[Highlight] Foul call on LeBron 3-pointer gives the Lakers a chance for the lead
This game has been completely ridiculous for the past half an hour, just pure absurdity
The ending of the 1st half was ridiculously long too
unwatchable content from the nba rn
I would call it a lot of things but I would not call it unwatchable. I was riveted
same lol this game actually had so many great moments
Imagine he misses all three lol
Missed the first
Made the second
Made the third lol
Thanks for the live updates king
Lol for all my non league pass heads plus no game thread wtf
It is not out of the realm of possibility.
43 free throws to Suns’ 25. And let’s talk about the Brooks tech. What did James do while discussing (crying) that with the refs? He touched a ref. Regardless of how/why he did that, it’s illegal to do that. That’s a tech on James. But nah.
I don’t know how people can take this sport seriously after they just gifted LA another superstar. It’s so obviously rigged y’all are stupid.
Someone’s got money on the game
Why did LeBron shoot the tech free throw instead of Luka lol
Luka is 13⁄14 and LeBron is 7⁄11 on FT
JJ was asked this in the interview, Luka was meant to take it, but LeBron just walked up and took it
Lmao 😂. Are you fkn serious. I’m watching the game wondering if I misunderstood the rules
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Now? LeAlways. Did you see him hanging out with the Phoenix bench last time?
U mean a few weeks ago while also in the same 20th year of his career? Yeah u fucking hype beast
Get back for it being Dillon Brooks lmao it backfired
Bron was in his feelings with Brooks this game lol
Had enough of Dillon Brooks bs and I don’t blame him
Honestly, how no one has never punched him is amazing
Because that’s an automatic suspension lol. That’s why Dillon Brooks can get into people’s heads cause whatever feeling anyone feels about him no one actually has balls to do what they want. Except Draymond. That guy is fucking nuts
Genuinely feel like Lebron could escape with a heavy fine from something like that 🗿💀
in the end, thus is just a circus, people playing balls and get paid.
Cuz that’s what he wants lol. He’s on the Draymond Pat Bev where u just gotta let them hit u over and over again without retaliating too much
Because he’s selfish.
Why is this downvoted? You always give tech FTs to your best FT shooter but why is he taking them with these numbers
the counter argument is simple and i’m not saying it’s right but it allows the star player to get more in a flow especially if it’s not a super crucial time in the game.
it’s the same principle when someone is having a horrible shorting game and you foul them and put them on the line. you ‘allow’ them to see one go in and maybe that helps set them right
He isn’t the star player anymore
Yeah, there is literally no counter argument.
It is just “I’m one of the best players of all time, so I deserve to take all the FTs even if I am not good at them”
It reminds me of that really long streak where C. Ronaldo became a horrible freekick taker but still refused to let anyone else take it.
Woow
That is insane
Tbf, Luka is a career 75% FT shooter while LeBron is 74% so there isn’t much of a difference between those 2.
I’ve watched LeBron maybe more than anyone and trust me he always runs to the damn line to take techs.
He’d take them over 90% shooters back in the Cavs days
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It should’ve been literally anyone else tbh haha
I genuinely don’t know and am legit asking: because the tech was called for contact against him, did James have to take it?
Nope its a technical foul. Anyone on the floor coulda taken it
So Luka wouldn’t get 30
I’ve been wondering this for decades. Why do you not have your best free throw shooter shooting the tech? Seems just to be ego.
And before anyone saying it gets the player going… I recall seeing an analysis a few years ago where they disproved this. That there is no statistical change in play on average after taking the technical free throw
Drives me nuts lol
Because he likes to statpad
He got clearly slapped in the hand and wrist. Like it or not that’s a foul.
Agreed it’s a foul, but the fact that the possession before Lebron ran into Brooks on the close out, slapped him, and didn’t get called, is what’s frustrating.
If this play is a foul (which it is), then that one certainly is too. The Suns could’ve been up two instead of one, which changes how they play defense.
Watch this and tell me I’m wrong.
Or how about a few possessions before Brooks completely landing on top of Doncic on a missed 3 attempt. If the one that you called was a foul, then so was the one vs Luka
People don’t realise the whole “what about earlier” shit can just keep on going forever. Yes the refs were wrong for the past mistake they made but people in their feelings wanting literal make up calls cos humans fucked up is crazy.
I saw that and was like how tf did they miss that. Was that Brooks that jumped on Luka like that?
Yeah it’s been like that all game super physical. Idiots crying it’s biased but I seen super physical game all night they don’t want to call 100 fts despite what dumb sub thinks
That was also a foul, agreed.
What about this? Brooks was doing it all game long. Should he never get fouls for that?
Brooks got a tech for this?
And Booker was in his landing space. But you know how it is, once people have convinced themselves the fix is in ain’t nothing you can do about it.
He was standing in the same spot before and after LeBron jumped, it could not have been a landing space foul
He stepped his left leg into Lebrons landing space after Lebron had jumped, which is why Lebrons right leg didn’t come forward. This is extremely clear and obvious, you can slow the video down or take it frame by frame and see for yourself.
edit: Here is the full sequence: https://imgur.com/a/HCbbL4H
Your image just makes me mad at op for not posting the replay
Yeah, I was thinking back to Shai somehow getting a foul for his defender being a foot away from him last night, and Book’s feet were literally under where Bron was in the air
Then call the and 1 on brooks too is not that hard
Then call the 3 pt foul on luka too its not that hard
Especially in that situation. Like I’m sorry but you’re gonna have to show some discipline in the final seconds. Every player has learned since junior high to not even sneeze near a jump shot in the final seconds.
Refball aside, that was an awful play for the Lakers. Your best look, down 1, is a contested Luka three (with time still on the clock) that he has to end up kicking out?
We gotta call it like it is. Bad look for Luka. I love him, but sometimes he gets tunnel vision when he doesn’t have it and tries to force it anyways. Bad game for the Lakers, but that in particular Luka has to reign in
He kinda reminds me of Kobe when he was on the bad Laker teams. Too many iso jumpers. When you play like that, it disrupts the rest of the team’s energy and it affects both sides of the floor.
Yeah I’ve always thought Luka was kind of like Kobe shooting wise but with the passing ability of LeBron. He just needs to lean more into the LeBron side and I think they’ll be better. I totally believe that moving the ball improves both your offense and defense as it keeps guys engaged and energized.
Kobe was a better shooter relative to era tho so it was more excusable as the offence in that era was far worse
He and trae are way more similar than people realize. Forcing threes when they’re not hitting it always ends poorly.
That was a foul, though
Yeah but the title draws the clicks shh
Brainless play by Booker
Smart bout to lose a lot of money
Got it back in the final play
Dumb
This is an all time ref job in the last 2 minutes
This the same game where bron was just grabbing on a ref like no one else would be able to lmao
JJ was allowed to physically contact the refs while yelling at them too… utterly absurd. They’d instantly eject ANYONE on the suns
Refs made Booker smack his hand/wrist with mind control.
I get the frustration but it’s a clear foul, Suns biased ass broadcasters were complaining so hard until they saw the replay. Then just a very quiet “yeah he hit him on the hand” and quiet lol
They tried too hard.
ref ball
it was a foul lol
seriously what are these guys on. He goes completely into his landing space and gets him on the wrist
I mean, clear foul? Hit on the wrist and also practically undercutting him?
Its a clear foul are you dumb
It’s the lakers, so it’s always rigged in their favor! /s
Nah man Dillon Brooks it just allowed to hit an go ahead shot then chest bump Lebron. Clear ref job.
Hit on the wrist
he slapped his arm lmao
and bron didn’t just jump into brooks entire body 5 seconds earlier ?
That was also a foul. They were both fouls.
Some of the most egregious ref ball I’ve seen in a minute
He hit his wrist 🤣
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That last minute was wack lmao
That’s actually an offensive foul on Steph Curry
hits his entire hand/wrist
of course they call this but not the last one on Dillon Brooks by Lebron. this league is so fucking rigged lmao. anything for Lebron of course
this was a refball game but this was a correct call. OP didn’t show the replay. there was a foul on the hand
This is the most rigged thing I’ve seen in a while and that’s saying something lmao
he hits hit fucking wrist???
hit his wrist, closed out into his legs.
I saw it.
Clear foul lol
Out of all rigged things, calling a foul for a smack on the arm is the most rigged
Laker / LeBron hate is contagiously biased and unapologetically stupid at times.
In spite of Marcus smart’s best efforts
The audacity to call this foul after spending like 5 minutes looking at Brooks’ shot and not calling anything
They weren’t reviewing brooks shot. They were reviewing brooks bumping lebron.
Wasn’t subject to review. Blame the rules not the refs, there.
i mean the refs not calling it in the first place is on them tbf lol
like literally where were they looking, there’s only one ball
Was def a foul but it’s frustrating when lebron fouled brooks even worse on the previous play and nothing. And brooks gets a second tech for something soft when lebron gets away with manhandling the ref lol.
So confused why Suns fans call that tech soft. There is no ball around and he tucks his shoulder and runs into him intentionally while trash talking after like 5 fouls and a tech already. Do you think Dillon Brooks should just be able to shove and tackle whoever he wants to intimidate other players lol.
I think Lebron got a tech for that hostile act as well? I feel that Brooks’ tech and Lebron’s tech are on a similar degree in terms of softness.
Either way it’s very unsatisfying no matter which team you root for and it’s clear that none of these two teams are contending.
horrible game
Soft
“The NBA is a highlight sport”
*We get to watch highlights of how the sport is ruined*
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Lakers are allowing the dumbest close games man. Frustrating to watch as a fan, no way we should’ve let them basically come back the way they did
Suns announcers immediately went silent is the funniest thing ever.
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Im a Lakers fan and i hated that game
JFC the end of NBA basketball games are soooo bad to watch
The refs are terrible
I swear I checked espn at work and the score was 109-95 lakers. What happened
No transition defense. Same story every game.
Lmao f outta here with that bs
It’s comical how terrible the last 2 minutes of NBA games are
Ridiculous.
This game is a total travesty the zebras really fucked this
Commenting this under a video of a clear foul.
I only watched the last 30 seconds or so of that game but it was a total rubber band effect
Oh okay lol
This game has been a poop show for the refs
That was way way closer to the landing space foul than the one Shai got last night.
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If you dont like that you dont like los angeles basketball
Crazy crazy crazy call to make after not calling a foul on the brooks 3
going from the end of sixers hawks to this is uh, really something.
People say ref ball this ref ball that on everything, but this shit is the literal definition of ref ball
Absolute fucking ref job my fucking god
good call ref!
That is some bullshit lol
Refs bailed Bron.
Refs were awful around the league tonight. Hawks vs Sixers ending was terrible also. Went in our favor but they missed a backcourt violation
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Lakers fans are getting in their feelings all over this sub.
Fact: Booker fouled LeBron on this shot.
Also a fact: the referees DID NOT call a foul on a three pointer literally the possession before this, even though it was much more blatant contact.
i mostly stopped watching the nba after being a decades-long diehard fan and when i see highlights like this i regret nothing
Will the ever miss a call for the Lakers
These refs need to be investigated
Everyone in this game has a combined IQ of 40
A call fit for a king
Lakers handed the victory on a platter by the refs lmao. Some things never change
How is this a foul
It’s a blatant foul lol. Since when has missing the ball and slapping the guy been legal is a far better question
Not this play, but as a Lebron fan, I will never understand why he takes technical free throws like he’s some elite free throw shooter.
This game has been so ass.
Fuck, man, I want to like watching Luka on the Lakers, but these guys are a fucking joke. Absolutely pissing away a 21 point lead.
Gimme more Wemby games to watch 😴
Horrible call
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Come on, that’s a foul
Why would you even give them a chance to blow the whistle though
I thought hand was part of the ball? When did that change?
It’s a soft foul at best.
“Fire Silver” National Chants?
Kicks his legs out too
“No foul” - lbj haters “You clowns are delusional”- every one else in the universe
How dare Book touch the right hand of the king like that! Good comeback though
PHX got hosed. I hate LA sports teams and their entitled fans.
Look where Lebrons foot leaves the ground and where Books feet is when LeBron is trying to land. Clear undercut. Do the same now on every SGA jump shot foul.
Ok but that is in fact a foul
Wasn’t this team up by 20?
Hand is part of the ball. Not a foul
I don’t know why we even bother with this rigged shit
Isn’t it basically accepted now that refs gamble? Maybe not every game but for sure this is one of them. America loves gambling so why are people surprised? There’s even a gambling sponsor!
As it should be. Bro literally ran up right where his landing zone was.
Definitely a natural shooting motion.. league is a joke
Fucking lakers whistle. Gross.
This is how I lost my JV championship fuck these refs. Ruin the game
Looks like a totally normal shooting motion to me. /s
People thinking they know more than the refs is like Dillon Brooks thinking he is in the same level as Lebron James. Absolute comedy.
luka ball cannot win u a championship, his finals series proves it.
League is so rigged now with all these bookmakers
My app is doing a glitch where every video on this sub is the Adam friedland show clip of Adam saying if David stern was still commissioner Pablo Torre would be killed
It was clearly a foul, the ref just waited to see if LeBron made the shot or not.
If he made it then he wasn’t going to blow the whistle, whistle blew because he missed.