[Highlight] Anthony Edwards tries to disrupt Nikola Jokic’s preparation for the free throw in overtime, then acts like he didn’t do it
When jokic made the first one he def looked like “fuck…it didn’t work”
HAHA! You noticed something I didn’t, but I think you’re right. Watch the way he talks to Peyton Watson after Jokic’s first free throw… almost like, “Man, I’m trying everything but this dude is just too good.”
Peyton: bro i just work here
Sir this is a Clutch Sports
It’s crazy to me how harmless some people read Ant’s behavior. When he did this, I said, he’s going to get himself in trouble. He went on to get two technical fouls and thrown from he game. Dude was not just playing around. He was pissed and being an ass.
Exactly, and this isnt a smart little trick to rattle an opponent
Its risking a technical for absolutely no upside. Does anyone seriously think Jokic would be shook by this behavior? This isnt Dillon Brooks or some kid you used to play with in school. If anything you’re letting him know that you’re the one that’s losing your cool.
There’s one way to play mind games in this scenario and it’s to ball out.
Lol “this isn’t Dillon Brooks”. Hilariously true. He’s such a dick.
This game was interesting — new format of Ant frustration I hadn’t seen before.
Dude definitely has strong class clown vibes. When shit didn’t go his way, he got a huge devilish smirk on his face and was like watch this. Two T’s!
Spambot?
Seriously, Nikola knows every trick in the book and a bunch more yet to be written. It had 0% chance of “working” (whatever he wanted to happen, I can’t imagine what that was) and a very good chance of earning himself another T.
Petulant and selfish.
That’s what charisma does for someone, people just want to give them every excuse. Ant is just super charismatic
Ant is super charismatic. Unless you’re one of his kids
Nah I bet there are lots of glimpses of charismatic-good-dad that make the abuse even more confusing and create complex layers of childhood trauma.
Tbf, Jokic is annoyingly good and consistent. I almost don’t blame Ant for trying SOMETHING.
You don’t blame Ant for doing something that would be a technical foul if it was seen? Ok. I mean, I do.
It’s just about the most harmless tech that should be called- didn’t injure anyone, didn’t disrupt play, etc. It still should have been called, but it’s not like he’s going the Lou Dort route to solving the problem of another player being too good. Just saying it’s understandable as an act of frustration, even while deserving punishment.
compeltely get what your saying
but it was a tech becasuse his actions objectively disrupted play lol
The ref came and talked to both Ant and Jok after it happened, they clearly saw it
Interesting. I wonder if that’s partly why they were quick with the second tech.
Oh most definitely. Which is why doing this was so dumb.
The second a ref catches you trying to sneak break the rules, you lose any leash and open yourself up to pointless fouls/techs.
That’s the wrong thing to try lol
You dont beat a guy like Jokic with this type of behavior. Precisely because he is so consistent. This bullshit is not likely to rattle him, but it comes at the risk of a technical foul.
It also just makes Ant look like he’s the one that’s rattled by resorting to middle school-tier games.
The way you “rattle” Joker is by responding to his 3s with your own 3s, closing down his passing lanes- basically elevating your game to his level.
Dude is a manchild, this isn’t surprising
Ant is hilarious!
He is hilarious. Maybe he’ll go throw a chair at a fan and impregnate his fifth Only Fans mama. Funny Ant Man!
fr it reminds me of cultists saying “Trump is hilarious!” after every crass remark.
Get it, it’s still funny after the 46183th time.
Need the jomboy edit of this one with lip reading
“you weren’t falling out of bounds, Ant ”
Wonder what he said there need some lipreaders
Something like “i should have worn my bright sneakers! Damn!”
Ant Edwards is exactly the guy he played in the the movie Hustle lol
It’s fun how much these teams and fanbases dislike each other. Definitely the biggest rivalry the Nuggets have had during my 30 plus years as a fan.
Do they? I always had the impression Wolves and Nuggets have a rivalry like siblings rather than hatred (like the Thunder)
The players downplay it, but you can see it while watching the games. Ant doing shit like this throughout OT, Jokic bumping hard into Ant’s shoulder.
Malone and Finch straight up hated each other when Mike was still the coach.
Fanbase wise, I don’t think the fans hate each other (yet), but I think we are at the point where they hate the other team. At least on the Nuggets fan side.
Also worth noting the original play-in game in 2018 and the Tim Conley situation.
I have way more respect for Denver as a team vs others. I like to think it’s a relatively healthy rivalry. They beat us round 1 of the playoffs otw to the championship. We beat them round 2 in the craziest game 7 in our history. I wanna see a runback in the WCF even if the Nuggets win it - won’t be salty. Just good hoops.
It’s always banger. Feels like it’s mostly ethical hoops too, without dirty plays
Been this way since game 82. I don’t like “Heat Pack” for his antics in the playoffs but I don’t hate the Nugs I love seeing them on the schedule
Yeah, it alternates between Jokic going supernova on everyone to the Wolves locking down the entire Nuggets squad and winning through team ball. Fun back and forth with different styles.
Yeahhhh. Thought I hated you guys. But the playoffs last year put it in perspective for me. At least when you guys played crazy aggressive ass defensive, you were playing hard ball both ways. I remember in our series, I was annoyed because I felt you were getting away with excessive fouls (and I love aggressive defense) and the nuggets were being soft crybabies. The last one pissed me off the most. Specially Murray
Definitely understandable, I think the refs just ruin our games. I see our games as kind of a sibling dynamic. Also Utah the same way since a lot of our current players come from them. Hopefully the build around Ant-Jaden lets us continue to be competitive and keeps Ant gaining playoff experience.
Ant has his flaws (he’s human and we don’t know all the facts behind stories), but I genuinely love watching him play. If he can notch his consistency up just a little more he’ll reach the top tier with all the Europeans
I also fear the hell out of you guys and respect you far more than the thunder as well lmao
Yeah things were on the verge of getting into toxic territory with the heat pack game followed by Jaden’s self alley oop at the end of the series. But to pull from football, it’s way more of an NFC North flavor of rivalry than an NFC East.
100% always one of the best matchups and even if you just take temp of the game threads, I feel like the fans of both are more convivial than the average /nba thread
That game 7 never happened and I definitely was not there
During the games sure but hasn’t ant regularly complemented Jokic and how insane he is? And nuggets players giving the wolves credit on how they were the hardest team they played in their championship run. As long as they keep it on the court and play hard, that’s just fun basketball.
One thing Ant does, he acknowledges game. He may not like guys, I really dont know if he likes Jokic or not, or even really cares, but dude is very aware of great players and has no problem making those acknowledgments.
He has some off the court issues but anything basketball related, you couldnt really ask for anyone better in terms of mentality.
I mean I hate playing the wolves because it’s a legit concern for my heart, but I absolutely do not hate the wolves as a team. I’d go so far as to say I’m rooting for them the vast majority of games they’re not playing the nuggs
Same, I love Joker and really like AG. All the Nuggets/Wolves games are hard fought, great games to watch. I’d take another series in a heartbeat even if it probably would kill me
The only Nuggets I actually don’t like are Murray and Braun, and to be fair to Braun it’s mostly just his face
Nah as a wolves fan we respect Denver. We despise OKC. With you guys. You just play hard don’t do bullshit fouls a lot of the time. Compared to the Bullshit OKC we have to deal with.
The way they have talked about each other in the past, I think there is a lot of mutual respect between Ant and Jokic specifically. I’ve also seen them share laughs that were caught on camera outside of the court setting multiple times.
I think most Wolves fans like the Nuggets as a team. Except Jamal Murray, he’s pretty universally disliked.
Ive hated them since that game, April 11th, 2018. Jimmy Butler dropping 31 and stopping our playoff hopes. Not in a cause theyre dirty sort of way but in an unwarranted hatred sort of way, the type of hatred you have for Tom Brady where you just wanna see him lose again and again
I think you’re just blind and trying to pretend like you know what you’re talking about, but it’s not that deep
Brothers and sisters are natural born enemies. Like Englishmen and Scots.
Or Welshmen and Scots
Or Scots and Scots.
Damn Scots ruin everything
The problem with Scotland is that it’s full of Scots
you nuggets fans, err, Scots, sure are contentious!
Austin Power’s dad vs the Dutch
I think a big thing is Minnesotans and Coloradans are spiritually similar. We’re both chill. A ton of folks from MN end up moving to Colorado.
The Nuggets are for sure our biggest rival and I love when the Wolves beat them, but I deeply respect their team. Jokic is unbelievably good, top 10 all time player for me. But I also love seeing Ant do petty shit like this to get an advantage (as long as it’s clean).
I feel like Denver & Minneapolis have similar vibes too
There are the usual suspects on each team that are super obnoxious (ThIs Is ThEiR sUpErBoWl), but I haven’t had an awful experience with nuggets fans.
Thunder fans, on the other hand, are categorically the absolute worst. Fuck em all. Straight up gaslit themselves into thinking they’re playing ethical basketball and the entire league has been brainwashed into hating them. They’re all clowns 🤡
EDIT: Also, a LOT of nuggets fans defended Murray when he tried to injure Ant (CORRECTION: KAT) by throwing a heating pad on the floor mid-possession.
It’s actually hilarious seeing all the mental gymnastics thunder flairs jump through trying to defend their team’s BS
It doesn’t help that every game I’ve seen of these two play lately seems to have highly contentious, highly questionable ref jobs going both ways. Even more than usual, that is. No quicker way than to make a fan base hate each other than poor refereeing to make it seem like your team wasn’t even given a chance to beat them. Which is why we all hate okc these days, naturally.
Yeah I’m saying we constantly have shitty reffing. Not biased in a single way, just pure chaos across the past couple years of Nuggets/Wolves
It’s gotta be super frustrating as a player to not know what to expect game to game or even quarter to quarter
Minnesota and Denver have a rivalry in Hockey. In NBA theyve started getting heated
The fans hate okc more, the players hate nuggets more. And it’s mutual I think.
No I think the Wolves players despise OKC’s players.
Nuggets fans respect the wolves and the warriors, ant and curry play ethical ball, the Lakers and OKC play ref ball, and that’s why we absolutely hate them.
Den/Min* is a legit rivalry going back 10 years. The wolves knocked out Jokic and the nuggets out of the play-in in 2016 then upset them in a huge way in 2023 . Personally, I dislike the Wolves more than the Thunder.
Edit: I shouldn’t say dislike because I respect the wolves, idk about the Thunder
I do not hate the Nuggets at all, I down right respect Jokic and that team. Its more of a fierce competition than hatred. I hate the Thunder.
Yeah I like the Nugs (other than Murray) and their fans when we’re not playing each other. Even when we are, everyone’s usually pretty cool. Great team, great fans, best player in the world. They don’t belong in the same (very negative) conversation as the Thunder at all.
I actually think Wolves and Nuggets fans largely get along pretty well considering the rivalry.
Like, as a Wolves fan, I MUCH prefer the Nuggets to the, say, Thunder. I generally find the fans way more intelligent and thoughtful, and I love watching Jokic play basketball. I think the Wolves players actually really respect the Nuggets too. Everytime they play they sing Jokic’s praises
Like, the Wolves clearly HATE the Thunder (and as a Wolves fan that’s where most of my ire goes). I don’t get that from the Nuggets.
The Wolves defeated us in game 7 and Ant was dancing on the court.
Last season we got swept by you guys.
You had Denver’s number, we lost Joker’s 60 10 10 game too.
Cant hate that. Wolves are too good.
yeah its hard to have a rivalry when the nuggets just kept losing to them. Now that we have some more games over them and its back and forth I can feel the hate starting to flow.
See I’m 100% on the other side. Sure we’ve won a bunch of games in the head to head recently- but you guys reached the ultimate goal in a championship recently (and I’m 34 and I’ve never seen a Minnesota team PLAY in a championship)
If you offered me: Mnsportsfan, if you could win the championship this year, but had to lose heartbreaking game 7’s to your rivals for the next 5 years straight- I’d be signing that contract before you finished the question
I’d sign it after the word “but.”
Don’t care how that sentence ends. Gimme the pen. Or do you need blood? I’ve already slashed my palm open just in case.
We gentlemen swept them on the way to the chip my dude. The rivalry did not start in 2024 and Denver is not behind because the wolves had our number for one year lol
And there was game 83 right before that. That felt like the beginning of this current rivalry.
It’s been flipped this year. Feels god awful.
‘On the court’ hatred it seems like from an outsider. comes from the saying ‘keep it on the court’. The second the game is over, you’re joining each other on the couch to hate on somebody else
Like, as a Wolves fan, I MUCH prefer the Nuggets to the, say, Thunder. I generally find the fans way more intelligent and thoughtful
As Shai makes OKC more of a national bandwagon brand, the average intelligence of Thunder fans is going up. So that’s only going to get more even for a while.
Feeling is mutual, I genuinely love watching Ant. Even McDaniels has grown on me. And I’m happy to cheer on the Wolves against every other team.
den min are goku and vegeta
Nah, I’ve got nothing against the t-wolves. I think Ant is an insanely good player.
But fuck OKC.
I also like ant and fuck okc
Amen brother (or sister or however else you identify as)
I’m a wolves fan, and I love our rivalry with the nuggets. Always a good game. Of course wins are preferred, but I can deal with losing to a good team that plays good ball. All respect
I respect the hell out of Ant and the Wolves, but I do hate them for crushing us in game 7 after we were up 20 some, and then beating us 6 straight right after.
I have hardly seen any hate toward the nuggets or their fans. There’s a post in the wolves sub right now shouting out nuggets fans for a shared hate of Scott foster.
Only time I’ve been annoyed by nuggets fans is when they’ve made a bunch of excuses after the losses in the playoffs. I’ll occasionally make fun of Jamal mirray for disappearing at important times or thinking his handles are much better than they are But other than that there are usually posts about how good jokic is or the cool shit Gordon does
Definitely a rivalry, definitely don’t hate them though
For what it’s worth - I generally love your fan base - I love your team - Jamal Murray is a bit of a bitch especially after he threw shit onto the court but that’s really the only guy I dislike - well that and Aaon Gordon pulling a Monstars move and stealing Curry’s 3 point shooting ability before he plays against us every year lol - until we play them and then I hate them during the game - but I go back to loving them after and would happily watch a bunch of Denver Nuggets games without the wolves.
I can’t stand to watch OKC - I hate their play style - I hate how they are a reffed - I hate that SGA is so insanely talented and instead of relying on that talent he chooses to play the way he does because the refs call the whistle for him so easily, and in games where the officials are officiating him by the rules instead you can see that talent come out, and he makes soul stealing shot after shot against amazing defense - I hate how their fans are either incredibly dumb OR brainwashed and don’t actually know what the rules of basketball are. I can’t stand guys like Caruso getting to fucking damn near MMA grapple Jokic last year - Ant/Rudy/Randle for us last year - Dort playing tackle football and when they FINALLY get a foul called on them after 10 minutes of uninterrupted hacking - they act like it wasn’t a foul, and they’re being punished for playing perfect defense which is probably because it’s never called so they think the refs are being crazy to never call that and then suddenly call the obvious fouls a foul. I hate all of their off ball grabbing and tugging on defense constantly that doesn’t get called and prevents guys from getting open.
I would LOVE to see SGA be on a team that was reffed the exact same as every other team - I think he’d be insanely awesome to watch, and that may be what I hate most about OKC.
You must have forgotten the jazz games that for a good 5-6 year period that every game (Including playoff series) had at least one moment a game with hard fouls that lead to pushing and shoving. Don’t get me wrong I hate the Twolfs but to say its the biggest one in 30 years is not accurate.
We don’t really, actually a lot of respect I would say.
I think it’s a really great rivalry. But I don’t get animosity from Wolves fans in these games. And I also feel Ant and Jokic actually like each other. This clip reads like Ant is a lot more comfortable doing shit like this knowing Jokic isn’t gonna fight him over it. I think it’s respect with the T-Wolves.
Though I HATE what they did to us in 2023-24.
He also knock the ball on jokic hands trying to make an inbound pass then called for a delay of game preceded by a tech - and wolves fan are saying refs cooked them
Yeah he was just doing stupid shit by the end of the game. If Ant just maintains his composure after the back to back 3s to cut the lead of 9 to 3 then I think they close it out but they just start doing stupid shit when they just needed to focus. Some of that was probably getting tired, but like, a lot of it was just dumb fouls.
What’s more infuriating was that no wolves media was in Denver. I do get its Christmas, but dude I wanted ant to answer for his bs at the end, to the fans.
Doesn’t the national media have full exclusivity to this game including post-game?
This is the culture Finch has created tbh, people laugh at the ref crash outs but that trickles down to the players too.
i don’t care what you think about OKC, its appalling that a grown ass man lashed out like that at refs, got rightfully ejected, and this sub hailed him as a hero, its fucking pathetic and now we see that the timberwolves just blame the refs for everything not going their way, thats not a winning culture by any means
why is he doing this shit in literally a tied game too
he’s basically daring the refs to call technicals on him, and guess what eventually they did
so he gifts the nuggets two FTs for no good reason at all… cause he’s cranky and feels like being a troll
Brother started crashing out when Denver started making those 3s off the inverted screens
The fouls were probably frustrating but like, this was literally an overturned foul originally on JOKIC that put Gobert out of the game. At some point you just have to play the game and can’t take it out on the refs doing stupid shit like knocking the ball out of an inbounder’s hands and flipping them off, especially when the game is still in reach.
Foster has a vendetta against Gobert. I’m sure he does for many players but last season Gobert made the money sign at him and Foster has not forgotten. By the letter of the law the overturn was correct. But Watson going through McDaniels on that bad Ant pass the next possession isn’t much different.
Daily reminder that Foster is a fuckin’ cheater and was in with Donaghy until he went down.
What are you talking about? Foster called the foul on Jokic and then it was overturned on review when it was clear Goebert fouled Jokic first.
the pwat steal was completely different lol jaden/ant didn’t even argue that
yea bc the difference is he got ball first. gobert got all of jokic’s arm then ball
If you didn’t let refs who have personal vendettas agains players do their games, you’d need at least three or four more refs.
The look back like “who’s he talking to?” Had me dying 🤣
He’s obviously wrong for this but it’s also kinda funny
Imagine if Jokic did this to Ant. All the haters would be itching to press that post button with the same 1000 clips.
Denver down 9 in the OT and Jokic hit two consecutive three to cut the lead to 3, but aint nobody posting that.
Not exactly what happened but close enough. Jokic hit a 3 to cut it to 6, Hardaway hit a 3 to cut it to 3, Randle hit 2 FTs and then Jokic hit another 3 to cut it to 2. Then Jokic ties it on a floater before the FTs start. Btw Murray assisted all 4 of those shots that cut the lead from 9 to 0
You are right. Jamal is so gassed there but hit that 3.
This particular play came from an overturned Gobert call, if Nugget had no challenge Gobert would be on the free throw line. If its all by the book then Ant could have been called a T here too.
I dont see how this game is fixed for Denver.
why are there so many losers on here that can’t wait to play the victim card about their team lol
it’s gotta be a reddit thing right
Well it was posted twice I guess
Jokic haters on nba reddit? This is the Jokic subreddit lol he’s by far and away the favourite on here
Should have been a tech.
Don’t worry, they get him next play for delay of game when all hell breaks loose.
I just miss serious basketball. This is partly why refs get so much hate.
It was a good call. Jokic had full possession of the ball and was inbounding, then Ant strips it and knocks it away, giving the wolves time to set up their defence. This was the second time that had happened, which is an automatic tech. Even touching the ball after a bucket counts as delay of game, this was blatant and would’ve given the wolves a big advantage if not called. Ant needs to learn to maintain his composure.
Refs get hate because officiating is fucking atrocious, this shit didn’t happen in a vacuum.
Should’ve been a T.
Ant’s talented but his immaturity and lack of composure are the main reason why Minny lost this one.
Exactly, when your best player is doing these things in a close game, doesn’t bode well for you as a serious team
The main guy shouldn’t be the one doing Brooks/Lance stuff
The entire team went into meltdown mode and played kept doing stupid fouls (even if Denver is flopping, you know how the refs are gonna call it)
And what was Bones doing out there lol
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lol most elite athletes are not good people.
The amount of water people carry for Ant being a deadbeat is truly amazing stuff
Conley is old, Dillingham is a bust, and DDV was having a terrible game.
He’s actually giving them decent offensive guard minutes, although we hunted him mercilessly. Absolutely needs Gobert on the floor to survive.
This team went to two WCF in a row with Ant as their leader, I would argue they are pretty serious
If Ant’s going to mature he needs balanced vets that act like professionals around him, not fucking Bones Hyland.
nobody should need a vet around them to know not to do this it’s a bitch move
He was mature enough to send home the Nuggets in a playoff series soooo
Couldn’t win a chip though, unlike the 2023 season where Jokic sent y’all home
Comical take - with 0 championships and 4 baby mama’s to date lmao.
I mean, he was the reason they were even there on the first place
Looking over his shoulder is amazing, legit cartoon moment. Me? Haha
“How can we blame this on Jokic or Foster?”
I do not think that’s most of us. The least correct voices just tend to be the loudest. Jokic was incredible and Nuggets earned that win.
Yea, you’re right.
Same face he make when the paternity test comes back
Funny but stupid move. Jokić cold blooded in the OT won this game.
Such a knob.
Edwards is talented, but a low iq idiot.
Are we all just gonna be pissy & pretend this isn’t hilarious?
The problem is that he continues, gets ejected, and blows the game.
It’s funny but you can’t just break the rules to give everything a pass cuz you laugh at it
Dude grabbing people is so funny, and then to top it off acting like you didn’t do anything wrong? Seriously so hilarious, you are right
Good at basketball, dbag at life.
Bitch move
Toddler level nonsense from Ant. Rather than locking in and trying to win the game, he resorts to this bullshit.
That’s how he acts with his baby moms too
Ant threw his whole team’s effort for a short burst of pettiness. Like imagine being his team, they were all thinking this when they went to the locker room.
Ant pushes it off like it’s nothing on his next interview. Already guaranteed.
Watching Ant blow it because he has the emotional maturity of a 7 year old is maybe the best Christmas gift I could have ever hoped for
This is entertaining as hell. I can’t believe how many tears are being spilled over it.
Edwards is such a clown.
AE thought he was playing against Bo Cruz for a minute.
Should have been a T for the bad acting.
Imagine Jordan, Kobe, Hakeem, etc doing this. Yeah you can’t
He also tried to act like he didn’t get all those women pregnant
We need a lip reader to see what he says to Watson at 10 seconds
I’m so tired of NBA “ question hands”
He had to abort dat routine.
Sound be a technical foul with an additional free throw.
The funniest (or maybe scariest?) thing about ANT is that he is still so goofy and immature.
Feels like if he ever decides to full-on lock in he could be the best player (or at least guard) on earth.
Like I typically scoff when someone says a player needs to have “more of a Kobe or MJ mentality” because 99.9% of players don’t have the skillset to back up that mentality.
But ANT does.
Reddit psychologists are having their day with this one I see.
Not a Nuggets fan, but gotta give props to Jokic. Nailed those free throws like the champ he is
easy tech, useless ass refs
Was he going for his nips? That’s like what I would do to my buddy at the Y, lol, what a goof ass. So cold, yet so childish.
Lol
So he wasn’t just acting in that adam Sandler movie. That’s really him.
Merry Christmas to Ants daughter he want nothing to do with. Great man, great role model for kids who look up to him.
Ant is a trash human
Lol Ant is friends with Jokic. Hes just messing around. No harm no foul.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
MAKE THE NBA PETTY AGAIN
This might be an unpopular take because this clip is kinda funny, but like, don’t touch people when they’re not expecting to be touched?
The fact that Jokic didn’t even look that annoyed at Ant haha I feel like he likes/respects Ant and knows he might do something similar like that lol
I love childish shit like this from grown ass man babies.
AE exact reaction when new baby mama pops up
Absolute kino
anthony edwards tryna get the same attention dillons been getting lately
Ant is a great player. But he is still a jerk. Always has been.
I’d love to have him on the Raptors team! He’s probably annoying as fuk to play against, but when he’s playing for you it’s probably fun to watch.
Ant makes the same face when he nuts in a chick who told him to pull out.
That was some b*^#$ move ant
When you are truly all out of ideas on how to stop someone
Wasn’t there a post floating around about him being an ethical hopper lol
I feel like ant just made him better
Ant should try having more kids and playing more CoD.
At that point in the game and since it’s a dead ball, that should have been a tech.
If it wasn’t a key moment in the game and he was just being goofy, ignore it.
why are people mad that he got a tech
Classic middle-schooler “Wasn’t me” shrug.
How would he feel if someone disrupted him having 4 kids last year?