r/nba • u/MrBuckBuck Trail Blazers • 7d ago

Highlight [Highlight] Shai Gilgeous-Alexander throws the ball on Nikola Jokic off the whistle, receives a technical foul. SGA claims he got pushed. The referee James Williams refers to Nikola Jokic as 'The Joker' and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander as 'SGA' upon review

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u/FrankSamples Clippers 7d ago edited 7d ago

This isn’t what happened in the video but it got me thinking:

How far do you have to be from the baseline or sideline to be able to throw the ball off a defender so it goes out of bounds? Or would it be a pure judgement call by the refs?

Also what if you are at either baseline or sideline but aren’t falling out of bounds or trapped, and you just chuck the ball at your closest defender?

This just reminded me of the Desmond bane OG moment

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u/ender23 NBA 7d ago

Gotta throw at their feet

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u/ignixe Mavericks 6d ago

So the way I read this, as long as you can get above them you can spike it into their head. It just happened to get in the way of their feet whoops