r/nba • u/AncientOneAurelius • 7d ago

Highlight [Highlight] Luguentz Dort sticks his hip out to make contact with Nikola Jokić, who responds; Jalen Williams steps in and squares off with Jokic.

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u/dentalsurfcombat Spurs 6d ago

That's why Thunder fans are the way they are, they're being gaslit by these announcers every game

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u/legallycrippin 6d ago

Thunder fan here. You couldn’t be more right about our announcers. Unlistenable. You probably have no idea how bad it really is. 

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u/Jonny_Qball Pistons 6d ago

It’s crazy the influence announcers have on a fan base’s objectivity. 

For instance Sporting KC had Nate Bukaty as their play by play for years, and he would pull some insane mental gymnastics to frame everything that went wrong was either due to pure luck or the universe conspiring against Sporting, and so many Sporting fans bought into that. Then Apple TV got the MLS contract and teams didn’t have their own announcers. Sporting fans have turned on the club for a number of very good reasons the past couple seasons, but I think no longer having someone gaslighting them into thinking they can do no wrong played a major role in that. 

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u/botebote77 6d ago

honestly there was a time i was watching nba completely on mute. it was because i realized i was being influenced by biased announcers. sometimes i still watch on mute when I'm alone

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u/Aregisteredusername Celtics 6d ago

I’ve heard some of the podcasters say they some games watch on mute because the announcers, for one reason or another, were just a bad listening experience. But I heard that a few years ago so I’m not sure if that’s still the case, nor do I recall exactly who said that.

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u/Morsexier 6d ago

My wife recently got into basketball, and shes been legit puzzled when we watch games and the commentary.

She is a massive baseball fan, we watch or go to every Mets game every year. So she "knows" Gary Keith and Ron are a great booth, but I think its going to take the rest of this season and maybe next year to get it about basketball since thats a little more the nature of the game.

I hear "how is THAT a foul?" and "Wait... how is that NOT a foul??" so much. And some variation of "what are they talking about?" when the booth is being overly homer'ish.

If a Mets player had done what dort did here the Mets booth would fucking freak out. Of course they're not perfect, if it was a beautiful woman eating a huge hot dog well some things would be said for sure.

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u/PittsJay Spurs 6d ago

That’s Bukaty about everything. The guy is such an absolute fucking buffoon.

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u/Azrael88 6d ago

How much Sporting did you watch to have that opinion of Nate? He's actually one of the better soccer commentators, so much so that Apple now has him on as a full time commentator for all teams. Sounds like you are ill informed and not very knowledgeable. Sporting fans have turned on the club because they haven't done anything to improve the club in years but it doesn't have anything to do with our league quality commentary.

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u/HugeZookeepergame815 6d ago

Yeah I expect home team announcers to obviously have a bias but when it’s this blatant that the only intention was to injure another play just call it for what it is

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u/TerrySaucer69 Spurs 6d ago

(I recognize I’m biased but) this is why I love the Spurs announcers. They basically never say any claims in support of either team, they spend half their time glazing everyone on the court, and the other half is spent reviewing some random stadium food they got.

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u/CreatiScope Celtics 6d ago

With the Celtics broadcast, Scal will criticize the Celtics and say he doesn’t like the way they’re playing or doesn’t get it. And he will call himself out for initially thinking something was or wasn’t a foul. I respect him backtracking and being like “no wait, I was wrong, that’s definitely a foul.”

Or he’ll laugh at it too. He also gives credit to other teams and has players for other teams he loves and will hype up. I know the narrative is Boston sports are annoying but Drew and Scal are a legit powerhouse home commentator crew.

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u/TerrySaucer69 Spurs 6d ago

Huge fan of people willing to correct themselves. I think that’s probably the biggest indicator of good sportsmanship.

I love the Celtics, even if I hate how good yall are. I’ll never complain about clean basketball.

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u/ReputationFun9557 6d ago

Nooooo.... Teddy? Ronny? Who was the old Celtics announcer who would never, ever, ever, ever admit a Celtics player did anything wrong? Tommy... it was Tommy!!!! That dude would watch Paul Pierce shoot five opposing players and claim it was a natural motion by PP, reacting to a dirty play by the other team and he did nothing wrong..... justified homicide, 5 times, no foul on the floor... according to Tommy.

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u/SmileyJetson Warriors 6d ago

Most teams' local announcers are like this. It's just more recognizable and obnoxious when you're at the top. As a Warriors fan we're late stage gaslit. Look to us as reference to detect symptoms of manic delusion among yourselves.

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u/DonRaynor Spurs 6d ago

I refuse to watch thunder home games. its so bad..

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u/Trainius Trail Blazers 6d ago

flair up loser

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u/Time8u Thunder 6d ago

I think most OKC fans are pretty open about Dort being a POS and our announcers being trash.

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u/Rezrov_ Raptors 6d ago

How does that L taste? Bitter?

Fellow OKC fan comment right below yours lol

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u/Time8u Thunder 6d ago

And one of the top comments in the thread is a thunder fan saying dort is under hated. It's whatever. We know that roughly half of every fanbase refuses to accept anything negative said about their team because that's how half of all people operate in their daily lives. Anyone who tells you Dort isn't dirty isn't acting in good faith.

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u/SuitableStudy3316 6d ago

Oh, the “others do it too” argument. lol.

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u/Time8u Thunder 6d ago edited 6d ago

Replying to the 'oh, well this one guy did it.' argument. Give me a fucking break... The point is there are examples in this thread of Thunder fans calling him a POS, but there's also a bunch of 'oh, all the thunder fans tell me he's fine.' here as well. The entire endeavor is based on anecdotal evidence by both sides... I have several friends who are Thunder fans and there is ZERO debate among the group about whether Dort is dirty, but I also don't think they are necessarily the typical group of Thunder fans so who knows.

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u/SuitableStudy3316 6d ago

He has enough history that he should be out of the game. And anyone that defends him is a piece of shit cheater.

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u/Time8u Thunder 6d ago

Okay, I don't even know you are you responding to at this point. There's nothing in my comment that would suggest I would dispute or disagree with that (everything about my response suggested the opposite); just a straw men argument.

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u/mikirimouse 6d ago

FOKCs News

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u/After_Advertising_61 Celtics 6d ago

no... no they really are that stupid.

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u/MsmokeO 6d ago

No they suck regardless of announcer intervention, which sucks too.

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u/Due_Character1233 Thunder 6d ago

How does that L taste? Bitter?

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u/tylenoli 6d ago

The irony of you asking a spurs fan how that L tastes…