vindictivejazz | Thunder

42 | 4 hours ago

That seems good

Peteyy34 | NBA

9 | 4 hours ago

Give me five minutes, let me consult my sources to confirm if this is good

Admirable_Let_2961

17 | 3 hours ago

Who beat them?

I fkn know and want to hear it 🍀

Schumplerton | Thunder

14 | 3 hours ago

It was the Celtics. You’re welcome.

Admirable_Let_2961

6 | 3 hours ago

Thank you. Much appreciated

Dar4125 | Thunder

2 | an hour ago

Fuckin Boston, they don’t lead the league with 18 titles for nothing

Melonballs__ | Suns

10 | 4 hours ago

If he gets a ring this year he surpasses jokic and kd

Krillin113 | 76ers

43 | 4 hours ago

If they do it again this year I genuinely don’t think people are ready for the type of conversations he will be in

Whackedjob | Raptors

42 | 4 hours ago

Back to back MVPs and Finals MVPs has only ever been done by MJ and LeBron. It will be crazy to watch people down play it and then realize in a decade they were unable to appreciate Shai in real time.

Vhu

-28 | 4 hours ago

In a decade when I look back on his accolades, my first thought will be “pays to play soft.”

I already turn games off because I don’t like watching him flail around. Can’t see myself suddenly wishing I toughed it out lmao.

Krillin113 | 76ers

18 | 3 hours ago

Kobe and MJ were both masterbaiters for FTs lmao, but people don’t remember/weren’t alive. Shai is literally the 2020 version of their archetype and people can’t handle it

Whackedjob | Raptors

10 | 3 hours ago

He should definitely play more like MJ. A guy no one ever complained about getting a soft whistle

chef_iblocka | Thunder

4 | an hour ago

Rofl the commentator even gave the whole “whats so annoying is that he doesn’t need the free throws but he still flops anyways” rant that haters on this sub usually spew. Time really is just a flat circle hahahaha

A320neo | Celtics

-28 | 3 hours ago

Their 2025 run is one of the weakest titles of all time. Took 7 games to overcome injury-riddled teams twice. I don’t consider that Finals series fully decided and they would have been easy 6 game food for a healthy Nuggets team.

royalewlthcheese | Australia

23 | 3 hours ago

Lets not act like OKC’s second best player wasn’t playing through a torn ligament on his shooting hand the entire playoffs

Also, its a fraudulent title because of injuries? There’s injuries every season mate. Is the Bucks title fraudulent because of the injuries to Kyrie and Harden in the Nets series?

A320neo | Celtics

-11 | 3 hours ago

Let’s not pretend like any of that compares to the completely unprecedented occurrence of a star player going down with a career-altering injury in a Game 7.

revisioncloud | Thunder

5 | 2 hours ago

Both Hali and Gordon, though incredibly important, were the second best players of their respective teams but yeah wish Hali didn’t go down like that

A320neo | Celtics

-2 | 2 hours ago

Haliburton is not the second-best Pacer to anyone who understands how basketball works and doesn’t just count up points scored.

SightedSe7en | Thunder

10 | 3 hours ago

Because defeating a heat team with no Butler, Pacers with no Haliburton, and Luka on 1 leg is so much more impressive.

A320neo | Celtics

-5 | 3 hours ago

Celtics lost 3 games that entire run, including a sweep of the same Pacers that were beating OKC and a 3-0 lead against a fully healthy Luka (who suddenly started crying and limping as soon as it was apparent he had no chance in the series)

OKC lost 3 games in the second round series against Jokic and the Grand Rapids Gold.

Spemanz92 | Thunder

2 | an hour ago

Pacers and luka were healthy, but denver was super injured va okc. Gotcha 🤣

illegallaw

2 | 3 hours ago

They wont be.

Old_Supermarket_7575 | Thunder

18 | 4 hours ago

He’s already better than KD’s peak

He just needs the resume

Content_Spare_1337

1 | 3 hours ago

Jokic never had a team as good as this okc team. Sga is going to be remembered as one of the best players of his era, no doubt about that, but the amount of awards you have doesn’t necessarily mean you are better than other guys.

jgman22 | Pelicans

-2 | 3 hours ago

Nah

SugarFreeCummiBears

-6 | 4 hours ago

He would not be better than Jokic wtf

OwnGuarantee6838

0 | 3 hours ago

What would make him better than Jokic if having more rings doesn’t?

Especially considering he would get the MVPs and rings over Jokic while both of them are in their primes

Eddie5pi | SAS

3 | 3 hours ago

Jokic has 3 MVPs and 3 2nd place MVPs(presumably), 6 top 2 finishes is rarified air to be in

vindictivejazz | Thunder

4 | 3 hours ago

SGA’s already at 3 top-2 finishes, and would have back-to-back FMVPs in this hypothetical. That’s also rarified air.

Background_Creme41

-24 | 4 hours ago

Even crackheads have internet now

TomatoSecure192

10 | 4 hours ago

His resume will be better than jokic’s, obviously he doesn’t have the all nba first teams but he’ll have another championship and another finals mvp

StillwaterJerry | Suns

-2 | 2 hours ago

His personal resume won’t be better than Jokics… The team aspect will be. Let’s not act like the Nuggets have the talent the Thunder do.

DDub04

-6 | 4 hours ago

Seems more like a team stat than an individual player stat, though. This Thunder run would certainly go down as one of the best if they win again.

If the Nuggets were good enough, Jokic would also have multiple finals MVPs. I think he’s still the best player in the world, his three MVPs and two second place finishes the last five years (and he would still be top 2 if he didn’t miss time) shows he’s still on par with/better than Shai, but the strength of the western conference means it takes more than just individual performance to have playoff accolades.

Melonballs__ | Suns

9 | 4 hours ago

He had the biggest game 7 choke in nba history (at home) against Minnesota 2 years ago and then played like shit in gm 7 against okc last year. How many excuses are we going to give him.

memeticengineering | Supersonics

0 | 3 hours ago

Let’s determine a player’s entire career worth by 2 games 🤡

analyzingnothing | Nuggets

-2 | 3 hours ago

For the Wolves game, he and Jamal scored 20 of the Nuggets 23 points in the 4th quarter, alongside being responsible for 69 of their 90 total points in the game. MPJ had a true shooting under 30%, and no one else was doing fucking anything.

For the Thunder game, we had literally two viable three-point shooters in the last game. Jokic was being triple-teamed by the best defense of the modern era all night and still put up 20, but there’s not much you can do when literally no one else can hit the broad side of a barn from outside to punish the constant over-help.

People keep repeating the same bullshit storyline about Jokic choking when it’s blatantly obvious that they never watched the games in question and are just parroting a narrative.

Melonballs__ | Suns

7 | 3 hours ago

If you think 9 field goal attempts and 5 turnovers is acceptable from your star player In a game 7 then idk what to tell you lmao.

analyzingnothing | Nuggets

-4 | 3 hours ago

Oh, I see. You didn’t watch the game, so you’re just sitting on your beliefs like you must be right. Cool.

Melonballs__ | Suns

6 | 3 hours ago

You seem salty that jokic has the biggest choke in game 7 history and then got bitched by sga in gm 7 last year. What’s the excuse going to be this year lol?

StillwaterJerry | Suns

2 | 2 hours ago

Let’s be honest…the Suns have a bigger game 7 choke than the Nuggets. The Mavs just happened to choke the Suns out by halftime.

analyzingnothing | Nuggets

-4 | 3 hours ago

What’s your excuse for failing to understand the concept of nuance?

Also, nice try on the sneaky team flair, Thunder fan. I see you on their subreddit, it’s almost always you or a Lakers fan talking shit without actually backing it up.

Hate_Leg_Day | Lakers

2 | 4 hours ago

Jokic has choked away multiple playoff games all on his own. The Nuggets were good enough to win multiple titles, Jokic just let them down in the biggest moments.

analyzingnothing | Nuggets

-2 | 3 hours ago

Gotta love parroting a narrative about games you didn’t actually watch.

dae5oty

7 | 4 hours ago

Crackheads one of the earliest adopters of e-commerce my guy

Background_Creme41

-3 | 3 hours ago

You’d think Oklahoma wouldnt be #1 in poverty then huh?

Financial-Park-7616

1 | 24 minutes ago

OK is actually not, quick google search would have helped before you made that claim

Salty_Examination486

2 | 40 minutes ago

The hate is insane lol its just sad atp

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-7 | 4 hours ago

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Square-Age

4 | 4 hours ago

What dynasty?

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-15 | 4 hours ago

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CrippledBanana | Canada

5 | 3 hours ago

You guys are so cocky and Im one of the rare few that say they actually enjoy watching the thunder here lol. Anything can happen and no championship is promised. The kd warriors with one of most bullshit teams of all time still lost vs the raptors

NachoVarga5 | Thunder

1 | an hour ago

Inevitable? Stop with this bs

Unlucky-Rich-4387 | Nuggets

0 | 3 hours ago

It’s going to be fun trolling the shit out of all of you when you don’t repeat. Don’t run and hide when yall lose

NoodlesThe1st | Hornets

-8 | 4 hours ago

Idk why people are so obsessed with a team oriented stat, like rings, making a player immediately better than others. Or is it just favoritism? Shai isnt better than Jokic just because Shai has a way better team than him.

Zeeron1 | Thunder

-6 | 4 hours ago

No, but Shai is better than Jokic because they seem to overall have a very similarly measured individual impact, but Shai is more clutch and outplays Jokic almost every time they meet

analyzingnothing | Nuggets

4 | 3 hours ago

No shit Shai puts up numbers against the Nuggets, we’re a terrible defense and specifically have awful defensive guard play. Meanwhile, Jokic is running head-first into the best defense of the modern era. This is not a fair comparison by any means.

Zeeron1 | Thunder

-2 | 3 hours ago

If the measurables are all pretty much a wash against other opponents, and one guy needs an excuse in their head to heads and one doesn’t, im not sure what the argument against the point im making is tbh lol

analyzingnothing | Nuggets

2 | 3 hours ago

It’s not an excuse, it’s an explanation.

I consider them to be currently equal players in terms of prime. The fact that the measurables are a wash is the point.

Life-Negotiation79

1 | 3 hours ago

ur just lying lol jokic the best player of the past 5 years straight, shai just hanging up there with him rn..

wemby gonna shut it all down tho ngl

Zeeron1 | Thunder

-2 | 3 hours ago

Jokic is great, I guess he’s just the best player except for when he needs to be the best player against the Thunder

Careful_Metal2253

-25 | 4 hours ago

That one loss was to the Spurs who beat them 4 times this year. I am really curious to see if the Thunder can turn that record around.

OwnGuarantee6838

33 | 4 hours ago

This loss was to the Celtics

Automatic_Gap5317

14 | 4 hours ago

It wasn’t to the spurs

Old_Supermarket_7575 | Thunder

6 | 4 hours ago

It wasn’t the spurs

They played the spurs once healthy and lost by single digits shooting 25% from 3

I think they still beat the spurs in 5

Jazzlike_Royal_9567 | Thunder

3 | 4 hours ago

And beat them another time even without Dub and Hartenstein

bigpapi-did-steroids | Spurs

0 | 2 hours ago

Full starting rotation at full strength on every win, but whatever helps you cope, I guess. I’m sure Ajay Mitchell would’ve saved y’all from the multiple blowouts, but okay!

Old_Supermarket_7575 | Thunder

3 | 2 hours ago

He’s our second best ball handler and we were force feeding Jdub who was just back post surgery

bigpapi-did-steroids | Spurs

0 | 2 hours ago

Excuse after excuse with y’all it’s insane. Y’all got clapped multiple times with your full starting rotation healthy and a Wemby playing 20 mins. It’s okay to admit this lmao

Old_Supermarket_7575 | Thunder

2 | an hour ago

I mean I’m happy you enjoyed the regular season

If yall make it passed the spurs you’ll learn

bigpapi-did-steroids | Spurs

0 | an hour ago

I mean, if they literally beat themselves then there’s not much they can do LMFAOO

Forshea | Spurs

0 | 4 hours ago

Lol they played 3 times in less than 2 weeks with Wemby on minutes restriction off the bench and the two blowouts don’t count because the Thunder had some injured bench players?

BBallHunter | Thunder

4 | 4 hours ago

That’s wrong though. Was against Boston.

NoHacksJustTacos

-10 | 4 hours ago

Sadly, nuggets will take care of the spurs and get injured in the process giving okc a free ring.

sunsetpolar

4 | 4 hours ago

Cope starting early I see

Thunder record when Shai plays since february 1st: 20-1 with a +15.5 Net Rating