2023/24 NBA REGULAR SEASON THREAD "THANKING FOR WEMBANYAMA"

telling the refs they missed a call or that theyre having a bad game is fine obvs, telling them theyre generally bad at their job is kinda borderline but understandable when spirits are high, publicly accusing them of corruption is just over the line, its not cool and these are people who you want to like you, its counter productive

wonder if its common for refs to be bought off in europe and thats why were seeing luka and rudy doing this shit

Judging from comments from the thread about this incident on /r/nba, there's a whole conspiracy theory about Tim Donaghy and Scott Foster being homies and somehow he's still behind it.

tim donaghy is more powerful than you could ever imagine

luka was doing it at some random ref but rudy did his research lol

[freedom of speech meme] rudy has a point

there's a whole conspiracy theory about Tim Donaghy and Scott Foster being homies

Tim and Scott were friends and communicated on Tim's gambling burner phone, famously with Tim calling Scott 134 times during the period of time he was gambling on games. This was part of Tim's depositions to the FBI and is well documented.

The Untold Netflix doc on Donaghy doesn't do a whole lot to either confirm or deny Scott's potential involvement in dubious activities, but the general story goes (which is discussed in said doc) that Stern found out about the FBI investigation and blew it up in the media to prevent them from getting anyone else besides Tim under surveillance and supplying more evidence. The FBI at the time felt that Tim wasn't the "isolated incident" that the NBA would have liked everyone to believe and Foster is a ref who seemingly has a lot of statistical and visual evidence of expressing that bias in games, both in the regular and especially the post season. That alone is alarming for a lot of fans, tin foil or no.

The fact that the league keeps him around despite all this drama suggests a strong NBA ref union, but if you want to indulge in some tin foil, it's also likely that Foster "knows where the bodies are buried" and could write a tell all book about who much of a sham a good amount of potential outcomes and accomplishments of the last 20 years have been in the NBA.

who -> how

The reffing of that Wolves game was really obviously partial and inconsistent in ways that always seem to follow Foster around. Though, tbf Gobert is also a drama king and maybe this is one of the reasons a lot of players dislike him in the NBA.

Sengun left game in wheelchair

thats no good

heat lost to the wiz, winners of two in a row

gradey dick doesn’t look too bad

in stark contrast to reggie jackson

dick started the season as bad as can be and even sucked in the g league but has been looking more like an nba player recently

raptors wrecking the nugs nugs only play good vs the celtics thats fine

kelly o has 13 in the 4 mins of the 3rd quarter lol

Michael Finley talks about the time Luka Doncic cooked Grant Williams in practice

“One day in practice, a player on our team, I won't call his name out… But it was Grant Williams… He decided he wanted to get under Luka's skin. He felt that Luka didn't come that day ready to… pic.twitter.com/awxUTQTAmN

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) March 12, 2024

another one for the grant williams is annoying files, and finley never wouldve named him if he wasnt annoying

*grant williams voice* i brought out the best in luka that day

"I won't call his name out… But it was Grant Williams" lol

feels like the knicks and sixers have been playing each other every other day for the last week there’s no way that’s the early TNT game tonight…

wouldve been a nice mini series if not for the injuries alas

I still can't believe that game last year where Grant needed to make one free throw to win, said he was gonna make both, then MISSED both and lost in OT

lmao yeah that ones sticking with him

imma make BOF

bofa

And then that very year in the playoffs he started shit talking Jimmy Butler when the Celtics had a big lead who is the one guy who everyone knows goes supernova when people talk shit and as a result Jimmy scored like 20 straight points to bring the Heat back and then the Celtics lost in 7

I mean I swear to god Ben Simmons could win the 3 point competition if he had Grant Williams barking in his ear the whole time

celtics 44 point first quarter with 9 threes without three of their main guys vs the jazz, the jazz just really dont guard the line, its kind of weird to see a team just play real bad d in this day and age

funny team they put together a crazy run in the middle of the season but have been plain bad otherwise

also i think talen horton tucker went to the beach that makes you old

lmao

he looked 30 even when he was a rook on the lakers

76ers failed to score 80 again

without embiid and maxey they dont have anyone who can get a shot

oh i see maxey played nm

tobias harris two points

og back knicks must be happy

pacers beat the thunder in okc nice win for them

theyre out of the playin sixers and heat are in

sixers and heat playing for the 7 seed would be crazy tho also bad cause then the celtics would prob have to play one of them in the first round

it would be nice to draw the bulls

assuming embiid comes back and is good which idk

jazz started 7-16 then went on a 15-4 run and have been 6-16 since

I didn't know Og was pronounced "O.G." until someone said it on TV. I thought it was like a caveman name

Here’s a supercut of Serge just saying “OG” pic.twitter.com/SfbQbWE95q

— Faizal Khamisa (@FaizalKhamisa) February 3, 2020

lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFTXJ1sXN1Y

how have i never seen that video, incredible

according to wikipedia OG is short for Ogugua so fair to call him Og as your own personal nick

its so good lol