[Lowlight] Isaiah Hartenstein pulls Stephon Castle by the hair
Lmao these refs man
that framing with the ref dead staring at the flagrant foul is chef kiss perfect
Lmao
“I mean he seemed so confident he was allowed to do it i figured he knew something I didn’t.”
nah this CAN’T be real LOL
this is perfect lol
i’m convinced it’s all a legitimate conspiracy these refs making bank every single game
Adam Silver wants this one going to seven
“Is that an OKC player fouling? No, it’s the Spurs that are wrong.”
Hahahaha
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It’s so funny LOL
Can’t have the Thunder go down 0-2 in Silver’s NBA
Refs took away spurs ability to challenge in the first half gonna be some iffy calls (lol 3 of them since I made this comment time to watch some hockey)
I checked out at half
Yeah I dont watch that bullshit okc fans call basketball
That’s why I not even bothering to watch this series, the refs will just put the Spurs in foul trouble and enable OKC’s foul all the time defense, hindering any true challenge from the Spurs.
OKC will just play dirty on their way to another title and the refs will turn a blind eye.
Been saying this all night. I’m watching knowing OKC will win lol
It’s okay, this is one of the times where you got the 28 teams behind your team
Doesn’t matter. Doesn’t have Silver. Silver will do everything to prop them up.
Sad why the fucking Thunder though 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Best case is you take it to 7 and then you gotta win by 25 to win by 5. Silver is obsessed with elevating this overrated Thunder team. He doesn’t care that 29 fanbases can see it’s blatantly rigged to keep OKC alive.
do nba not have VAR or something similar?
This is easy red card and 3 game suspension in soccer
Spurs already used 2 challenges, successfully! But even if they did have a challenge, you can’t challenge a non call. Basically, it is set up in such a way that refs are not held accountable.
And you don’t even retain successful challenges like it’s supposed to be lmao such a joke
I don’t understand why they don’t do they same as what cricket does where you get to keep challenging until you get it wrong. It would let the NBA play more ads as well which I’m sure Adam Silver would love.
They know these stupid refs will make a lot of wrong calls, virtually giving a team unlimited challenge.
The refs are supposed to be “graded” after each game that shows what calls they missed… of course, we won’t ever see those grades… or what grade they give for hair pulling.
Tony Brothers fucked the spurs over out of both their challenges because he blew 2 calls. Absolutely despicable
They don’t need VAR man, HE’S STARING RIGHT AT IT.
ref approved play!
If this went the other way Daigneault would have sprinted to half court asking for a review
If Castle pulled someone by the hair he’d be roasted on a spike during the postgame interview
I mean yeah, OKC calls the cops the most.
Its so blatant. This is so off putting
Can’t even believe Hartenstein wasn’t ejected for all of his fouls this game.
I had to turn this game off. Congratulations nba ya’ll somehow managed ruin the best series in the last 10 years by game two.
Wemby is the best player since MJ and they are trying to injure him on every play. Nba is a joke.
Yet okc fans have the audacity to chant refs you suck
Right after the shout-out everyone gave the refs in game one, too
Whole league is rigged, wouldn’t be surprised if decade from now it comes to light this betting nonsense influenced games because the refs were in on it.
Wtf is wrong with these people
This is actual movie-tier evil opposing sports team shit
This was exactly my thought. Iceland in the Mighty Ducks type behavior
Spurs need to make Biyombo and Plumlee their Bash Brothers. Put them in to take out the trash.
Kelly has experience make him do it
With an equally hateable coach and fanbase. You couldn’t write a more unlikeable team
Man I don’t fucking like their coach.
Oklahoma
Yea the dirty plays and hot-headedness make a lot more sense when you realize these are elite athletes who grinded their whole lives to be the best in the world, and their reward was getting stuck in the fuckin Sooner State
Hart was a free agent right? This guy wanted to be there after living in NY.
He wanted the bag
the medical term is scrotum
They aren’t stuck in Oklahoma. From October-May they are playing games non stop including on the road many days. And then the second their season ends they are on the first private jet the hell out of Oklahoma.
Constant enablement by Adam Silver’s NBA
It really is. Gave em an inch….
Pulling a man’s hair is quite possibly the biggest bitch move looool
Has to be the coach. No way the players can do all this without the coach encouraging it.
Guy’s creating a career long reputation for himself in a single game
somethings in their water
Not blind, just ignoring it. Instructions from the top are clear: OKC has to win game 2.
I don’t know what OKC does to get the refs on their side every time, but I refuse to be gaslighted by their fans anymore about this shit. They don’t get called like anyone else
i dont know why we were ever okay getting gaslighted bruh like theyre so fucking blatant
It was always blatant, there was never a point in time when it wasn’t obvious, crazy part is they really don’t have to resort to this shit with how good they are, absolute bullshit
Helps when the Head of Referee Operations is a random Google exec with no prior ref experience, who also happens to be a Thunder fan.
Wtfffff lol fr??
They don’t do anything, the betting lines influence the refs. We know all of this, and it’s exactly why no professional sports teams where based in vegas until the NHL team a few years ago.
The u.s. has decided we like money more than we care about unhealthy behavior, and as much as this grosses me out, the decline in political influence or corruption of religious ideology in the last few decades has led us to this place where the whole country is willing to accept corruption as a standard. Guess we all figure it’s fine as long as we can get ours.
Until we embrace a moral stance against this shit, or the money to play fair is more than the money to cheat, the obvious cheating will continue. We choose this as a society. We decided we like rich people to take advantage of us. Religion used to be the buffer, but since we lost that we have no moral standard to live by.
It’s just a couple million idiots that can’t figure out a uniform front vs a few billionaires that have a clear idea about how to take our money.
wait until you really need healthcare and you’re too sick to work… then you’ll really understand how evil this system is. i had to tell my parents tonight that their voting is the reason I’ll probably die from cancer sooner than they. they suggest dumb shit like GoFundMe as if that is going to pay my bills and insurance while I’m trying to fight cancer.
and I’ll have long term disability.. but the insurance is not affordable
Head of officiating whole family is thunder fans.
yup. too much money on the line
I know the announcers are saying it, but can the nba do anything meaningful retroactively about this? Watching the thunder get away with this every possession is unbearable
They can retroactively suspend him, but they won’t
They’re going to start an internal investigation and have the announcement alongside the Kawhi inquiry.
I mean they can. They suspended Draymond in 2016. Fortunately for him, he ain’t Draymond.
I turned this shit off at halftime. Their brand of ball is just bad
Can’t say I blame you, it’s brutal to watch this team continue to get rewarded like this. I’d rather watch the Cavs embarrass themselves than cheer for this team
Honestly he had 4 maybe 5 easy fouls in the first half refs got the extension cord out
Should’ve fouled out in the first half lmao the amount of holding this man is doing is insane
Yea, I HATE this team.
Hate their fans more lmao
Fans are annoying and just blindly support their guys.
It’s the PLAYERS doing this shit. Chet stepping on wembys foot. Hartenstein pulling Castles hair.
I hate the team way more than their fans.
Plenty of hate to go around. Let’s goooooooo
Dort been surprisingly quiet this post season
Definitely hate them even more now. Lu Dort is a very dirty player who I am shocked have lessened his dirty plays considering his reputation. However, Hartenstein and Chet took over the dirty plays.
We all hate this OKC team and their fan base! Floppers and Dirty players all in one team!
OKC can never escape the allegations
they’re not just allegations anymore lol
4K with slow mo replays
Watching this shit on my OLED television has me heated lol
OKC actively confirming the allegations
Can’t convince me they aren’t being coached to do this shit. Literal “win no matter what” dirty ass bullshit
When it’s this egregious you can’t help but think it’s a culture that’s actively being fostered.
This is what I’ve been saying. It’s 100% cultural. There are dirty and/or floppy players but it’s never been an entire team doing all this shit. It’s definitely a tactic being coached, which is why it pisses me off so much more than any individual player that does it
It’s why you can’t really take the league seriously when they’re willing to rig the playoffs this badly.
Forever rooting for Wemby to end their reign
I’m praying on their downfall so hard
thunder fans see this and whisper “what beautiful basketball”
“No you just don’t understand we’re not a dirty team!!! We just play harder and you’re jealous!!! Your team wishes they could just play this way!!!”
-average Thunder fan
OKC fans want you to believe Wemby is dirty for diving for the ball but this is just playoff ball?
Because they are just accurate descriptions
Love to hear Thunder fans defend this one
looks like they arent even trying at this point.
They don’t care. It’s Oklahoma. Their entire history is based on taking pride in cheating to get ahead.
Is that an 1889 Land Rush burn lol
TIL I learned about the 1889 Land Rush and how shitty Oklahoma is for glorifying their historical, illegal actions to the indigenous tribes living there.
Damn, thank you kind sir commenting on the NBA subreddit lol
49th in education
Mississippi with the bailout.
As a native Oklahoman I hate our history, I hate it here, and I hate the Thunder fans
They just change the subject. omg look at Shai’s stats and oh btw the FTAs are even!
Pretty much every comment I’ve seen from a Thunder fan regarding it has been “but what about Wemby’s elbow against the Twolves?!?!”
You mean the elbow he was EJECTED for? Hartenstein didn’t even pick up a common foul for this one.
Yeah. Got in an insane argument about that last night on some game thread with an OKC fan that made me feel like I was insane.
Im sure theyre blaming his ethnic hair
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1tj75er/comment/omzid83/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Not the exact verbiage but you seem to be correct
Comment deleted, but based on the responses I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know what it said.
Thunder fans are like Trump supporters. All of the evidence laid out in plain sight and they still make excuses to defend. Idiots.
They just defend it by pointing to the Wemby elbow last series and saying the Spurs are dirty too.
OKC quality education for you
Probably gonna throw in a “they were cheering KD getting up!” type excuse lmao
He’s been so dirty today it’s not even funny. Just a pathetic player
Has to be the coaching. He was never a dirty player before this, correct me if I’m wrong
Prob told him if he wants playing time he’s gotta do this shit
I’m guessing it went something like “you’re unplayable when Vic is out there so use your 5 fouls they can’t call everything, if they let it slide then we have a huge advantage”
Used about 29 tonight
McCain also started flopping and flailing after arriving there
Same with Caruso
I loved Caruso on the Bulls. He can eat shit now.
Genuinely surprised the players are ok with being dirty.
I Hart isnt some end of the rotation player trying to get a contract, he is a legit big who already got a bag.
they’re a bunch of spoiled millionaires bro, they don’t care. they all think their shit doesn’t stink.
You’re right I just commented about how he was never dirty under Thibs on the Knicks.
same, he wasn’t at all. this is just gross and really disappointing to watch him play like this.
ugh.
This is the Thunder FO bread and butter; they know they’re the perfect team for the league to inflate/deflate by playing against the rule book. This has coached all over it, they desperately need someone that big getting away with fouls to keep Wemby down.
Oh 100% it’s coaching and culture. SGA made these fools a bunch of dirty rules benders
Dude got played off the court after two minutes in game one, now’s he’s playing like Draymond possessed him.
This is the game plan for OKC. Nothing new
genuinely wish Wemby would really start getting his elbows involved
do thunder fans see why we hate this team? it’s not cause y’all are dominant
You don’t see Thunder flair in these posts. They just avoid and deny. It’s the Oklahoma way.
It’s because they’re all boomers and live on Facebook
Or they’re 12 and like them because “aura”
this thunder team has united the entire rest of the nba fan base I’m out here rooting for the spurs and agreeing with laker fans 😂
It’s weird to have such a clear and obvious antagonist. Feels scripted lol
Pretty sure Oklahoma is the most uneducated state in the country from what I remember even if you show them blatant proof they will continue to deny.
They’d be really upset if they could read what you said
well its because they are also good and dont need to be doing this shit
Outrageous, that should have been his 5th
Of the quarter
Hartenstein literally had 25 fouls tonight and they only called him for 4 of them.
and they had to use a challenge to get one of those four called lol
Should’ve been a straight ejection regardless. Pulling a players hair? Wtf is this? Kindergarten?
50th*
I saw him commit 3 uncalled before a final 4th wrestling Wemby in the first quarter
This is disgusting
Absolutely ridiculous. Thats ejection worthy.
Red card in football btw
A lot of people like to say “they’re diving like soccer players” don’t realize we actually punish that unlike the NBA
League has gotta do something bro
The league has instructed the refs to allow them to do this lmfao. It’s the WWE
This is ESPNs grand plan. Let OKC and the Tony’s Brothers dimish the authenticity of the NBA and allow it to descend to a pile of dogsh!t, so that the increasingly brain dead ESPN audience no longer ascertains a difference between alien Adam Silver and sexual harasser Vince McMahon
Red Card here clearly, where is VAR
I will be honest, I didn’t realize this was a legal move
Even the WWE knows they have to have the ref knocked out or incapacitated for the cheating to occur. NBA has a ref right there staring openly doing nothing. Should fire him immediately, and no review. Otherwise, if he complains or the ref union steps in, then just fire them all.
Eject him wth
Eject? Suspend him lilke Draymond and Dillon
Suspended?! Doug, kick him off the tour.
the entire Thunder team are such fucking d bags man
Bro this team actually strategize how to do dirty plays with no shame. They deserve all the hate.
it’s not even just the dirty plays. it’s the absolute flop fest on the other side of the ball. like if you’re gonna play rough and dirty, keep that same energy on offense.
SGA fell down almost every play in the 2nd half. I was telling my wife, that’s the dude that falls down and sure enough he do so.with minimal contact.
What makes it worse is that he is a great shooter and doesn’t need to do that. It’s all just being a tool
OKC fans: Why do people dislike our team?
“Must be because we’re good.”
They for real act like they’re the first good team in NBA history lmfao
bitchmade team
Get this fucking clown outta here man, this is beyond ridiculous at this point.
This is where teams usually have “enforcers”. Shits getting out of hand
Can Wemby teach someone else the Buddhist Elbow?
Dirty bastard like the rest of their dirty ass team
Come on man. This guy is playing like shit and not being reffed properly.
Fuck OKC
Get this dirty clown out of the league
Hartenstein plays dirty
Lu Dort plays dirty
SGA plays dirty the other way
Fuck the Thunder
Did you not see Chet intentionally step on Wemby’s ankle at the free throw line in Game 1?
Chet too. He’s a scrub.
Yes, it was dirty.
We know
Ejection. Fuck this dude and fuck this fucking pathetic Thunder team
Was such a fan of him when he was on the Knicks, what a complete 180 in 2 years.
Can’t convince me he isn’t being coached to do this shit
top tier pussy
Whole team full of bitches
ethical basketball
Defend this, okc fans
Steph’s hair was asking for it. /s
Dude in the comments said, “Steph doesn’t have normal hair.”
Even the most dirtiest or dirt bag pickup game wouldn’t yank on someone’s hair. This isnt basketball.
Flagrant 2, multiple times worse than jersey pulling as well
These guys can’t stop
SUB FUCKING KELLY OLYNK IN THE GAME AND DEAL WITH THIS MOTHERFUCKER
mind you their fans chant ‘refs you suck’
This guy is so dirty man
What the fuck is the ref looking at
Isiah Hartenstein I apologize I was unfamiliar with your game
Username checks out.
they got a three form this🤷♂️
Wow next level low shit..
Guy is getting really creative