A fan video from the Spurs-Suns game shows Devin Booker stepping on DeAaron Fox’s foot and turning ankle during the final shot attempt.
So many people were calling him a flopper, shame
I was shocked the broadcast didnt even give it a second look. like its ok to lose, sometimes you’re the hammer sometimes you’re the nail (sometimes you miss 2 freethrows in the clutch).. but wemby was literally banging a gigantic drum like 30 seconds after this moment before Fox was given the mic on some grammy awards acceptance speech type vibe
like damn can we just have a single replay
OF COURSE WE’LL HAVE A LOOK
I admit that’s what it looked like from the broadcast view and no replay. It was such an awkward movement. Any word on the severity of the injury?
In fairness he definitely is but this instance was justified
probably because he flopped 20 times this game
He hardly gets calls on him… well for the amount of fouls versus times they actually call it…so he either has to bitch at refs and get a T or try to make it obvious he’s being fouled. You can’t just keep fouling the other teams best player because “they can’t call em all” it’s BS. If he played in LA he’d avg 10-11 FTs a game
Last time he bitched at a ref, Raptors game, they T’d him up and started calling a whole lot of BS for Toronto that they didn’t call on their end.
I honestly think Ott needs to just rip into a zebra one day or have a postgame where he finally says what we all see.
Just not his style and I like that he doesn’t BUT it’s the NBA and sometimes you gotta make headlines before the league and other people notice, not just your fans. It sucks but take the do it once, take the fine, and move on
thats brutal I hope booker is okay. the suns have been cursed with injuries this season.
incidental for sure and i’m glad nothing was called, hope Book is good
For sure, definitely wasn’t a foul, just an accident. Was just annoying seeing a bunch of Spurs fans accusing Booker of flopping (and even saying that he deserved to get hurt because of it).
I was more worried that a fan had dropped a liquid on the court and Booker got hurt. You can see a drink spill (fans rising from their seat) when Victor hits the game shot in another video.
ngl it really did look like a flop at first. this angle changes everything
hope he’s okay
I’d flop too. Turning your ankle is a genuinely terrible experience even if it doesn’t lead to any type of injury the vast majority of the time, I don’t care what anyone says. That pain is so sudden and so intense for like 10-20 minutes until you legitimately do just walk it off and if you can’t, that’s even worse because you know by then that you have some level of actual injury and it’s sore for weeks. Or the rest of your life if it’s raining/below 40 degrees, depending on your age. I’m definitely not old enough for that though. Someone old told me about it.
Oh yeah its insufferable. Many Spurs flair seem to have a major chip on shoulder and love to take offense at anything. Look at how many of them are interacting with anything MVP related as well.
Accidents can be fouls
Sure, but in this case I still don’t think it is. Fox is in a legal guarding position, and is in front of Booker. The contact is before Booker shoots, so no landing foul either.
Booker has done more dumb shit than just flopping tho
You’re right, my bad, should have mentioned something about double teams, mascots, and Luka Doncic’s parenting skills.
nah bro, you good
The MVP debate is headlined by 3 notorious for baiting floppers. I’m not worried about Book’s play and don’t know why anyone else is
Good to clear the air though
they love to bait, I tell ya
you might call them masters at baiting
They’re some reaaal master baiters, I tell you hwat
Wemby flops?
The MVP debate has primarily been SGA, Joker, and Luka this season.
You must be one of those people who turn into NBA fans right before the playoffs
Wemby has the third best odds to win the award as of today. Are you familiar with Wemby? Do you know who he is?
Me:
You:
… today
Illiteracy is a fucking pandemic I swear. You MFs have no hope of building success outside of internet likes/karma 😂
Is today not a part of this season?
Hmmmm…over the past several months, 3 people have been the primary focus of the MVP debate. None of them Wemby, and all of them heavily criticized for flopping and foul baiting, for multiple years
Over the past week, pockets of Wemby for MVP have shown up. The same Wemby who has gotten massive praise for taking it upon himself to make the league about ethical competitition, and has generally never been criticized for flipping and foul baiting
Sure, I must be talking about Wemby because that makes sense. facepalm
You write like someone who has a really gross beard.
I’d expect such logic from a video game nerd who had to settle for enlisting because they weren’t capable of doing anything else
Btw my hormones won’t let me grow a beard 😉
enlisting lmfao
I actually understand your point and people are not accounting for the whole seasons CONVERSATIONS. They’re either not being earnest, weren’t paying attention week in and out, or are bias by favoritism or recency.
SA wasn’t on THIS roll and dominant until the second half of the season. and until kind of recently Detroit had a better record for a while and why Cade was in the odds, ABOVE Wemby. However SA went on a massive roll and have been catching up with OKC, who had a midseason stumble.
Also betting odds does not mean their likelihood… it also factors in bettors and popularity and so on…also games played will factor, Wemby could be the MVP lock but if he misses 2 games it won’t matter.
However the whole year the convo was Joker, Shai and the rest until really the joker injury, then Shai pulled away… but it was still 1⁄2 when he came back, cause Shai went down too. ITS THE ONLY REASON other players odds went up for fear of the 65 game limit
Today may have different odds but it’s not the totality of what the COVERSATION was the entire season. He was always a dark horse but both him and SA have turned it on/up…
It’s not fair to put Wemby in the league of Luka & FTA. They are in their own class
Can’t tell if that’s sarcasm or you really didn’t get what I meant
But just in case:
IMO players who are only useful on one side of the floor shouldn’t even be in the MVP conversation, so I do think Wemby belongs.
Its actually no way you just said this.
Believe it or not, people who are capable of forming their own opinions still exist
If we’re talking about usefulness on BOTH sides of the ball then Wemby is the most capable here full stop. He is by far the best two way player itl right now.
You literally have Jokic and Luka as MVP candidates when they arent just useless but NEGATIVES on defense.
I dont care at all about you not having Wemby as an MVP candidate btw, but saying hes not useful on offense is just goofy.
No, what’s goofy is being illiterate as a grown ass man.
You wrote all this because you don’t know the difference between “do” and “don’t”
Edit - And if you could read properly, you’d know I wasn’t naming my MVP candidates because Joker and Luka’s defense is trash. I was naming the ones who have headlined the debate for most of the season
Bro edited his comment😭
I didn’t edit the comment you failed to read properly. Reddit says when comments are edited.
Take the L and move on before you embarrass yourself further
No it doesnt and yes you did😭
So thats why he disappeared when he hoisted that shot. I had guessed that Fox altered it somehow but didnt realize he got hurt. Hope hes ok
Fox was trying to get out of the way too.
probably a good idea since the refs were calling fouls when spurs weren’t even touching the suns players
Happened both ways during the game
Spurs had to use coach’s challenge on a phantom foul, zero contact
Lol it was going the sun’s way for the most part. Lot of it was bs too
Yeah like the two offensive fouls wembanyama got called for one for headbutting Ighodaro in the face the other for holding him on a box out. Oh wait…
17 ft to 23. mhm
I was turning the game off when i saw that and was “damn that looked funny” btu the camera didnt pan aback so I thought it was cool
We can just never have anything nice huh… it’s always the spurs
Fuck I hope he’s not out too long :(
Kawhi had an ankle injury recently, missed one game and came back after that, but then he just missed todays game
No idea how severe this one is, but usually Booker is more sturdy than Kawhi so there is hope my friend
Damn that really sucks
Definitely a freak accident, fox was moving fast and seems like he either stepped on Booker the moment Booker planted to shoot or their feet just got tangled up at that exact moment
You can literally see Booker step on Fox. Are you blind?
I don’t wanna be a homer, but if you slow it down and watch it over 584 times you might think his leg purposely stays behind his natural step intentionally fouling Booker
Doesn’t look like he sprained it, looks like fox’s foot moves bookers ankle the right, maybe just jammed it at a weird angle
Edit** it might’ve rolled inward for a split second
That’s a foul
is the foul in the room with us?
Spurs doing way too much man I understand it’s love for the game but the drum beating and Grammy awards ass shit after winning a regular season game against a play in team is just so corny💀
Not at all corny…the players on the team are like family and they involve the fans…it’s actually pretty awesome GSG