[Highlight] Victor Wembanyama grabs Jose Alvarado by the neck and tosses him
Pure. Ethical. Basketball.
It’s amazing how much the broadcasters coddle him. Every dirty or unethical thing he does get no replay unless totally unavoidable and the announcers just go back to glazing everything he does
Looks like y’all are finally waking up from mass psychosis
Not just the broadcasters. I get heavily downvoted when I bring up Wembanyama’s elbow to Reid.
The inevitable supercut of all the dirty shit Wemby did just this year in the playoffs will be an incredible watch.
He has had at least a dozen dirty plays this post season. Also, if anyone else literally sent players out to hurt opponents in garbage time they would be under an nba investigation. He’s the worst combination of character traits you could have in a player, he’s dirty, and he’s a cry baby. You can’t be both lol
While also being holier-than-thou. I’m starting to become a hater
I’ve been there since the Minnesota series. Fuck this guy. It was clear then that he was a dirty player. He’s more arrogant than Kobe was at that age, and I truly didn’t think that was possible for anyone to eclipse Kobe’s ego, but here we are.
Until it’s taken down 5 minutes later
No suspension either, he could have broke the nose of Reid, easily. The league and media: nah, let’s continue the glaze!
He’s dirty af, he even tried to flop in that last shot. MJ, Kobe, Wade, Dirk, Kareem, etc, other than OKC and 90s Pistons, I can’t recall any other winner depending on cheating to win
It’s disgusting. You would think from listening to them that the Spurs were up 2-0.
Like when he elbowed a guy in the head then next game he had a good game and they kept calling it “Wemby’s revenge.” Like, wtf?
They know the drill. They do the same for LeBron and have done so for years. Wemby is the next one, so all this BS will be whitewashed.
LeBron is not dirty/unethical lie this, even the Leflop stuff was heavily exaggerated
LeBron was never dirty however the le flops were severe in the mid 2010s. He’s cleaned it up
Intentionally trying to hurt someone is on a different level.
We’ve had this for a few years with Jokić.
RJ did point out how he always does that lil 2 hand shove they called when he sets screens in Game 1 shockingly, but they have still only called it the one time 😂
Naz. Reid.
Right in the neck, ethically, no suspension for an international intentional neck elbow. You hate to see it
Naz reid never apologised
The monks are proud.
As are the nuns
And none of them will drink soda because it makes you die
Not even a Thunder fan but it’s hilarious how downvoted those guys got when they were calling shit like this out during the WCF
Spurs were given a long leash, if they do the same for Knicks at home this will be a sweep 🧹
How does giving the Knicks a long leash help generate European revenue streams?
All of Europe hates the French. Source: am European
Facts. We love the country, but can’t stand the french.
And the French hate all of Europe so all is good
No one cares about the what the French think if they can’t play ethical basketball.
Idc if they can play ethical basketball. No one cares about what the French think.
The French hate themselves, why do you think they go on revolution every two weeks?
Even the french hate the french
Will the mods finally let this stay?
I don’t know they’ve taken it down like two times already.
Very weird to see a bunch of strangers doing everything in their power to protect the reputation of a complete stranger simply because of laundry
The Spurs PR machine has been in overdrive since the playoffs started. Media has tried so hard to paint them as the ultimate good guys and the most likeable team in NBA history, and there’s just nothing likeable about ‘em. I get some hate for OKC, but it got so ridiculous last series when the Spurs were getting away with the exact same shit and more. They’re an incredibly dirty team that whines and mopes the moment they face any sort of adversity.
You notice the day after the cheap shot against McCain that had even this subReddit siding with the Thunder, that there were a bunch of posts trying to portray McCain as a dirty player and a flopper?
Yep. People were trying to frame it as “the Thunder had this coming.” The discourse during that entire series felt like a fever dream. People were straight up telling you to not believe what your eyes were seeing, and for the most part it worked
Same way they tried to frame it when Vic elbowed Naz Reid in the neck. It’s kind of wild
Turns out dudes a dirty player. Monk shit , ethical this that, he’s straight up dirty. Amazing they didn’t even call a foul when that’s assault
It worked because a lot of people here either don’t watch games and/or are bots
Castle always getting into tussles.
I’m convinced it’s because they need a new face for the league and they don’t want it to be Brunson
That wasn’t laundry shamet, it was Jose Alvarado
Adam Silver paying the refs AND r/nba mods to protect the new golden boy 😭😭😭
Similar posts repeatedly got removed during the WCF too. The most egregious was the one where Wemby pulled Dort’s hair and shoved him in transition.
Didn’t see them but this post is still up so I’m going to assume it’s the case. The other videos might have had a watermark from a restream on them. Hosting illegal content can get any subreddit nuked.
I think a lot of those posts get mass reported by Wemby stans and it triggers the automod to delete it, I know they did that a lot during the WCF when clips of this sort of thing went up.
First the people’s elbow, and now the headlock - WWEmby coming to an arena near you soon!
Don’t forget the assassination attempt on Jared McCain
WWEmby, Kornett, Plumblee - future tag team champs 🙌
Or when he dove into SGAs knees.
Imagine the reaction here if someone on the Thunder did this to Wemby.
And the Mitch push tn
He got like 3 sneaky elbows in against the Thunder in one game. It didn’t get posted here because mods and/or Thunder bias. It’s his new favorite move:
I got downvoted to oblivion bringing this up lol
I knew Wemby was a bit of an ass when he headbutted Chet in one of their first matchups lol.
WWEmby is diabolical 🤣
FUCK THATS GENIUS! Why didn’t I think of that…
Adam Silver would publicly execute KAT if he ever did this
Don’t be ridiculous now
KAT would be executed if he was the victim here too
If anyone on OKC did this it would have 30k upvotes on /r/nba.
For real. I can’t believe how many people here are piling on calling Wemby soft when just a week ago they were screaming about how he wasn’t getting calls.
i think it also has to do w how knicks are 2-0 People[Me] thought Wemby invasion was inevitable this playoffs, but now i know wemby bleeds. So i can revolt against his regime now
Knicks giving hope to the oppressed Wemby haters
Every non-Spurs fan who posted here saying he needed to save the game they love needs their man-card revoked. Sad boy shit.
They get deleted by the ethical mod team before they gain traction
Nothing to see here. Just pure and ethical basketball
It’s late bro, we might get there.
Literally every lowlight of the Thunder and highlight against them had thousands of upvotes and jokes about us being uneducated fat slobs who smoke meth and bang our cousins. This is nothing in comparison lol
We tried to tell people how dirty they were. Before I get “but Dort”, that doesn’t make San Antonio not dirty. It’s not just Wemby either.
Just an ethical basketball play, trying to break a guy’s neck to get him away from you to grab a rebound. Nothing flagrant, nothing dirty and nothing dangerous there by ethical golden boy
This playoffs have been eye opening to me on how dirty Wemby can be out there
People here will still dick ride him it’s crazy
People here? The media dick rides him even harder.
It took the media like 2 hours to start the narrative that Naz deserved an elbow to the neck because the wolves were playing too agressive on Wemby and then framed his return (without a suspension) as his revenge game.
I crashed tf out when the media found a way to flip that elbow into a self defense sob story.
And bro didn’t even get fined.
victim blamed and then gaslighted us into thinking he was the one wronged with the “revenge game!” narrative when he came back
i had watch youtubers i used to respect title their videos “Wemby is a savage and i love it!”
best player in the world my ass
When he sent the hit out on McCain, at first when you couldn’t see his mouth, the media said you can’t prove that he put the hit out (even though anyone with eyes and an ounce of common sense could see exactly what was going on.)
Then the next game where they showed the other angle CLEARLY showing what anyone with a brain assumed, they pivoted to “well, the Thunder had it coming.”
This is just a simple misunderstanding. When your favorite team does these things it’s dirty, but it’s different if Wemby does them. He’s really tall so that makes it different. I’m glad we cleared that up.
Then rhey called tech on Mitch when Mitch was only pushing back from initial push off from Wemby🤣 fucking Tony Brothers game
And Fox got in Brunson’s face and pushed him. Guess what no call! Ain’t that weird
No fucking shit, that’s how we feel. This mother fucker is unhinged. It’s not just him either, it’s everyone on that bullshit ass squad. Get triggered over some dumb shit and they immediately try to take heads, it’s pathetic and juvenile.
Castle going off over some of the most basic ass fouls was crazy
Wemby, Castle, Vassell, Bryant all do some bullshit after getting frustrated. It’s not basketball, just it shows how immature they are
And it’s been something every round
Especially after all that Monk training bullshit in the summer. I thought dude was supposed to be level headed or something lol
Everything he does is performative nonsense. He acts like he’s in a movie about himself and hams it up nonstop.
Some serious main character syndrome, it’s super corny. I will admit Shai can also be corny, but people dog on him for it all the time. People seem to buy in to everything Wemby does
That’s my only gripe with Wemby so far. A lot of his shit comes off performative, and even this sub eats it up. Dude can’t say anything normally. He’s gotta act like he’s a reluctant saint or intellectual.
You see his true personality come through when stuff doesn’t go his way.
He’s had one playoff run and he’s already got a reel longer than most stars in terms of frustration moments.
Naz Reid Elbow, Two handed Shove on Wallace, Telling his goons to hard foul our starter in garbage time. Not showing up to the press conference. This on Alvarado + a few more.
Don’t get me wrong fantastic player who has the most potential from a player we’ve seen in a long time, but his PR will only last so long if he keeps making plays like this
Somebody tell Big Purr. The KAT dgaf
Me and my gf are constantly saying “after all that?” when Wemby tries to make moves on KAT. Find yourself a hate watch buddy to sit with you on the couch lmao
Just made him a big cornball instead
He’s learning from Pop, who taught Bruce Bowen the art of being dirty.
The dude clearly has anger problems. Ive come out of the playoffs really disliking him.
He was annoying to watch today with the flops and dirty plays while looking like a deer in the headlights on offense
I’m glad they didn’t call his flop on the final shot.
But why on Alvarado lol he’s like 5 foot 10
The most ethical player in the nba 🙏
Elbows, headlocks, and sending out hits. How long did it take Draymond to get the dirty label? Gonna be funny seeing all Wemby criticism turn into “You don’t like home because he’s French/European” like it is with Gobert, Jokic, and Luka.
One time is luck, two times is a coincidence, three times is a pattern
Naz Reid
Diving into SGAs knees
Elbowing iHart in the face
Sending Plumlee after McCain
This play
Wemby grabbed Dort and pulling him out of the way
Im here for the hatewatch
I refuse to carry the burden of being boxed out.
Mods grabbing these posts by the neck and tossing them too.
It happened the Thunder series too. When all these posts about missed calls against the spurs and more specifically Wemby were getting upvoted, us Thunder fans were relegated to our own sub because any posts we submitted here showing Wemby or other spurs players getting away with clear fouls was immediately removed.
Yeah, it’s been happening all post season.
Wemby purposely elbowed a dude in the throat after the whistle and the narrative was it was Naz’s fault because of… Jaden’s tough defense.
Wemby can’t do bad things; hes baby faced, and a giant, and he talks to monks. If he fouled the thunder it was their fault for deserving it in the first place.
If he fouled the thunder it was their fault for deserving it in the first place.
This might seem like an exaggeration to some, but it’s not. The comments on the clip of him pulling Dort’s hair and shoving him were literally just variations of “Dort deserves it” and “it’s okay against the Thunder.”
Then mods removed the post like they did with anything that made the golden boy look bad throughout the series.
Wemby is awesome.
But holy fucking shit the double standard is so egregious. Easiest mental exercise is to just imagine that it was draymond green that did that elbow, or threw jose, or ordered his goons out on mccain.
Imagine what ppl would be saying ab them. With wembanyama?? Oh hes just bringing back competition. Oh hes saving basketball. Oh hes ethical hoops.
Man foh. Im rooting for the kid, but the narratives that follow basketball are a joke
the thunder hate was so strong that people magically forgot the spurs are probably the most coddled and babied franchise ever in this sport lol. yet with the discourse around the wcf, you’d think they were some unlucky underdog poor wizards finally having some success after years of pain. this franchise has never moved down in the draft, have been generationally rewarded every time they’ve tanked (while perennially bad or mediocre teams never get the same luck), they have a whole ref fbi scandal that gifted them a free ring in 2007 by fucking over the suns so hard which was the only team that could threaten them that year. theyve always been dirty with guys like horry and bowen and they’re sneaky dirty again now that they’re a contender. and back then they were the og version of the team that hacks all game cuz they know refs can’t call them all, and they have the same exact strategy this entire run. it won’t ever get the same attention cuz shai flopping is somehow worse than all that
There was absolutely zero doubt the Spurs were getting that first pick in the Wemby draft lmao
I honestly just think a lot of people here are too young to realize they should hate the spurs. They pioneered the dirty defense/flop on offense style. They’re the origin of fuckin load management as well.
As a neutral, I’ve been astonished by this sub’s bias towards the Spurs all post season.
Heavily upvoted opinions on here were:
Spurs have been the most physical / dirtiest team all playoffs but you would not know it by reading the discourse on here.
Holy shit i forgot ab the carter bryant thing
Watching people excuse it just because they didn’t like the thunder was sickening.
It was like a textbook double standard. It bothers me so much bc this way of thinking doesnt just plague sports it was like confirmation bias and tribalism from the top down.
The media, the gambling companies, social media, all fed it and made it the conversation. It was fucking sad
Still don’t know how it wasn’t a flagarant. Dipped his shoulder and everything.
And a no call. NBA wanted a tied series so bad
Mitch got a T for push Wemby back after Wemby pushed him first too.
Mitch def pushed first, but was not anything egregious. Just trying to get positioning. Wemby then pushed back. Atp its either double tech or no call at all
the calls are so blatantly inconsistent, i cant even give refs the benefit of doubt
Wemby is so soft. He really hates any kind of physicality and gets so frustrated.
I don’t mind if you soft, don’t throw fucking temper tantrums when shit doesn’t go your way. Same shit that was pissing me off about Castle, they act like babies.
Last series people loved his emotion. And I agree it can be a great tool for a young player to motivate you and your team. At the same time, what I see doesn’t seem like pure passion for the game etc. It looks very much like a young adult who is still struggling to control their emotions. He have some volatile reactions (I.E. Naz elbow, skipping out on media, his intense reaction after game 7) when his emotions get to be too much.
He’ll grow more emotionally as well over time, so I don’t fully blame him. But I just didn’t like how the announcers were glazing every reaction he had like it was something more than it was.
That said, I’m worried what we may see if things get out of hand in a game 3 or 4 and they look like they may be eliminated. Frustration has gotten the better of him already this playoffs.
Ya i feel that too. Part of me wonders if his lack of real adversity has kept him emotionally soft. Like let’s face it, the dude’s had everything go exactly his way for his entire career. 22 years old and leading a team to the NBA finals.
They are babies. They’re extremely young.
I haven’t seen too many people talking about this, but Castle’s immaturity is a huge problem. He’s very easily triggered and way too hot headed. It’s a huge part of why he’s constantly in foul trouble. Harper is surprisingly the only one of that core 3 that keeps a level head.
They’re young and hopefully will grow out of it, but I’d hold off on labeling them the next dynasty until they figure out how to deal with some adversity.
Castle crying on the floor every time he took a hard Caruso foul, to the point his own teammates had to hold him down so he didn’t get T’d up, then plays football on the other end. And people called him likeable, like what
He plays the 200 IQ introspective basketball savant against string bean Chet and animorphs into a whiny baby when KAT absolutely bodies the fuck out of him all game
Charmin soft.
If Lu Dort gets flak for his plays, then Wemby should too. People give him too many passes
He has a pattern of dirty behavior. The elbow, hard fouls on McCain, flopping and embellishment, and now the Alvarado headlock.
He gets frustrated easily and resorts to being a dirty ass player. No one called it out before and he’s going to keep getting away with it.
Word is out at this point. The media may try to downplay or ignore it, but at some point, it will be too hard to ignore.
And he did sneaky things like this as well like when he was grabbing Dort when he was trying to run back on d even grabbed his hair a bit
And the mods removed that post because it made him look bad lmao
Even deleted the one of Wemby diving at SGA’s knees.
He also just straight up ran through and tackled Thunder players multiple times throughout the series off ball, usually without a foul being called. Like literally lowered his shoulder and pushed people in the back or chest and ran over them. Multiple times.
People hate the Thunder because they win- doesn’t look like the Spurs are gonna be on the same level just yet.
Spurs needed us to miss our 2nd best player and 2nd best creator, a 40ft Hail Mary 3, and a game 7 to beat us. They are not on our level and this series is showing it.
This series is over, congrats Knicks. Brunson and KAT (especially KAT) deserve this, imo.
Have to agree, it should be thunder Knicks. I think that goes 7
He makes bad emotional choices. Not enough composure or poise mentally. That elbow to the head was dangerous too.
He’s a dirty player.
Unfortunately true
Yeah hes still a young guy. Crying after beating the thunder and making the finals for the first time was awesome but you need to keep it together on the court man.
He’ll be crying when they lose to the Knicks also so we can get one more chance at seeing it
😂😂😂‼️‼️‼️
He’s dirty. Plenty of young players on the league haven’t elbowed people in the neck, dove for opposing stars’ knees, or done this weird choke grapple throw.
Fuck the refs and fuck the spurs (and I’ve got absolutely no dog in the fight). Brunson was being mauled from onset of touching the ball every possession. Just terrible one way fouls
They want game 7 for the $
Adam Silver only cares about that one thing, integrity is out the window
Nah, Richard Jefferson called this shit out for once after the Mitch tech. Props to him
Hearing him say the game was too physical was really surprising. I can’t remember the last time I heard an announcer say that.
Richard Jefferson will have worked his last finals lol
people in this sub turn a blind eye when wemby do dirty plays it, the post was merely 200 upvotes, if this was Dray or Dort it will be in the thousand upvotes in 10 minutes
That’s just a good box out. Love watching ethical basketball man. Ethical hoops for the win. Ethical hoops are so amazing. Remember everyone, Wemby is the saviour of the league. He saved us from OKC so we could witness this beautiful basketball. Love the ethical spurs.
Thunder fans get in here!!!
Can Wolves fans come too?? We sure saw plenty of his dirty plays and frail ass flopping too. Lets fire up this spurs hate train!
Ethical. Sophisticated.
Is this ethical and passionate basketball?
These Refs were just terrible in general
“In general” yet it went entirely one way
I haven’t seen a game called so one sided since 2002 lakers kings
They had marching orders to try and tie the series.
Nobody wants 2-0/3-0 finals where everyone loses interest.
Nba is a multi billion dollar product it doesn’t care about a fair game or good basketball it cares about financials
Just some ethical hoops. Nothing to see here
Oh now I see. The flagrant elbow and now the headlock tossing Alvarado says Wemby is a dirty rat, but the league and media are sane washing it. He should have been ejected in this game… and 1 game ban for the elbow was laughable.
all the faux-deep comments that people here fall over themselves to deem “bars”, and he goes out and tries to execute a full-on wrestling move on a guy half his size who happens to be occupying space on the court. Later he throws the ball away at the crucial point of the game, fouls the guy who got it, then cries like a 5 year-old losing a game of Nerf basketball to his older brother. Less performative dojo stays and book lists, more playing basketball like a god damn adult.
Dude meditated once and locked up good PR for years.
Couldn’t believe people fell in love with a Fr*nch
He’s the kid who was told how smart and special he is his whole life and can’t handle it when things don’t go his way
Spot on. I feel like he’s been treated like royalty his entire life 😭
Wembitch is a fake intellectual poser
Wemby is the guy in college who wears a drug rug and says all sorts of shit you think is deep and subversive but then it turns out he has a trust fund and is going to work in private equity for his dad.
lmao, that’s way too specific
Oh, you don’t know Todd?
Everything he does is so fucking performative but this subreddit worships him while at the same time shit on LeBron James, an actual GOAT contender of the sport, for doing similar performative things. Make it make sense dawg.
Wembitch has been playing dirty all through the playoffs. So happy to see him choke!
“See Spurs fans this is why we hate your team” Did I do it right?
I still don’t know how to act in here after receiving an entire season of verbal abuse because of the team I root for.
Looks like Jose needs to defend himself. Accordibg to the Mitch Johnson rules of basketball.
When we gonna admit it’s a pattern of behavior.
Damn that looked bad
Great composure from Grand Theft Avocado. Kept his cool and didn’t attack Wemby like he did Mark Williams.
Lmao, nice protégé
Spurs got away with so much last night. Before the series I didn’t care who won. I was just excited to watch good basketball. However, after the way the refs are getting on their knees for the spurs…GO KNICKS!
I’m with you. The Spurs have become the villains this post season.
If you watch Alverado he had one thing on his mind and it wasn’t boxing out lmfao.
But Wemby gets free throws if you breathe on him lol
Hartenstein pulled a dudes hair and got death threats.
Was Alvarado making a basketball play? Doesn’t excuse Wemby grabbing him, but this is a blindsided block where Alvarado launches himself into a player. The size difference makes it even worse, because he easily could hurt Wemby’s legs.
He looks to lead with his shoulder on a boxout. So id say foul on him first.
How to scroll all the way down to find somebody actually talking about the play. Looks like he just runs into Wemby and doesn’t even see that a shot is being put up but I guess he’s boxing out 🤷♂️
Dirty player
But I thought spurs don’t get the luxury of playing physical?
Oh man.. Wemby a heel turn… like a scripted WWE. Some fans (not me cuz I didn’t watch the Western conference like that) saw this a long time ago.
How did you get it higher quality that the broadcast?
“I’ve seen enough foul on Alavadoro.” Tony Brothers probably.
Maybe not the best idea in this thread - obviously it’s dirty from Wemby, but are we going to ignore the fact that Jose literally looked at him, lowered his shoulder, and ran into him as hard as he could? Like I know it’s kinda funny looking because Wemby is so big but Alvarado is still six feet tall trying to perform a football move on him.
I understand completely why Wemby is mad as hell, even if I think his immaturity worsened his response.
Jokic like