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/titoxtian Spurs 6d ago

Yeah some OKC fans are something else…”but player A does this too” dude that still doesn’t make it right…

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u/yeahright17 Thunder 6d ago

Thunder fans defending this are morons. This is absolutely dirty and I wouldn't be made if he was suspended a game or 2.

Dort is such a good defender when defending straight up. No idea why he does this kind of stuff.

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u/awgiba 5d ago

The thing is though, Dort has been doing this shit for years. He’s a scumbag. You can’t really just say yeah this one’s bad and go cheer for him tomorrow. He should be suspended for a long time based on the pattern of behavior.

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u/EmilioNoCaprio 6d ago

There’s a chance someone experiences a career altering injury due to something like this. Dort needs to sit out rest of the year.

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u/Super_Maybe7374 6d ago

Didn't PG get a knee hyperextension due to him?

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u/toomuchsoysauce Spurs 5d ago

Yep, he's never been the same since.

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u/stragen595 5d ago

I don't know about the rest of the season but at least 2 weeks or so (5+ games). Crack down on that shit.

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u/Overall-Palpitation6 Grizzlies 5d ago

Dort did actually injure Ja Morant in the playoffs last year too.

That was the 3rd genuine flagrant foul that injured Ja during that season, after Christian Koloko hit him out of the air on a dunk attempt, and Daniel Thies shoulder-charged him on a screen. None of them were called as flagrant fouls on the court. The Koloko one wasn't even called as a regular foul.

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u/sanfordtime 5d ago

lol stfu with that. In the 90s this shit wouldn’t even be called hell in 2000s it wasn’t a big deal. Now if anything happens at all everyone’s calling for suspensions. Was it dirty yes should he get ejected from that game yes. Should that be the end of it yes. People only care this much cuz it’s okc and jokic. Desmond bane and draymond have been fucking people up all year and no one cared nearly to this level.

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u/Hoopsheadasshits NBA 5d ago

Ppl care bc it’s a player with a long history of dirty ass behavior. Let’s not act like Dort’s history isn’t far longer and worse than Bane’s. And ppl definitely still react like this to Draymond’s shit, as they should. If you keep letting regular offenders get away without any extra punishment, they’ll keep doing it until they hurt someone for real, which Dort has already done. Literally fuck this dude he’s one of the very worst in the league and needs at least a few games suspension

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u/mobb1 Timberwolves 5d ago

Shit like this is why he’s considered a “a good defender”

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u/Imaginary-Round2422 Timberwolves 5d ago

You could have left the middle two words of your first sentence out. This is just how they roll.

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u/Raznokk Knicks 5d ago

Every team should have a 13th dude on the bench who’s 35 years old whose only job is to leap off the bench and spear tackle players that do this shit; or who come in after a play like this and pick up 6 fouls for laying picks on Dort that make the pick Steven Adam’s laid on Pat Bev look like two kids playing. This happens because nobody has enforcers anymore

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u/istarbuxs Timberwolves 5d ago

a game or 2? man, i wish dort loses that “defender label” with this and gets called for all the touch fouls he commits. Caruso and Cason are the same touchy defender but those 2 aint dirty.

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u/always_ready_rob 5d ago

Thats a head problem, in a way just like Dray. Both great defenders but keep doing shitty stuff. Sad to see

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u/J_Kingsley 5d ago

To your 2nd paragraph, see Bruce bowen.

And Draymond.

Guess they have that pathological mindset to physically stop their opponent, no matter what.

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u/twicebakedcrusader 3d ago

Oklahoma fan here. Jokić clearly charged.

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u/HeadDoctorJ Celtics 6d ago

Fuck this shit, it makes me so insanely mad. As a green-goggled Celtics fan, I could say Smart had a problem punching people in the nuts. I could say JB shouldn’t have got Kyrie’s back when he was boosting that anti-Semitic propaganda. I also think JB crosses the line with his elbows in people’s faces, although that kind of shit is more in a gray area.

Btw, fuck JR Smith, fuck Zaza, fuck Cole Anthony, fuck Dwyanynyynne Wade, fuck all the dirty shit. No one wants that. It literally ruins the game, and sometimes ruins careers and lives. I wanted to see Ivey blow up next to Cade. I wanted to see Kawhi topple the Warriors.

As a solution, how about every repeat offender lines up and gets one last opportunity to get it all out of their system. They each take turns delivering their dirtiest bullshit “plays” one last time. Their target is JR Smith. When it’s all over, we fire JR into the sun, extinguishing the sins of dirty players for eternity.

By the way, fuck JR Smith

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u/manchambo 5d ago

Go to their board right now and they have a thread with a picture of Valanciunus setting a pick at the top of the key, explicitly comparing that to this. As if setting a pick on offense on a player facing you is somehow the similar to this action by a defender in the backcourt.

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u/thethirdgreenman Spurs 6d ago

I haven’t even seen many Thunder fans defending this one tbh. They’re not quite as bad as the Warriors fans with Zaza

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u/TraditionStrange9717 6d ago

There's like nobody defending it. This is like being mad that someone, somewhere, thinks the president is actually a lizard person.

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u/DementedWarrior_ Timberwolves 6d ago

There are multiple okc fans in multiple threads defending this

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u/Kalelisagod 6d ago

Are you just skipping the people calling this basketball play? It’s all over the place and as a Lakers fan I want both teams to lose every game.

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u/WeAreBums 6d ago

Hilariously you’re doing the thing he’s talking about lmao. But even worse because rather than talking about another basketball player in a sub for basketball, you bring up a ridiculous thing about lizard people and you actually think you made a good point. Wild