[Highlight] Anthony Edwards receives his 2nd technical foul and is being ejected from the game, with 20.5 seconds remaining in overtime. He is also pointing out on people
Scott calling that on the other side of the court when no one else blew the whistle. Is so suspicious man
You mean Tim Donaghy’s close friend, Scott Foster?
The financier?
With the island?
Admittedly haven’t heard from him since the pandemic
r/conan is leaking
my username is not r/conan
Im so happy to see more Conan fans
I’m just happy to see more people recognize that Jim Downey is probably among the greatest modern comedy writers.
“and quote, surprisingly easy to masturbate to” was a weekend update line that lived rent free for 20+ years before Downey told the story of writing the joke hahahaha.
The man with whom he held hundreds of phonecalls in close proximity to the games Donaghy fixed and who the NBA never investigated for possibly placing bets on the outcomes of said fixed games.
Waiting for the NBA PR bot who always appears in these threads with his copy and paste reply why these phonecalls were supposedly not suspicious at all.
More phone calls to Scott Foster before and during games (halftime) than calls to his entire family combined
Hey man they were just really good friends and Tim got nervous before games of course. The betting scandal was totally unrelated /s
3 different calls in OT were from the other side ref according to the announcers. Really suspicious how the ref right there couldn’t notice.
There was some dubious reffing going on this game, but this call was definitely a foul.
Straight up, verticality.. not a foul?
He was straight up and vertical but he was also in the air in an illegal guarding position impeding Jokic’s freedom of movement
Pretty sure that’s a wrong interpretation of the rules and what happened here is a no-call or offensive foul.
pasted from my other comment:
well, DiVincenzo established LGP and jumped completely vertical and got run into….
https://imgur.com/a/j3fQRaY
so it shouldn’t be a foul, right?
I’ve been looking through the rules because this usually happens closer to the basket and on plays that are more clearly shots, but I don’t think either of those contextual differences make a change in how it’s called.
Page 65 of the rulebook, II. BASIC PRINCIPLES - 2. Guarding an opponent:
A player is entitled to a vertical position even to the extent of jumping straight-up or holding his arms above his shoulders, as in post play or when double-teaming in pressing tactics.
This is the closest play description I could find, bolded the more relevant parts:
This is an example of an airborne defensive player maintaining verticality in a legal defensive play. Even if he is positioned inside the Restricted Area, a secondary defender does not commit a blocking foul if contact is made while he is jumping vertically in an attempt to defend the shot (but he would commit a blocking foul if he were trying to draw an offensive foul instead of trying to defend the shot or did not jump vertically). Note also that the defender must establish legal guarding position prior to the start of the offensive player’s upward motion. On this play, the defensive player jumps straight up and down in an attempt to contest his opponent’s field goal attempt. As the contact on the play is initiated by the offensive player, and it is marginal, the defender is legal. https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1pvxrbl/highlight_anthony_edwards_receives_his_2nd/nw0ks0r/?context=3
This is an example of an airborne defensive player maintaining verticality in a legal defensive play. Even if he is positioned inside the Restricted Area, a secondary defender does not commit a blocking foul if contact is made while he is jumping vertically in an attempt to defend the shot (but he would commit a blocking foul if he were trying to draw an offensive foul instead of trying to defend the shot or did not jump vertically). Note also that the defender must establish legal guarding position prior to the start of the offensive player’s upward motion. On this play, the defensive player jumps straight up and down in an attempt to contest his opponent’s field goal attempt. As the contact on the play is initiated by the offensive player, and it is marginal, the defender is legal.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1pvxrbl/highlight_anthony_edwards_receives_his_2nd/nw0ks0r/?context=3
Yeah wtf are people going on about here? It’s not like he’s under the basket shooting lmao he literally jumps up and impedes Jokic’s movement. Obvious af foul and if it wasn’t called there would be just as many people crying rigged for that reason.
You’re allowed to jump completely vertically from a legal guarding position and DDV definitely had a legal position. https://ak-static.cms.nba.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/10/Official-2025-26-NBA-Playing-Rules.pdf page 65
All that DDV needed to do here was:
Establish LGP
Give Jokic space to land
Jump completely vertically
And he did all 3. Shouldn’t be a foul, or it should be offensive.
edit: downvoting me without refutation just signals to me that you’re salty that I’m right and you have nothing to add anymore. Hope you learned something about the rules today.
I have no skin in this game as a neutral fan, but trying to argue rules on Reddit is a lost cause. Most posters here have no clue of the actual rulebook or (ideal) reffing guides. Legal guarding position is unfortunately talked about in a very poor way by broadcasts.
You are almost certainly correct here. This really doesn’t seem like a foul, despite looking very dramatic. His body is established directly in his path and he goes vertical without jumping into Jokic.
People keep talking about freedom of movement which is irrelevant here. Defender is entitled to the spot if they establish in the path. Jumping straight up is equivalent to standing still as far as the rules are concerned. Think about if he was just standing there. Would it be a foul? No it would likely be a charge. So this is the same thing.
Ref on the other side of the court should not be making this call. Foster wouldn’t have had a good angle to see if legal position was established. That is not a good whistle.
If it is a foul, it’s actually on Jokic in this situation. Only reason verticality isn’t an offensive foul most of the time is because it’s in the restricted circle. But in this situation, if legal position is established it would technically be a charging foul on Jokic. No-call wouldn’t be surprising though at the end of a game.
Doesn’t matter if he’s shooting or not. Not a foul
I’d love to hear the official explanation for this call. I’m in two minds. One, seeing it at real speed, this would seem like a foul. Jokic is not given enough time for him to reasonably be able to respond. His movement was impeded. But, two, in slow motion you can’t but conclude that Donte gets to his spot before Jokic, and goes up straight as an arrow.
So, I don’t know.
This OT was not reffed great.
This is a foul on Donte. Scott called it when he realized that no one else was going to call it.
how is this a foul on dante he goes straight up and jokic runs him over
But, but Jokic fell down! Donte must have hit him with great force!
The first tech was given by Scott Foster, the second (the ejection) by Matt Myers (0;45)
I don’t know why people upset about Foster here, he didn’t throw Ant out of the game xD
The real Grinch
The refs right in front of the foul not calling it was not suspicious to you though?
People acting like this wasn’t an obvious foul is crazy to me. Since when in the NBA are you allowed to just jump in front of guys and take them out since you are jumping? In the paint it’s verticality, never seen that anywhere else on the court being acceptable
Since when in the NBA are you allowed to just jump in front of guys and take them out since you are jumping?
When you establish legal guarding position (he did) and jump straight in the air (he did) its not a foul.
Just because jokic ran into him and fell over doesn’t make it a foul, the defender is entitled to his spot of he gets there first. This is either a no call or an offensive foul.
Why didn’t it get called immediately though. Jokic got absolutely bodied.
Scott Foster is a fucking criminal.
That said, we shot like shit.
Scott Foster did worse things than Chauncey Billups.
This has been happening so often in the last few years and it has been driving me crazy. When two other refs are closer to the play, have better views of what happened and don’t blow the whistle then for the ref furthest away with the worst view of the play to blow the whistle late. Please stop this.
wtf was the tech for?
Ref abuse
Apparently the second tech was for giving Scott Foster the bird (my source is a different Reddit thread, I wasn’t there, I might be wrong)
How dare he do that to my GOAT
I’m confused, is Ant or Scott Foster your GOAT?
Yes
I don’t get the hate for Forster here, the first tech was textbook and he wasn’t the one to eject him.
any hate for Scott Foster is justified.
Heartbreaking: The Worst Ref You Know Just Made a Great Call
Officiating was terrible this game, and Scott Foster is terrible every game.
Ah, another YouTube highlights fan.
Yeah you won’t witness Scott’s greatness in that way. It’s the little things.
First tech was fine, after that you’re a ho
Scott Foster hates Ant and the wolves. Fuck that dude
giving Scott Foster the bird
It’s Christmas, if you don’t like the gift you can quietly return it the next day, don’t have to make a big deal about it when you get it!
Well we all know those people bought tickets to watch Scott Foster.
Naw ref abusing their power
With CP3 retiring forced out of the league, Scott Foster needs to find a new rival. Someone who can truly cement the Extender’s legacy as the GOAT.
Scott foster had an all time Finals run last year
If anyone so much as breathed on SGA in the playoffs last year they received a foul call.
I maintain that he stole that series from the Pacers.
So many people act like OKC is an arm and a leg above everyone else in the league when Denver and Indiana took them to 7 games.
Indiana missing an arm and a leg this year 😥
All because Scott Foster forced Game 7 almost single-handedly. Although John Goble did help him out quite a bit in the crunch time of Game four.
Scott foster
Even as nuggets fans we can see the refs were on some bs tonight. Too much to pick apart
I think it was when Jokic was trying to inbound the ball and then ant knocked it out of his hands before Jokic even released it and then ant argued against the delay of game violation? Or maybe the delay of game violation was a tech?
That was the first one. Idk what the second one was
Anti Draftkings slander
To beat the spread
I did love seeing Ant come back and give that kid his jersey. He made his Christmas Day special.
That was a cool move. He does appreciate the fans
True that. I was living in Vegas when the 2023 FIBA team played a tune-up game there against Puerto Rico. After the game they brought out a tub of mini balls for the USA players to sign and throw them into the crowd, and Ant musta seen me wearing my Timberwolves jersey cause he pointed me out and threw me the first ball he grabbed. His first throw was actually awful and it went way wide, but he threw another one that was right on the money which I flubbed the catch on, then he finally just walked a 3rd one over and handed it to me.
By far the coolest player interaction I’ve ever had, and I just thought it was cool that even though I’m a 30yr old dude he was super adamant about getting me a ball! The guy shows love to fans for sure
Not the 1st time I remember he always looks for a younger kid sitting not too close. Thats about as cool as it gets.
Imagine if he cared about his own kids like that.
Maybe that was one of them
50% chance
Kids like that generate him money. His own kids drain him of money. Good business decision Ant. Next business decision is to learn what a condom is.
Next business decision is to just fuck dudes
Came back and signed that kids jersey and maybe gave him one too.
He gave the game worn one and it was signed. He also signed the lady that was by the kids item as well. On his way out he was going to give the kid the jersey but the NBA lady pulled on it to stop him. So he stopped to tell the kid he would be back or send it out to him.
They’re using the Christmas jersey patches for cards apparently, so they weren’t allowed to give away tonight’s game worn. Cool for Ant to come back with another one though!
“Sorry Timmy, you can’t have the actual game-worn because middle aged men will spend hundreds for part of it encased in cardboard”
Those guys don’t just come from nowhere. They come from being kids like this with these experiences. Sports collectables were cryptoing long before bitcoin.
I think his game-worn might have had blood on it or he wasn’t allowed to give it to the kid for another reason (charity auction?). It seemed like he came back with a fresh jersey for the kid instead. Quite cool of him to do, given he was surely frustrated with being ejected and losing.
he did seem to be pointing to it explaining something to the kid
Shades of 91 with a quick Double-T! And the signed Jersey fan service? Gotta love it. Curry is right; this league is definitely in good hands. 😢 🙏
Im sorry, I didnt watch the game, but does that say 50 Pts 16 Reb 15 Ast for Jokic? Wtf??
He’s pretty good at basketball.
Which is only secondary to loving horses.
Imagine him running one of those gladiator chariots
Jokic: “Must play basketball - need more horses.”
Ended with 55 or 56
Just another day at the office for the best player in the world
Man it’s hard to say he’s not top 5. He’s passed Magic and Bird for me. He’s a fucking elevator man. Just hold on we’ll get there.
Fuck it I got them winning it all
“How can I make this about me” ass ref
“How can I make some money off this” ass ref
This was a foul…?
Are you confused maybe? Did you read the title of the post you are commenting on? The subject is the tech on Edwards
the tech was for Edwards reacting to the foul call
wtf is “pointing out on people?” I have genuinely never heard this term before, lol.
I was hoping you knew…?
I think OP is referencing ANT pointing at people walking off the court, but then again I’m still not sure.
Op wants it to be what you think it is. Ops Jsut a renaissance man
That’s so fetch.
Title reads like AI wrote it
Ai word salad
Agreed, probably should have left that last sentence out, it wasn’t needed
Scott “the Grinch” Foster killed Anta Clause.
Scott Foster just ruined an otherwise Xmas classic because of his ego
Ego? Wasn’t he the one that was tight with the ref fixing games for the mob?
He was called before and after numerous fixes games, but the NBA assured us that was a coincidence!
From a burner phone otherwise only used for calling gambling contacts.
Nothing suspicious.
Nba is involved
Scott Foster didn’t eject Anthony Edwards, it was Matt Myers (0;45)
Foster only gave the first tech.
It seemed like Ant ruined it, not too much argument on the technical foul it seems like everyone agreed it was a T.
Wolves got absolutely jobbed in OT
We were going to lose
but like let us do that ourselves
Once Jokic remembered that he could shoot his own 3s it felt inevitable that we would lose.
But it would be nice if we could watch Ant try to stop them instead of Bones Hyland lmao
We were experts at it for just about 2/3rds of my life as a matter of fact
There were some annoying flops and calls down the stretch, but the only reason the nuggets were in a position to do so/benefit from it was because of 2 massive 3s from Jok and another from Jamal
ngl when they opened OT on a 9-0 run i thought they had all the momentum but either way it was a fun 5 mins of OT until the refs had to make it about themselves at the end
They did until they kept trying hero ball instead of clock and it bit them in the ass.
ELITE flop from jokic at the start of this clip too btw
Isn’t the call you gotta give the guy space, Jokic didn’t have time to react to do anything but crash into Dante as he turned with the ball. Doesn’t help that Dante also brought his arms down so the straight up argument goes out as well.
It wasn’t a shot block attempt so the “straight up and down” is irrelevant. Donte needed his feet planted for a charge. He jumped up in front of a dribbling player. Defensive foul 10⁄10 times. Late whistle sucks but that’s still a foul.
“Feet planted” is irrelevant to block/charge. What matters is legal guarding position.
This is one of those plays where if Jokic doesn’t snap his head back and fall down there’s not going to be a whistle. It’s the exact time of thing that causes players to flop to begin with, because it gets results.
With that said I wish we actually penalized players for flopping. Jokic is awesome but that was a Oscar worthy double flop, between the initial head snap and then the extra flail as he hit the ground lmao
You’re on that copium brother. DDV fucking smoked him there
He must be built like a brick shithouse to knock Jokic on his arse like that.
Flop? A guy plants himself on his path at midcourt then jumps while he’s turning around on a fast break and its his fault? If you wanna steal the ball, get the ball, not the player. Don’t fucken ambush people without even aiming for the ball lol
The play-by-play guy on this game was atrocious.
So was the camera work. It was ABC’s dipshit brother in law team
Kirkland dorris burke was unpleasant to listen to. Even regular dorris burke is unpleasant to listen to.
She said less stupid shit than Doris I thought
What was his name? And how can I avoid listening to him again?
i hate how the difference in OT was Jokic getting rewarded with touch foul calls by flailing about and Ant gets hacked on a layup but doesnt get a foul call
We’re extremely used to it
To me it’s a miracle how Ant doesn’t get ejected constantly. I watch every Wolves game and this shit happens nearly every night. I lose my mind as a fan, I don’t know how he holds himself together.
The refs just genuinely hate him, it’s unbelievable his lack of a whistle.
And then that one where Rudy got the offensive rebound under the basket and like 3 Nuggets blatantly fouled him and the refs were like “I didn’t see nuthin’”
Yo jokic flops so much.
Telecast blew that call.
Telecast was ass all night.
This is ESPN, what did you expect?
nice product NBA
It’s legitimately unwatchable at this point
Refs are an absolute joke
You think this is not a foul?
The people trying to claim that wasn’t a foul are wild. Two refs watching that happen and not blowing their whistle are the real embarrassment for the league here.
in an attempt to defend the shot
What shot was he defending here?
Show me in the rules where it specifies this has to be on a shot attempt.
So you can’t defend a pass? Jokic flopped and that’s the only non-gambling reason he got tge call.
He walked up and slapped Jokic who was standing ready to shoot a free throw. Dunno how that wasn’t a tech
Perhaps there’s a clip that shows what his 2nd technical was for
They barely even mentioned that it happened. All of sudden Murray was taking free throws. It was weird that the telecast never circled back to it.
Pretty sure he was flipping off the ref or saying things they didn’t want to broadcast on air
Ah. Guess that makes sense. Wish they had said something though. Makes people think the worst
Lmao at Jokic head snapping back despite not getting touched. Can’t stand how he flops so much
Its so clanky when a 280 pound man does this. Sad thing is that it was definitely a foul but it wouldn’t have been called if he didn’t flop.
What do you mean not being touched? Clear as day contact
His head was not touched, yet it snapped backwards. It’s a flop clear as day.
Literally exaggerates contact because he doesn’t get a single whistle if he doesn’t
Mr “never gets a single whistle” shot 24 FTs tonight though.
“Jokic doesnt get a whistle so he has to flop” is one of the most bs sayings that shows immediately someone doesnt watch the nba at all. If you believe jokic has a bad whistle or he is the only player who has to flop to get fouls called you cant even speak on the nba
I mean that’s a foul. Called late though
Two dumb techs from Anta Clause.
To all a good Sprite
Pretty simple: Jokic kept his composure in OT and Ant lost his, so Denver wins.
Easy to keep your composure when you’re being rewarded with soft touch fouls, meanwhile ant is getting hacked to death lmao
Stephanie making Doris look less of a homer.
How is Scott Foster still a ref. He is so terrible and has made so many controversial calls affecting the ends of games.
Oooohhh he’s “pointing out on people”.
Are we supposed to know what this means?
I had to scroll pretty far to find someone who who called it out, and I still can’t figure out what OP was trying to say.
I hope Ant gave the finger to Scott Foster. Mofo was calling sketchy fouls 😖
Jokic flopping before contact was even made is fucking sad.
You know it’s serious when there is no footage of it and the only person who saw it is the person in charge of handing out the punishment.
wtf does pointing out on people mean?
Talk your shit ant lol
We live in an era where the 3 best players (Jokic, SGA, and Luka) are some of the biggest floppers in the game. Man I miss my early 2000s basketball
The refs should be held accountable for ruining the product on the biggest night. Especially when they’re competing with the NFL.
It should be noted Jokic did the exact same thing 2 minutes earlier in OT to Ant in front of Foster for a no call. Refs are a problem in the league
What a fucking joke
Jokic needs more flopping criticism
Fat ass Joker runs into Dante in the air and falls backwards. Dante lands and is still standing. The game is so hard to watch .
I find nuggets games to be boring so I don’t often watch them… never knew Jokic flopped this much. Its embarrassing embiid level shenanigans.
Jokic, flopping bitch.
Thats the type of comment people would be saying if it was Embiid.
Weak call to get ejected over
We don’t know what Ant said to the ref to get the 2nd tech.
Fuck Scott foster
Jokic flopped. All day. Vincenzo literally half his size.
Im so glad i was sleeping. Can’t stay up for fixed games.
People are crazy if they want to act Iike this foul and the one on Gobert should have been no calls. Minnesota panicked and tried to get to physical as their OT lead slipped away. Ended up being a big reason they lost the game
Fucking awful call, jokic with the flop and completely falls on the floor lol nba such a joke.
I can’t watch nba for more than 15min in the 4th quarter of close games. this product is so shit. refs call 35 fouls a game. nba is a terrible product.
Jokic is such a flopper my gosh
The people saying Donte didn’t foul Jokic are probably the same people who think Caruso played great legal defense on Jokic in the playoffs. Obviously a foul. People really can’t put their bias aside.
So it seems like Ant picked up tech #1 while they were showing the replay due to the whistle in the background, plus when they cut back live Murray was already at the line ready to shoot it. I’m assuming he didn’t let up and got #2 when it was live.
It’s not like he protested being tossed … he definitely wasn’t surprised.
What was the first tech on Ant for? The one after he dunked it with 25 seconds remaining on OT. I didn’t see him do anything lol.
He knocked the ball out of Jokers hand when he was trying to inbound the ball. Automatic delay of game tech
Team player
Scott Foster, the guy that Timothy Francis Donaghy was buddy buddy with?
Scott Foster is trash