OKC players laughing at Lakers swarming the ref after the game
spurs, it is really all up to you to save the sport of basketball
I ain’t hear no bell.
bro, it can be you, spurs or jesus himself, just someone bounce them
I love that we brought Jesus into this before even mentioning anyone in the East lmao.
Because we know if the Pistons were to play their style of defense, refs will murder them
The Pistons do play defense like OKC
Except Cade doesn’t have bubble wrap on him like that. They will beat us with FT playing the same defense.
No shit they are by far the closest defense to the thunder and the spurs are next.
Difference is their guys don’t flop on the other end.
Lol
Jesus Shuttlesworth take the wheel
Didn’t he beat the spurs?
Might take a few weeks but we are here to do the lord’s work! Amen
Spurs or Antaclaus.
Merry Spritemas OKC
I’m 100% going for the Wolves if they end up winning the series.
Yeah in most cases I’m never rooting for who knocked us out as a wolves fan but it’s about taking the thunder out this year whoever gets there
I’m already on the bandwagon, McDaniels gave me Stockholm syndrome
Yeah Ant is awesome and Ayo is sick. Gobert being a French team mate for Wemby makes me a fan.
Plus Minnesota sports fans have suffered enough between Wild, Vikings and Wolves.
Wolves ain’t beating OKC tho. Yall are our only hope
Thunder = Scissors
Wolves = Paper
Spurs = Rock
Sorry man we’re just being realistic
Fuck the spurs but idc anymore destroy them all I had enough of these aau babies
Wolves can beat the spurs. But can’t beat the thunder. Last year they were better and got embarrassed
That was last year
It’s the same team, just worse because Edwards is not 100%, and okc is upgraded
Bro it’s only game 3 of the series, ant will be close to full by next round.
Wolves weren’t allowed to guard SGA. Wolves came out game 1 in the WCF and punched OKC in the mouth, then there were two quick touch fouls on Jaden to take him out of the game and that was the story of the series. Can’t touch Shai.
If refs let Jaden guard SGA the way he guarded Murray or Booker, it’s a totally different series, but for some reason SGA is the most protected asset in NBA history since Jordan
Have you not watched how Marcus Smart is guarding Shai?
Ding ding
Spurs gotta win this current series before they think about okc
I agree. The Thunder should have walked off the court and demanded their win be given to the Lakers. This is unacceptable behavior
Or the middle ground of they can not flop like fishes on one end of the court and play like the 2000 Baltimore ravens on defense
Saying this when Smart and Reaves were actively foul hunting for most of the 3rd and 4th quarters is kinda silly.
How dare you bring up the blatant flopping of the Lakers.
A lot will be disappointed when OKC repeats, and I’m not even a OKC fan but it’s obvious what’s about to happen
i know they’re gonna win again as well
Okc really made Lakers into fan favorites
America is rooting for Isaiah Stewart
both organizations are satanic
I was going to say don’t count us out but who am I kidding
genuinely would be a series if luka was playing
OKC are so unlikable people are rooting for the lakers
I am rooting for the Lakers with LeBron no less
I won’t say I am rooting for them, but I am advocating that they get a fair game
Shit. I’m beginning to develop a soft spot for….. nahhhhh but I appreciate it. lol.
Bro talking like he lebron
I’m sitting here each night losing my “thunder will score 45 first” and then seeing that the game was a 2 possession game in the 4th with no Luka just makes all this flopping so disgusting. You’re the deeper team and reigning champions, just beat them without ruining the game
Marcus Smart legacy game incoming.
Holy shit. Damn. I thought I would never see the day.
Ikr. I’m not “rooting” necessarily but if the meteor hit more OKC than lakers I wouldn’t be mad about it.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Even Boston fans root for the Lakers. That how bad things are.
I’ve been a Laker hater and Bron hater my whole life. I am praying for a miracle that they beat this douchebag team
I have some hard decisions to make.
Fr. You have to be incredibly unlikeable for the general consensus of fans to cheer for the Lakers over you
I’m sick to my stomach as a Cs fan
I’m a warriors fan.
And I’m rooting for the lakers.
😂
I am very thick skinned. I have really never had ”hate” or ”enemy” teams.
Now I have noticed I am actively avoiding watching OKC, whoever they play. I despise their game. I just don’t want them to succeed or win anything. It makes my stomach turn. I also regard their fans as idiots.
There, I said it. I consider myself an adult. This is a very strange place.
I’m a certified Laker hater and I want to see them win so badly.
If the Knicks somehow make the finals against OKC I don’t even know what I’d do.
The worst person you know just made a great point.
Hated the lakers for 25 years and not a lebron fan at all.
Never thought I’d see the day where I’d badly want them to beat okc. Or at least foul sga hard every play.
Seriously, last year I was a Chet and shai fan, and now I fucking hate that team. It’s fucking gross to watch, and then SGA with this holier than thou act but also the fucking ringleader is even more gross.
I a Nuggets fan and was rooting for the Lakers….
It’s insane to me that 90% of the league has expressed frustration with OKC, and the Thunder and their fans think “no, THEYRE the ones who are wrong”
Edit: Thunder fans in replies proving my point
People in Oklahoma don’t really know basketball that’s why lol
If Oklahomans knew how to read they’d be really hurt by this comment.
I wish I couldn’t read your username.
Reminds me of the meme where its just a picture of a beet and asparagus salad OP is serving their girlfriend with the caption “time to find out if squirt really is pee”
Today would have been a great day to be from Oklahoma
I don’t want to bring politic into this, but…
Maybe pay their teachers better
Brother, there’s a reason our state is bottom 5 for education. We barely know math and you expect us to know ball??
Ball easier understand than math
Put bal hoop good
put ball not in hoop bad
socialist muslim zohran indoctrinating our children with arabic numerals reeeee
True but there is also math in ball so they know neither
They don’t really know much of anything in Oklahoma
They jersey sponsors are Loves that should say everything
They are really good at making and taking meth. That’s what Oklahoma is known for in the US, meth and benzo capital of America. Sad but true
and 50th in education!
Indiana in shambles
Meth is more a Missouri thing
Meth is an everywhere thing.
Meth is an everywhere there are poor white people thing.
There are like 20 markets more deserving of an NBA team imo
Seattle would be a good choice
Not really, every game is sold out and the fans always show love to the players if when the team was dogshit
Even back in the Russ-KD-Harden days the crowd was nuts, I can vividly remember the crowd pops. Russ triple double year too. I hate what they did to Seattle but OKC crowds are great. I just fucking hate this team right now
Well they do only have one team in the 4 major sports. Nothing else happening in the offseason.
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Funny you think thunder fans are from Oklahoma
They’re majority trump voters. Really puts it all into perspective how they deny reality.
Oklahoma City and Miami are the only two NBA cities whose arena’s county voted Trump.
I hate that Oklahoma is this way. Being liberal in Oklahoma sucks.
Sad leftist in Florida noises
I usually am against telling people to uproot their life, but you need to get the fuck out of there dude lol.
If I didn’t have a daughter and an ex wife I would.
You know what fair. Hopefully you can get your daughter a solid education, because shit is getting is weird.
I’m in one of the better districts. And I’m lucky. Until this year she was sad not to be at school. She still likes school but the so many fucking kids either tell her she’s going to hell for not believing in god or that girls aren’t as good as boys and they can’t do what boys can. Both have been literally said to my daughter at least 8 times this year alone.
Can confirm, I thought I was the only left leaning person in the state.
Miami-Dade used to be blue till the right-wing tech bros took over ☹️
Oklahoma is consistently ranked as one of the least educated states. I believe these two bits of information could be linked
who woulda thunk that decades of undermining and cutting profits for public education would produce this outcome? must be the libs
They have the NBA title and MVP and they still gotta cry lmao. Victim mentality
Thunder fans are mad insecure because they know they’re frauds so they lash out at any criticism of their team, really pathetic
They also stole the SuperSonics , so I despise them for that
Take it easy on them. They just recently started following basketball.
I am not a Thunder fan but I laugh at the irony that the Lakers of all teams and Austin Reaves of all players are the ones whining about whistles.
In Reaves defense he wasn’t mad about calls, it was about disrespect from an official. Though JJ did complain about the officials after the game (but I agree with what he said)
The main difference that everyone points out is that the Lakers aren’t allowed to get near the Thunder when playing defense without getting called for a foul. It’s the double standard.
Reaves wasn’t complaining about the whistle. JJ was complaining that LeBron doesn’t get calls, and well, he really doesn’t
I agree, the lakers are beneficiaries of it too. That doesn’t make it a non-issue
The NBA becomes unwatchable when you realize that refs can decide pretty much most games except for the ones where a team gets crazy hot from 3. There are fouls every possession that they can call whenever they want. It’s been true for years but this OKC team really makes it evident. The NFL has gotten the same way with how they call holding/DPI.
I’ve been drawn more to baseball lately since the umpiring has become almost as pure as it can get now with ABS. The players play and pretty much every call is monitored by replay review and challengeable. Once they get the cap figured out and outlaw superteams, i think it will be the sport with the most parity and the least ref intervention.
“Yeah but how dare the pacers and jazz tank” Adam silver
OKC is the Israel of the nba
Thunder Fans 🤝 Chiefs Fans
Please lord don’t give OKC the same success that the chiefs have had
Oklahoma ranks 48⁄50 in education.
They’re literally dumber. You can’t reason with that.
It’s funny when they say “so Jaylen Brown and Reddit are 90% of the league.” They’re basically admitting they have no friends in real life and/or they don’t talk ball with their friends irl. Yeah OKC doesn’t need a team.
You’ll notice across sports that fans of poverty teams that become good for a window don’t know how to act. They think it will never come crashing down and act like an asshole to everyone. Look at the Lions in football: historically terrible. They had a window for a couple years and became the most insufferable fans (sorry Pistons fans).
Of course, OKC won a championship and good for them. Not trying to take that away, but the highs will always come back down and acting like you’ve been there before goes a long way.
Fans of consistently good teams know it all comes crashing down. You can talk a lot of shit but it will ALWAYS come back to bite you. They also realize good teams get hated on a lot and you can’t fix it with Reddit replies. Stop replying for your own mental health sake. The narrative will be what it is, and you can stay in your team subs.
Has to be the most unlikeable team in a long time and not because they’re good villains either.
At least golden state were fun villains to see Lebron go up against, okc is just cringeworthy and boring
GS was the opposite of the foul spectrum, Steph’s always had a terrible whistle. Imagine prime curry with FTA’s whistle lmao
Refs letting them get away with moving screens makes up for Steph’s terrible whistle
getting away with moving screens is way better than SGA touch foul calls flopping and the Thunder getting away with beating people up
I hope SGA fouls out at halftime
This is true, but as an entertainment product, it was 1000x better than watching OKC because at least the game kept moving and didn’t stop every other possession for free throws.
I’ll take the moving screens and Darymonds bs any day over flopping.
Refs have always been letting moving screens off. Dubs didn’t get a special whistle, they just used screens more due to the style of play.
Let’s not forget Steph got to run around 5 moving screens before getting open. The refs helped him just fine
Or Draymond kicking people in the nuts every series, or Zaza taking out Kawhi
This revisionist history is HILARIOUS… everyone HATED that Warriors team because of moving screens
Everyone hated the moving screens, sure, but I seem to remember the Warriors dynasty being a “well shit, sure they get away with stuff and nobody likes Draymond, but the Skyfucker and their motion offense are fun to watch” and people actually respected them versus the universal hatred OKC is getting.
Yeah, that’s it. The hate on the moving screen is not really this overblown.
Right? Like I remember the threads of basketball is ruined and theres no point on watching the NBA anymore because of GSW lol
Steph would average at least 35-38 a game if he had a good whistle
What would be his average if he had a good whistle but the refs rightfully call the moving screens by his teammates?
GS was insanely talented and skilled. Shai and his crew might be really talented, but we can’t really know based on the way they play.
What’s sad is that they’re probably good enough to win on merit alone but they will forever have an asterisk beside any championship they win if they continue this abysmal style of play.
If you believe the shit you see on this subreddit, every single championship ever has a fuckin asterisk
Yeah even the Heat dynasty was incredible to hate, which made that run even more memorable. I dont think anyone is going to be talking about this OKC team as an all time team even if they win a couple more championships
OKC is like the “chicken-shit heel” type of villain team. They hide behind the referees and cry foul when other teams do the same things they do.
Lu Dort’s face is so punchable
chet has him beat there
Chet is an Abraham Lincoln wannabe
Chet really an ugly mf
So is SGA
All OKC to be honest.
Get on it big dog
You mean Luguentz?
They know they get the benefit of playing 8v5. Have you seen that SGA can barely contain his grin when he gets those BS calls? 😂
It comes for everyone the same. SGA will have his late harden era too. Its sad now watching harden cry for calls
Right. This is a guilty conscience laugh on all their faces. They know.
OKC really is the Cobrai Kai of the nba.
Cobra Kai is more likable than OKC
Save this sport Wemby
They should that shits ridiculous
a ref talking shit to a player after the game is done is completely ridiculous
Nah I am on Reeves side here. That ref is a bitch
It’s hilarous that an OKC fan is consistently awarding comments like this lmao
Dort the new biggest bitch in basketball
Lowkey the Lakers are ACTUALLY the ‘this is what your team looks like when they don’t get every call’ team.
Yeah now they finally understand what it’s like to play themselves lol
Going for the Reddit points I get it, but nah it was actually pretty bad. There’s a reason this didn’t happen game 1… and we lost game 1 just as bad.
You should look at some of the ref lowlights lol
It didn’t happen game 1 because the ref didn’t yell in Austin Reaves face.
And I definitely don’t disagree that the reffing was terrible last night, but it was just terrible all around, so much vacillating between everything is a foul and nothing is. Beyond that though, I get it if people want to complain about one sided reffing (even if the reality is it’s not true), but when it comes to the Lakers specifically? To quote Lebron, “anyone else… but not you.”
Lakers being upset with reffing is fucking hilarious
It feels nice to see Lakers not be coddled by refs for a change. But it’s also very disappointing to see playoffs become borderline unwatchable due to how the league decided to start officiating
The current NBA product is horrible. I believe poor officiating has been a major reason why teams have moved toward a faster 3pt style of play where teams are taking 40-50 3s a game. Going into the paint seems to result in a whistle over half the time. Playoffs are unwatchable because the 4th quarter is just a free throw fest. “Superstars” are seemingly automatically given whistles when they drive to the lane even if they arent touched while regular nonSuperstar players arent afforded the same. The last 5min of any close playoff game is atrocious product. I used to like watching basketball but now I cant stand it.
Every slightest graze from a defender is a foul. Offense, in contrast, is rewarded for initiating contact. Moving screens, travels, and carries may as well be stricken from the rule book.
College basketball is so much better to watch because teams are allowed to play some defense.
Ngl I don’t even get that mad at them but when I see them snickering on their bench all damn game…please Spurs/Wolves, rid us of this nightmare
spurs please or pistons but i dont think pistons can actuallly win
You’re correct. It’s up to the spurs
The amount of casuals is crazy lmao
Speak for yourself
Didn’t expect the game where SGA was in foul trouble since the first half to be the one that drew this much backlash about refs favoring OKC
This sub is brain dead.
Xenu please give your son Wemby the strenght to defeat okc and the zebras
I would too
I mean why is this not funny? Never seen this before. Usually if a player is arguing with a ref another teammate will try to pull them away. Live to fight another day. Instead the Lakers are surrounding the guy with LBJ standing in the background nodding along. It was a weird moment that to an opposing team looks like sour grapes. Some of you need to chill. Series ain’t over yet.
Pot calling the kettle black
OKC be Vantablack then
So what? This behavior deserves to be laughed at..
They laughing cause they know..they just gotta play along.
OKC broke the league😂 got everyone in shambles.
It’s so great to read these crash outs after every OKC game, I think I have schadenfreude
As they should, that was one of the goofiest things I’ve ever seen
the outcome of any given nba game rn is like 45% the skill of the players, 45% whatever the refs decide to do, and 10% chance
That 18 point FT call really swung the game #rigged
Dudes are laughing and we just assume it’s at the Lakers? Mods are letting the shit posts run rampant.
I thought laughing at clowns was what you are supposed to do.
As a Lakers fan it was embarrassing
Never thought I would find myself rooting for the Lakers in a NBA playoffs
fuck it IDC /r/NBA you will never get me to feel bad for the lakers
Lakers and Reaves out of all crying to the refs, laughable.
Laughing as they should.
I mean it is pretty funny tho
I hope OKC wins the title just to see this sub whine more.
The salt is fucking hilarious
2023 playoffs Lakers 160 free throws to Warriors 80. Karma’s a hell of a thing.
It’s actually not funny people spend $1000s on playoff tix and this is the highest level of the sport they spent their whole lives working at. They’re better at what they do than 99.9999% of the population and the still choose to make a mockery of the sport by flopping.
If the Knicks were to make the finals and lose bc of flopping I’d seriously take a break from everything NBA related for several years. Shit really isn’t funny and the league needs to fine/call techs on flopping
If the Lakers need to start getting their moneys worth on defense then. Make sure it’s a legitimate foul.
It’s right the reaction. Lakers players crying about an unfair whistle is hilarious.
Yall made the second round. Take your 4-0 sweep, and send KD some flowers for being injured and letting you get there. All this bitching and moaning is comical