Gobert touching the microphones as a joke

Grant Williams: “I’m gonna make both!”

Paul George giving himself the nickname Playoff P then shitting the bed in the playoffs opened himself up to generation slander which, in my opinion, peaked with Pandemic P

Nico defending the trade with “Defense wins championships” and AD shouting “I’m here” after scoring his first bucket in his Mavs debut. To then immediately get hurt in the same game and being out for the season.

Grizz being “good in the West” and then just completely sucking ever since. Injuries were a huge issue, but still

Sixers premature confetti was a fun one too

“You had the last five years, the next five years are mine.”

Pat Beverley to Steph Curry in 2019.

Edit: Pat Bev was playing overseas five years after this quote.

2003, Tracy McGrady saying he’s excited to finally make the second round after taking a 3-1 lead against Detroit. We all know what happened after.

“A jump shooting team will never win an NBA championship”

- Charles Barkley 2013

“I guess he got his feelings hurt”

Curse of the Based God

The next five years are mine

Not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4…

the “i’ll make em both” from Grant williams that one time was pretty funny. Paul George saying they’re still in the driver’s seat in the Bubble.

Idk I kinda hate shit like this though. It’s always pulling shit out of context to give a bad read on a guy and acting like cosmic justice made the difference.

“Don’t break all my records ok? Just leave me one or two’”

Magic Johnson to Lonzo Ball on draft night. The Lakers traded Ball two years later.

the raptors we want cleveland in 2018 is my vote. got exactly what they asked for and we all know how that ended

Surprised no one has said Book’s comment on the Suns big 3.

“I don’t know how teams are gonna guard us.”

Hornets fans still hate purple shirt guy

“The mailman doesn’t deliver on Sundays”

That time Nick Anderson dissed Jordan (wearing #45) during his unsuccessful playoff run in his comeback season, saying “45 is no 23” or something. 

Following season, the Bulls eliminate the Magic and in the final game of their series MJ drops 45 pts on 23 FG attempts (missing two FT attempts at the end of the game…intentionally maybe?)

Trump at game 3

Not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5, not 6, not 7

The infamous cover of Sports Illustrated “Now This Is Going To Be Fun”

T Mac saying “It feels good to finally get to the 2nd round” after being up 3-1. The Magic then went on to blow the 1st 3-1 lead of Doc’s coaching career.

That dude who paid Danhausen to curse the Knicks. Only to have a Knick fan pay to un curse them. 

“It feels good to get to the second round”

T-Mac up 3-1 on the Pistons in the first round.

Tracy McGrady, after being up 3-1, gave an interview after game 4 saying “It feels good to finally be in the 2nd round” or something like that, having never reached the 2nd round in his career up until that point. Then the other team, I think it was the Pistons, beat them 3 straight times.

Ja Morant: “i’m good in the west”

My favorite is

Chris Paul: “Everybody’s out there anticipating a miss. Hell, even he is.”

After game 5 of the finals and then Giannis came out the next game and hit ¹⁷⁄₁₉ FTs to win the championship

Lil B the based god’s curse on KD until he joined the warriors

Jason Kidd turning the Mavs around 360 degrees

Imma make em bof

When Kyrie was with the Nets, he went ⁷⁄₂₂ in one game, and said it would never happen again. He went ⁶⁄₂₂ the next game.

The 1969 Lakers having the balloons in the rafters.

The Sixers’ existence :(

Wemby’s “I’m in your head” move, didn’t go so well for him after that

“Not 5, not 6, not 7”

the jameer nelson story is legendary. my favorite jinx is when someone’s on fire and the announcer says he hasn’t missed then it’s an automatic brick right after 😂

not a self jinx, but those LeBron Kobe puppet ads leading into the 2009 playoffs

One of Bron’s early playoff performances came against Gilbert Arenas’s Wizards. There was a crucial game in the series that came down to Gil shooting free throws. LeBron says to Gil “you know if you miss these, you’re going home”. Gil proceeds to miss the free throws, the Cavs beat the Wizards in the series

“I guarantee this franchise will win a championship before he ever does”

Dan Gilbert after LeBron James signed for Miami.

Tracy Mcgrady talking about finally getting out of the first round after game 5 only to find out the first round was now best of 7 and then proceeding to lose the series

Pulling the gold ropes out just a bit early in 2013.

Jesus Shuttlesworth took that personally.

Devin Booker mocking Luka in the 2022 playoffs only to get completely destroyed in game 7

“Now that I’ve been to the Finals, I’m addicted to it” - CP3

“My matchup gon be kyrie, it’s gonna be fun” -Ant after game 7 in Denver.

It was not fun.

One that actually worked.

With the score tied and less than 10 sec left in Game 1 of the 97 Finals, Scottie Pippen told Karl Malone “The Mailman doesn’t deliver on Sundays” when Malone was about to shoot FT’s.

Malone bricks both then MJ hits the GW at the buzzer on the next possession.

Klay Thompson being up 3-1 saying LeBron had his feelings hurt

It’s like he activated a trap card

I implore anyone that loves basketball to watch that series start to finish, including the pressers. It’s a tremendous sequence of events.

when it came out dallas was planning the parade when they were up in the middle of mavs/heat finals

Right now it’s Wemby telling Mitchell Robinson he was in Mitch’s head.

💯

Shocked no one brought up the confetti game.

T-Mac saying 3-1 was him getting out of the first round

Jameer nelson was a terrible PG. Killed the magics hopes upon his return in the 09 finals.

The Luka curse is real, just like the curse of the Bambino. Mavs not going to sniff an NBA Championship for 100 years.

It’s always fun to define coincidences as jinxes.

Unfortunately it’s probably klay saying LeBron’s feelings were hurt

Sports Illustrated cover: “This Is Gonna Be Fun”

D-will in the playoffs with the Cavs in every game he scored they won the man scored in 1 game and that was game 4 of the finals

Iso Joe

The Guaransheed for me

Demar’s daughter screaming everytime we tried to take a free throw and making us shoot like 50% from the line

IIRC, In a press conference during the 2004 Finals while they were down 3-1 Kobe noted that no team ever won three in a row in the Finals. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yhxACaQyBE

Trae Young says “It’s Over!” then proceeds to lose in OT vs Miami in ¹⁹⁄₂₀. And for those who care, check the Heat box score for this game, I promise you will be surprised. One of the wildest things I’ve ever seen.

Mocking Dirk for supposedly faking his sinus infection.

Drake’s support

Portland and knee injuries

Pat Bev and Ja are the big, not Gobert being a fucking moron examples. Fuck Gobert.

Latrell Sprewell saying he “had a family to feed” turning down a $21 million contract only to never play in the NBA again. As far as I know he lost all of his wealth and is one of those cautionary secure the bag stories for NBA players.

This was back when a $21 million contract was really good, even if it was for 3 years.

“That’s a bad shot.”

The Suns fan putting up the 4 fingers after game 2.

Prior to game 7 of the 1969 NBA Finals at the Forum Laker owner Jack Kent Cooke had balloons put up into the rafters that were going to be released after the Lakers won the championship. Bill Russell saw the balloons during pre game warmups and told Jerry West “Those damn balloons are going to stay up there.”

“The Rockets are going to be able to close this one out!” Right before Smart gets fouled, hits 3 free throws and Lebron hits a 3-pointer to tie the game with 30 seconds left.

Grant Williams easily the funniest imo. The Steph Curry free throw one is also good for not having any stakes.

Kyrie’s I’m not gonna shoot ⁸⁄₂₂ again.

Whatever LeBron said to Gil at the ft line

It’s about to be Miami early-posting the Lebron press conference video

Something more recent would be Wemby’s “I’m in your head” taunt to Mitchell Robinson and the Knicks in game 4 of the Finals. They, of course, proceed to blow a 29 point lead and be a victim of the greatest comeback in NBA history, with the Knicks becoming eventual champs.

Just last month Fox with the deadass layup. He thinks he can put the spurs up by 3. SMH