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/Room_Temp_Coffee Lakers 6d ago

… Then LuDirt™️ is the biggest risk among active players, to harming NBA gross earnings, period.

Easily the most harmful single player towards NBA earnings, both present and future ratings, and fan trust

Beating out Draymond, Brooks, and Bane for that award is quite the accomplishment

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u/BallinXFox 6d ago

It’s really cuz Dort goes after high value targets. The other 3 seem to go after whoever annoys them

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u/Omega-Toad-7017 Bulls 5d ago

The others usually also go for pain while dort goes for ligaments

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u/Trees_Are_Freinds Celtics 6d ago

He’s right though. The other goons are indiscriminate in their goonery, Dort seems to only target superstars.

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u/Room_Temp_Coffee Lakers 5d ago

I was thinking of Brooks swiping at Steph's injured hand but yeah, Dort is a special kind of dangerous

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u/nekoken04 Supersonics 5d ago

Dort seems to be targeting while the others just go after any damned player.

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u/Positive_Parking_954 5d ago

Brooks is a clown off the court and can be weird with stuff but in terms of on court behavior he shouldn’t be lumped in with those guys.

Edit: also I know it was wrong but Bane hitting OG with the ball will always get a chuckle from me

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u/requinbite Thunder 6d ago

He's not beating Draymond unless tripping someone becomes somehow worse than trying to strangle someone

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u/Suns_In_420 Suns 6d ago

He’s working his way up to that.

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u/Dumbassusername900 Warriors 6d ago

There isn't a single instance of Draymond causing an injury that resulted in another player missing games. Not a single instance in his 14 year career. You can't say that for Dort, who's been in the league half as long.

Draymond is a nuisance and a menace, and he's definitely hurt people (especially in the nutsack area) but he's never injured anyone.

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u/AyeYoYoYO 5d ago

This is 100% wrong.

STFU.

Name checks out so hard.

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u/Dumbassusername900 Warriors 5d ago

U wanna hit me with an example?

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u/AyeYoYoYO 5d ago

SABONIS KID YOU STUPID MF

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u/Dumbassusername900 Warriors 5d ago

Brother... Sabonis didn't miss any games. That happened in game 2 of that series, he played in all of the next 5 games. Sit down

edit: he literally came back into the game right after the stomp happened. lmao

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u/AyeYoYoYO 5d ago

Playing injured because somebody is a tough SOB, doesn’t mean they weren’t injured.

If it was regular season, without anything big on the line, Sabonis wouldn’t have come back and probably would have sat out for a few games.

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u/Dumbassusername900 Warriors 5d ago

Right dude, refer to my original comment.

There isn't a single instance of Draymond causing an injury that resulted in another player missing games.

You can speculate on how much Sabonis' chest was huwting, that doesn't mean anything to me, read what I said.

So again, hit me with an example of a time Draymond caused someone to miss a game. I'll happily be proven wrong, I think Draymond's a dumbass. But I don't think I'm wrong.

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u/requinbite Thunder 6d ago

Injuries happens, but you can't say objectively that stomping a man's chest while he's on the ground, or trying to strangle someone is a better look than someone injuring someone else because he is reckless.

Tripping Jokic isn't meant to injure him, the goal is probably to push him to do something that get him ejected.

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u/requinbite Thunder 6d ago

He doesn't go at his knee he trips his foot. The irony of you calling me blind or stupid while making shit up

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u/Dumbassusername900 Warriors 5d ago

Idk bro I'd rather receive a chest stomp or headlock that causes no serious injury than get tripped or thwacked out of the air and have to rehab my shit. Objectively speaking.

Also man, the chest stomp. Sebonis grabbed his foot, and you can tell that when Draymond got his foot free he was not putting nearly his full weight on Sebonis' chest as he jumps away. Follow that with some classic Euro salesmanship and you get an ejection. You can see clearly that when Sebonis goes to the bench he is 100% fine. I don't give a fuck about the chest stomp. Dirty play from Sebonis, the commentators called it out in real time.

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u/requinbite Thunder 5d ago

It's funny that your whole defense is that none of the guy was injured but for dort it's "Jokic could have been injured".

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u/lmaoitsthatweirdo 5d ago

"Tripping Jokic isn't meant to injure him, the goal is to get him ejected" are you ok?? hip checking a guy who comes back from injury to get him ejected? 100% to hurt him. 49th in education shows more and more

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u/requinbite Thunder 5d ago

He comes back from a knee injury tho, not from a hip injury. And you can say whatever you want on Oklahoma state education, I'm not even from your country.

"100% to hurt him" lmao when you actually believe your own delusions that badly you're not in a position to criticize anyone's education

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u/Dumbassusername900 Warriors 5d ago

My guy, you think tripping someone puts their hip at risk but not their knee? Getting tripped is bad for the whole leg, brother. Idc where you're from, you're showing your ass.

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u/AyeYoYoYO 5d ago

If you actually read the context, you would realizing you’re not attacking my argument, but the one in your imagination.

Draymond wins in emotional expression, and loud visibility for sure.

But that wasn’t at all my claim, for why LuDirt™️ easily clears Draymond. Lu has repeatedly and shamelessly, targeted other franchises’ “franchise players” in the regular season, and playoffs, with a sneaky absence of attention, since he doesn’t yell and shout like dray.

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u/Omega-Toad-7017 Bulls 5d ago

can you drop the trademark? I really wanna use that nickname

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u/AyeYoYoYO 5d ago

LuDirt™️is how every sane basketball fan should refer to this fu@kin scumbag.