We should all be thankful for the softness of Naz Reid’s throat. 🙏🏻

Reminds me when back in the day Mike Bibby’s face fouled Kobe’s elbow in the playoffs.

I don’t know why I was so surprised, but I didn’t expect Reggie Miller to keep restating, “SOMETIMES VIOLENCE IS NECESSARY!”

Guessing he was just following orders and protecting the future face of the league though.

No one was pissed at Kareem for punching Kent Benson; they were more upset that he broke his hand in doing so and had to miss 20 games

When you take cheap shots, sometimes the people’s elbow or sweet chin music from KAJ has to be invoked; it is what it is

r/yourjokebutthesame

Curry’s whistle was always bad because Draymond had 15 fouls

Honestly out of everyone, Steph gets his ass beat with no whistle in the playoffs often enough to where I wouldn’t be mad if he threw a hook or two. That’s coming from a rockets fan too lmao Amen probably deserved to get clocked by him last year. 

Why do that when you got Draymond to do it for you

Imagine the chaos if Curry had socked LeBron when LeBron went after Curry’s hand in the 2016 finals (volume up).

I’ve always believed that Curry gets the worst whistle because his teammate Draymond has the longest leash. The rest of the NBA would be in an uproar if Curry had SGA’s or Harden’s whistle, but Draymond has been able to get away with whatever he does.

There’s still time

Steve Kerr still won’t have seen it. 

Revenge on Naz Reid’s throat 

It sucks that NBA media is going to make people hate Wemby like they do every other star. Its entirely media driven when they go over the top to fawn over someone, eventually fans get tired of hearing about them

How dare they remove him from the game for being a dirty bitch.

now i kinda understand all the OKC fans with Wemby Derangement Syndrome lol

Literally even the r/nba sidebar pic was changed to “Wemby is locked in” and hyping him up. I guess they know their audience

Wolves have been rough with Wemby, Spurs are also jamming Ant and being super physical with him. Does Ant get to elbow Castle in the face and get treated like a hero for doing so?

Yesterday’s broadcast with embarrassing.

Yeah I remember hearing Reggie Miller say his line about “sometimes violence is necessary” for sure twice. Definitely thought it was weird

Reminds me that Reggie’s reaction to the Draymond-Poole footage was that the Warriors should fire their entire video team for letting it leak to the public.

Yeah the commentators trying to be “well both sides are valid” all the time leads to them saying some really stupid shit lol

Reggie is one of the worst broadcasters ever

This is a very level-headed take. I wish the media story had been more about Wemby needing to mature and keep his composure while the refs need to step in and control the physicality of the game earlier (which, to be fair, I think they did last night both ways).

Spurs fan here. I agree that i dont like the violence being celebrated. I was at the game and didnt like people with elbowing signs. And i can also appreciate that your team is doing everything they can to be physical with Wemby and get him to crack. It’s totally on the refs to call them out and keep them in check and they just havent been. the officiating has been so bad. Even watching Tony Brothers being held back from Finch was just insane.

Game 4 Wemby cracked. In the same play before the elbow, he got his leg wrapped up, his jersey pulled, his face elbowed (that one at least looked less intentional) and he cracked. He’s 22 years old. His body went into fight or flight and he chose fight. He lost his cool. It cost us the game. It also exposed a weakness in him to every team. You CAN get him to lose his temper. so now other teams will try.

One of the things made Tim Duncan so special was he was unphasable. Eventually people stopped trying to play the mental game with him. Wemby has to tap into that, knowing teams will continue to be physical, and find a way to rise above.

i also want to add that if you watch the video in real time it does not look as bad as the slow motion replays. the slow motion replays make it look like wemby sat there, thought about it and then wrecked Naz. In real time it was much more reactive (and i agree he deserved the ejection.)

THERE IS NO POLITICAL SOLUTION

He was asked what that point was, Reggie replied “that remains to be seen!”………so pointless violence??

Violence is never the answer. But sometimes it is.

‘Sometimes you have to use violence to get your point across!’

- Malcolm X

– Lebron James

Where was Reggie Miller on January 6, 2021? Many are asking!

“For all the kids watching at home, always swing first” - Charles Barkley

Boys and girls ages 8-12, you can fly!!!

I think it was pretty bad. He got him around his neck area and it could have ended pretty bad

I think NBC even dubbing it “his return” is crazy lol. It’s not like me missed a game.

The news will do as the news does. Fans (on Reddit at least) are a bit more critical but it was pretty nasty. Draymond-esque even. 

It was horrendous

I don’t even think further suspension beyond that game ejection was necessary. But yeah, it was kinda hilarious listening to the commentators and other media talk about him like he overcame some major adversity and not that he just intentionally elbowed another player in the throat lmao. It’s like the guy is a freak athlete with freakier proportions and can dominate. He doesn’t need to be coddled like a little baby or treated like some martyr when he was the one who got himself ejected. They’re not even the underdogs lol the media script during the last game was just weird

being a neutral observer I think him getting booted as early as he did in game 4 was sufficient punishment, glad he didn’t get an additional suspension but I was very surprised he didn’t even get a fine.

As a non spurs fan, i think his punishment was reasonable and everyone should just move on.

The biggest surprise to me is that as far as I saw, we got no apology/remorse for the incident from Wemby (unless I missed something – in which case please correct me).

Pretty crazy to do a play like that and then never have to even apologize for it, and immediately go back to getting hyped up.

I think no suspension was expected and fine. It was a stupid action, and we move on. But I did not expect to hear zero apology from Wemby.

I say this as primarily a Pistons fan, but you absolutely know Detroit would react the same way with any of their players returning from suspension.

And realistically any fanbase would do the same thing in my opinion

They celebrated Bruce Bowen for years then acted like Zaza was the devil for injuring Kawhi so it’s really not surprising.

Wemby is the first player to ever be harassed physically in the playoffs actually how dare you it was brave of him

“Bad boys” pearl clutching. What happened to the game I loved?

To be fair, I did also see “World Peace” T-shirts after Harden incident. Maybe it was a bit tongue in cheeks

Yep, just like how no Pistons fans ever celebrated the Bad Boys Pistons

Reminds me of the simpsons where Homer is going to box drederick Tatum and they paint Tatum as seeking revenge for his getting arrested against Homer.

Seriously, Miller is consistently awful as an announcer. It’s too bad NBC/Peacock employs him.

I remember that and thought the same thing. Like that was just a bad pass but no, they had to say that guy should have been there haha.

What a pass, it was just a little bit in the wrong direction. His vision is incredible

The GOAT PR is building as we speak

It’s striking me as odd how so many of these comments seem directed at Wemby and not the colossal joke of a commentator in Reggie Miller. He has terrible commentary across the board.

ironically all this PR maneuvering is gonna contribute to hate in the future. it all adds up and it’s happened to plenty of superstar players already

Wemby PR is just incessant glazing. There are certain players who would have been tarred and feathered for pulling that bullshit

I was shocked that there was no suspension. There were precedents.

I don’t think Wemby even apologized for it or expressed any remorse, which was disappointing.

Yeah that comment blew my mind when it happened in game 4 lmfao

‘Wemby dapping his guys up, telling them that he believes in them to win without him, showing great leadership’… brother he just sent a thoroughly intentional elbow at another player’s throat what are we fucking doing here? What the fuck did they think he was going to do, start elbowing his own teammates too? 

I like Wemby off the court and think he’s got his head screwed on right but the glazing is utterly unbelievable sometimes

He is extremely lucky Naz did not get hurt, or pretend like he got hurt. The league discipline and resulting discourse doesn’t at all reflect how dangerous a play that was, which is pretty disappointing.

A couple inches here or there and Naz was sleeping in the hospital.

Only specific dirty players and only specific floppers

This sub is full of hypocrites if it were draymond who did this he would have been crucified on the spot. But instead we had morons saying it was ok for him to throw the elbow because he wasn’t getting any whistles LMFAO

Adam Silver hates fat people. Why do you think Luka had to sit out the playoffs bozo?