transferable skills there. Only thing with DBrook is that, he’s not really fighting on behalf of team mates exactly, he’s just singling out an individual from the opposing team to try and terrorize on a personal level
Shit Jaylen Brown can’t even dribble with both hands
So basically you don’t watch the NBA ✅
Jayson Tatum literally hit Donovan Mitchell with a shoulder tackle last year in the regular season and didn’t get called for it
James Johnson was last year, but that’s the only one I can think of
I’ve never seen anyone dare to start shit with Joe Ingles
Do you even watch basketball or are you an Ellison bot account?
Yes, future Hall of Famer, and four time champion, Klay Thompson’s goal is to be a goon. Stfu.
He’s had more success than the entire Grizzlies franchise and it’s not close.
Kyrie told us to not goon
Announcers have a point, somehow - if Klay is mad at you, you definitely did some dumb extra shit out there.
That’s not true lol
Remember the Book/Klay “beef?” Even Klay said that shit was dumb on his part
Klay has beef with like 5 teams.
lmao this announcers sound weak af.
This isn’t UFC. You don’t have to throw hands to back up your rookie.
They over in the grizzlies reddit page celebrating this because they have no real accomplishments to celebrate and need to find any win they can….sad lol
They are still mad at Draymond taunting them a few weeks ago, just a strange group
That’s residual hatred after 2022. Best Grizzlies team of the past 10 years thought they’d gotten to Draymond with the ‘Whoop that trick’ stuff only for him and the Warriors to dance their way past to another title. I’d hold a grudge too.
Anyone have a list ranking the most homer team commentators in the league?
Nothing more than I hate than bias commentary
I’m so with you but just fyi (because it’s my only grammar pet peeve that I see often) it would be “biased commentary”
“bias” is a noun and “biased” an adjective. So a person who has bias is biased.
There is no grammar in basketball!
I don’t mind a little extra excitement from the home announcers when something good happens or disappointment when something bad happens (ie The difference in tone between two broadcasts on a game winner), but when they can’t acknowledge what objectively is true because it makes their team look bad, it’s infuriating.
Who are these bums with the mic
Lamar and Kevin would never💯
I think the Grizzlies announcers should worry more about their team
They say that like Santi is an intimidating tough guy…lol
Garbage organization…go back to Vancouver
Mavericks announcers after Ja Morant taunted Klay, after a dirty foul by Santi Aldama: “Ja Morant has always been a bum - you’re always going to be a bum in this league in every shape, way, or form”
Dillon Brooks was on the Grizzlies for so long that the announcers think having a player be a jackass is a positive role to have on your team.
Does everything in Memphis have to be this bad?
What are these clown grizzlies announcers on?
Klays a vet standing up for the #1 pick rookie on his team
This grizzlies announcer really comes off as an idiot. You want him to stop sticking up for his teammate? Okay then they’d probably end up being just like the grizzlies useless trash team
There’s being a homer, and there’s calling the game while on the court with your mouth firmly over the players’ dicks.
They’re saying nothing about the play but ok. This was before it was obvious Santi had grabbed his calf. They explicitly agreed the F1 call was correct on the replay.
A lot of built-up animosity from a franchise that never came close to a championship ever. You can hear it bleed over into their announcers lol.
Salty and whiny lol
I’ve never been a cop but I would contemplate helping if I saw an old lady being robbed.
It doesn’t look like Aldama did anything wrong here to me
It’s a clear flagrant, it isn’t a basketball play
Definitely pretty biased right here from BK and a dirty play but the Grizzlies commentary is usually pretty good and fair. The hate for Klay Thompson just runs especially deep around here.
That wasn’t dirty by Aldama though
I know this thread is going way the other way, but I agree. I’ve watched it slowed way down about 10 times, and while he does grab the calf, I don’t think it was intentional. I think he feels Flagg’s leg bump his shoulder and reflexively tries to reach out to grab to try to stop the fall. Obviously that ends up causing the fall and I think an F1 is warranted, because intent doesn’t matter for an F1. But it really doesn’t look to me like he’s doing it on purpose.
Some home announcers are spineless and fully on the take and they are on prime example of it. Chicken shit behavior to do almost nothing to call out the behavior of a player of the team that they are calling the game for. Just barely a mention of a technical. What a joke those guys are.
The commentator is dumb. At least Klay tried something, he’s a leader on the team and he’s using his voice to defend his young star. In GS, Draymond took care of that
In golden state draymond was doing what aldama did to other stars.
That’s not enforcing. Just telling a dude he’s a bitch.
lol grizzlies announcers acting like they would say anything but “sorry” if they ran into conflict
Maybe they think everyone should act like Ja.
I mean they’re not wrong but it’s hardly the right time to try and make that point after Aldama does some dirty shit lmao
It’s the ‘the best defense is a good offense’ approach to commentating, we’re not going to focus on the dirty play our guy just made, we’re going to focus on whatever unrelated shit instead
What did they expect him to do? “Sorry Cooper, yes I’m a senior player but I’m not considered an enforcer by one-eyed homers, so I have to go sit on the bench, or maybe pull a gun & point the laser at my opponents later”
if i was a hometown sports announcer i would be saying stuff about the opponents like ‘these are evil people, these are not good human beings’
Yes keep the negativity coming
Why tf do we post shit about what local commentators say? I love our guys cause they are homers lol I expect them to say some homer shit. Just like I expect the Grizzlies commentators to say homer shit
Those announcers should be ashamed of themselves. They have Ja on their team.
Disgusting.
Disgusting? Why are you clutching your pearls like you witnessed an on court bloody assassination? No, you heard some announcers call a fake tough guy out for being exactly that. It’s entertaining commentary for an entertainment league. Switch to the Mavs broadcast, mute your tv, turn your tv off.
Terrible homer announcers. Not a Klay fan but HOF candidate and classy announcers talking like he’s a bum. I think they have Ja Morant brain disease. Seriously that was a dirty ass play call your own player out!
“Candidate” is one way to put it lol
This is an insane flop
Yeah well Memphis is a shit hole
“Barking at it”😮💨
AD in street clothes🫠
So you have to be a crashout to have your mans back? Lol I guesssss
Grizzlies are just bad… Everything about this team is bad… Imagine support this.
Trying to trip an 18 year old rookie player. What’s your problem, Aldama?
Announcers are so fucking stupid
What a moron, what point is he even trying to make? embarrassing
Imagine thinking ANYONE is an “enforcer” in the NBA in 2025.
There might be like 5 dudes who are truly crazy enough to actually do something in the entire league at this point.
Pathetic announcers
Ja about to get that guns to be the real enforcer.
straight to jail
Klaymond Green?!??
Funny update to this story. Someone tagged the Mavs announcer from the same game by accident under an IG comment, they found his page, and I think he might get absolutely roasted by mistake.
What’s the point of doing this tho. Was it like a frustration trip or something?
Bro misses Brooks a little too much
4 of dem.
So is he doing Klay Thompson things or is it not in his nature? Can’t really have it both ways here.
Fiesty Klay is the best Klay.
Talk to the ring(s) little man!!!😂✋
Y-you can’t stand up for your teammate after we tried to fuck with his ankle, that’s not in your nature…
What a low-IQ shitbox of an organization, from the soundcloud gangster they pay $40M to play like Mario Chalmers all the way out to these TV mopes. Perfect fit for the city itself.
“Low IQ shitbox” proceeds to insult Ja Morant who had absolutely nothing to do with this video or incident, hasn’t been on the court in days
You’re going out of your way to insult a man you don’t know on a video he’s not in. How do you rationalize that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C53l64-MVI
Who do you think went up to Klay talking shit immediately after the game? It’s all over the front page of the sub.
theyre not wrong, i dont think anyone is scared of Klay lol
Obviously it is in his nature since he did jt
Clays ok by me . Scoreboard
Poverty franchise. Poverty announcers
Super shameful…This team went to the finals 2 years ago - And Mark Cuban STFU.
Yall are why we can’t have any fun.
A guy says two sentences that isn’t complete corporate lingo like 99% of all commentating and you’re all complaining. He is a Grizzlies commentator, of course he’s going to be bias.
I thought it was hilarious and I would love to hear more from this commentator.
I wanna hear them react to the flagrant 1 call lmao
Even the grizzlies announcers have zero accountability
Fold the Grizzlies.
Isn’t that the role PJ is supposed to be performing?
Damn Mavs still lost to.
I dont even like Klay but who the fuxk is Santi Sardine compared to him. This Grizzlie announcer is an idiot. Klay can talk all he wants to Salty Aldama.
Is this Klay hate bcz of him kicking their ass a number of times in the past??? Only then this bs makes sense lmaooo
The entire Grizzlies organization, even down to the announcers, is a clown show. Ja is a reflection of that.
Some announcers just need to stfu and talk about the game
Meg the Stallion must got some fire 🐱
The protege of the DRA
Klay thought he was Draymond for a second lol
Most has always been a bit of a hothead, so I like it
AldaMa should talk to long time NBA players who thought they were going to punk Klay and Steph. IIRC, KD and Norris Cole have talked about how players believe that they are soft because of their physical appearance, but quickly realize that they can’t be intimidated.
As a Suns fan I usually make the claim we have the dumbest fans in sports.
Memphis fans really testing that claim
Grizzlies fuckin suck
Man what the hells going on in Memphis?
Classless and ringless organization from top to bottom huh? Not surprised
Yeah even if Santi didn’t mean to that 100% look intentional on replay
Ya… this is a bad look for Aldama. I don’t blame Klay one bit for sticking up for his rook.
Klay is catching strays clearly because of Megan.
classless. top to bottom.
Enforcer? That’s not a thing in the NBA anymore. What’s an enforcer going to do?
This isn’t the NHL where you’d get your face pounded, slashed or ran over by a true enforcer.
Enough with the tough talk.
“In any way, shape, or form.” Gave Klay some Fried Chicken for breakfast 😭😭😭
Grizzlies are such a lame org