Luka breaks Ace Bailey ankles and drains the 3
stepping on his foot is breaking his ankle now?
welcome to 2026: it doesn’t matter if you’re wrong, it just matters if you get engagement
90 percent of ankle breaks are pushes or foot stomps
0% of foot stomps are ankle breakers.
I’m saying that people call them ankle breakers all the time when their feet get tangled up. Not that I think it’s an ankle breaker.
And those people are wrong
One of the most famous “ankle breaking” incident Lance Stephenson getting on the floor was literally foot stomp and to this date it’s always in the top 5 in the best ankle breakers videos.
If that’s the case it shouldn’t be… If anything but the crossover makes a player fall or slip it shouldn’t count or at least it shouldn’t be on the same level as “pure” crossovers where the player handles is what causes the fall or slip
Shai hooked the leg of Carter Bryant in the WCF last year and then spun back and pulled Bryant’s leg which made him fall and everyone was like “oh shit he broke his ankles”. Well, yeah almost literally….
Thunder players do that on screens too. Next-level flopping
Ngl I think youre right
always has been apparently
That’s literally how players break their ankles
No? There are legit ankle breakers that happen without a step on the player’s foot lol. Are you being serious?
It’s both a joke and the correct use of literal.
straight wooshed me wow, apologies
When he says literally he means literally, it’s a play that can actually break an ankle and injure people lol. I had my ankle severely sprained on a play like this and was in a walking boot for 6 weeks.
Username checks out
Pretty sure he slipped into his foot, maybe the floor was wet
More literal ankle breaker than usual.
Luka a laker so its all good lol
Slow highlight day in the league, I guess. 😂
OP desperate for them clicks
Watch any ankle breaker compilation and try to find ones where there wasn’t a physical trip (this one was way more obvious tho)
And those crossovers shouldn’t be respected on the same level as “pure” crossovers
Yeah and I agree, I’m just saying that a lot of those “pure” crossovers that lots of people remember as clean, were actually just subtle trips
I honestly can’t remember many subtle trips and I watch a lot of highlights… Can you name some examples?
I can’t be sure if he stepped on his foot or the floor was wet and both slipped on the same area
It’s very clear Luka steps on his foot
His foot makes contact
Stepped on his foot. I don’t consider that breaking someone’s ankles.
Yeah can we stop with this nonsense
Maybe he broke his ankle because his fat ass weighs a lot?
That narrative was dumb when he actually was relatively overweight lol but he’s not now. Cornball
lol don’t be so sensitive, jfc…it’s obviously a joke you sensitive sally
Take a joke man lol
Dumb joke man lol
No that’s exactly breaking someone’s ankles.
In the literal sense, not in the basketball sense
I don’t either, but a lot of well known ankle breaker clips had that happen as well so I just let it be
That’s what happens in literally all “ankle breaking” clips. Ankle breaking is generally stupid and not impressive.
Sure, if you’ve just started watching basketball last week, I guess
Not true even remotely
We have all seen someone get sent the other way on a quick crossover.
It’s not an ankle breaker when you step on the defender’s foot… but he does well to recover and hit the shot.
Both scoring 70+ in a single half… Come on guys, play some defense.
Well, maybe it’s time to MAKE SOME NOIISEEE
DE-FENSE
That should do it.
Tbf some crazy shots were hit this game
45 and 47 by each team in separate quarters. Its like they took turns being bad lmao
Yeah I thought this was the end of the 3rd.
Utah should be embarrassed for how they played in the second quarter
I was embarrassed for my team in the first quarter to be fair.
Lakers should be embarrassed for how they played in the first quarter
Everyone apart of this midday Sunday slop game should be embarrassed
The whiplash is crazy they were up 20+
The biggest lead was 18pts tho…
Analytically speaking, it felt like 20.
Might be, I didn’t start watching until mid 2nd Q when El Classico finished.
Honestly as should the Lakers be for that first. Overall disgusting trade of quarters by each team and now we head into the second half reset pretty much.
Spiderman pointing meme
Both teams should
I’ll take it now. But i don’t want a ‘step on defenders foot’ to become a common tactic
False advertisement… Clearly his foot is what made him slip not the crossover
Beautiful sequence after snatching the ball on defense.
What a first half.
Show the clip right before where he plays defense and rips the ball away
Luka doesn’t play defense remember
obv stepped on his foot
Brother they both almost break their ankles
But why cut off Luka’s defensive play before he hit the 3 lol
It’s not breaking his ankles when Luka steps on his foot.
Yeah this doesn’t count as breaking him. He stepped on the top of his foot, but it was obviously unintentional and still hit the shot
He tripped him. He stuck his foot out and tripped him.
This is Lance Stephenson levels of ankle breaking.
As in he stepped on the defender’s foot which caused them to be off balance.
Literally
Was defense optional? 140 first half combined?!
Looks like they both kind of slipped?
Literally lol
74-71 at half time??????
Wait is this broadcast blue too??
Wrong again. Stepped on his foot.