[Highlight] Carter Jr appears exasperated seeing Drummond raise his fists
His reaction was more than reasonable and he shouldnt have got a tech
Absolutely insane that he receives the same punishment as Drummond. Only one dude was trying to fight and he’s on the team getting their shit kicked in.
2 dudes but WCJ wasn’t one of them.
WCJ
I wonder if my brain will ever stop reading this as Willie Cauley Jr.
Good ol’double tech for both parties even though the refs missed most of it
American school system rules bleeding in
Suggs gets ejected but the guy who squared up doesn’t?
I think they can appeal a tech righr?
Do it.
Do
IT
Cold af
They really t’ed him up for too much aura
Judging by that stance it’s clear Drummond never been in a fight in his life. Ain’t nothing to fear from a dude who learned to fight from cartoons, looks like he’s about to slap fight Scooby Doo.
You cant read lips at all nor body language. Commentator was closer than you
Weirdly hostile but ok. It looks like “Do it” x 3 to me
Sorry. Youre right I was being hostile. It does look more like do it than I originally thought
Get your eyes checked, friend.
Dude got a tech for giving Drummond a disappointed parent look.
If I had to guess, I think it was probably for saying DO IT a bunch of times when the refs were trying to de escalate. Other than that he didn’t really do anything
Yeah idk why anyone is surprised, WCJ is instigating too and he would 100% admit as much
Yea it’s so weird. Drummond instigated and did everything. Carter did nothing, hah.
Carter knows ain’t shit gon happen.
Or he knows if he did he’s putting belt to ass it’s one or the other
Wendell Carter is bigger and stronger than LeBron James. Drummond ain’t doing nothing
This comment is bizarre, Andre Drummond ain’t exactly little lol
Andre Drummond has the biggest quads in the NBA. He’s way bigger than WCJ.
6’11” 279 or roughly 1.15 LeBrons in my estimation. So he must be really tough.
I’ve had bigger
Angel Reese was at the game like “👀”
Not a shot in hell WCJ is bigger & stronger than Bron. What are you smoking
He’s 6’10 275 brother
Dell is 6’10 270
Bron is 6’9 250
Stronger is debatable (though Dell is crazy strong even for his size) but he’s absolutely bigger.
Bron is not 250 lol
Maybe not 250, but he damn sure isn’t 270.
He is 6 foot 9 lol
Looking at his build it’s entirely believable he is 250-260.
Yeah they confuse today’s Bron with the Heat Bron. Now that dude was 270 easy. Mofo had tree trunks for legs in those days.
It’s plain as day he has lost muscle mass.
WCJ is listed at 6’10” 270
It’s definitely possible
WCJ is literally an inch taller and 20 pounds heavier than LeBron. Safe to assume he might be stronger as well
If you truly believe lebron’s listed weight (250 lbs) I got a fuckin bridge and a boatload of Enron stock to sell you. I’ll even sell you some amway, I know you guys love that shit
Side note: Lebron has to be on peds right?!
Everyone is
The downplay on schedule
It’s the truth the NBA and NFL drug policies are an IQ test and the more money you have the easier it is to pass. If you don’t the the average high level pro isn’t on at least HGH or EPO or some new peptide shit then you’re delusional
Gg
He was heavily implicated in the A-Rod connected German clinic expose where we found out Peyton Mannings wife was a patient for an experimental steroid regimen at the same time as her husband went from no longer being able to throw a 10 yard spiral after 4 neck surgeries to breaking all of the single season passing records.
Every client in the calendar was listed by name except for a series of appointments for an “LBJ” that coincided with Lebron’s multi-week hiatus from the Miami Heat - the mid-season recovery trip to Germany for back spasms - the same trip where he came back very obviously bulkier and arguably more explosive than he’d been at any point in his career.
Based on the eye test he probably started juicing more heavily around 2008-9 to maximize results around his new training regimen, but he also could have started experimenting basically the moment he got to the league. Hes had several teammates get popped thru the years, usually back of the roster bench guys where you almost have to wonder where the benefit for them was if they were never really gonna see the court anyways.
Jeff teague recently said in a podcast that lebron has methods for chilling bad press against him. Add that to the weird stories around clutch sports and some of the unsavory figures involved there and its no surprise that a sports media landscape that values access over the truth is happy to play ball and let a story die.
Absolutely
I figured 😂😂
If your a pro athlete and your not on peds your not gonna be able to keep up for long and your training staff is dumb as hell.
Risk to reward ratios is just too good. If you know what you’re doing risk = 0 and benefits are endless.
I think for the injury recovery alone it may be time to juice them up all the way lol
Top athletes are all running something already and I’d imagine a significant portion started in highschool.
I worked closely with the head athletic trainer and med staff of an NBA team (I now work with one specific non athletic related surgery) and yeah they’re all on shit and most 3*+ highschool recruits probably are too and the ones that aren’t will be in college or they won’t keep up.
There’s literally no reason not to. You’re not going to get caught unless your training staff is genuinely stupid or makes some big fuck up. Even the dudes who do get caught occasionally get a slap on the wrist relative to the benefits.
Edit: also I do believe that the increase in injuries to lower body tendons and ligaments is semi ironically linked to wider use of PEDs to some extent. PEDs, generally speaking, increase muscle mass and power more than those tendons and ligaments can keep up with and they end up snapping when stressed more than they would be naturally.
He is clearly slimmer than he was 2010-2015, you think he was like 280 on the heat? lmao
Probably that 76ers pack.
WCJ is bigger than LeBron at 6’10” 270lbs
this aint hockey. no one fighting here and it’s all for show
His reaction was the reaction of the people watching.
Nothing’s gonna happen nowadays. Just push someone then wait for someone to get in between and act tough “hold me man hol me!!!” or push and run like Suggs here. We ain’t in the old eras anymore.
Being exasperated is now a technical foul. Thanks NBA.
Adam Silver protecting us from exasperation 🥰
And protecting the Clippers from Aspiration
Everybody’s already forgetting about it now that the season’s started. All is going according to plan.
It will come back huge at the all star break and all offseason if nothing is done. People haven’t forgotten, but there is just other shit to talk about during the season.
Exasperation free basketball.
They really just pulling the zero tolerance policies from schools.
At least you guys put belt to ass 🤣. BELT
We really have over-corrected when “Do it!? Do it!?!?” is a tech. That really is worse than a one second “taunt” getting T’d up.
You’re not supposed to react at all. Just ignore them.
This is part of why the league’s shifted from player vs player to player vs refs. They’re so fixated on a clean product that certain forms of competitiveness are immediately met with harsh punishment. Players grow apathetic and the sport becomes their day job. Offensive players will go right to the refs when there’s physicality instead of matching that level of competition.
The league wanted an emotionless, brand-friendly product and they got it.
It sucks that this affected you in the game and that can’t change, but this will almost certainly be rescinded.
I mean, it didn’t affect us too much. I just think it’s hilariously soft.
“Man what the fu… 😑 Swing. SWING. Do it. Do it. I know you won’t.”
Thanks for the lip reading you are spot on hahaha
Yeah that’s what I got but at the end I thought he called him old but “i know you won’t” makes way more sense.
Lmao this is great
Dude, we play ball for a living. Really?!
He was probably just trying to find a way to carry on again, his heart must have been in tangles.
Lemme get this straight, Drummond gets 1 tech for shoving WCJ’s neck AND continuing with Suggs after he gets pushed?
And squaring up
His “why I oughta” Yosemite Sam stance
Dude looks like some ACME dynamite just went off inches from his face and his hair running away from his face
what a cartoon clown. are we serious? im so glad drummond is not on my team anymore. absolute doofus.
Yeah everything else Drummond did is prett firmly technical territory but squaring up in any way shape or form should be an automatic ejection.
Is it not textbook escalation? That’s what I don’t get.
Ya Drummond 100% deserved to be ejected. NBA refs are garbage but hey it probably helps the Magic Drummond stays in the game.
Lmao his bumass probably mad he gotta keep playing
Yea you dont square up and think your staying in the game. I bet he was hoping to get WCJ ejected if he took the bait.
lmao Suggs out of nowhere.
He was backing up so fast as soon as he saw how Drummond was coming for him.
I don’t know how to break this to you, but everyone, including the refs, the players, and Drummond himself knew that drummond wasn’t actually going to swing on anybody
Carter wanted all that smoke lol
Big “I wish you would” energy.
I don’t even think he did he just knew that there was absolutely going to be no smoke lmao
Clearly he could’ve handled himself if there was, but that shit just doesn’t happen in the nba and he knows it. Goofy as hell by Drummond
Carter Jr absolutely no flinch!!!!
Jalen Suggs randomly popping up
I’m a Sixers fan and that was embarrassing sit down somewhere man. Getting bombed at home “about” to do nothing. Play some defense.
My man walked closer 😂
“Football player at heart” Lmfao
the shade. may as well have called him a lil fella.
6’5” quarterback in high school, 4-star recruit, best football player in the state. Not really shade.
I never really realized that suggs might have cte
That would explain a lot
that was a bs tech on wendell
It just looked like he was asking Drummond what even was he doing.
Bro said swing 😂
Bring back the fisticuffs! If they keep it on the court and out of the stands, it’ll be okay.
I mean, a little in the stands is fun. Not all the time, but a little.
Ron Artest has entered the chat
*Ron Artest has entered the stands.
I really do think more sports should adopt the Hockey fighting rules. Maybe with more restrictions because NBA players are bigger and don’t wear pads, but I think everyone would love if some squabbling was allowed
Rudy Tomjonovich says hi.
Guys I found Jeff van Gundy’s burner
Fuck no! As humans we gotta evolve a little and realize that fighting has no place in a sport played by grown adults. We are supposed to progress as human beings. At least enough to cope with our anger in a way that doesn’t end in a Rudy T situation. Poor guy got his head caved over one angry swing by a giant human.
I disagree. I mean, there are literally combat sports that lots of people watch. Sometimes people will want to fight, that is human nature and always will be, and it’s really not dangerous as long as there is structure. Like people in hockey aren’t allowed to just start beating each other with their sticks, they have to take their gloves and helmets off, put down their sticks, you can only do clean hits above the belt, and the refs break it up after someone hits the ground for the first time. Then the players are put in the penalty box for a little while, so there is a consequence for the team. I don’t see a problem with it, especially in sports like football where they literally run into each other at full force already. Less so in basketball, but again, just add some more regulations to make it safer.
Combat sports are combat sports. They are there own thing and that’s fine. That is the place for fighting. If two grown ass adults can’t sort their shit out maturely and after sleeping on it they decide they want to get in a ring and have it out then fine. Sign a waiver, put some gloves on and get in the ring with the other person. I have zero issues with that kind of conflict. Better off people settle things with bare hands then guns or weapons.
More sports need a little one two buckle my shoe
problem is the stands will come to the court. Imagine Nikola Jokic getting pummeled and his brothers are there? Apparently he’s the youngest sooooo they aren’t letting that happen.
It would only happen once because then they would get banned for life from attending an NBA arena
DO IT
No way he gets a tech for that
Drummond wasn’t gonna do a damn thing 😂😂😂
Soft.
isnt drummond like 35 or something? feels like he’s too old to be acting like a hot headed rookie
He’s only 32, shockingly.
That’s a weathered looking 32. Yikes
I actually thought he was pushing 40 and was trying to be generous..
only player that got balls to throw hands is metaa world peace
So funny. The least intimidated reaction.
I had no idea WCJ was so big. I’ve seen him play but in my head Andre Drummond is a lot bigger than him. Clearly I’m wrong.
Orlando Magic vs Toronto Raptors might be cinema
Im not mad im just disappointed
What was suggs thinking…🤣🤣🤣
I understand why Suggs did what he did, but he only escalated the situation and gave Drummond a smaller target for his out coz Carter didn’t seem intimidated at all Drummond looks like a dude caught with his dick in his hand.
This is disgraceful for Carter to get the same punishment as the guy who instigated it and who tried to escalate it.
Carter literally did nothing, what does that league want guys to do in this situation? Like literally run away?
Some of these NBA players don’t know how to diffuse a fight
Clown
Carter saying DO IT. Drummond decides to go for the little guy instead.
Some of that looks like “Sorry Sorry I don’t know what you want”
hes not mad just disappointed
that man didn’t seem at all worried about drummond.
Honestly in any respectable sports league Draymond would have been off almost any team because of suspensions lol.
I honestly want to watch an Andre Johnson vs Finnegan ass whooping on him where he’s the recipient lol
Drummond is still in the league??
Would he do the fighting irish pose against beef stew or nah
Drummond is too damn old to be acting like that
I need more passive aggressive nba players in the league.
Is that cris smoove?
NBA players are the worse fighters in any major sport they do not know how to throw punches at all. Feels good knowing can’t probably beat up a super athlete that’s a foot taller than me. lol
Drummond gives Carter a forearm shove to the throat. As Carter brushes it off, he instinctively was about to throw a right hand, but he quickly caught himself. That’s what prompted Drummond to square up.
Drummond trying to get on the Pistons again 😂
All bullshit and posturing… nobody aint gonna do anything
I would’ve actually died if andre just threw a fist at bro
Do it than!!
When you realize these “men” spend so much time grooming, doing fashion shows, and wearing purses, you can be very confident that they’re fragile but also just selling wolf tickets.
Barnes/Kobe vibes. Almost but not really.
so funny cause he’s dirty lmao
Drummond’s a dirty player? I wasn’t aware he had that rep.
carter jr
How do you know he didn’t shower today?
WCJ not so tough when he’s not blindsiding 6 foot street photographers
Drummond is so funny. Love him.