[Lowlight] The video crew’s best angle of the elbow on Atlanta’s Flemings on Bryce McGowens. Flemings ejected.
Bruh was there anything that led to this
McGowens blocked him about 5 seconds before this. Check the Trey Murphy oop clip to see it.
Bryce McGowens is one of my favorite players in the league. Was he ok?
Yeah, he’s fine. Hard to tell from all the replays but I don’t think he connected that badly in the end.
For real?
He got blocked on the previous possession and lost his temper
Yeah. Apparently Fleming is a bitch.
Doing this 6 games into your NBA career is wild lmao
Crazy cause he always seemed cool and composed at Houston
Kelvin Sampson probably puts the fear of the lord in those kids.
And in interviews he always seemed like a good and composed dude. This seems really out of character for him.
Yeah in the pre-draft interviews he came off as this earnest and friendly ball nerd.
Right? Haven’t been in the league long enough to be this mad about something
Grayson Allen started fights during preseason so sometimes people just be like that.
Trick or treat
Years of trying to gain his father’s approval I’m sure
McGowans hip-checked him after the block then said something to him (idk what exactly was said)
Why is a rookie in his like 6th game doing shit like this lol
The hawks aren’t giving him enough luggage to carry
Not putting enough popcorn in his car
Yaxel interview from a few days ago?
I think it’s time to call Shaq in for some hazing
I’ve only watched a couple Hawks games, but he’s played hot all the time. Might be too much energy/nerves at this point
Somebody gotta replace Draymond when he retires
now that he can afford good steroids he cant handle the emotional volatility the roids give him
Holy shit, I’m shocked. Every bit of media I’ve seen of him showed a great kid
Dirty AF. Should be suspended 1-2 games
An intentional elbow to the face outside of a play? I think a little longer. That could’ve caused major facial surgery, that’s insanely dangerous and intentional
I recently watched that YouTube documentary on the ‘11-‘12 Bobcats and the segment on Eduardo Najera getting elbowed in the nose and his skull getting dented inwards is immediately what I thought of seeing this.
Eduardo Najera? Well there’s a name I haven’t heard in quite a long while
The People You’re Paying to be in Shorts? Great doco.
Yeah that’s fucked - imagine someone as jacked as an NBA player elbowing you in the face as hard as they can
Then realise that NBA player faces are the same as our faces cuz it’s not like they get FACIAL TRAINING or w/e
Just stupid, dumb and dangerous AF
Couldn’t agree more. If he sidled up and punched him in the face, what would the suspension be? Elbow can do more damage than a punch. 5 has to be the minimum. I feel like 10 is a good spot
Ban him from the sport. Fuck it.
This is some ron artest shit
The Artest Formerly Known As Ron would’ve disguised it better than this
Wemby set the precedent that you dont get any punishment more than being ejected from the game, dont even have to apologise.
When asked about it just shame the reporter for living in the past.
Hawks fan and I agree. First time offender but there is absolutely zero excuse for this dirty move. NBA should suspend him but if I’m the coach I bench his ass for 5 games
More.
If he wasn’t a lottery pick this is cut worthy. Assaulting people as soon as you get into the league is not a good look.
only 1-2?
More. Give him 5 or so.
And fans in the Hawks sub are okay with this because the team is full of soft players so having one dirty player is celebrated lmao
Wow that’s pretty early in your career to establish yourself as a total pos
Brother.
That looked identical to Artest elbowing harden lol
At least Artest bothered to act like he was celebrating. This guy just straight sucker elbowed him
Super disappointing. Probably one of the last people I would have expected this from. If he gets this flustered by the Hawks playing poorly, then he is going to have a rough time. Hope he gets suspended for this and puts it all behind him
for real, I followed him before the draft and he seemed like a really chill kid.
At least Grayson Allen doesnt pretend he’s not dirty
Everything I’ve heard about him made me very surprised by this behavior. I hope he receives appropriate repercussions, and learns from it.
In retaliation for a good defensive play, too. This is like, suspend him 5 games behavior. The opposite of provocation. If you can’t handle another NBA player making a defensive play on you, you can’t be in the NBA. Wrong job. Go do something less stressful for you.
As a hawks fan, this shit is unacceptable smh.
I was so excited for him.
Thats gone.
Don’t even want him on the team anymore. He can get lost
Worst thing a Hawk has done and this is his sixth game
It was so random too. I was pretty impressed by how he was playing all night and then this felt like it came out of nowhere.
Yikes. Flemings should serve a couple of games for that. Can’t be throwing MMA elbows at peoples faces.
What the fuck
Lu Dort’s veteran experience being passed down to the young hawks
Didn’t pass it too well… he would’ve hidden that elbow cheapshot
Yup. big man? Dort would throw an elbow right under the ribs to knock the wind out of them for a play
love me some dort flaning. that guy is whack and this was fucked up to see.
I swear to god, I saw Hartenstein literally coach one of the OKC rookies to do this exact thing to Maluach after he got an easy layup against the rook and a few plays later he literally tries to do this exact thing but is too weak to have any actual effect.
Off ball OKC can get away with so much dirty bullshit it’s such an insane reputation they’ve built with the refs.
Not the outcome, but that’s arguably worse than Ron Artest’s elbow. At least you can make a case Artest was simply reacting in excitement after his bucket (he definitely knew what he was doing imo)
Here, it’s clear as day Flemings purposely went for the head
Idk man Artest could’ve caved Hardens fucking head in
Yeah this is absolutely dirty as fuck from Kingston but solely in terms of impact Artest was not only really strong but he had a full wind-up behind it. They both lucked out that Harden wasn’t seriously injured.
If he had landed it, that would have been a SIGNIFICANT injury. I don’t think there’s a suspension length I wouldn’t agree with.
That’s basically criminal assault.
Assault AND battery.
Ya don’t get me wrong we all know Ron did that shit on purpose but at least his had some potential to not be intentional. This shit was 1000% intentional with no potential to not be
How can you not even disguise it a little lmao
Fake scripted you ain’t know
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Not great from a rook that has been showing a lot of skill
One of the first notable actions as an NBA player is this. That’s gonna follow him for a while.
Suspension. Make it hurt
Almost as egregious as when Artest elbowed Harden
Absolutely suspension worthy. Pure stupidity by Flemings.
Metta world peace did it way better
Total loser lmao
Wemby did the same thing last year
The two scenarios are not even remotely similar lmao.
Ehh they’re not exactly the same but they’re pretty similar. Player gets frustrated, throws an intentional elbow at the head of an opposing player that he was frustrated with.
You could argue Wemby’s was more understandable or more justified or closer to being a normal play or blah blah blah. Nah that shit doesn’t matter, both plays were completely unjustified and clearly attempting to injure another player. Same as Artest’s elbow on Harden back in the day.
Completely inexcusable and all deserving of multiple-week suspensions at minimum. (But of course, you definitely can’t give that to the up-and-coming golden child, though I don’t expect nearly that much for Flemings either.)
Kingston “Sucker Elbow” Flemings
Fleming looks like a tall stud
I would
Bitch made
McGowens has like 30+ pounds on that skinny punk. Bitch move.
You can’t do that
That’s some wild shit right there.
We got the NPC players fighting
Dirty ass play