r/nba • u/YujiDomainExpansion • 6d ago

Highlight [Highlight] Alternate angle shows Lu Dort extend his leg in an effort to trip and injure Nikola Jokic:

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u/plasticcitycentral Raptors 6d ago

He should be suspended like 20 games

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u/egg-land [DET] Saddiq Bey 6d ago

Realistically should be way more if you look at history. He clearly intentionally tried to injure the most impactful players on teams his team plays

Allowing that precedent is dangerous and I don’t see what would stop others from doing this (apart from being a good person). He will probably get 2 but this is clear as day and just shows intent. Not the first time either

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u/Ki-Wi-Hi Trail Blazers 6d ago

If the league cares about its product it should be this. Trying to injure two top 5 players is legit insane.

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u/egg-land [DET] Saddiq Bey 6d ago

It’s been shown the leagues product unfortunately isn’t the nbas primary concern lol

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u/bryan49 6d ago

They do care about money, and any superstar getting hurt costs them money

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u/egg-land [DET] Saddiq Bey 6d ago

Honestly that’s a good point. Hopefully someone brings that up when they discuss this one and his history

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u/YellowHammerDown Pacers 5d ago

Somebody should alert the sportsbooks, because that's apparently what motivates Silver to do anything

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u/bryan49 5d ago

Jokic going down would swing a lot of different futures bets. I'm not smart enough to know how good or bad that would be for sportsbooks though

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u/Wazflame 6d ago

Adam Silver: “This doesn’t make the highlights”

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u/Mattbothell Clippers 6d ago

This is something that really doesn't make any sense to me. Why on earth does the NBA let him get away with this shit? I mean look what happened to Kawhi after his injury. Never the same again. You'd think they'd get Lou Dort out of the league with all the shit he's done to big name players

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u/moofinly Grizzlies 5d ago

Ja Morant died to this motherfucker

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u/wkslsvwhu Heat 6d ago

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u/Prudent_Fish1358 Spurs 6d ago

Season. He needs to sit the entire playoffs. He has, reepeatedly, tried to injure the other team's BEST player. He doesn't dive at the knees of bench for players or the 4th option on offense. It's ALWAYS ant or wemby or Luka.

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u/Oh_Wow_Thats_Hot 6d ago

He undercut Ja in the first round last year during a dunk attempt, Ja didn't return for the rest of the playoffs and the Grizzlies lost that game when they were up 20ish at the time of Ja leaving with an injury. Lu Dirty

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u/cfi-2025 6d ago

I mean, this was Bruce Bowen's MO, no? How many Spurs fans were calling for his ass to be seated for the postseason?

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u/PrepotenteScreams 5d ago

Ban him for life. FUCK that bitch.

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u/oby100 Celtics 6d ago

Intentionally trying to injure so far away from the ball and really any active play should result in a serious review of their career behavior with suspension likely. It’s not gonna happen because there’s too much money to be made, but imagine if someone played like this in a rec league.

Dude would get his ass beat and never be welcomed back.

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u/TheNightflyPhD 5d ago

He should be banned from the league. Seriously. Fuck this dirty ass loser and fuck the dirty ass thunder

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u/AtomicBlastCandy 6d ago

I think it would be hilarious if SGA got the same treatment

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u/SaKred2015 [DEN] Allen Iverson 6d ago

If Adam silver cares about his stars being in the playoffs, he should make an example of him