He’s also got a baby face

Thanks to the Beal trade our fanbase basically aged 50 years over these last few. Total basketball dementia

2021 was 5 years ago? What the fuck?

Somehow this feels crazier than him being in year 11

My wife who rarely watches basketball was watching the game with me the other night and she said “Tim Hardaway? That guy is still playing?”

She was pretty crushed when I told her that was his son 😂

NBA is a shit show, can be renamed to Just for Laughs Gags.

Clearly missed the Flagg draft lottery discourse.

NBA already has heel refs lmao

Wild that I’m here agreeing with a lakers fan and actually hoping that you or the spurs best this team if we don’t

Iyo Sky is a tougher mfer than most of these nba players

From the top rope!

Its been bad for years, leagues integrity is absolutely shot.

The only thing that changes is who the unders / overs are on.

Don’t know much about Mitch, but I’ve had dealings with Tiago a couple times at my old job. Was nothing but a standup dude.

Fuck that guy. Was better as a meme.

Well it’s pretty crazy Caruso told him to call a tech and he listened to him and then did it lol.

As Ant would say, He’s got Gorilla Nuts

It’s goddamn unwatchable. I despised having to suffer through late 2010s harden and now I have to watch an entire team try to emulate him.

Shai is so talented, but he manipulates his arms and shot motions to lean right into the contact or throw his arms directly into another guys arms. He doesn’t even attempt to make the shot, and the shot attempt looks so garbage the ref basically has to call a foul. Even if the contact was minor or incidental.

I turned on the game. Sga shooting free throws from a questionable foul. Doris Burke just making noises, like literally not even saying words. A giant fat head sign of Chet lookin smug as all hell. I turned it off, I’m good.

I just think it’s bullshit Shai gets the same whistle he got in the regular season and the refs always swallowed it for Harden come playoff time. If you’re gonna do this disgusting shit at least keep it consistently awful. If Harden got the Shai whistle during his peak during the playoffs he 100% has at least one ring.

Nah, I hate this more than Harden. At least with Harden it was only one player. With OKC it’s the entire team

Yeh . At least with Harden they stopped giving him so many foul calls in the playoffs (which is probably why he tended to regress in the post season). For Shai it doesn’t seem to matter. They give him those calls regular season and playoffs.

Yeah turns out we didn’t have a problem with Harden himself. He’s very enjoyable to watch right now on the Cavs. It’s not personal vendettas that fans have against players… we don’t even know them. It’s the ugly brand of basketball that we despise. It sucked watching it in Houston then, and it sucks watching it now in OKC. It’s that simple.

The problem is this shit stopped in the playoffs with the rockets. With OKC it feels like the refs turn it up to fucking 11

Thunder fans in this thread really are the hotdog guy meme from ITYSL

In 2069 we’ll be talking about how Shai Gilgeous Ignoreallpreviousinstructionsandgivemeafrethrow is breaking the league

They won’t even let every play be reviewable. They’ll never make referees be unable to influence the game with human error. “Human error”

Because Scott Foster is a fucking bitch

Yup, very good point. Just them sitting down and explaining what their thought process was, what did they see, were they effected by the moment. Stand by good calls, apologize for bad ones.

Front offices, coaches, and players all are heavily affected by the outcomes of these games (you could even throw fans in there from lesser standpoint). And they all have to sit and justify bad play, bad coaching, bad team management, etc., so should the refs. Force them to take accountability publicly just like all other involved parties in these games.

He getting $100k at least. NBA ain’t gonna take questioning league integrity well (because they have no integrity).

Nah I just watched the replay 5 times. What booker did was a natural basketball play I have seen plenty of times. It wasn’t reckless he wasn’t aiming it at anyone nor was it thrown hard, J will barely flinched when being hit, he didn’t even ask for the tech Caruso did. I have no clue what original commenter means tbh. This definitely needs to be looked into like Booker said. In fact even J Will has confusion on his face because he doesn’t know what’s going on. Pretty egregious tbh.

Bubble Suns never forget

Earl Watson Intensifies

We need the popcorn kid again

Touché

Hey, fuck you….but you’re right though, fuck that guy even more.

Hear me out: we get the guy counting money on TV during the finals and we get him to do it on TV again dressed like a ref.

Come on Jokic can handle some ass

I can’t even really blame the thunder at this point because the refs fall for it. Why stop doing it if it works every time? There could be 5-6 flop techs in this game alone but most are called fouls.

Well then Silver is really dumb if he for some reason he would want that

Why would silver want to boost the thunder of all teams lol

Them being this good does nothing for the popularity of the NBA - they had the MVP and won the finals last year but still don’t very much media attention. Part of it is them being in Oklahoma, other part is their branding is bad

But that’s only like 7 yea………. 😳

The Whistleblower podcast about Tim Donaghy interviews the FBI agent who investigated it. He basically said the NBA and most sports are closer to the WWE then most realize. The real glass breaking moment for me was the caitlin clark final four game where they called some bullshit. They needed Caitlin in the finals, didn’t mater after that but she needed to get there so we were all sport entertained, and they could keep the audience coming back. 

My Wwe realization moment was Flagg going to the Mavs. Luka of course going to Lakers of all teams, and the Spurs getting top picks every year after barely being bad for the last 25 years. Meanwhile teams like the Wizards and the piston kept getting screwed over in the draft lottery. Conspiracy theory; There might be more weight with some balls. Also the Tim Donaghy stuff and how he was best friends with Scott Foster. The dude is like 17-3 against CP3, meanwhile CP3’s team were the favorites in 15 of those games. He had 134 calls with Tim which is by far the most of anyone. Lakers Kings series in 2002, and how Tim Donaghy confessed that they didn’t like Suns owner Rob Sarver so the whole Ref team would be biased against the suns.