Michael Jordan On Isiah Thomas and Pistons Not Shaking His Hand: “They didn’t have to shake our hands. We knew we whooped their ass already. We gotten past them.”
Pretty accurately describes what happened this series lol. The Spurs got punked all series. The Spurs knew it. The Knicks knew it. And everyone watching knew it
No one gave Sochan the memo
“i thought we were bros” 😢
he’ll be good in NYC forever 🤞
it’s okay he made up for it dancing half naked, smoking cigars, and chugging tequila on the spurs home floor
Don’t forget the steak!
Brunson immediately dapped up Mitch Johnson too. The rest of team just chose not to.
One might say they were in their head BOY
Wemby doing that now in retrospect is kinda wack. Dog you’re down 2-1 in the series get the fuck up lol
In retrospect yes. But at the moment, it really felt like he was in their heads
Agreed. He’s trying to swing momentum for a whole series. Not gonna hate on that. We all knew what happened after that but I won’t blame a dude for trying to fire up the troops. Backfired obv but gotta do what you gotta do.
Fired up the wrong troops.
It was a gamble. Sometimes you get “Everybody acting tough when they up”. Sometimes you get a meltdown.
Now it’s up to him to win so much in his career that this series is looked back at as a LeBron 2011 moment rather than a Simmons 2021 thing.
Bigger issue was him checking 3s in that quarter trying to have an MSG moment instead of playing smart basketball. Came back to cost then in the end
I don’t think it’s about him trying to have an MSG moment, he just seems to do that a lot in games where he doesn’t have the stamina to finish strong. Which is a lot of them. He starts jacking up threes because he’s too tired to fight for position.
Yea I meant more losing the edge because they were up big. Stamina maybe is part of it too but a few of his 3s were really bad shots and felt like heat checks despite him not even being hot or anything
LeBron 2011
Feel like it’d be closer to a 2007 Lebron at most, first finals for both (first playoffs for the spurs) and lost pretty badly. Spurs were up and choked while Cavs just got beat down is the main difference of why I can see the 2011 angle but Lebron was in his prime with 2 other all stars in their primes when they (and mainly him) choked that.
It doesn’t fit that well to either IMO.
Yes, by age/experience it’s much closer to 2007 but also you’re lying to yourself if you don’t think Spurs were heavily favored going into the finals against Knicks. People were saying WCF were real finals, even after Knicks swept the Cavs there was talk about how they didn’t play anyone good yet, how Brunson is not HIM etc. etc.
2007 Cavs had 7th best regular season record in the league and really had no business winning against Spurs in the finals and it showed.
The other side isn’t fair to Wembanyama - 2011 Heat were the heavy favorites and LeBron was already 2 times MVP with a team of experienced players, one of which was a superstar and finals MVP on his own.
This Spurs run is somewhere inbetween - the team shouldn’t be close to being laughed at like the 2011 Heat were, but they should also not try to play the super underdog card “we are not supposed to be here” type beat that 2007 Cavs can do.
Yeah i dont like lebron but the fact he hauled a team where his second best player was named boobie to the finals is super human.
This is Anderson Varejão erasure and I won’t stand for it
Kids called it an aura gamble, he lost.
Thank you. It was good in the moment and was mad hype. Made for great content and basketball. Unfortunately, the spurs broke down lol
I disagree, I felt like mitch was just getting him back for what he did to Brunson in the last game.
yeah this was how i felt. i was glad mitch got him back and that shit was worth it even though the free throws and then getting the ball back was worse for our deficit. the fact we actually came back and won made it even sweeter 😂
Either way, I’m glad Mitch got the payback. It was an important moment
in a guys head that shoots 30% from the FT line. Mitch got some good OR but Wemby knew better then to say that shit to KAT or MVP
But if you talk shit so demonstratively - you better make damn sure you close out and win the game - and what do you know? They couldn’t do it. Made it all the more sweet.
It was so pathetic. Look, Wemby stays healthy he will be one of the greats of all time, but right now he’s giving off this I’m 14 and I’m deep mentality. He needs to grow up. He’s very annoying at the moment.
lol it was fine the series was tied 2-1 and Mitchell Robinson hit sticked him for an easy flagrant, it wasn’t like he was lying.
It was a fun moment. Idk why people pearl clutch so hard about that. Extremely tame trash talk even if in retrospect he kinda opened up the door to be clowned considering the way the rest the series went
What do you want him to do? Only talk when he’s up? 😤
Not really wack at all. Nobody was expecting the greatest singe half collapse in finals history.
I was. Ain’t even lying.
I think Wemby poked his own temple too hard and then messed up the ethical parts of his brain.
I think it’s also because the Spurs still had to put up a shot in the final possession. If it was a double digit lead they’d probably just run out the clock, giving the players the opportunity to walk up to each other and shake hands.
This is an excuse, they chose not to shake hands.
Yeah, probably hated the knicks celebrating at their court and just wanted to get off the floor asap
Teams lose the finals on their own court fairly often. When they do, they shake the opponents hands. We don’t need to make excuses for the Spurs.
Vassell dunked on us instead of running out the clock with 3 seconds left on OKCs home court (in game 7), and the Thunder players all went and shook their hands.
Theyre not the first team to lose the finals at home
Yeah nah, the game was effectively over short of an Anthony Mason miracle. If anything this extended them enough time to compose themselves knowing as much, a bit of a moment to cool the nerves and come to terms with it all prior to then extending a bit of sportsmanship. You would have us believe they had an honest chance to tie or take a last minute buzzer beater win or something, when the reality was the final heave was just a white flag performative fga. I’m not so fussed over the whole no hand-shaking thing, it is what it is, lame, but not so much of a big deal in the end, but the sophistry surrounding it all is wild.
Knicks only won a single game by a margin greater than 4. Bulls smallest margin (in a sweep) was 6. They had two games with double-digit margins, including a 21-point shellacking in the clinching game.
He’s not comparing them. The punking here came in the form of giving up double digit leads in basically every game
I can’t imagine leading for most of it but still getting gentlemanly swept. Very demoralizing
The Spurs version is much worse imagine you thought you’re whooping the Knicks’ ass in the first half only to blow the lead and this is for the entire series, not just a one-off game
Ignore my flair but that series was so weird in the sense that the spurs punked the Knicks for like 80% of the time, but somehow lost 4-1. Very strange series. Idk what the time stats were but I feel like the spurs were ahead in probably 3⁄4 of the minutes of the whole finals at least.
They punked us 25% of the time. The spurs had great first quarters and then hung on for dear life
If you look at the total net rating of each quarter, they are all plus for Knicks except the 1Q which was something like +50 Spurs.
The Knicks gameplan was to tire out Wemby in the first half so he didn’t have much energy left for the second half of a game
It’s literally just a first quarter haymaker. The Knicks own quarters 2-4. Basketball is a game of runs. Spurs gotta get better all around.
In most games the Spurs beat up the Knicks the 1st quarter then proceeded to barely loose the 2nd and 3rd quarter (while still up in score) then just get disassembled in the 4th.
It’s an easily misleading way of thinking of it. The only assignment is to have more points at the end of the game. The Knicks just put theirs up in another tempo. They’re the ones that punked their opponents 80% of the time.
We will back in the playoffs next year no doubt , try another deep run. It’s hard to predict how far we will go though, lots of variables come into play. Some in spurs control, some not. Just sucks to wait almost a full year
Man punked all series isn’t what I call close games against the best offensive team in NBA history
The Spurs lost the series by a cumulative 12 point differential. It’s just stupid to say they got punked all over. They also led 3 out of 5 times going into the 4th quarter. They definitely deserved the loss, but these were all close games.
I know reddit upvoting mechanisms reward this type of exaggeration, but come on.
I’m just annoyed that the Celtics did the same thing to the Pistons a few years prior but didn’t get the same treatment the Pistons did.
Larry Bird walked off and nobody cares
People understood that Bird wasn’t being disrespectful. He had driveways to shovel and backs to destroy.
Wedding cakes ain’t gonna eat themselves.
Detroit tax.
I mean the Pistons were the dirtier team in both scenarios
McHale and Thomas shaking hands and McHale telling them to go get them after that series is a pretty iconic moment. I’m not sure what you’re talking about when you say they didn’t shake their hand
What are you not sure about? McHale is notable because he is the only one who did it. The rest of the team walked off.
For the Pistons & Bulls, Dumars and Salley stayed back and shook hands with the Bulls.
In both cases, the star (Isiah and Bird) and most of the rest of the players skipped it. Shaking hands wasn’t a thing in the 80s – yet the Pistons were treated as the violated some sacrosanct norm.
https://www.basketballnetwork.net/old-school/joe-dumars-on-why-he-wasnt-involved-in-pistons-walk-off-incident
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“Jordan kept Isiah off the Olympic team” literally everybody on the dream team hated Isiah and the pistons lmfao
The Pistons left while there was still time on the clock
McHale also genuinely seems like one of the nicest top 75 players despite that play against the lakers
Poor Rambis caught him on a bad night
The Celtics left in a haste, because there were security and safety concerns with the Boston crowds. Only a couple years prior they all ran onto the court and ripped Kareem’s goggles off and harassed Laker’s players.
I got my wires crossed. It was due to player safety, but they were in Detroit not Boston.
https://www.nbcsportsboston.com/nba/boston-celtics/kevin-mchale-explains-celtics-early-exit-from-court-vs-pistons-in-1988/337985/
People who support poor sportsmanship are idiots. The main arguments I keep seeing are that it shows players like Wemy care, that it’ll motivate them, or that it’s good for creating villains and rivalries around the league. Those are weak excuses. At the end of the day, these guys are playing basketball. In combat sports, athletes spend an entire fight trying to physically dominate and hurt each other, yet when it’s over they still shake hands, show respect. If two people who were just trying to knock each other unconscious can display good sportsmanship, then professional basketball players should be able to do the same.
Yeah it’s taught from a young age and actually rooted in like thousands of years of culture. You don’t want folks to actually have bad blood or beef after a competitive sports event. Just isn’t healthy. Feel bad for sochan, he probably feels like his spurs teammates don’t fw him now
You can see him mouthing something like “damn they don’t wanna talk to me”
People who support poor sportsmanship are idiots. The main arguments I keep seeing are that it shows players like Wemy care, that it’ll motivate them, or that it’s good for creating villains and rivalries around the league.
Not to mention he can show good sportsmanship AND be motivated at the same time.
Exactly. Hell, there are a lot of kickboxers who seem to be best friends between the bells, touching gloves and even hugging. But during the rounds, you’d think they want to kill each other with the ferocity and passion they fight with. These are people who’s sport is literally ‘give my opponent enough temporary brain damage to not be able to stand’ not ball-toss.
The idea that you can’t respect your opponent and leave your heart out there on the court is ridiculous…and disproven by the winning team this year.
Fighters are my favorite with that stuff. I don’t love when some of them go overboard in the pre-fight hype-up phase, but there’s something kinda beautiful about a guy saying the most vile shit before a match and then hugging it out and complimenting the other guy after it’s over.
One of best shots in sports is QB congratulating each other in the SB/ or playoff battle.
A lot of photos are passing of the torch moments
Yeah it’s one thing for individuals to pout and not show respect after a game, it happens sometimes. The entire team doing it shows a lack of sportsmanship and loser behavior. Same thing happened last series against OKC where most of the Spurs players seemed to ignore OKC players.
Exactly. I made a comment in another thread regarding this how I’ve been watching a lot of Muy Thai matches on YouTube lately. These fighters are beating each other bloody. But at the end of the match, they’re bowing to each other and giving each other hugs. It’s about showing respect. Not shaking hands and walking off just makes you look like a spoiled brat who didn’t get their way.
yeah, even in combat sports, where you’re legit trying hurt and usually KO your opponent it takes some real bad blood, that’s usually long running and layered, to stop some form of post fight handshake
ie Ali / Fraser, Vargas / De La Hoya….and of course, Conor / Khabib lol
I see that you feel strongly about this, but you haven’t articulated any reasons why sportsmanship matters or is valuable. You’ve only observed that it happens in combat sports. Okay, why does that matter?
Because when you agree to compete, you are effectively saying “we are equals and I agree to a fair competition to bare out who is the best.” By not showing good sportsmanship, particularly after losing, you are effectively saying “I was actually better than you. You don’t deserve the spoils of victory because you are not in fact my equal.” (i.e. “you cheated”)
I hope you can see how this toxic attitude is the antithesis of friendly competition, the spirit of which is brotherhood.
Why should we treat people well?
There is no incentive to do so, so why should we?
Also, at the end of the day, the players are a brotherhood. You don’t know when you could be playing for another team, as well.
That shared experience alone should be an added part of the “bigger than just basketball,” aspect. It’s simply respecting the process of gamesmanship.
funniest thing about this whole thing would be the reaction if it was any other star rn
As a Pistons fan, it wasn’t our proudest moment. Especially after the previous season in a more competitive series, MJ and the Bulls stayed on the court and shook our hands.
Celtics did the same thing to the Pistons in ‘88.
Did pistons shake their hands when they lost to them first? Just asking
No
The context that seems to have been conveniently lost to time is after they went up 3-0 that series Jordan made comments about how they were undeserving champions and bad for basketball. Why would they want to stay and shake hands after that lol? You make blatantly disrespecful comments about them, reducing them to thugs that are undeserving, after its finally clear you’re going to beat them and then expect a performative handshake? I’m sorry i just don’t get how everyone gets suckered in by this lol.
But they did clothesline him out of the air, and double tap fouls.
Shit McHale was clotheslining people out there and MJ outright called Bird one of the dirtiest players he’s ever played(along with Laimbeer lol). But you wouldn’t say the celtics were undeserving champions or would you?
There are levels to it.
Bird for example had no issue with MAhorn, or isiah, or rodman. He accepted hard fouls and dirty play. But he hated laimbeer because in his opinion, laimbeer actually tried to injure, or maim you.
Also i don’t take to heart what opponents says about each other in the middle of a series. Things get heated. But when it was all said and done, MJ did shake their hands every time they won, even if they clobbered the hell out of them.
You can’t honestly tell me you don’t find that respectable, even the slightest?
MJ didn’t say it in the middle of the series. They were up 3-0 and clearly about to finally beat them. It was over for all intents and purposes. And so he decided to tell the world about how they are undeserving champions and bad for the sport and then people expected a handshake out of them afterwards? I’m sorry i just find that incredibly backwards and a meaningless hollow gesture at that point.
The Pistons were bad for basketball. Literally everybody hated that they weren’t even playing basketball, just hitting people as the league did nothing. They couldn’t win playing basketball so they just turned the game into American football.
This is the first time I’ve heard about this. But if that was such a big deal how come I’ve never heard Isaiah Thomas mention it with all the chances he’s had to explain what happened here?
He has talked about this. In their 30 for 30 episode for one. Isiah Thomas literally has talked about how he’d never seen a team talk about the reigning champions they were about to take down like that. But as you can see from the other comments nobody cares about this and just agree with MJ’s comments which even if you do you’d still understand why they wouldn’t want to stay around and do performative handshakes right?
Boston didn’t shake Detroit’s hands the previous season when they were eliminated. Bad blood all around.
game is game, life is life.
go hard during the game, talk your shit, compete. but once it’s over, just shake hands and move on. that’s not being soft, that’s just respect.
have you considered that ball is life tho
Holy shit
You’re making the separation of those two things sound way easier than it is.
There is nothing easy about being consistently disciplined in conduct. Part of the discipline is to be able to stop being competitive once the game is over, otherwise one risks being petty and vengeful. Because it’s terrible for the soul.
The ritual of shaking hands post game is to affirm that your competitor is just that. After the competition is over, everyone goes back to their normal selves and live their normal lives. One has to have a _minimal standard_ of treating other people, even people one doesn’t care for. And we don’t just do it for the sake of those people, we do it for ourselves.
But everyone doesn’t go back to their normal lives; these are not normal people. That is not at all how many of these ultra competitors approach who are trying to be the best in the world. The game was never over for Jordan. The dude made up stories about supposed disrespect from other players to motivate himself. He punched his own teammates in practice. He famously had absolutely no chill. He was a Grade A asshole and a poor sport.
He was also the best basketball player ever. The “I took that personally” fueled him, pre / during / post game.
Not everyone is that way. Joe Dumars (to pick a relevant example from that time) was famously a good guy and a HOF. But everyone is different, and there are many examples of a-holes whose competition meter was set at 110% at all times.
Michael Jordan shook hands with the pistons after he nearly got his face caved in during the 1989-1990 playoffs in the ECF. He tried to shake hands with the pistons after the Bulls punked the Pistons 4-0 the next year and the Pistons walked off.
If Mike can do it, and he is, as you described, not normal, yet holds himself to a standard of civilized behavior, then so can any other hyper competitor out there.
All your example does is show how fake the act of shaking hands can be. It’s fine to do it, but it’s important to mean it. Michael Jordan was a poor sport – there was a whole 10-part documentary about him with that as one of the core themes. He absolutely hated losing and hated those who he thought didn’t feel the same. I won’t type in this comment what he used to call during practice a teammate (who he drafted!), Kwame Brown., but he denigrated Kwame b/c he found it offensive that Brown didn’t have the drive & competitiveness that matched his talent.
And get out of here with “He tried to shake hands with the pistons” – he did not. He stood there with his arms crossed. He hated them; they hated him. It was fine. Those psychos Isiah, Laimbeer, Jordan etc were made for each other.
That’s what etiquette sometimes is. If you can’t mean it, you fake it until you can. And like everything else, all it takes is practice.
Micheal Jordan was a sore loser, but he was never a poor sport. He doesn’t glower at his opponents after a loss, where as, his team mates might not be so fortunate.
As per comparison, why are you holding Michael Jordan as the standard of conduct? By your own admission that guy was a poor example. Just because Michael Jordan can be an asshole about losing, doesn’t make it okay. To say Michael Jordan did something ergo it is permissible for it to be repeated is to say, in your example, that it is okay to treat a co-worker, for whatever reason, just like Michael Jordan treated Kwame Brown. You do see why that line of reasoning is hollow right?
Well goddamn this was eloquently said
I hate losing more than I like winning. The respect is shown by competing hard, or maybe just give someone who is passionate about what they do and just lost some time.
Or dont lower the standards because of your feelings?
These standards seem to be set by those who don’t even compete. I don’t want every player to act like a robot. And if emotions are high, allow them time.
And IT has been sour ever since this aired Edit : zeke
Fun fact, Pistons Isiah is called Zeke. Nobody ever called him IT in his career, only when the former Celtics player is playing is when people retroactively called him IT.
Calling him Zeke is much more preferred since its his actual nickname and distinguishes him from the Celtics player.
Are you all just furiously googling “basketball handshake quotes”?
At this point they’re just willing Wemby into becoming the face of the league. How are we still complaining about a handshake 3 days later
I don’t get it either. Not shaking hands was maybe the least of Wemby’s unsportsmanlike shit this series
I can forgive slamming a player by his neck, but I draw the line at not shaking hands
You joke, but some people actually will themselves into believing stuff like that when they hate somebody enough.
How about choking after the game?
Something’s gotta drive these clicks!
I mean yeah…it gets the people going. You’d think everyone in these comments were personally denied a Wemby handshake, the way they’re more upset than the Knicks lmao
Jordan called them undeserving champions before Game 4. The poor sportsmanship wasn’t one-sided.
Why would they not, Pistons were horrible sportsmans. Dirty, foul mouthed and nasty on and off the court.
I cannot stress to enough how much everyone hated them. Imagine if OKC acted like the Jailblazers, that’s what they were like. Nasty bunch of dudes, who barely played basketball at times. If the Flagrant existed prior to 87, they’d never be champions.
They gave it to MJ, verbally for years and used an immense amount of non-basketball fouls to smash the Bulls too. Even damn near blinding Pippen at one point.
The Bulls and Pistons didn’t get along at all. Go watch this series, it’s the Bulls punking on them possession after possession and the Pistons being moody the whole time. Poor sportsmanship is irrelevant, Pistons weren’t sportsmans at all. Just goons.
Yea Jordan skips over that in the last dance
Jordan talked a lot of shit heading into game 4
Lol he talks shit in the documentary. Jordan was an asshole who shook their hands and gave them respect. Hugged dudes who were legit trying to hurt him.
Wemby gotta give respect to earn it
ok even as a knicks fan, im very ready for everyone to stop talking about this. really supporting the claims that basketball is more soap opera than sport these days lol
Basketball is all soap opera now until late October.
Lmfao. Brunson whooped wemby’s ass too.
True but the difference is if Wemby was American, Brunson wouldn’t keep him off the next Olympic team lol
Jordan is psycho
Gave the spurs the belt
And he took that personally
If you want an opinion on Zeke, there’s nobody worse than MJ to ask. He has never missed an opportunity to shit on him. Zeke and those Pistons teams were the turd in the punchbowl for Jordan’s early prime as far as he’s concerned. He felt like the Lakers and the Celtics were undisputed historically great teams, but losing to the Pistons was just too much for him, and he’s been petty about it for nearly 40 years.
I’m pretty sure everyone from that era except magic hates isiah.
Magic also hated Isiah up until they had that TV special a couple years back to the clear the air
I don’t think the NBA has seen a fellow superstar as universally hated by players when they played as Isiah lmao
Magic also hated Isiah and was also vocal to keep him off the dream team. NOBODY LIKED THE PISTONS
Yeah man, except the video evidence and our eyes dipshit
Jordan was so fucking cool.
Present tense!!!!
*goes on to ban Isiah Thomas from the Dream Team*
Which all other dream team members agreed on *
I mean at least that’s something Wemby doesn’t have to worry about.
As a fellow sore loser ain’t shaking nobody hands at the local gym. Can’t even start to imagine on a pro level. I might power-suplex a few fans on the way out 😭
Then imagine one of them comes up to you the next day like “my feelings are hurt because you didn’t shake my hand yesterday” lmao
😭😭😭 much credit to the pros man. I didn’t talk to my best friend for a few weeks over a fifa wager. We are all can’t be graceful in loss.
That’s because you’re weak.
This is bad parenting compounding and yes i’m gonna stand on this shit. This says more about you than just this moment.
I accept am weak and too competitive lol no shame bro. We are all built and conditioned differently. I hate losing so much. I can totally empathize with wemby cus my emotions runs high. If you consider this weak then your just naive and prolly too young to understand.
I shake all the times when playing for fun. Do you just walk off mad? Not give respect to your opponent?
Do you not talk to your opponent at all after? Cause I do it’s pretty fun. Sometimes it’s best to not get so caught up in win or loss, especially in rec play lol
The subsequent posting of Kobe’s clip not giving a fuck and Michael taking it personally is hilarious lol.
Almost like different people have different reactions and there is no real right or wrong in this case. It just is what it is.
Let’s move forward ya’ll.
If you watch the clip Jordan doesn’t pretend it didn’t bother him
you can say he took that personally
Did he say it didnt bother him? He said its poor sportsmanship 30 years later
Bothered him, yes, but they didn’t NEED to shake their hands. It just shows that they were being little bitches because they got beat and couldn’t handle it. It is what it is. But Isiah and co were being little bitches.
Yes no shit, he calls Isaiah an asshole and explains how they shook their hands twice. He isn’t hiding that it bothered him. How does that make him a liar?
Gawd yall are soft af! They didnt shake hands get the hell over it.
Sore ass losers find some role models.
He didn’t want their respect, he wanted their soul. Peak MJ aura.
This is great coming from MJ but another GOAT perspective is Tom Brady never shook hands after Super Bowl losses🤷🏾♂️. Not defending it, I think you should but losing in the Finals is different than losing anytime before that. You have to watch people jump up and down and cry and hug and dive on the floor before you even get a chance to shake. Jalen Brunson seemed more even keel and calm. I think Wemby should’ve congratulated him but hey, hope he’ll learn. Not a bad kid, but should learn how to take a big loss like that with dignity. And I think he will.
People seem to forget the Boston Celtics didn’t shake the pistons hands when they got over the hump
Michael Jordan looks like Bagheera
This shit is misleading because literally seconds prior he said “two years in a row we shook their hands”.
Is it good for the sport in setting an example as a professional athlete? Yes. Is it that serious when the opponent is upset and wants to walk off? No.
the Pistons defense forced MJ to evolve his mid-range game into what it became. without those beatings every spring you don’t get the 90s Jordan who could get to his spot and rise over anyone
I love how the overwhelming majority of these commenters wouldn’t dare type GG after losing in a ranked game of call of duty but judge Wemby for not shaking hands after getting embarrassed on his own home court with half the arena full of Knick fans
Hell of a comparison there bro lol
Grown men who play video games ought not be considered.
Honestly, the only thing this debacle has taught me is that Wemby is not as mature as he wants people to think he is. I truly believe he has what it takes to become the greatest of all time, but this is currently his greatest hurdle. He should’ve gotten booted from the game for that landing zone violation against Brunson, all because he thought it was a good idea to elbow Nazi Reid in the neck.
We were in they head boy
I like basketball when rival teams hate eachother, even if it’s one sided.
Lakers and Spurs fans don’t give a shit about the Suns. I hate those two teams more than anything. It’s awesome.
Spurs getting past OKC must have been better than a championship too… at least that’s what they’ll tell themselves.
Yeah, Spurs looked shook from like Game 2 on. Knicks were just way more physical and confident and San Antonio never really punched back, just kinda folded and prayed the whistle would save them 😂
San Antonio never really punched back, just kinda folded and prayed the whistle would save them 😂
I feel like Knicks fans live in a different reality watching those games. Spurs punched first every time, just didn’t have the experience to maintain it and close out those games
They swung but the punches never landed
The punches were landed in the form of double digit leads, and then lost. C’mon guys, y’all act like Knicks dogwalked the Spurs all series. A team doesn’t lead 72% of the finals if there was zero fight
knicks fans live in a different reality? half your fans can’t even admit the knicks were the better team despite us walking you down each time yall punched 😂
We admit Knicks were the better, more composed, experienced team. Knicks were ready for the moment, Spurs clearly weren’t ready yet. Losing pretty much the same way for 4 games shows that. But we also know Spurs fumbled some of those games, and it was a much closer series than how Knicks fans want to portray it as
A shame they got old honestly.
That wasn’t the finals
Hey we got anymore players talking about shaking hands?
lol except in the clip he calls them out for not doing so
Dude is still an absolute demon lol
Once you whooped their ass you dont wipe the poop from their hands.
Knicks in five.🖐🏽
Yes because they got old congrats now go back to betting
He proves both sides of everyone’s complaints. Shake hands it’s sportsmanship.
Don’t shake hands? All good. You dont have to. We whooped yo ass.
J Will:” you’re not in the little league MJ!”
I remember an interview with isiah saying the Celtics were also walking off the court in 88 and not shaking hands with the pistons until Isiah ran to Mchale to shake his hand and Mchale gave him some congrats on a great series.