[Highlight] Luka after falling off the raised board in Cleveland last night: “WHO THE F*CK MADE THIS FLOOR GODDAMMIT”
Seems something reasonable to say tbh.
To answer his question, probably Dennis Schroder
Nah Dennis slaps the face.
How can he slap?!
Its funny that this makes me like him more, as if being of the opinion that floors should be stable is something unique he and I have in common
Extremely reasonable reaction from him. My initial response on hearing him though immediately was “this is exactly what he sounds like when raging at someone in Overwatch” lol
Devin Booker I presume
LeBron built this house
LeBron is known to be a floor raiser
I honestly yelled the same thing at the tv
I guess you could say the designer was a bit… Cavalier
YEEEEAAAAHHHHHH
Damn, I’ve never heard luka’s voice like that
Luka adjusted well to America let’s just leave it at that
His shit talking and angry talk sounds very American nowadays
I contribute his shit talking English to his addiction to Overwatch.
“attribute”
Who the fuck made the dictionary? God damn it.
Just saw a guy fall to his knees reading the dictionary
In the public library, no less
Nice meme
Nah man this guy gave Luka his shit talking English
we ain’t come here to play school
You dont know for certain. He could’ve been there helping Luka personally rage more.
“who the fuck only plays Roadhog goddammit”
Overwatch yelling voice is the very first thing that popped to mind while listening to that lmao
One of us! One of us!
I swear, he’s got a split personality. In interviews and whatnot, he’s all meek and mild-mannered. On the court, he’s like a white KG. And I don’t think he’s one or the other, Luka just both.
“White KG”. 😂 I don’t know why that is so funny to me
It’s funny because KG is black, and Luka is clear
It’s funny because KG is slim, and Luka is thick.
Luka is a slim thick latina on the court
Larry, that could have been me…
I laughed at the exact same thing
I dont see anything unusual about this. It’s called a “game face” and Luka definitely has one. The classic example for this is Magic Johnson. On the court he’s Magic: he’s hyper competitive and a real shit talker, not afraid to throw hands if he has to. In public and in interviews he’s Earvin: big smile, lots of giggles and just genuinely fun to be around. The idea that a guy changes when he steps on the court isn’t new. Luka is just another one of those guys.
Whatever Magic Johnson may have been on the court, or what he may be in private, in public he by far one of the nicest and gracious athletes. Many years ago he released a book and they did a signing at a borders up in the Valley. He was going to be there from like 5pm to 7pm or something like that. Well, of course the line was out the door and around the entire mall. I guess he didn’t have anywhere to be that night, because he stayed until probably well after 9 and signed for every damn person who bought his book and stood in line. Every. Single. Person.
Also RIP Tony Gwynn. The only thing that man loved more than baseball was talking about baseball with any average schmuck who also loved baseball.
in this case, luka changes when he steps off the court lol.
You can tell he’s had a lot of PR training
I don’t think you’re wrong, but it’s not uncommon for players and people in general to genuinely act quite differently in a specific situation than in the rest of their life.
It’s not an exaggeration when they say he transforms on the court. He is usually shy and keeps to himself, moment he starts playing ball he is all smiles, shit talking and taunting in general lmao
I can understand this. Back when I played soccer religiously, everyone knew me as the quiet kind of geeky guy, yet when on the pitch something switched and I was an aggressive foul mouthed agitating person.
No idea how or why but it did disappear by my late 20’s.
Maybe it comes back if you’re back on the pitch with your kids later in life
!remindme 10 years
Nah for 90% us it just dulls out. I still love to compete but I can do it without being a psycho now. But it wasn’t til I was late 20s.
The real loons are the ones who never lose it and still pick fights in your Thursday night rec tennis league.
He’s technically off the court here
https://streamable.com/gjdta8
What the fuck
Luka came to the US 8 years ago. I’m just pulling numbers out of my ass, but if you assume five hours a day on or around the court 6 days a week, that’s almost 10,000 hours of english shit talking practice.
Bro has reached Malcolm Gladwell expert levels of talking shit.
Which makes sense cause he sounds like if you mixed all the nba players together
That’s gotta be someone else wtf lmao
I need to hear him say “Zoinks Scooby” in the same tone there.
Lmao knew it was gonna be this
I knew he was black
Are we sure it’s Luka’s? Lol
Those fake sports vids where the ball goes out of frame taught me that since we can’t see Luka saying this, the assumption is it’s someone else who voiced over the video.
No it’s actually Michael Rapaport
He sounds like Bubs from the Wire
It’s probably like non-English speaking performers singing in English, like this woman
Him playing Overwatch ranked at the hotel every night
That’s East Dallas Luka.
Cleveland should keep their raised court and all other teams should install a unique hazard of their choosing. Nets should get a court that slants 2.5 degrees downward towards the scorer’s table, the Clippers half court logo should be a trampoline, every game a different TD Garden parquet square should be a trap door.
TWolves stadium randomly releases pack of actual wolves onto the court during play.
I like the idea of the Pistons having actual hidden pistons all over their court that occasionally go off and send a player 30 feet through the air
the wizards just have saruman in a suite occasionally smiting players with magic
I like to think of Gandalf just getting high with the bench
Nah that’s Radagast
He does mushrooms. Gandalf likes the sticky icky. As seen when he sparks up with Bilbo. Apparently the shire grows that good good.
Sorry, but that’s actually just really good tobacco, not weed, according to Tolkien. I hate that I know that, too.
That’s just because he was born a few decades too early, the way he writes about tobacco makes me think that cannabis would be an obvious jump to make. But that’s just, like, my opinion man, your comment is correct according to JRR’s own words.
Fair take, honestly.
It’s a good thing they changed their name away from the Bullets then…
Ja Morant to the Wizards in a heartbeat
The Heat release a heatwave at random times in the arena.
Worked when the Spurs pulled that on yall in 2014..
This sounds like a great idea. Then again, if you are a Wizards fan, then you would be very wary of this power. Wizard’s Saruman would have terrible aim, questionable bathroom habits and a propensity to recklessly brandish weapons.
Bull wrangling to make it past half court seems interesting
It’s already near Detroit, how much more dangerous you want it?
So battlebots. Basketbattlebots
suns and heat could install giant french fry lights over the visitor’s bench.
FISH STICKS GET YA FISH STICKS HERE
Suns have blinding light, heat have extreme heating on the benches and under certain court tiles. Blind players or burnt rubber shoes and dehydrated rotations
Toronto having Ford Raptors take the court in a basketball stadium supertruck extravaganza.
There’s nothing in the rule book that says a dog can’t play ball!
Your stadium could have people wearing knee length loose fitting trousers
As a rockets fan I’m not sure how I think this will end.
Rest in peace my center, he got hit by a bazooka
Rockets turn the gravity off for a minute every quarter.
Adams can take two of them, Amen and Tari might get one each. KD and Reed are screwed, and Sengun is going to collapse and call for a foul the second they get into his vicinity
Smithers, release the Timberwolves
Hol’ up keep cookin
Pelicans just have slightly damp floors.
Whole building smells like old fish
Pelipper Drizzle ability
A well-fed pelican perched over the court that occasionally takes massive shits
An overly fed, lets keep the hazard levels equal here
What is damp will never dry.
The Lakers flood the visitor half of the court
The Clippers are allowed to pay Kawhi under the table
The Celtics release a bunch of leprechauns as part of the defense
bunch of leprechaun
Lol pp slander
IT was ahead of his time.
Rockets put a flagpole at the half-court sideline.
Preferably on a small hill. Maybe Chicago can put a brick wall under the baskets
Go full Mutant League Basketball. I’m talking land mines, lava moat, wall of spikes etc etc
the paint is just a treadmill pulling people towards the baseline
This is a legit great idea for a video game.
As a couple other people have said, this is basically Mutant League Football/Hockey (Mutant League Basketball was never released) for the Sega Genesis.
I actually think that they should scoop in snow into the garden, and then plow it and salt it and leave snowbanks on the sidelines rather than have court boundaries
Chase has a bunch of crypto nerds chasing players begging them to buy their shitcoin
More sports need non-standard playing fields. Like golf and, to a lesser extent, baseball
NBA seeing an influx of star injuries. The solution? Everyone is now hurt because they now play a different version of slamball at every arena.
Lmao
Ours will be seasonal depression
You’re hired as head of marketing for the NBA
lakers should add la baddies?
Doesn’t sound too far off from Manchester United’s pitch at Old Trafford.
https://cdn-media.theathletic.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=770%2cquality=70%2cformat=auto/https://cdn-media.theathletic.com/uhvOHYsIicw4_hXGgXpZqHNOD_1440x1000.jpg
I am genuinely surprised this is still allowed in the EPL.
Memphis will have fans shoot you with guns (fake or not depends on the day).
Understandable.
Yeah considering how often players dive trying to get loose balls idk why you would have that floor lol
As a cavs fan they need to fix this. It’s even more of a risk to our own players who have to play on this floor more than anyone else increasing the risk.
Why the fuck is it elevated to begin with, far as i know your court is the only one in the league like this
They need to swap it out for other events that aren’t basketball games and making it so it’s all the same level for the basketball games would cost more money, and Dan Gilbert only has like $30 billion so what can you do?
You’ll notice every other arena does the same thing and doesn’t have a raised floor lol
10 stadiums including the Garden and Crypto can becomes god damn ice rinks for their hockey teams no problem but the Cavs floor has to be raised so they can switch it out easier when three day grace comes to town
Yeah, still a shit excuse. All those things are done at the Delta Center without a raised floor.
On Philly they can play Hockey in the day then basketball at night without this raised floor setup.
Even if for whatever reason the elevated court is completely necessary, they could always just make that elevated court bigger so players won’t come close to edge. This is absolutely ridiculous on so many levels (no pun intended).
What !? Do you know the price of Hardwood today ?!! Nobody can aford that !
Philly actually does have a raised floor setup. It’s just not raised quite as high and I think the seat setup is better designed so the seats are flush against the raised portion. You can see here where there’s a water bottle and some cords below the floor:
https://www.nba.com/sixers/photos/philadelphia-76ers-best-of-december-2023-photo-gallery
They were being sarcastic.
The Cavs’ floor is also for hockey since the AHL Cleveland Monsters play there.
And they actually just raised the floor in the Delta Center this season to give better sightlines. But they also designed a new system of risers that go back and forth but also up and down so they don’t have a dumb gap like the Cavs do. The Cavs should do a better job, especially since the arena was just renovated a few years ago and this wasn’t fixed.
https://www.nhl.com/news/utah-mammoth-delta-center-revolutionary-seating-system-to-debut-this-season
We also routinely switch it to a hockey rink for our AHL team sooooo yeah…
Idk why it’s different
We all have to sign a petition in Comic Sans
If the AAC can figure out how to change a basketball court into a hockey rink in under 24 hours I’m sure it can’t be too hard
I remember Staples Center once having a Kings, Lakers, and Clippers playoff game all on the same day. Zero excuse for this bullshit.
I was gonna say, there are numerous occasions where an NHL and NBA team both have games on the same day. One plays in the afternoon, the arena crew changes it over, and the other team plays an evening game on the other surface.
This happens seamlessly in numerous cities without having any residual trap floors that endanger players.
You keep missing the part that it would cost money, and the Cavs owner only has $30 billion, so it isn’t possible.
We should start a gofundme
During the broadcast they said it was a design flaw, but no one has ever thought to fix it. Gilbert just being a cheap ass billionaire.
Yup - most stadiums in the NBA are multi-purpose but this is the only one with the achilles deathtrap. Purely a money problem that could be solved by one of the richest owners in the NBA with the money in his couch cushions.
Not too long ago the Cavs had a very expensive renovation to the stadium and it’s a very nice arena after don’t know why they didn’t fix it then
I’m guessing ever dollar they spent could be linked to additional revenue they could expect to see in some other area, whereas fixing the floor would purely be an expense. How could you possibly expect Dan to spend money on something so trivial to his bottom line
University of Minnesota and Butler have similar setups.
I dont know if the Wolves or Pacers have ever played in either of those arenas, but the Lynx and Fever do sometimes.
Vandy as well. And wherever they play Final Four each year. Justification is that you get better sightlines, particularly when you’ve got a lot of seats on a flat or very gradual slope.
The league will make the Cavs change it and level it out since it resulted in a top-5 player getting injured
I watched Dru Smith on the Heat wreck his knee on that court and couldn’t believe the league lets them have that. Should’ve been gone a while ago
Luckily Luka was able to avoid anything serious. One of these days, a serious injury to a star would get the league to finally take action. NBA needs to have safety regulations regarding their court design.
His accent vanished kind of funny guess he learnt to trash talk in English in the nba
haha yep. he hasnt heard “goddammit” said any other way.
That was practically a perfect Hank Hill.
I had a serbian buddy who sounded american only when swearing or using racial slurs.
Checks out. Swear words are cultural heritage and we show respect by pronouncing them properly
wtf his accent went completely gone there. also that floor is an absolute deathtrap what the hell. working in retail stores even a slight 1.5 inch elevated platform is just asking for someone to eat it and potential litigation..
imagine for him where if he gets injured he’s possibly out millions or if it ends his career, hundreds of millions
And not just him, league would lose soo much. At least I really hope they do something about this issue now.
If the league was worried about losing viewers, they’d do something about the refereeing first.
I’m a non-native speaker and I find that it’s easier to lose an accent when swearing, idk if it’s just me tho
It’s probably got something to do with just how common these expression usually are, like, saying “fuck you, goddamnit” without much of an accent becomes really easier after you’ve seen a couple movies in english, meanwhile in normal conversation the accent just comes through accidentally since you’re not hearing those expressions pronounced without an accent all the time
I think you see it all the time in sports or when people are fighting, some russian/latin-american dude will be speaking very broken english and then drop a ‘fuck you bitch’ in perfect american accent right in the middle or something lol
100% with you. Saying stupid shit in another language is almost natural, crazy how it just rolls off the tongue.
Can Luka and Dru Smith sue the Cavs? I’d love that.
His gamer voice
Luka sounding like my dad after we move something 2 inches from its usual position.
Or someone touched the thermostat.
One year in LA, and LA traffic has given him that perfect American accent when cursing.
He lived in this other place called Dallas for 7 years too! They also have accents similar to American accents.
Our traffic isn’t quite as bad as LA but we make up for it with all the uninsured paper license plate Nissan Altima drivers
it’s not as bad as LA for sure, but I actually lived in LA for 5 or 6 years, and when I moved back to dallas in 2021, there were random traffic patterns that I never noticed being an issue before, like driving TOWARDS downtown on 75 later in the day when most people would be leaving downtown to go home. that’s just one of the few random “traffic for seemingly no reason” examples that LA is known for, that didn’t used to exist in Dallas but now seem to be getting more common.
One more year in LA and this will be Luka
I would also be cursing in that situation. That floor is just stupid.
Been saying this since Lebrons first Cleveland run. Surprised LeBron never got seriously injuried, it always struck me as dangerous af
It’s like a 10 inch drop from the court–valid reaction imo
10”??? Goddamn! I assumed like 2” maybe 3”
It is. It ain’t 10” lol
Shh. Dont tell your wife that.
Close to a foot damn. No wonder Dru tore his ACL
You should see the Barn in MN
Genuinely unbelievable to see people defending this dumbass court the Cavaliers have. It already seriously injured Dru Smith a few seasons ago and players have talked about how much they don’t like playing on this court. Blaming Luka for hopping backwards after a jumper is such pathetic bootlicking.
Has the Cavs organization put out a statement or addressed this in any way? It’s beyond comprehension that they are allowed to have their court set up like this. Hopefully they get enough bad press that they fix it.
Yeah it’s unfortunate but if a Laker star getting near injured doesn’t get them to change it, it’ll need to be a star actually getting injured.
Or maybe LeBron will be the Cleveland-LA bridge and make a public statement shaming them
Are you insinuating that Dru Smith isn’t a big enough star?
Unfortunately, yes.
The Diff is -5 between floors
Nico Harrison Supply Co. obviously
Valid - stupid ass layout.
he almost did it again later in the game
literally no reason for it to be this way
The call of the void
That’s how the Final Four basketball courts be, shit be like 2-3 feet drop off smh.
Great question
Bro act like he never played in Cleveland before
Imagine being the guy who did make it.
Completely agree. It’s an even bigger risk for our own players so I don’t know why we aren’t doing something about it. At least extend the court out one extra foot.
It really doesn’t even sound like Luca lol
Just like they won’t put that much needed stop sign in your community until someone dies at the intersection, nothing will be done until a star is injured badly on this.
Always money and nothing else
He swears in his 3rd language. Impressive.
How thick is wall?
John Wall is pretty thick these days
You could really hear the Texan in that “goddamnit” lol
I mean Dru Smith tore his achilles because of this so yeah
Whoever made the floor was way too cavalier about it.
W luka
If Luka tore something would the Lakers be able to sue the people who own the stadium
NBA should shut that arena down until they fix the floor. Having players potentially getting season or even career ending injuries due to unsafe conditions should not be allowed.
Dude looks like a wrestler who was just thrown out the ring and is selling the fall’s impact.
Glad he could return.