Maybe lower the hoop to the floor too. They’ll also probably need something to reach the ball because they’re all so tall

And there’s a pool in the middle of the court filled with sharks with laserbeams on their heads.

Replace free throws with sending a player to the penalty box for a possessions or two.

Holy imagine a 4 on 5

Nhl and nba are gonna merge rules in the future. Been saying nhl OT needs a shot clock and backcourt violation with the amount of guys who just leave the offensive zone and retreat to be boring and not risky

Just watch Luka after a no call

They’re letting it go too far both ways. The refs let things go too far and eventually someone flips.

Also don’t swing elbows

Or maybe just don’t throw dangerous elbows regardless of what’s happening on the court.

Gobert gets fouled multiple times every possession and it doesn’t get called. It happens both ways. Every single big in the league deals with it, but they don’t throw elbows like Wemby did

Are you really happy that a precedent has been set where Gobert is now free to elbow one of your best players in the face/neck as hard as he possibly can without him worrying about a fine or suspension?

Homie Ant gets mauled every game of his career and never throws an elbow

Tbh I assumed a fine was automatic for flagrant 2s.

That may as well be $2 lol. Why even bother 

I don’t agree. This was blatant and malicious. This wasn’t a trip or a push. This is worse than a punch and throwing an elbow to this extent should be an auto suspension.

Fine is automatic with flagrant 2. No additional fines*

Bro saw an opportunity to behead someone and the French in him just could not be stopped

Dudes lucky Naz isn’t a few inches shorter, could’ve given him a concussion

Getting hit really hard in the throat can actually be more dangerous than getting hit really hard in the head can be. Although getting hit in the jaw like it looked like Naz was can also cause a concussion, as that’s about the brain hitting the inside of the skull, so anything that rocks your head back violently can cause that.

I honestly can’t believe it didn’t start anything, especially with Jaden right there

This is my guess too. It’s a lot more about escalation that anything. Honestly, good on Naz and McDaniels for mostly keeping cool. I’m not sure McDaniels even saw it, he was just riding Wemby like Yoda for the love of the game lol.

By further not protecting players?! 

lol some of yall need vitamins

This is like FanFic at this point. He elbowed a guy in the face and got tossed. Now he’ll be back next game. Don’t overthink it.

I don’t think you should get a pass for “heat of the moment” for an intentional elbow to the neck

Idk I guess a wind up elbow to the face feels a little more fine worthy then what Jokic did. $50k fine for what Jokic did felt pretty steep to me as well

Hold up now you are cooking bro

David stern wouldve choked AI to death if he did ts back in the days

Its because hes….likeable and the golden goose that everybody loves.

If Draymond, Gobert, Brooks, Grayson, or Joel Embiid did thst, in retaliation nba Twitter would erupt.

Hell dor a non dirty example if Deni did it then it would get everyone wabting his head

Nba takes not being objective and having clear favorites??

I’m kidding but it is wild to see how hard perception carries a narrative in the nba even in comparison to other us sports

Bah Gawd!

I’ve MOSTLY gotten over it but the fact that they didn’t even reach the finals between 2005-2010 and this happened still sucks =/ such an easy thing to acknowledge that the action was not worthy of such a strict punishment and drop it after review but Stern gonna Stern. 

In the 2007 playoffs, Steve Nash’s Suns were battling Tim Duncan’s Spurs in the 2nd round and it was a great and hotly contested series. Suns were higher seeded and many thought this was the year Steve Nash could get his ring. Suns has 61 wins that year, it was the era of the Seven Seconds or Less Suns

In a critical pivotal game 4, Robert Horry from the Spurs smashed Steve Nash into the announcers table while he was bringing the ball up. Naturally, Suns players were upset and 2 of the Sun’s starters (Stoudemire and Diaw) got up from the bench - back then, then-NBA commissioner David Stern had weird bizarre rules about punishing players for getting off the bench so they got suspended for an important game 5.

So to recap - Spurs committed a major flagrant foul…and the end the result was the Suns lost 2 of their best players for game 5.

Spurs won the series in 6.

Everyone was really angry about it except for Spurs fans (and maybe Lakers fans since Suns embarrassed them in Round 1)

A lot of people feel like if that play hadn’t happpened, there was a good chance Suns would have won game 5 and the series, and they probably would have won the championship as well. (1st seed Mavericks got knocked out already by the insane 8th seed We Believe Warriors, and the winner of the WCF would face Lebron’s G-league Cavs squad, so whoever won the west was basically guaranteed to win the title)

Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw got suspended against the Spurs after Horry fouled Nash

yeah if anything not grabbing that 50-100k fine or w/e is worse for business, Wemby would’ve forked that up and left with a smile on his face lol

If it was almost anyone else on the court it would have been a suspension.

Say something about refs? Get fined.

Elbow a dude in the neck? Some free throws and rest for part of a game.

Maybe enforcers are back on the menu.

One of the worst suspensions ive ever seen, biased aside. Unless there was something the cameras didnt catch and we didnt see, that one was so bizarre

Mr Silver we’ve found your protege

Similar to Denver in 2024 where Murray tried to throw a towel and a heat pack at a ref but because they were 2-0 down the NBA did nothing. Had the Nuggets been 2-0 up Murray would have been suspended.

This is so accurate lol. Also now that it’s 2-2 nba can’t risk Minnesota winning and Wemby not being in the wcf

And OKC is waiting for the winner… the more nasty it gets the happier they are waiting being in 2nd gear the playoffs so far.

And even with us fans — it’s mostly all respect and understanding between the two fanbases. Outside of the random internet whiners.

Sad but true

Hey man, don’t disparage us like that, 90% of the Wolves roster did everything possible to lose that game 🤣

I agree, how has the league treated similar cases for first time offenders?

Its not even legal in mma lol

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The sub would have to be shut down honestly

what happens when it’s a completely different scenario?

I do feel like the fact that Naz (thankfully) was not seriously hurt probably has something to do with it. It always seems silly but they absolutely punish based on results not actions sometimes. If Naz was concussed or something I bet there is a suspension even if it is Wemby. Got lucky that it wasn’t any more serious.

Draymond doing a sleeper hold on Gobert is one of my favorite “lol wtf” basketball moments of all time.