Jalen Brunson (jokingly): “I’m not a fan of Luka. He’s actually, he’s one one of the worst teammates I’ve ever had.” Kid Reporter: “That’s crazy. He doesn’t play defense.” Jalen Brunson: “Oh, wow. He plays a little defense. He tries.
That deadpan joking don’t go over well with kids lol
Some of the adults on this sub will think he’s serious here too 💀
I do enjoy seeing people Reddit flounder when a statement isn’t 100% literal and factual.
Yeah I know Poe’s law is a thing, but some people really are so obsessed with calling out or correcting others that they need to believe it’s serious.
Reminds me of the Ken M trolling.. back before trolling meant saying terrible shit and then saying you’re joking
The problem is I think they’d be similar in a real life setting as well. It’s not even about understanding the other person; it’s about not transferring whatever frustrations you have to the nearest person who says something that doesn’t perfectly align with your reality.
Even IF the other person was being serious, to your point, do you HAVE to be such an ass when you’re correcting them? It’s a compulsive need.
Twitter dunk brain
Ken M was such a legend, he made trolling look like an art.
Adults? On r/NBA???
Technically you’re an adult starting at 18 years old and we might have a couple of those here
Damn, they are getting older than Tatum.
There are very few adults in this sub lol
He didn’t add /s!!!
A comment on the lakers sub is saying there must be some truth to it lmfao 🤣
I think the mistake a lot of people make on here is assuming they’re talking to an adult most of the time.
There’s a fair shot /u/cunt_puncher79 is a child or was very recently a child.
I’m sorry, you expect me to read to the third word of a headline to get context? Sir, let me rage in peace.
Thats my favorite thing to do with my nieces and when my coworker brings her kids in. Deadpan lie about silly stuff and watch their jaws hit the floor.
Its the best
“My uncle is a liar. Let me say that again, my uncle is a liar.”
“and I will never be a part of pool party gatherings that he’s a part of”
Are you Daryl?
It’s so easy to troll children. Little dummies.
Trolled my cousin yesterday that we were gonna have to make a few runs to some stores. Little 10-year old was about to crash out until the light bulb went off in her head and she asked if i was lying lol
Those kids were like “yeah Luka is a bum right?”, love their innocence.
Jalen Brunson is Luka Father. .
The art of sarcasm and its many forms are lost on some people unfortunately.
They’re like 10 dude lol
Kids today dont watch enough sitcoms. Always watching sports instead smh
Watching Seinfeld when I was like 6 I think put me ahead of schedule for sarcasm.
Why would you think something rediculous like that? There isn’t any sarcasm in Seinfeld.
I’ve seen this post here and on IG a couple times. There’s plenty of people in the comments that don’t realize he’s joking.
I’m sure but the original comment was talking about it not registering well with children
Its*
You mean Matt-speak?
I recognize that. Sometimes I forget when people don’t recognize my tone and I have to adjust
One winter I had a knee injury, wasn’t able to be as active as normal, gained maybe 10 pound?. Kid nephew is over and I made some off hand comment I’m too chubby to wear the christmas sweater I had in last year (not true but just felt funny at the time). I’m not sure I even finished my sentence and this seven year old terrorist without skipping a beat “yea you got really fat this year maybe no desert for you after huh mom?” My sister speechless. Fuck you Nathan you little shit.
Reaves should ally with brunson to rib luka..
It doesn’t go over when your jokes aren’t funny.
Brunson’s on the spectrum. He has an excuse.
Honestly his delivery was off
Love that Brunson stopped the bit to defend Luka
Luka would only try to defend Brunson
I just he realized he should’ve never mentioned Luka to the little bro’s lol
You could see on his face the moment he realized this would get clipped and people would think he was being serious
He literally didn’t know how to chat with the little bro’s, and mentioned Luka thinking they would ask him more questions on why Luka is his worst teammate,and I’m sure he had something funny to say that he thought about previously trying to direct the conversation his way, and the little bro totally surprised him with his comment. He had to do damage control lol. You make a great point with that facial expression 😂🫢
It’s because these kids just regurgitate their dad’s hot garbage takes that they get from sports media. Can’t really blame the kids.
Oh WOW *nervous laughter*
He would defend Brunson, a little.
Kid thought he was in a safe place and was about to let it fly
Other kid had 5 fat luka jokes ready to rip before Brunson went “OH WOW”
so these kids are the ones commenting in every thread on r/nba
the poster you replied to is the kid on the right. that’s why he said “other kid”
He had another 50 in the tuck, finna air that whole room out
Brunson plays a little bit of defense too
Brunson is an underrated defender. People act likes he’s a traffic cone
He’s actually statistically significantly worse than Luka on defense and in the top 20 worst defenders in the league. Though it’s hard to actually measure defense with stats alone.
Yeah and they analytically lost those games against the Cavs too. Sometimes the eye test is just better
Yeah and the eye test says Luka is way better than Brunson
Or did you mean the “eye test” where you “watch” games by clicking on the stuff uploaded by chronically online haters?
I’m not sure that that’s true, but larger sample size vs small sample size. Variance in shooting performance, like the Lakers against Houston. Kennard couldn’t miss but he’s a ~45% 3 point shooter, not a 100%, over a longer course of games.
The eye test is that Brunson is not very good on defense either, but he played alright defense in the postseason and the Knicks team defense covered a lot of his flaws, especially with someone like OG out there.
Equivalent of realizing you used a Friend Group A joke around Friend Group B and its about to make you look insane.
This is too real I am glad its a universal experience.
Me when I accidentally make a joke at work that I can only say in front of my closest friends
If it helps, the higher you go the more you start hearing boomers say things that you’d only say in front of your closest friends.
As least JB defends while Luka depends on defense.
2 top 1% commenters interview Brunson*
Can’t say /s in real life so how can we tell???
You can definitely say /s in real life, just would be ungodly levels of cringe
“BACKSLASH S EL OH EL”
That ain’t a backslash.
They are literally being facetious my dude, Jesus
Im trynna think of how to say it in person lmao
“forward slash es”
real ones use the superior slash, the one that faces opposite of forward, this one
not sure what you call it, maybe reverse forward slash?
soo backslash?
the fucks a back slash? we just making up words now?
A backslash (\(\backslash \)) is a typographical symbol used primarily in computing and programming. It is the reverse of the forward slash (/). [1, 2, 3]
How do you make that original comment on this post when you’re literally talking about yourself?
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lol
The fuck you just say about me bro
Nah because they’re actually saying something positive about him
The hoop and the hurt!
Nah thats my older brother
Those 2 kids are definitely members of the sub
This is who we’re arguing with
Thats arguable.
No it’s not you dumb bitch do you even watch the games
I can’t get your mom outofmind
His mom doesn’t play defense.
You’re wrong
He doesn’t play defense 🤣🤣🤣
Top 0.1% commenter or some shit
Kid on the left is a mod
As if we have the social skills to actually interview someone
Brunson wasn’t ready. Didn’t know that kid was gonna throw a fireball.
The little mensch has a future on r/nba
he has a present on r/nba
He’s the president of r/nba
Mod them
He already is
This is how Jomboy got started!
lmaooooo the kid thought he was dead serious and rolled with it
He knows this is how NBA media careers get made
The streets will forgive but these kids don’t forget
Which one of you was this?
Jalen Brunson wasn’t familiar with my game
One of those kids could’ve enshrined himself in journalism history by by saying “at least Luka didn’t stick his thumb in your butt though”
Did you see that Hart’s wife did the same thing to him on the float yesterday? Josh did NOT like that one bit
Jalen probably promised to kid watch for a few hours if she did that.
He’s secretly into that, he just can’t show it publicly lol
Lol
This is so funny because every time they play each other, they make time to grab dinner and catch up. I’m still laughing that after the lakers game in NY, Luka flipped him off 😭
The kid was like “we have a scoop and need to strike while the iron is hot” hahaha. Even caught Brunson flat footed.
I know Luka loves Brunson but you have to believe the competitor in Luka feels like if he can win a chip I should too Lakers need to do something fast
No questions asked. He’s def looking at this NY run as something he can do too.
Luka already believed long ago he could win a chip, he definitely believed it with that Mavs squad that only got better adding Naji. He also deep down knows he can’t win a chip with this current roster.
Problem is the Lakers do not have the assets to do too much to improve the roster.
Pelinka is a basketball terrorist relying on Lakers glitz and glamor.
Lakers won a championship with Pelinka. He’s neither the best nor the worst executive and his connections as a former agent paid off for the lakers with the luka deal.
terrorist? No. that’s laughable. He’s not perfect by any stretch and we (laker fans) have all had our qualms with him. but he did put together a winning squad in 2020 (and arguably 19, 21). the westbrick deal was a disaster but when a certain billionaire superstar who has the owner’s ear makes a roster ‘suggestion,’ you don’t exactly have an option to do otherwise.
he did not put together the 2020 squad. he dismantled it
Thank you for clarifying it’s a joke no slander on my king
That might actually be generational hate, which is funny because Luka is like 27 lol
I’d rather Brunson over Wemby as the face of the NBA. I think he’s just better at the media stuff and his story is way cooler too.
Good ol David and Goliath trope.
The kid knows ball
This thread is hilarious
I’m still shocked that Dallas Mavericks had both Brunson and Luka in the same 2018 draft.. both probably will end up being hall of famers.. but both are no longer with the team.
Hey man can you not
I need Luka to win one for the Mavs to truly despair max.
Rn it’s still okayish since Lakers seem stuck.
Probably end up hall of famers? I think they’re both locks at this point
he locked in when the slander got real
“I can make fun of this guy but you can’t” is actually the surest sign of being a true friend.
Young kids do not understand the subtleties of sarcasm, Jalen. 😞 Neither do most Redditors, but they are also young, dumb, and lack critical thinking.
They understand sarcasm just fine. Check the “yeah. yeah.” at the end.
Well what do you expect, those 2 boys are some of r/nba’s best minds
Pain
Cheer up already. You guys have Flagg. Give it a couple more years of rebuild and you’ll be on the semifinals at least. Luka on the other hand is in the middle of a collapsing Lakers, actively wasting his prime years away.
I just immediately hear Erik Satie’s Gymnopedie No 1 and stare out the window every time I think of the before-fore time.
Wow. Makes sense why Nico traded Luka, since his teammates think he’s the worst. This makes Nico look correct trading Luka
Nico knows as much ball as this kid
Clearly. You know ball.
Way to go along with the bit, because theres no way you actually think Brunson was being serious
Hi I’m Jalen Brunson and I was being serious
Hi I’m Josh hart and Jalen was being serious.
I’m serious, and Josh Hart was being Jalen
Lmao Brunson loved the defense comment, Luka probably would’ve too tbf
When your joking with someone and then realize they are deadass so the joke isn’t funny anymore
lol Jalen baiting them with the sarcasm was hilarious
I think you’re the greatest, but my dad says you don’t work hard enough on defense.
Tell your old man to drag Lebron and Ayton up and down the court for 48 minutes
When Reddit gets a press pass…
brunson is like wait a minute they might actually believe me and ill create new batch of little luka haters lol
lol kid went unfiltered.
Brunson is for the people
ragebait not even subtle anymore 💔
How did the r/nbacirclejerk mods get to interview him?!?! That’s awesome!
The hot take culture has reached the children
Brunson just seems like a chill guy
When you’re roasting your boy jokingly but someone you don’t f with does the same
Kid knows ball
“I thought we were slandering”
“…my dad says you don’t work hard enough on defense. And he says that lots of times. He says you don’t really try… except during the playoffs.”
Kareem?
Luka probably called him for setting him up like that 😅
Never go half Mike Tyson during a kid interview. Go all the way dark or just talk Pokémon or something lol
Luka if he ever meets that kid.
The kid is like your average Redditor.
When was this?
Lmao that’s great. Brunson seems like a good dude.
Also I wonder if he just didn’t want to put anyone famous on blast, because I’d imagine someone from celebrity row at the Garden has Jalen’s number. Or maybe he just thinks basketball players should be more famous than some of the people who sit courtside, which I’m cool with.
Depends on what you think famous is. Like Luka is prolly more famous world wide than say spike lee. I doubt he cares about some of the other famous people like chalamet. Brunson doesn’t seem like that guy
Somewhere out there Cuban is punching a wall and crashing out
This is like the third vid I’ve seen of Jalen taking fun questions from young fans. Mad respect.
-(Inner Brunson): Let’s show these kids a bit of NBA trash-talk jokes. It will look cool.
-(Inner kid): You asked for this bro.
Kids don’t know sarcasm yet and that’s ok. Their sense of humor will grow along with them. What’s problematic is adults thinking Brunson was not joking here lol
Is that one of those Mahershala Ali hats he has on?
Kid with shots fired lol
Nico vindicated????
Jaelen Targaryen
Talking shit about nominee for the best defensive player of the month.
I miss the Luka JB bromance
This really shows how short he is. Can’t be more than 6’. Crazy.
Brunson with mods from r/nba and r/hiphopheads
Fuck them kids.
Wow! After Luka said he liked Brunson…
…. Ow.
Brunson doing more defending of Luka here than Luka defended any Celtics in the 2024 Finals.
I feel the Knicks fans don’t deserve Jalen Brunson smh 🥲
honestly as a mavs fan this hits different. watched brunson develop here, thought he and luka would eventually figure it out together. now jb’s got a ring and luka’s out west starting over lol. sports are wild
Lil homie did not pick up the bit lmao.
He plays a little defense. He tries.
Does he?
watch the damn games
I know its all fun and games but they both really do need to learn how to play D….😅🤣
You mean the guy who just won finals mvp?
That kid went in on Luka!!
Luke Doesn’t play defence -Brunson