Free throws attempted after 3 Quarters: SGA: 12 and Knicks: 10
OKC overall has attempted 32 Free throws.
These refs are blowing the whistle very differently depending on the team.
It’s honestly horrible to watch the thunder at one end they get to hack away as much as they like and the other they just throw their bodies around like they get shot every 2nd possession… horribly unattractive basketball
Yeah it’s less just “SGA is a flopper” and more the contrast between what gets called at one end vs the other
Thunder fans then point to overall free throws or fouls to say it’s not a problem…but if I foul you 100 times and get called for 20 fouls, and you foul me 15 times and get called for 15, isn’t that a problem even if I’m called for more fouls?
Now we’re understanding the numbers better
Also SGA is a flopper.
Nah, we don’t worry about it. We just make our monthly payments to the refs and enjoy the shit show on /r/nba every time we win. Life is good.
“But Shai just drives a lot so he gets a lot of contact”
well he drives directly into contact intentionally and then throws the ball straight up in the air and flails his head back…so thats always fun to watch
Dort hurt a knicks player too.
Idk where all these thunder fans even come from to downvote just true statements. At least the Celtics are like all of New England and get buthurt the same way when you point out their preferential whistle. Guess the Oklahoma/Kansas market is bigger than I thought
I don’t know either man it was not like this even a year ago on this sub
Porn became age verified, so they have more time to be on this sub
He dove for a loose ball. The comment clearly tries to act like he did it on purpose.
If you watched Dort and Deuce dive for a loose ball and thought “That doesn’t belong in basketball” then I’m sorry to tell you this but you don’t like basketball. You would prefer pickle ball or frisbee golf.
Basketball is a contact sport nephew.
And lucky he didn’t hurt hart dragging his leg to create that contact
Yeah that tracks
baseball, huh?
Cmon man, did you even watch the play?
Honestly I hate more how “hard” read dirty Dort plays than Shai gets free throws. At least him getting free throws won’t endanger someone’s career.
He dove for a loose ball.
JFC
McBride landed on Dort. If you gonna blame someone blame McCain tugging on his leg tryna get the ball.
It’s terrible for the NBA and only the fans of 29 other teams care. Silver, the media, other players just let it go
r/NBA echo chamber bot opinion
I swear there’s a reddit bot farm that just posts variations of this comment 24⁄7
I hate more that the Celtics beat them and we can’t do it
The heat beat them but lose to actively tanking teams lol
Me too, buddy. I know the Lakers has two more chances but the Knicks at least beat the Celtics and you have another chance to beat Boston again
What like it’s hard? (It is hard)
It’s because we are a better team. Don’t worry about it too much.
It’s a shitty watch with so many FTs
My 83 year old mom has taken to watching the Knicks because of the Villanova players. Watching the game with her tonight and she asks “Who’s that guy (SGA) that just acts like he gets fouled every single play?”
“That’s the future league MVP, mom.”
And then everyone else in the room clapped
Or even the current (defending) league MVP
Also the current MVP
Tell your mom the future MVP just iced the game 💀
Oh man, I’m 2 hours late for fresh pasta. This one is getting saved for sure! Gotta quote it just in case you ever delete.
My 83 year old mom has taken to watching the Knicks because of the Villanova players. Watching the game with her tonight and she asks “Who’s that guy (SGA) that just acts like he gets fouled every single play?” “That’s the future league MVP, mom.”
6th win in a row vs the Knicks tell your mom to get used to it lmao
How is this upvoted? This sub is so fucking stupid
“Then everyone clapped”
this exact reply has 50 upvotes but you got downvoted for having a thunder flair. this fucking sub man 😭
Shai efficiency has been dogwater these past couple games
Didn’t he just have a 3 game stretch shooting over 70%?
He shot 0/10 from the three last game
He’s definitely been rough as of late, but tbh I can give him some leash for absolutely fucking carrying us for a good stretch
Your defense is what carries you. You’d be losing during SGA’s shooting slump if he was what was carrying you.
“Defense” aka granted hacking
Remember him giving a certain Denver team an insane clutch beatdown
Shai made them when it mattered against the Nuggets
Nonsense. Shai is the most clutch player in the NBA.
And 1 from a travel is crazy
The thing that bugs is when SGA isn’t hitting shots he just resorts to this shit.
This is exactly why it bothers me, it allows him to be lazy
This is awful to watch. Really tired of listening to Tirico and Miller apologize for it too.
Whenever SGA has a bad or 50⁄50 call, people on this sub run to post it
I wonder why no one has posted any of the SGA calls this game
Lmao, all the calls were genuinely legit, Mike Brown doesn’t know how to challenge on actual bad calls, been a problem since his Sacramento days, people on this sub just don’t watch the games lmao
I couldn’t believe the out of bounds challenge. KAT was falling out of bounds alone, and had he saved the ball, Hartenstein had imminent possession anyway. Just felt like a pointless challenge.
What’s funny is that there was a miscall by the refs on an SGA and-1 early in the game that wasn’t challenged, pure stupidity from Mike brown. Also doesn’t help That KAT plays defense like its pick up basketball lol
All this sub does is cry about SGA do you guys not get bored
You didn’t watch the game; those were all fouls. Tell me which ones shouldn’t have been called.
Literally his very first foul drawn was a phantom foul and shown on replay. OG did not touch him.
How is that phantom? he made contact with off hand during a shot attempt, literally the most basic form of fouling
Would you like me to post the play where Chet fouls KAT 4 times but there’s no call until there’s an eventual offensive foul flagrant 1 called on KAT (with no wind up or follow through)?
Yes
It’s embarrassing that this has 27 upvotes, 27 people on a basketball subreddit watched this and thought “yeah, that’s not a foul!”
and the reply “don’t come here with proof” I’m crying LMAO
It’s just blind upvote whatever fits my agenda lol
lol legit hilarious you use this one as an example
Don’t be coming in here with proof
Flagrant offensive on KAT. He was fouled twice prior.
Under the basket shove on the knicks as Chet did the exact same thing later on and got a foul call in his favor.
Kick ball by McBride when his leg was being held and Injured by a thunder player.
Just to name a few.
Hahaha. Yeah, I don’t think you like basketball man. Go watch pickle ball.
The kick ball is hilarious. What do you think the right call was? McCain had the ball. You think that call benefited OKC? You make it seem like Deuce and Dort diving for a ball resulting in Deuce getting hurt means it’s a dirty play. That’s basketball man.
Nice retort… Like how you could only really “argue” against one of the examples too 😂
He got injured when his leg was pulled and held. Not during the dive bud.
It should’ve been a flagrant on the pull and hold. Jump ball prior.
Look at his face when he goes to the ground. He’s grimacing as soon as soon as he hits the floor. Not to mention McCain is grabbing the opposite leg…
https://www.nba.com/stats/events?CFID=&CFPARAMS=&GameEventID=419&GameID=0022501089&Season=2025-26&flag=1&title=McBride%20Lost%20Ball%20Turnover%20(P1.T15)
Da Knicks lose again!
Even if you want to make the argument that they were all fouls (they weren’t) NY just didn’t get the same whistle.
38-17 in FTs is a disgusting discrepancy especially when the Knicks are a good defensive team
I mean, two of your stars playing defense like its pick-up basketball also helps the other team win lmao, KAT for the majority part of his career has been a bad defender. I don’t know what’s going on with OG though, he’s been committing a lot of dumb fouls
Been the #1 defense over the last two months as of last week so they’ve clearly been doing something right recently.
Like I said just not a fair whistle with such a large discrepancy in FTA. Dort’s existence on the court alone makes our lack of FTs laughable
FTA masterclass
Now he’s at Lukas average
Shot one less free throw then the entire knicks team for the game. its messed up it really is how anyone can watch this team and how shai can be anyones favourite player is beyond me honestly.
Wemby shot almost twice as many FTs than the entire opposing team last game. Luka’s leading the league in FTA/game, Giannis is leading if you go per 36.
Star players get the star whistle
Ah yes all stars get a great whistle like Steph and Lebron!
Also LeBron career FTA per game is 7.6
Shais is 7.2
Validity of the complaint aside, SGA’s career number here likely isn’t as revelant as his number over the last two seasons given what a late bloomer he was.
He didn’t say all stars
Dang, I wonder how far back in time we have to go to find a game that had something similar.
Oh. Looks like it happened today.
Clips vs. Bucks Benedict Mathurin shot 14 Fts and the Bucks had 15 total Fts.
Weird.
Mathurin is one of the under the radar floppers so ur point dont even hold try again
Are we having a whinge about OKCs whistle or the ref’s in general in this thread? I can’t keep up
Multiple people can have ref bias
Both sides
When a bunch of players have a higher FT rate on the season than Shai:
“It’s not how many it’s how he gets them”
When he shoots a bunch of FTs
“Look how many FTs!!”
Either way Shai and FT’s go together a lot.
Cause he frequently gets doubled and drives to the rim constantly? Shocking.
Nah it’s not just that.
It quite literally is
I don’t think even most Thunders fans would agree with that. They wouldn’t think it’s like ref bias or whatever, but I imagine they’d argue it’s partly the star whistle that all stars get and even more so that SGA is extremely good at recognizing even light illegal contact and immediately putting a shot up.
It isn’t
Luka has most FT this season. But he is from laker, people only calling him MVP MVP. So yeah.
Luka also leads the league in both usage rate and field goal attempts, so I would expect him to have more free throws. When you actually look at free throw rate- what is the ratio of free throw attempts to field goal attempts- SGA overtakes him, he’s at .44 and SGA’s at .46.
Not a massive difference, granted, but just pointing out that SGA would be leading the league in free throws if he shot as much per game as Luka.
Luka shoots 11 threes per game, SGA shoots 4.5 threes per game.
Luka has 13.5 drives per game, SGA has 18.6 drives per game.
The fact that Luka still shoots more ft per game is crazy given their play styles.
Putting aside the fact that he has his hands on the ball way more than SGA, just looking at drives and threes is not really an accurate way of breaking it down either though. Both him and SGA are elite iso scorers in their own way, which for both of them results in help defense that get fouls or single defenders being put in bad position/fouling to make up for being bit on a possession.
Yeah. But my point is both SGA and Luka are dirty player. Somehow the league today promote dirty players like Luka and SGA. I hate to see it thats why wemby is so valuable to me today
I don’t know if I’d necessarily use the word “dirty”, to me that’s always been something I’ve used for players that do things trying to hurt other players, but cheap I’d agree with.
I think it would need to be a change in the rules though to change the behavior. As long as they can get more points doing what they do, they’re both gonna keep doing it.
Lmao Wemby flops as much as anyone else, get the fuck out of here
That flagrant on KAT told me all I needed to know without this. It’s blatantly being called in favor of the thunder anybody that tells me the nba regular season is a good viewing experience is just trolling
He almost knocked Chet’s teeth out with a flailing arm. A flagrant 1 is a typical call for that play.
Chet pulled on his jersey and full on smacked the shit out of his arm prior but they let them play on with no call. Its bs.
Yeah man the league is rigged for the beloved OKC Thunder over the NY Knicks im sure lol
It’s not about rigged, it’s just that some teams get a different whistle based on style, reputation, etc. Fans of teams get frustrated watching them because they somehow get the “well they can’t call everything” whistle on defense, with the “well yes, they can call everything” on offense. Like good for them, they figured something out. Other fans don’t have to like it though.
This is rich coming from a Knicks fan. You know we all watch Brunson “play” right? Like just this Christmas I watched the Cavs outplay the Knicks and the refs literally carry yall 8v5 in a manner so blatant it that would make thunder fans struggle to defend. It wasnt just a difference of whistle it was just a fix. They were letting Knicks players grapple and tackle Cavs and then calling the Cavs for not even touching the Knicks. Then we had to listen to ESPN celebrate it because the big market home team won when it was solely because of the refs
Knicks, Celtics, Lakers and Thunder have 0 sympathy for ref complaints. Theyve won you more games than the other way around
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“Being called in favor” doesn’t necessarily mean they have direct instructions from the league to call it this way. Though if he did mean that, then yeah that’s dumb.
What are you talking about you shot so many more free throws than you
I’m not denying that I just think you’re stupid if you think the league is rigged for the Oklahoma City Thunder
I didn’t say it was being rigged dumbass. I said it was being called in your favor. Oklahoma 50th in education good comprehension
You would have to have been educated in Oklahoma to seriously believe something as insane as the league favoring OKC over NYC 😭
The knicks had 25 team fouls, the Thunder had 22, most of the knicks fouls were shooting fouls, most of the Thunders were not. You can stop with the nonsense
https://www.nba.com/stats/events?CFID=&CFPARAMS=&GameEventID=72&GameID=0022501089&Season=2025-26&flag=1&title=Anunoby%20S.FOUL%20(P1.T2)%20(J.Reneau)
sure buddy!
Zoom in and tell me OG doesn’t reach in and contact shais head and off hand. This example was just showing OG’s undisciplined defense
r/nba whiny fucks will go back to calling Brunson a flopper after this game, only during our two matchups do we get shielded by okc
True lmao notice how nobody bitches about avdija getting a better whistle then both Shai and Brunson while flopping worse then both? They only cared the first half of the season
It’s because he’s irrelevant on an irrelevant team
None of the hate is based on reality, it changes based on who’s most annoying to face as a fan, Shai wins a lot so does Brunson so their flopping/ft will be used as a scapegoat for the blatant player hating opposing fans love to pretend is just objective reality acknowledgment
Dude Brunson is so good. People here really don’t like basketball just their favorite players.
The saltiest of bitches exist in r/nba
SGA FTA MVP
OKC IN 5
Luka already has fta mvp in the bag
Knicks 25 to OKcs 22 fouls. r/NBA just doesn’t want Shai to enter goat convos with their faves. They are WILDLY and IRRATIONALLY insecure. They hate watch. Embarrassing.
You people never say shit when LeBron was always FT clean. Kobe too. This sub is a manifestation of horrible opinions
Take your meds
They should play better defense. OKC is very beatable.
Fair play 😂😭
I turned it off after that 3pointer flop from shai got called
You mean the one that he got hit on the arm?
KAT got hit on the arm constantly and they never called it…?
You get hit on the arm and fall like that?
post the replay, lets go through it. we can get to the bottom of this!
You realize all players do that shit to show they got contact.
Nah just them who know they get the call
Anyways you like watching them flop?
Which is all of them
Post the replay, I want to see the flop!
https://www.nba.com/stats/events?CF=&CFID=&CFPARAMS=&ContextMeasure=FGA&GameID=0022501089&GameEventID=481&flag=1&sct=plot§ion=game&Season=2025-26
Video not available
Link works fine for me. Try this I guess
https://streamable.com/3gtkix
So yeah, he gets hit in the arm.
No, the one where he flopped
Wow that really narrows it down, thanks
Don’t bother lmao, they see a high FT number and their eyes turn red.
Only Shai can get hated on for getting hacked on the arm on a 3pt shot and actually getting the call
Lol hacked
hacked is a great exaggeration… at most one could say that indeed contact was established, to what degree that contact was significant is questionable
Serious question - who’s this sub rooting for if it’s an OKC Celts Finals?
Whoever wins, we lose
Not watching.
Celtics lol
all the more reason to say fuck lu dort
If you’re gonna cherry pick bullshit why don’t you cherry pick the last OKC vs Boston game?
KAT: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander at the FREE THROW LINE!
Bend the knee bitches.
Can yall sing a different tune once in a while, I mean the hits are great but every day?
change the NBA logo from the jerry west silhouette to the SGA free throw pose
I refuse to watch OKC
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Shame you live in Oklahoma
You’re probably a warriors fan from like Iowa.
Warriors fan in Iowa.
You already said that, try again
Because you never been to Oakland/SF. Some fan you are.
I’m Mexican, nice try With the hate speech Silencing this thread. Enjoy Reddit timeout.
Own multiple places all around the Bay. But you’re stuck in grandmas basement in Oklahoma 😂
You don’t have to lie lmao. That’s why you don’t even have a flair. Don’t project either cause grandma will take your internet away!
Look at you replying to my comment twice!
Sounds about right
I legit don’t know how anyone can watch him and think he’s a worthy MVP. Given I’m not a diehard NBA fan, but I’d pick at least three others over him. OKC games are super hard to enjoy. Constant foul baiting and whistles. It’s a huge turn off for me, as a casual fan, and straight up makes me not want to watch a league that I was slowly getting more into. Honest question: how is someone that gets this kind of treatment fun to people?
I dont even need to say what kind of merchant he is
FTA is disgusting
The stat in general?
Everything about him. His game, personality, face is repulsive
Stop hacking
Literally phantom calls lol.
“Upvote now please”
You see, the thing about Thunder flairs is that they don’t actually have a response to the subject matter most of the time, so instead they resort to attacking the poster of the thread itself rather than the argument.
some bs like this gets said after every OKC win no matter what😂 if it’s the ft differential that makes it unfair then okc have a bad ft differential the last two years
There’s a ton of comments that do. But I guess if you only respond to the ones that don’t then you can act like this is true, right?
Am i supposed to refute the amount of free throws that have been shot? No, actually the thunder haven’t shot that many free throws. Completely wrong. The Knicks shot at least twice as many.
Free throws:
Knicks: 17
OKC: 38
That is all.
It’s a single game.
If I post a game where OKC had a lopsided count against them then by your logic they are unfairly reffed against?
Did the Knicks try not hacking Shai constantly to get him to the line over and over? They played undisciplined as fuck and he took advantage on a night where his shot wasn’t falling. He actually cooked the fuck out of their coverages lol
Did the Knicks try not hacking Shai constantly
Yes, they still called it though.
We didn’t watch the same game then. They did an awful job. Shai should have had more FTs. Same with Towns tho.
Knicks overall should’ve had more calls but Refs were being far too bias.
They’d call something against us but then hold their whistle when OKC did the exact same thing.
I knew it was over when they called the flagrant offensive on KAT but didn’t call the two clear fouls Chet had on him prior. Literally slapped the shit out of his arm but let him play on… then call a soft touch foul later on in favor of OKC.
Also, when they called us for a shove under the basket but held their whistle on the other end for OKC when they did the exact same thing.
This guy can read box scores! Here’s another one Thunder 111 Knicks 100
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA you guys are too funny