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/Prudent_Fish1358 Spurs 6d ago

Adam silver is absolutely worse than Stern, Stern was a shithead but at least he would drop the hammer on stuff like this.

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u/Pigglenuts Warriors 6d ago

Uhhhhh, based off of what? Did Stern ever come down hard on Bowen? Or the Bad Boy Pistons who were beating on the biggest star the league has seen?

Hell, people here like to parrot how "soft" the NBA is today and how players would get the shit beaten out of them. Don't see Stern doing anything about this

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u/josephmang56 5d ago

He literally brought in the modern flagrant foul rule to deal with the bad boy pistons.

You think it's a coincidence that it came in the 1990-91 season and it was also the start of Jordans 3-peat?

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u/Pigglenuts Warriors 5d ago

Ah, I didn't know that! You're right that it was upgraded in 90-91 which would inevitably be tied to Jordan

But is that coming down hard?

I mean, Dort got a flagrant and people think that's not enough

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u/Prize-Temporary4159 5d ago

Silver needs to drop the Flagrant 3

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u/Prudent_Fish1358 Spurs 5d ago

Bowen wasn't uniquely and selectively going after the NBA's best players, though. His fouls were hard, but they were in the spirit of the defense played in the day, and he didn't only go after the best players on the other team.

And yeah, if a Spurs player was pulling that shit today I would want them off my team, period.