[Highlight] Jokic takes an elbow to the nose from Lu Dort
Loved the commentators saying Jokic was lying and then just completely silent on the replay.
“show the people the reply.” replay shows dort clearly swings his arm in an unnatural way lol you can’t be serious.
Dort last game: I’m really sorry I went too far
Dort the next game vs Jokic: fuck it I’ll do it again lol
He really needs an extended suspension. Zero reason they keep letting him play.
Someones gonna get hurt from one of his dirty tricks eventually. Legit needs a long term suspension.
Eventually? He literally ended PG’s prime.
I’m terrified of a newly returned Tatum sharing the court with him in a few days. Sheesh.
Tatum going to get the rare “DNP - Dort”.
Destroyed Brandon Ingram’s ankle, and so many other players, this guy is dirty and he can’t stop doing it. Might be expunged from the league soon.
And Jokic literally just got hurt in the video we just watched 😭😂
We need hockey style enforcers until the league takes that shit seriously.
I was going to say “it’s not working in the NHL” but I guess there are levels to it and hockey fans do at least occasionally get to enjoy watching some rat fuck get their lunch fed to them
He is the hockey style enforcer
No, hockey enforcers generally don’t go for cheap shots. They come at you straight to your face after the whistle blows. Then they knock your teeth out.
Crazy what happens when there are zero consequences for playing like this
This play is so confusing to me.
Surely he’s not trying to pop Jokic in the face in the closing moments of a close game and risk a flagrant in this situation. But if he’s not doing it on purpose what is going on with his arm flailing like this for no apparent reason.
Honestly. I would love for somebody to tell me what he’s doing with his arm there if it’s not to hit Jokic
Alternate angle here
Fucking OKC commentator! STFU man, he is so bias.
This one announcer is such an annoying homer.
I honestly thought I was going crazy, good to see neutrals say this lol
I don’t think there are many real neutrals about thunder and especially Dort lol
Everything about the Thunder sucks. They might make me miss the Warriors dynasty.
They remind me of prime Warriors announcers, or that guy that the 6ers fired that said he just hoped Embiid was okay when a different player went down
worst crew in the league, easy
biased
Worst Homer
this commentator is so terrible lmao. everything he says is whining about free throws and fouls
“It’s unbelievable that SGA only has two FTA.”
Guess he needs a couple more for …. Reasons?
I mean SGA only getting two free throws is hard to believe
they’re still saying the contact was “incidental.” literally the moment before the refs call it a flagrant one. i’m never hearing any criticism of our broadcast team again, say what you want about Scalabrine but he’ll call a foul a foul
A lot of the complaints about our team are from people who don’t watch the broadcasts or are rehashing common complaints from back when Tommy was still around.
Scal wants the Celtics to win, and he might not get upset when a call goes our way, but he’ll always admit to a bad call when he sees one.
Boston announcers are A tier
He said it was “accidental” too LMAOO
“His face just happened to be there, it’s unfortunate for Dort. This happens all the time and they usually call it incidental contact” 🤣🤣🤡
the ol’ spinning backfist loophole. can’t be intentional if I can’t see it land, tapsforehead.gif
Literally kept saying he was “selling it” after multiple angles show him getting rocked in the nose lmao
Cage is the reason I’m watching the opposite teams cast most of the time. I initially assumed a bump with incidental contact like most nba face hits, but 1 second of replay makes it pretty obvious that Dort goes high lol.
I guess the commentator bias explains a lot of OKC fans and how they see everything. when you’re being lied to by the broadcast and it’s your only impression of any play…
OKC and golden state tied for worst commentators in the history of the NBA
The fuckin idiot said “he didn’t know Jokic’s face was right there?!?”
Even if you could get past Dort and Sga’s antics, I don’t know how you could ever root for okc as a neutral with their announcers.
Since we have been saying Kerr and Curry should be held liable for enabling Draymond’s antics, shouldn’t Mark Daigneault and FTA be held to the same standard for continuing to enable Dort’s antics?
Yo, did Lu Dort just hit Nikola Jokić with a spinning back slap?
Announcers saying Jokic sold the call. Camera cuts to him bleeding from the bridge of his nose lol
Went from “Jokic didn’t even get hit in the face” to “well they call that incidental contact most of the time” to “well Dort didn’t know his face was there” real quick
Natural arm-swinging-behind-the-back-7ft-off-the-ground-when-the only-person-around-is-the-screener motion
Bros hitting them with the Draymond Green natural motion
Bro is very flexible to get his arm that far behind him. Should have been a dancer.
That wasn’t a foul
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
OKC team motto
Great reference
Dude literally swung his arm behind his head for what? Not like it’s a back door cut
That shit is a flagrant 3. The guy is the dirtiest player in the league.
Lu “Zaza” Dort
Learning from our federal administration i see
“Get your hand out of my face”
“Get your face out of my hand”
And the OKC fans boo Jokic. Love the sportsmanship of that team and the fans
Trash
It’s Oklahoma. What do you expect?
Feature of OK
Jokes on them, they live in Oklahoma
They don’t have a Kiss Cam in the arena. They have a WOOF Watch.
Oklahoma as a whole is a trash can
they will always be the fanbase of a stolen team
The OKC announcers are one of the worst in the league. They’re bush league as it gets.
I genuinely don’t know how someone with any self-respect could listen to those guys. And I don’t really enjoy the Denver announcers either, not because they are biased like that, but just boring
announcers should be taken out back along with Dort atp, how hard is it to just shut up until you know if it was legit or not
The announcers were insufferable on that play. I don’t think they even mentioned the injury or the blood.
and just KEPT doubling down. that shit was ridiculous
Bloodied his upper nose
Idk why they’re booing that’s about as obvious as it gets
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At risk of making the state I moved to after college sound worse…… We are 50th……. But with you getting your facts wrong I’d assume you are from Oklahoma
Lmmfao
It was 50⁄51 because they included DC, so actually 49th. Wallet Hub was just giving out free headlines lol
Technically not incorrect, dumbest is still one of the dumbest.
Their state vegetable is the watermelon.
Let that sink in.
Lmaooo this is actually true, that’s hilarious
They pray before their games. So fkin weird.
can’t invest in education or some blue spots might show up
because that’s how they got their ring, from that shit
I’ll go to my deathbed swearing that if Hali stays healthy pacers win. Dort shoving hali to the ground twice in game 4 with no penalty was something. Thanks foster
We went to the locker room at halftime with the lead. Not a hot take at all to assume that the already red-hot Haliburton stays hype and we’re up double digits at half
100% y’all were winning
Because they’re used to not getting punished for that shit
Oh shit, you weren’t lying.
Because OKC fans were hoping for a career ending injury, a bloody nose isn’t enough
commentator screaming “HE DIDN’T EVEN GET HIT IN THE FACE”
immediate cut to footage of Jokic getting hit in the face
Followed by 15 seconds of silence, and then “It’s unfortunate for Dort that Jokic’s face is right there. Usually they just call that incidental contact”
It’s what you’d expect from Thunder announcers, notorious for being literally the worst out of all teams. Even Thunder homers will agree.
Are they worse than the Warriors? Legit asking because I’ve never listened to the Thunder announcers but the Warriors ones are awful.
As someone who mutes their local broadcast, every clip I hear of the OKC announcers are worse
Did he really say that?Lol
JOKIC FACE BEAT UP DORT HAND!!
Flopped so well he somehow tricked Dort’s elbow into hitting his nose
On demand bleeding to!
Dude is never getting suspended
He has dirt on Silver.
The Lu Dirt special
Draymond 2.0… gonna have to be on a *technical*ity but never for actual violence
he reminds me of the worst parts of Pat Bev, Bruce Bowen, and Draymond Green, he is a menace to the league right now and it appears change is not on the horizon.
Put him on a different team and he’d foul out of like half his games.
Jokic bleeding and people saying it’s a flop LMAO
Fake blood obviously, Jokic commited to the act.
Pulled out the old razor blade
Jokic is such a great actor that he can bleed on command
Finally something Celtics fans and Lakers fan both can agree with.
if anything this play is an example of why players feel the need to sell contact to the refs. they werent even gonna call shit until jokic fell down lmao
Totally. Jokic could tank that hit, sure, I’d argue he’s the kind of guy that absolutely would in a normal situation, but what good does that do him? The refs miss this cheap bullshit and he ends up bloody?
Ketchup trick
Bro bladed for the call 😭😭
are the thunder commentators stupid
Yes, next question.
Did he get the flagrant called? I think he deserved it.
Yup flagrant 1
Is the president a rapist and in the Epstein files?
Guys who actually play basketball: any reason the defender swing the arm like this?
I cannot think of any reason.
Yes, very good reason - when you hardly ever get penalized, you’re incentivized to play illegal defense and hurt your opponent by just flat out smacking them in the face.
Its why a ton of UFC fighters open up a round with a ball kick or an eye poke. They’ll get a warning in exchange for their opponent being significantly hampered for the rest of the fight.
Rules have to be both strict enough to not be worth breaking, and actually enforced so they aren’t broken. Otherwise they are meaningless.
Thid should actually be a sign in all courtrooms around the world, especially those dealing with corporate fines.
I’ve never seen anyone do something like that. Very unnatural motion, very obvious what we was trying to do.
Yeah if he was trying to navigate the screen his left arm would be going the opposite way it went. You can see in the first clip how much it slows him down just because he wants to be dirty and not actually guard the screen
Only legitimate reason: If you are having a “natural basketball movement” competition with Draymond Green
The only reason is to be dirty as fuck and hit somebody in the face.
How are okc fans booing this? This is always a flagrant no matter intent
Brain - DNP
Also, to be clear, this is 1000% intentional. Why is his arm possibly moving like that for any reason other than to hit Jokic in the face??
I mean.. it’s Dort, it’s always intentional. Any further analysis is unnecessary
There was a hornet flying around and Dort was trying to save Jokic from a horrible sting. It’s not like he’s ever done anything to show he’s anything but helpful.
It’s Oklahoma. They’re not very bright
Trash fans of a trash team located in a trash state.
The OKC commentators lmao bro shut up immediately after they showed the replay. Dude was losing it before
That was the NBC commentators if you were watching on NBC / Peacock. Definitely looked like he sold it on the camera angle but obviously the other replay showed the more accurate angle.
Why is he even bringing his elbow up there other than to intentionally hit Jokic in the face? Never seen anyone do that before
That was the intention. It is plain as day. Apparently you have to mask your actions like some backhanded attack to the face and the league says it is ok. I’m not condoning it but my lord, I’m genuinely surprised with this type of shit that there aren’t enforcers on teams anymore that just sub in and do the same thing in a “defensive” maneuver. Players have millions of dollars on the line for this type of behavior. Entire organizations who bank on a player have even more on the line. What happens if Jokic breaks his nose or needs some stupid minor surgery to fix it? Yet the player who is doing it all just gets what, a tech? A flagrant? Nah man, either fine the guy and suspend him from games or bring back enforcers.
He is trying to naruto run after the ball.
Dort does this shit all the time it’s getting ridiculous
He tackled AG (in his second game back from a long absence) on a rebound attempt. Hate this guy.
And no foul
Dort is the new draymond
I feel like Dort is even dirtier than Draymond, he just lacks the theatrics that make Draymond unlikable
Nah Dort is just dirty. Draymond throws tantrums.
At least Draymond doesn’t fondle dudes after he hits them down there
Dort is a fucking dirt bag
Dort bag?
How did I miss that
Gotta say, Dort is getting creative with it. Honestly didn’t even see it at first.
I had the game on in the background and saw Joker setting a moving pick, giving a little extra shoulder in the process, then I saw it was Dort and was like “naw 90% chance this was Dorts fault”.
Suspend this mf
Ban him or let everyone do it
Im down for NBAHL2027 with enforcers pulled from other sports if EVERY team can do it
I’d say that’s accidental if it were any other player but it’s Dort and there’s no reason for his arm to be swinging that much
No, there’s not. It was obviously a flagrant one immediately upon replay. Stupid play and was absolutely not what we needed in clutch time.
Bro is going to cost you if he keeps playing crunch time over better players
Not if he “accidentally” injure the other team’s star players. Then the payoff is huge. Personally I would rather Tatum sit against them on Thursday because I don’t trust Dort one bit.
He took Ja out of the air with the grizz up 30 points in the playoffs last year. That was that. But they say it was “inadvertent” too
Are you kidding? It’s a deliberate strategy by OKC. The small penalty of a Flagrant 1 is worth it in exchange for the massive potential upside of seriously injuring an opponent’s star
Why would anyone give the benefit of the doubt to one of the dirtiest players in the league tho
Yeah like what is he even trying to do with that arm also the OKC crowd booing jokic lame
He does it all the time.
What is wrong with this man
He’s been enabled by the league for years.
Lu Dort be normal challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
Can’t tell if Dort has a brain malfunction that makes him do these things in basically any game or he’s ruthlessly abusing the fact, that he gets away with so much shit Draymond style. Either way, boy needs to get some of his own medicine one of these days, maybe that’ll settle him down.
Lol @ the OKC commentator saying there wasn’t even contact 😂
As long as they can do this without real consequence, these plays will continue to exist
This douche can’t help himself, can he?
Intentionally tripped jokic 10 days ago, apologized, then tries to break his nose. Replay shows intentional, clear as day. Suspension please?
Dort did that on purpose, dirty af
“How do people not give credit to this all time great defense”
Who the hell tries a spinning backfist, besides Draymond
shit is so obviously intentional. this guy stinks
Suspend him. Fucking please. Zero reason for him to do that
lol one of the OKC announcers said he didn’t get hit in the face
These OKC announcers are worse then the GS guys
Fuck Lu Dork and fuck OKC, cringiest team to ever exist
The booing is so unnecessary from the OKC crowd.
The Dort/Thunder fans defending it/dumbass commentator combo is an incredible re-run of Draymond/Warriors fans/their dumbass commentators. Your guy being dirty is NOT the end of the world. Just own it, it’s not a fucking secret 😂😭
Man fuck this guy. Hes going to step on Tatum’s leg when we play aint he?
That slowmo angle you can see Jokic’s jowels wobble. Dort is dirty as fuck.
Dirty fucking team honestly
Why would he stop doing this shit? He hasn’t faced punishment from the league, his coaches, or his opponents. Until he does face some type of repercussions, the incentive is to keep trying to injure people.
These movements are so unnatural. He’s simply a dirty player at this point.
Fuck Lu Dort, all my homies hate Lu Dort
OKC is trash
Dort needs eat a big suspension, this dude is out there actively trying to injure players.