[Highlight] Luguentz Dort sticks his hip out to make contact with Nikola Jokić, who responds; Jalen Williams steps in and squares off with Jokic.
I ain’t ever seen Jokic this angry
Lou Dort tries to hurt people. Over and over.
The league does nothing, so, somebody needs to solve that problem.
OKC is a team that should logically be fun to watch.
But instead; well, they’re OKC…
People romanticize physicality and tough defense, but that’s just because they grew up with it, most people don’t actually like it as much as they claim to unless it is their team doing it. I think most fans definitely do like some physicality, like how they allow in the playoffs, but you can’t both have a hard playing tough defense and then do all the flopping and baiting on the offensive end. Either we should play games one way or the other, having the offense and defense be so differently officiated just feels inconsistent and frustrating. I respect that at least the Pistons are tough on both sides of the ball and claim that bad boy energy, OKC does not
No. I like physicality. I like tough defense.
I do not like cheap shots. I don’t like tiny grabs for a half-second that should be fouls but that you can “get away with”
I hope he runs into the Jokic bros one day.
Jocic is the perfect dude, took out Morris’s idiot self out for a while, or did he send him home for good?
Effectively ended his career
Morris brothers?
Jokic can get like this whenever he gets really angry he’s scarier than other players lmao
When a guy like Luka gets angry it feels like a kid having a temper tantrum when Jokic gets angry it feels like he’s about to beat the fuck out of someone
When jokic gets really animated and angry he legit gets those Bobby Portis crazy eyes
For the uninitiated Bobby portis broke a teammates jaw and that guy left the nba the very next season and has never returned. And that guy was a 6’10 3pt shooter.
Mirotic got his revenge when he came back from that jaw injury and led us to a crazy win streak that completely blew up our tank.
What? You’re completely wrong about that lol he definitely didn’t leave the next season after that.
Never returned? What bullshit ghost story is this lmao
I mean have you seen Jokic’s brothers?
This time he’s justified
It was justified with Morris as well
Both times, fuck Marcus Morris.
Fear the anger of a gentle man
OKC commentators are looking and saying that Jokic instigated it!?!
Glass houses and all but boy do the OKC commentators suck. Like every time I’ve listened to them it’s like they’re watching a different game than me.
Definitely a glass house but…this is a fucking paper house calling a glass house a glass house. I think the only commenters worse than OKC are the warriors, and the only ones worse then them are the sixers.
OKC education on full display
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They got too used to the ref ball in the first half of their season. Now that they have to actually play fair, it feels unfair for them
Jokic seems to really take intense offense to off-ball cheap shots like this. It’s the same (but much less egregious) as what Morris did to him a few years ago.
If he’s got the ball and you’re getting physical with him he seems way more tolerant but if you’re making heavy contact with him off ball like this it seems to really fucking set him off.
This wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever seen but wtf was Dort thinking here? There’s absolutely no value to this move besides picking up a free foul. It’s totally blatant unnecessary contact he goes out of his way to initiate.
Injure Jokic and take him out. He’s a dirty player and has a history of doing this.
Thunder flairs assure me year after year that Lu Dort just plays hard and does not have such a history
a little absent from this thread (and I know a lot of Thunder fans are growing sick of him)
No value? He is trying to injure him.
Probably hoping to either injure Jokic or get in a fight so Joker is out of the game.
well obviously any ethical hooper would get mad at this non basketball cheap shots n foul baiting
I hate dort so much.
I dont get why when players obviously commit a foul then throw their hands up in disbelief that its called
Not only that but after cheap shotting another player, he immediately runs from the altercation and starts looking at the refs as if they should bail him out.
they better suspend his ass, there’s no argument to be made about that being a basketball play
Look I hate when people go at others and are like “HE TRIED TO INURE HIM.” e.g. Solomon Hill being dumb as sh*t doesn’t mean he intentionally dove at Brons leg to derail the Lakers 2020-21 season. It means he’s dumb as shit and chose the wrong time to dive.
But this is legit Dort hip checking and sticking a bit of leg out to trip Jokic, that’s dirty as fuck and intentional.
I’m looking forward to Tipper Naught on this one.
I used to have a screenshot saved of that Solomon Hill play, the moment when Hill was committed to going to the ground. LeBron’s leg was nowhere near where he was diving - it was behind him. LeBron was moving and his other leg was forward. There’s a better argument to be made that LeBron tried to block out Solomon with his leg than that Solomon tried to jump into LeBron’s leg.
(I don’t think LeBron tried to block him out, but it’s at least consistent with what’s in the footage.)
What Dort did here, or Dillon Brooks shoving GP2 from behind on a layup, that’s some seriously dirty shit.
Fuck a suspension just put him in the octagon with Jokic
But Strahinja Jokic.
Because his goal is to make the other player mad, so they retaliate, so they get a technical or ejected. It is elementary behavior, annoying someone until they retaliate and when they do run away to teacher and get them in trouble.
I wonder what his argument was on how that wasn’t a foul.
When you get away with it for so long then I’m sure it comes as a surprise when it’s called
you can see how he pretends not to see jokic when takes the step back and ducks and then acts surprised about the foul and that jokic wants to kill him
You can see him look over his shoulder first, look away then hip check him
He sticks his right foot out to trip Jokic
That’s every player on OKC
They’ve gotta follow Shai’s example
Dort has that real abuser energy. Pull some dirty shit then be like “calm down you’re being really aggressive”. He knows what he did then he acted all deer in the headlights when Jokic came at him, looking around like “what’s wrong with this guy? Jeez…”
Fuckin piece of shit
I know right. Like it was 10⁄10 obvious and dirty what dort did. Like as clear as it gets. And his reaction afterward jumping up and down like he can’t believe the call is legitimately disgusting. And jokic doesn’t play man like it’s very clear it was some cheap shit and he will step up for that shit.
He couldn’t even make eye contact with Jokic.
There’s also cameras at damn near every angle. Do they really think they would get away with something so egregious?
The RAGE in his eyes lmaooo I don’t blame him but damn
100%. That’s not fake or embellished outrage. Don’t think I have ever seem him that angry.
Bro I don’t think I’ve even seen another human look that angry
Mans was speaking Slavic tongues fr
I think is just regular everyday Slavic
Every Jokic crash out has been justified
Even when he killed cam Payne
Dort was trying to injure him
This - Dort is so damn dirty, acts with absolute ill intent and I don’t understand why the league allows it. From grabbing guys jewels to going after injuries like Luka’s knee a few years ago - he’s a dirty menace and he should be stopped before he seriously hurts someone.
He should be suspended.
Jokic bros will be attending their next game
Dort ran away.
Yah hes a coward. Thats why he plays the way he does.
The Morris maneuver.
I love the look on him. Time the fuckwits find out what’s in store for them.
OH DAMN, dude was NOT ready for that stare when he grabbed Jokic’s jersey 😭
I’m glad the refs upgraded that to Flagrant 2 – there’s no place for that shit in the league. That’s just an attempt to injure.
Flagrant 2 should come with further game bans like red card in soccer
Hard agree
Playoffs games bans.
Lu dort made that move to incapacitate jokic in prevision of the playoffs.
Lu dort doesn’t give a flying crap if he’s banned from next season game.
Ban him for all playoffs games 1
Exactly. Was it incredibly dangerous or life/limb threatening contact? No, probably not. But it was so deliberate and intentional to bump and cause harm to another player it absolutely deserved a flagrant 2, especially given his history. Like there’s simply no excuse he could give for stopping and hip checking him other than that he was trying to hurt jokic, even if the chances jokic actually got seriously hurt was low. Nothing about it was in the flow of the game or anything related to a basketball move
Also it’s jokic, harsher punishments are going to go out if you are trying to hurt the best player in the league
Yep. And as a lifelong bench player with a dirty history, it’s obvious his sacrifice to injure/risk suspension and take out opposing MVP candidates is ordained by the coaching staff at this point to create an advantage
He’s just off a knee injury, I think? Dort would know
That is what’s making it worse. Joker has already missed alot of time with a lower body injury and now Dort going after that same area he was injured?? Cmon man can’t be doing that shit to the best player
Honestly should get suspended. It’s so deliberate and malicious
Its wild that Beef Stew gets his recent multi game suspension for his history, but nothing will get done to Dort despite him having a dirty history of trying to injure and cheap shot players
100% - he has a history - essentially the vontaze burfict of the nba. Suspend him 20 games - including docking his paycheck - maybe he will think twice before he tries to injure one of the faces of the league on purpose again
Should be a suspension regardless of who he does it to.
Hopefully now that it happened to one of the best players in the NBA, maybe Adam silver will finally do something lol.
Dort has been getting away with these for so long.
Doubt it, Adam Silver is spineless
Yes
They gave Dort a flagrant 2 and ejected him. Offseting techs for Jokic and Jaylin
That was so easily the right thing to do I’m so surprised they actually did it
Yeah now they just need to suspend dort. How are you going to make a play thats so obviously that dirty, then throw your hands up and jump around like a toddler in disbelief. What a pussy.
League goes soft on players from high standing teams. Tale as old as time.
Dort should have had his ass handed to him during the finals but the league didn’t agree I guess.
Me too. I’m literally shocked. The fact Dort protested after very clearly doing some dirty ass shit is fucking disgusting. Why even protest if you literally do something on purpose. He clearly slides over to hip check jokic in a completely non basketball play and then is mad when he gets caught??? Fuck that dude. Seems like not a good person to be doing that.
Watch the replay. He stuck his foot out to trip him.
Dirty af.
He also had literally 0 reason other than being a dirtbag to do what he did.
Dude doesn’t need to pull any of this shit because they’re a great team and they can win fair and square.
Should be suspended by now for his history, too bad there’s no prop bet cheating or Silver might care
It’s hard to see initially but right as Jokic’s going behind Dort is when Dort sticks out his leg to trip him
Not hard to see at all. Fuck Dort.
What the hell is wrong with Dort
Piece of shit who’s been enabled. Same story in a lot of places in the world.
Even more bitch made when you see the replay and he’s putting his hands up like he did nothing when jokic stepped in his face
swear he’s got a dirty play that every team in the league can point to when they’ve played the thunder
But Thunder flairs told me Dort isn’t dirty
I’ve been told by them how Ingram, PG, Harden, and Ja were just products of Dort playing hard and not him being dirty.
That Morant play lives in my head, I still can’t believe that move and how Thunder fans saw nothing wrong with it.
The knee to Wemby on the rebound was shit.
they in there defending it
That’s insane behavior if so.
Lu Dort is a fucking bitch, and fuck any OKC fans that defend him
Dude might be the dirtiest players even with Draymond still out there playing, that’s a feat
Somebody gotta post the face Jokić makes when he faces off with JayWill
murder in his eyes https://i.imgur.com/nQ0xA04.png
So he does look like his brothers lol
And that’s directed at Williams. Imagine if he managed to get face to face with (bitch-ass) Dort lol. We would’ve seen a brand new human expression of anger
“I just want to talk to him I swear”
That legit looks like he was going to ACTUALLY kill him right then and there. Those eyes looked GENUINELY insane! 😳
Me when I’m contispated
its this exact moment when this Williams bum realised he should have stuck to cheerleading
Crazy eyes
or in this case, justifiably enraged eyes
u aint wanna anger a tall ass serb, especially when the tall ass serb got some big ass brothers
There was deadass murder in his eyes
It was his inner Eastern European coming out. Intense than a mfer
Idc what neighborhood some of these guys are from you don’t want Serbian smoke.
People think Jokic is humble and all that but there’s a real Serbian monster behind those eyes. Wouldn’t test it
Actual Joker mode
You wanna know how I got these MVP’s!?
Okc announcers are killing me. Not acknowledging how dirty Dort is and trying to play up Joker “punching” j will. That’s how people get injured.
That’s why Thunder fans are the way they are, they’re being gaslit by these announcers every game
Thunder fan here. You couldn’t be more right about our announcers. Unlistenable. You probably have no idea how bad it really is.
It’s crazy the influence announcers have on a fan base’s objectivity.
For instance Sporting KC had Nate Bukaty as their play by play for years, and he would pull some insane mental gymnastics to frame everything that went wrong was either due to pure luck or the universe conspiring against Sporting, and so many Sporting fans bought into that. Then Apple TV got the MLS contract and teams didn’t have their own announcers. Sporting fans have turned on the club for a number of very good reasons the past couple seasons, but I think no longer having someone gaslighting them into thinking they can do no wrong played a major role in that.
I was watching the same stream. They wouldn’t even show what Dort did! Not one replay of it. Only talked about Jokic’s “aggression” and repeatedly showing the sidelines instead of the full replay. Biased as shit.
the WORST crew in all of sports
That’s okay he was looking for Jokic #2 and #3 behind the bench.
Dort knows his role. Try to injure the other teams best player
He literally immediately ducked out of the mosh pit to go politicize with the refs. His team is fighting his fights for him and he’s over trying to silver tongue his way out of any responsibility
Lu Dort going for the knee Jokic just had injured then playing the innocent victim. Classic.
Pulled Ja out of the air in the playoffs last year, injured him… He just plays hard though
He’s the worst kind of dirty player and flopper. Takes cheap shots and is actively putting players in harm’s way.
On the other hand, he’s built like a NFL linebacker and flops at the slightest contact. There’s no way this dude goes flying with players like Kyrie Irving posting him up.
If Jokic looked at me like that I’m crying
I am calling my mom
I’m calling this guy’s mom too
Fuck Lu Dort
all my homies hate Lu Dork
Gonna get buried but that look in Jokic’s eyes when Jaylin Williams had him by the jersey was legit the scariest thing I’ve ever seen on a basketball court.
Obviously we’ve seen players snap before and want to fight but jokics face here is genuinely terrifying… his eyes and his mouth look so crazy here haha
Obviously Williams is just “defending” his dirty teammate but once Jokic grabbed his jersey I bet he regretted it…
You could see adrenaline dump on Williams face after they were separated. Mf looked scared af
Dude looked like he had Rabies. I wish he wasn’t held back, the thunder need a rude awakening
OKC announcers really say Jokic threw a punch?
One of the most unlistenable broadcast crews out there
homers really gotta be shot into the sun, making oklahomans look like the dumbest mfers
“look like”
Could not believe the mental gymnastics listening to that commentary.
I don’t know how people can still defend Dort after this lol every time Dort does a dirty play there are ppl defending him
This wasn’t the line, he crossed the line about 5 dangerous plays ago
Lu Dort is a bitch.
And Doris says that isn’t excessive 🙄🙄🙄
Dirty player, what’s new
*team. dirty team.
THE REFS FINALLY MADE THE RIGHT CALL
If only they were as consistent with Draymond
Dirty ass play
Lu Dirt.
Suspend Dort already. Jesus Christ he’s going to seriously injure a star player.
He injured Ja last year in the Playoffs.
*a player, as reckless as he is it doesn’t matter if they are a star or not
Idk. He targeted Wemby and Jokic.
Already has, multiple times lol. It’s ridiculous
Thunder are just insanely unlikeable team and that’s coming from a Celtics fan. Dork is a loser ass bitch and SGA is a flopping cry baby.
How does Dorris thinks this could ever be just a flagrant 1?
This wasn’t even a basketball play and clearly intentional. What was Dort’s purpose here besides trying to intentionally hurt a player.
dorris went from being great in the scene of the NBA to being one of the worst commentators of all time on national broadcasts.
I don’t get it. I liked her for so long, then just dismissed people shitting on her as people hating a woman, but it isn’t that at all. She, as a commentator, is actually totally insufferable with entirely useless factoids and commentary that makes you want to jump out of a building
I think she is just a contrarian at this point. You see it constantly on dubious foul calls, charges and blocking fouls where she seems to always pick the more controversial position and just go against what most people would think.
He’s like if Vontez Burfict played bball
The cope by the OKC announcers lmao
as a thunder fan lu dort is under hated
✊ glad to see we all can agree on this
All my homies hate Lu Dort
Jokic stare is terrifying. Truly crazy eyes.
Deliberately tried to injure Jokic, are these announcers smoking crack? They’re both disputing the ejection, to me it looks as dirty and blatant as it gets
Well it’s Oklahoma, so they probably smoke crack before every game
Bruh the thunder announcer still saying Jokic escalating it and tried to swing at jwill
Dort is the dirtiest player in the NBA
suspend dort man
Somehow it’s always dort in these situations huh
Dont ever try to tell me this guy doesn’t care about basketball
Absolute cornball of a player. Doesn’t even play basketball
Fuck Dort. He’s a dirty fucking piece of shit. Then jumping around like he did nothing after.
Hey OKC fans y’all got a real fucking bitch on your team. A real fucking bitch.
wtf is wrong with this guy, literal psycho
Lu dort u fuckin bum
I cannot wait for the day Lu Dort is suspended
Dirty Dort. Hate it.
joker just became my goat
Thunder are a bunch of complaining dirty clowns. From the front office to the players in the court