Jakob Poeltl receives loud boos from the Sixers crowd after failing to rescue the ball from the top of the backboard with a mop on his first attempt.
Ii remember when knicks fans did this with Drummond last year followed by Kat immediately getting it down
Mike Breen mentioned it yesterday’s game when the ball got stuck on the top of the backboard lol
A disgusting act
Yea wtf. How you 7ft tall with a broom and can’t unstuck a ball??
I’m from Baltimore and I love Philly fans. You guys are horrible but so awesome. Love to see some harmless shithousery. We’re a bit too nice, but NBD.
Nowhere else you’ll see a bunch of kids yell “SUCKS!” After the opposing legend is introduced at the start of the game. It’s a nice sports culture
Sixers fans are the most ruthless in the league lol
They’re a bit jaded (from being losers).
Piss off, flairless Raps fan.
It happened a second time, the ref asked Jak to help from the bench, and he said fuck that shit LMAO
I laughed at that. He wasn’t having any part of that one.
Seriously? How does that happen twice??
it happens once and then it happens again after that.
Thanks!
It actually happened three times in this game. But yeah the ref literally brought the broom over to Poeltl on the bench when it happened again and he was like “No.”
The crowd was booing like crazy, it was funny.
That’s where you grab the broom and start hyping the crowd to boo louder. Maybe even go full heel and miss a couple pokes at the ball just to play with the crowd before knocking it loose.
A big stain on Jakob career . Poor lad hope he recovers
No matter how hard he mops
Legacy points subtracted
Philly is such a fun crowd
BOOOOO
I feel like I’m there
They’re such assholes, I love it
When they hosted the NFL draft, the crowd booed a kid announcing the pick for the Lions.. in the 6th round. For no reason. Completely unprompted. Fucking hilarious.
Fuck them kids
Imagine if that San Antonio bat incident had happened in Philly. Everyone running around trying to catch a bat while the crowd just boos ruthlessly
Now I miss Manu all of a sudden. Thanks for that
why is everyone always so pissed off at the philly crowds lmfao lighten up
They’re having a good time
seriously lol people are looking for any chance to hate them
People still bring up the Santa clause incident, something that happened decades before they were born, to hate. It is what it is
Also if people knew the full story about the Santa incident they would appreciate it
I don’t know what the Santa Clause Incident is but you gotta admit that it’s pretty funny that you even have a “Santa Clause Incident”
Even funnier to go “Well if you knew the real story you’d know that Santa deserved it” lmao
60 years ago, Santa got pelted with snowballs by a stadium of angry eagles fans.
At this point the Santa Claus thing happened decades before most Redditor’s parents were born
who cares about santa that much
I’d been telling people at work that y’all threw batteries at Santa clause. Was only recently that I found out you threw ice rocks at him and the battery throwing was a separate incident.
So now I tell two stories.
I’m pretty sure those aren’t serious boos. Probably leaning into the narrative. Idk it was funny to me
We treat every event like its pro wrestling in the 70’s
Or wrestling with any crowd that isn’t from the US honestly.
How can anyone find this anything but funny, some people just have a stick up their ass lol
Yeah they were just pretending to be terrible
Booing at any big event is one of the most pleasurable pass times in philly. They’d probably boo at a wedding if the bouquet toss is too weak.
Seriously. Even the Raptors announcers were laughing, it ain’t that serious
Didn’t you see how repugnant that first try was? Low effort, lucky they didn’t throw batteries at him.
Philly never breaks character
Real question, why is this still a problem? Why isn’t there a solid apron or something up there to guide the ball away from being stuck?
it’s because that’s why
Its a relatively irrelevant problem and fans enjoy when it happens, it breaks tensions in a bad game and keeps vibe up in a win. Fun moment for players and crowd, or sometimes the mop boy will get cheered
It’s a part of the game atp. There’s this surreal moment when you realize you’re not playing just a game of putting the ball in the hoop, but you’re also playing a game of keeping the ball out of the top of the hoop and wedged between the backboard and rim. But in the end the ball decides when you resume play.
Can bounce off the top of the backboard and back into the basket, it’s only out of bounds if it rolls to the other side
Why do they need a dedicated solution to something that happens very occassionally and only takes one of the tall NBA players and a broom to solve?
give him a break. dude can barely jump over a piece of paper
Boban would never
I’d boo too.
OBI toppin is needed
Yeah, Obi got this
Just vomited over my white valentino bag
Is it just me or am I seeing the ball get stuck up there far move often than usual?
Probably just you.
magnets malfunctioning
Jakob looks like a serial killer. I love it.
It’s there again. They are booing KCP now.
We like to have fun
Wemby would never
If they ever create a method of dislodging the ball that doesn’t involve a mop and a tall guy I will burn the nba to the ground
It is pretty hilarious that the billion dollar leagues plan A for stuck balls is the same as mine was back in middle school.
Of course there’s no shortage of tall people in the nba so they never have to resort to plan B which was to take off a shoe and start chucking.
Exactly. its the best thing in all of sports and i truly hope they never do some dumb cost analysis of how much game time it wastes etc. its pure joy every time, little reminder of how silly it all is
Lock in bro they’ll eat you alive if you fuck up with the mop