SGA melts down over Jokic’s nonexistent push, a breakdown
What Happened
We've got pushing, we've got shoving, we've got menacing faces. This breakdown's brought to you by Lids.
Who / What Is Involved
Players: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Nikola Jokic.
Full Transcript
Click timestamps to jump to that momentWe've got pushing, we've got shoving,
we've got menacing faces. Oklahoma City
versus Denver. This breakdown's brought
to you by Lids. There's going to be a
foul at the top here. They blow the
whistle right about now, but that
doesn't stop all of this. Little hip and
then the ball gets thrown. And then we
go crazy eyes and just repeating
himself. He pushed me. He pushed me. He
pushed me. He pushed me after the
whistle. He pushed me after the whistle.
Come on. He pushed me after the whistle.
Are you guys not seeing this? Are you
not hearing me? Here's what happened.
It's just a little hip right there.
There's no push by Jokic with the arm
anywhere. You know, it's just that hip
check right bam. Did he throw his hip
into him right there? That's what he's
upset about. That's what led to him
throwing the ball at him. Oh, the
referee almost got hit with the ball.
Could have made a play. Didn't had to
blow the whistle instead. So, good on
him. And then he pushed me. Pushed me.
What do you guys think? Is that a foul?
Did he push him? Well, here's what the
refs had to say about it.
>> After the whistle blew, the contact by
the Joker is marginal and does not rise
to the level of unsportsmanlike.
>> Are NBA officials the best in the
business at talking to the audience?
Have they been told by the NBA to be
entertaining? He just called him the
joker and then he's basically writing
he's writing like a sports report. He's
using words that, you know, a writer
would would use. Let's listen to it. SGA
throws the ball. That is an ice floating
like act. The technical foul on SGA.
That'll be one shot for Denver. And we
will go back to the point of
interruption. I mean, that's just pros
right there. That's good stuff. And do
they make it? No. Ball don't lie.
Anyway, we're going to skip forward in
the game. They're still upset. Now we're
in the fourth quarter and you know,
they're like, "We owe him a a hip check
and we're going to get our guy cuz we're
mad." And don't even just wait for it.
Wait for it. Wait for it. Okay. I'm
ready. Bam. Got him. Yokic goes down and
then gets up and then just menacing
bumps his chest into him. Watch this
face. I can't read his lips because I
don't even know if he knows what he's
saying. But watch watch right here.
We're going to turn and get a closeup of
his face and it's just Oh, first I liked
that. I forgot about that. He grabs his
hair. Now, do you think he was going to
grab his neck and then came up with a
bunch of hair and then was kind of like
I don't want that. Or was he going to
like rip his hair? whatever he was going
to do with his hair, he stopped. And
then just look at this. Oh,
I'm guessing it's
This is how Max Scherzer in Major League
Baseball talks to himself on the mound.
He's like
just seething. I think that's that's
seething. That's the definition of
seeing.
And then that's all that happens. But it
was scary enough. Everyone was kind of
like, "Whoa,
that is some true the Joker stuff." So,
we're trying to calm everyone down, but
there's one guy that's not calm, a coach
for OKC, and he's going to let the
officials know. He says, "Jason,
THAT'S YOUR GUY'S FAULT. THAT SHOULDN'T
HAVE HAPPENED." Because he's saying,
"You said that what Yokic did wasn't
intentional, so we do it back." And now
it is. Let's listen in. We have an
altercation that does not dissolve.
>> We have an altercation that does not
dissolve. Is this Deadwood?
>> We will take a look and penalize any
player.
Ah, damn. He ran out of words. He'd been
writing pros this whole time and we will
penalize any player.
Had to bow out. Let's take a look.
Intentional. Yogi is coming back and
then just plants his left leg and uh
firms up the hip. Also got him on the
foot here. Waiting for him. Waiting for
him. Waiting for him. Okay. Right in
front of him. Boom. And then I don't
think it is the reason he falls, but his
right foot comes back and that does hit
Yokic uh toe and then the hip got him
and he goes down. The other angle it
looks like he really goes into him. Bam.
You know, this angle looks like, oh,
hey, boom. You do it to SGA, I do it to
you. You know, so what do you guys
think? Are they different plays? Are
they the same plays? NBA looked at it.
Here's what they came away with.
>> It has been determined that the foul by
Lou Dort is unnecessary and excessive.
We are upgrading that to a play foul
penalty, too. Lou Dort is ejected from
the game.
>> I'm so impressed with NBA, this NBA
official. I love the way he talks on the
mic. I think he loves the way he talks
on the mic. Just the sentence structure,
everything builds. Loot D Thor has been
ejected from this game. Yogic missed
one, made the other and that's it. Guess
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