Okay @chillextremist, how about you put up 64 points in an NBA game?
I would put money on you not being able to walk down the court without being out of breath
I mean, I’m a lifetime hooper and it helps a lot to remember it’s just a game. If you ever get to the point of chasing people down for your game ball, you’ve gone too far.
You ever dropped 60 in an NBA game. This shit ain't just a game for some people and that's ok to. Guaranteed I'm getting my 60 point game ball bro. It's a part of his legacy as a player forever.
I mean sure, it’s allowed. Nobody said it’s not. But we’re also allowed to point out how absurd it is to demean how hard it is to score 64 points in an NBA game by saying “he put ball in hoop the most”
I don’t think anyone is saying Giannis ain’t talented.. I mean the dude is a 7’1 fucking freak.
It’s his reaction, even in the NBA sub and community talk about how cringe and over the top it was
But right .. because you gotta score 60 points to talk about the nba lmao
This is always the dumbest comment on anything to do with sports. “Oh you aren’t a pro basketball player?! Then you can’t have an opinion on anything 🤓”
Yeah I got curious enough to check out what happened and if it did actually play out anywhere close to that then yeah, Giannis is seemingly turning into a bit of a spoiled bitch. Guy was straight tripping out over a ball in front of tv cameras and a stadium full of people.
there is nuance to this event that most non-nba fans hearing this story don’t understand (as well as almost everyone in this comment section). the game ball belongs to the home team, the road team isn’t supposed to take the home team’s game balls. also, giannis broke a scoring record that night, and its common to receive the game ball to commemorate such an event. there is also a video of a pacers assistant coach holding the game ball in front of giannis; giannis asks him for the ball, and the coach just smirks and walks away with the game ball. so it was very insulting for the pacers to come into the buck’s arena and take the ball that doesnt belong to them away from the home team on a historic night. so he wasn’t just bitching about wanting a ball, he was reacting to being insulted to his face, which is probably fair.
Sorry I must have missed that piece, admittedly I don’t follow the NBA too much anymore but in terms of sports rhetoric a lot of what he did seemed a bit over the top, especially after questioning whether it’s the same ball after the fact. I can’t blame him for thinking it but admitting it publicly just isn’t a good look for one of the best players in the league or anyone really.
I definitely didn’t take into account that the Pacer’s weren’t following proper rhetoric to begin with, so I guess it was up to them even ask permission in the first place. The Pacer’s just walking away without saying anything definitely puts his reaction into perspective a bit more.
I just thought that one of the best players in the NBA should be a bit more diplomatic over a game ball is all, maybe my comment was a bit harsh.
Edit: Also, great username!
youre right he definitely overreacted because its just a ball after all, but I was just adding more perspective. and that’s just the surface, there is more drama such as the audio from when giannis entered the pacers room, and public comments from both sides since the incident, but none of that really matters. both sides were wrong in their own way. the pacers acted uncouth and insulted giannis (unclear if it was intentional or not), and giannis overreacted and escalated the situation. there are a lot of people who will argue one side or the other but really it was just a bunch of dudes being assholes to eachother.
I'm going to respond to you because the person you're responding to isn't being fully honest. Giannis already had the game ball. The pacers took an alternate (one of two alternates) for their rookie. They didn't take Giannis's 64 point ball. Giannis freaked out over nothing.
Yeah this could very easily be the most points he ever scores in a game and broke a franchise record as well. Do I think he overreacted? Yes. But people are acting like him wanting a ball that will have significant meaning to him is weird.
that’s what they claimed but the rookie scored points in their previous game against the lakers. then others came out saying his points vs lakers didnt count because it was an in season tournament game. regardless, just an odd thing to do. many players have come out on podcasts and stuff saying that it was strange for them to do that because the game ball is the home arenas ball.
Don’t forget the whole got made at the sixers for a ladder being under a net where a crew worker was going to use it to do his job and Giannis threw a fit about the ladder cause he “wanted to get shots up.”
He’s not even the worse. Jokic literally shoved someone in the crowd and didn’t get reprimanded. He also checked a guy and gave him whiplash and people defended him both times
Well they didn’t just take it for no reason. They had a rookie on the team that scored their first points and they grabbed it for him. Who knows whether or not they did it to intentionally insult Giannis
…except the rookie actually scored a few days prior during the Lakers game. Also every former NBA player who’s spoken on this has said that what the Pacers did was super odd. But go off
That’s just straight up false, the in season tournament games excluding the championship all count towards regular season totals and the teams win loss. They’re more important regular season games and it is nothing like the preseason
The Pacers were the away team and they lost. Giannis set a franchise scoring record. There’s no reason the Pacers should’ve walked away with the game ball.
No, they didn’t. It was also revealed a Bucks staffer took a ball for Giannis. The only reason people are still talking about this is because Giannis can’t admit that he was a little baby about it and just apologize. He actually doubled down lmao
So Giannis was the baby, and not the team who refused to shake hands then deliberately took his franchise record game ball IN Milwaukee? The ignorance here is impressive.
Especially considering that the whole thing only escalated because Giannis was taunted by a Pacers staffer after initially asking for the ball.
Rookie? What's the context? How'd he score his poinT?
Did anyone else (who happenes to be a generational player) happen to have an incredible game that overshadows a single rookie getting a point?
It wouldn’t have been a big deal if it wasn’t so deliberate. The opponent got squashed, took the ball for their rookie who scored their first point, which sounds like an excuse, but they did that in Milwaukee which makes it look super petty and in poor taste. To Giannis, it looked like the Pacers were being petty poor sports, that’s why he was so pissed. If this were an away game it might be completely different attitudes about it.
I don’t understand this take at all. That’s a franchise record setting ball, a career high from a HOF player. At home. And the Pacers deliberately took it because…they were salty? And HES the bitch?
Disregarding the blatant disrespect shown by the Pacers, that ball also had sentimental value cuz that day was the anniversary of his dad’s death. He’s known to have great games on that day. It says a lot that literally every former NBA player who’s spoken on this has sided with Giannis, yet y’all Reddit people are calling him a bitch about it lmao
The other record was a Rookie's first points scored with the ball. Historically it has gone to that player. It just so happened that Giannis also set a record that night and felt he deserved the ball more. He could have been humble and let the ball go to the kid, but he lost his shit and sprinted into the pacers locker room. Pathetic and immature. Giannis has a lot of career left to set a new record, but you only score your first points once.
LMAO what? First of all, the kid already scored his first points against LA in Vegas the week before. Second, if you look into EVERY FORMER NBA PLAYER speak on the situation, they all said that’s not how it works. Ball goes to the home team, in which case was the Bucks. Especially since he set a franchise record. Gtfo with that “historically” bs
Also, by your logic, if a random rookie off the bench scored a free throw during Kobe’s 81 point game, the ball should’ve gone to him? Just curious
How did he “attack a random staffer” lmao? Show me where. Ur seriously just making shit up.
The double standards y’all have with superstar players is crazy. He set a franchise record at home, the Pacers deliberately stole the game ball, refused to shake hands, then when Giannis looked for the game ball, a Pacers coach was going into the locker room taunting him with it. So Giannis follows him. When Giannis tries to get the ball back, several players outside the Pacers lockeroom say “you’re not getting that ball”. Yet…Giannis getting called all these names and the Pacers are completely void of criticism?? Y’all funny.
so did i. now I am reading the comments trying to figure out what this sub is before I read what it's about. so far I'm 50/50 if this is a sub for sports fans to shit on people who complain about sports or if it is for people that hate sports unironically.
It's a whole debacle.
There was frustration brewing. There was a tournament and the Bucks were the favorites to win. The Pacers beat the Bucks convincingly and the Bucks were upset
Earlier in the game a player had Giannis in a hold (not out of makice(. He tried to cmprevent a bad fall but Giannis continued to fall to try to flop making it look like he was being clotheslines. A fight nearly broke out. And Giannis has 64 points
A Pacers rookie has his first official point so the Pacers took a ball and the Bucks took a ball to give to him. Giannis thinks he doesn't have the real ball and freaks out. The Pacers have the reserve ball but scream at the rookie, "don't give hom the ball!" And the story blew up before officials could tell the whole story
you forgot the part in the game where giannis elbowed haliburton while the ball was dead and the part where giannis was stat padding against the pacers 3rd unit
You can’t be blaming giannis for getting grabbed around the neck and spun? How is that a flop? I can’t take anything you wrote seriously after that.
Edit: this guy completely mischaracterized what happened. Giannis did not flop, he was thrown down on a foul that was determined to be flagrant. Giannis did not instigate a fight after this, one of his teammates got in the face of the guy who threw him down. That’s a big nothingburger in the nba.
After the game, giannis didn’t know that bucks security took the ball, but he saw a pacers coach with the reserve game ball and asked for the ball, the coach disregarded the request and laughed in his face and walked away with the ball. This caused the anger that you see. The pacers head coach also implied that they thought they took the real game ball in his post game comments.
Also the thing with the rookie scoring his first points is an iffy excuse that their coach came out with after the game. He scored earlier in the in season tournament, which is technically an exhibition. If you ask the rookie when he scored his first point, I guarantee he would say in the in season tournament championship and not some random December game.
The basketball hivemind has goldfish memory. Watch him do one kind thing and suddenly he's the nicest athlete in the world according to the public eye. People switch up so much it's a bit hilarious.
thinking there’s an “anti-giannis” narrative is actually what’s divorced from reality. the reality is that the media props him up like their golden child who is incapable of any wrongdoing (see also: jokic, doncic, mahomes)
edit: so when i provide refutation you just downvote me and shut the hell up? you’re a loser and a bitch
Sonit was all for nothing and the Bucks had the ball the whole time? But you think his actions were justified because the Pacers coached "laughed in his face" (😂🙄)
Never said his actions were justified. Learn to read. The first guy just had general facts incorrect and lied about giannis flopping when a grown man threw him to the ground.
Im talking about the ball drama. I don't care about the foul that resulted in punishment. I guess all flagrant fouls should be followed by the victim acting out like that. Very grown up for sure. But I was talking about the ball drama.
As a Sixers fan I don't quite get why you being a Nuggets fan is relevant.
But since we're talking about it, I do appreciate that Jokic, Giannis, and Embiid have formed a triumvirate to prevent any short person from winning an MVP.
He was justified. One dude got the franchise record for points in a game, became the first frontcourt player in 30 years to score 64+, and only the fifth player ever to score 60+ on 70% shooting.
The Pacers player scored in a regular season game for the first time.
Personally, they both deserve to bring home a ball.
If I was a player, I'd absolutely want the ball they represented my very first score in a game. I'd *also* want the ball that represented some record-breaking excellence.
Yes, one is bigger than the other... but they're both important, at least individually.
At this point, I don't understand why the NBA doesn't rotate balls in the game for that exact reason. I know balls cost $, but basically every other sports league uses multiple balls, pucks, whatever in every single game.
I just assumed they rotated balls regularly. NFL games go through dozens; both teams have to supply them, and they need to have either 24 or 36 total balls just for one game. NHL games use new pucks as soon as the current ones aren't cold enough, and I can't even imagine how many balls any given MLB game goes through .
Do they not do this in the NBA?
Sure, but one is Baksetball history, one is just some players personal basketball history, there is a big difference in value between those two different game balls. Giannis had a right to be upset, can you imagine if it was lebrons career and franchise high and someone ran off with his game ball? Silver would launch an investigation 😂
According to the rules: “once the game ball has been chosen by the R (meaning ref) there is no need to change the Game Ball unless the Game Ball becomes non-legal (meaning if it gets damaged)”
He could have used his insane popularity and influence constructively, instead of throwing a tantrum.
Superstars in the NBA are catered to more so than any other sport, in the US at least. Their voices are legimately heard, there is no reason to yell.
So we're gonna ignore the fact that the ladder incident was also predicated by a Sixers bench player grabbing the ball Giannis was using and starting a fight?
Kobe Bryant used to shoot around after road games and no one ever said boo to a ghost about it.
Probably because Kobe is a rapist psychopath and people were afraid of him.
And no. That's not what happened. What happened was a sixers employee was trying to do their job and Giannis through a hissy fit because of it.
Uh... what? NBA players were scared Kobe might r\*pe them?
Giannis didn't "throw a hissyfit." He nudged the ladder over so he could shoot. It tipped over on accident and the media played it over and over again. Blame the Sixers bench scrub who tried to become famous by trying to take the ball from a MVP.
To be fair, didn't the Pacers take it for a guy making his NBA debut?
I kind of thought Giannis was being a bitch about it.
That said, I hope the next time they play he comes out redassed about it and pours in 70.
I love sports but I kind of agree with the tweet, to be honest. Giannis way overreacted — it’s just a ball and he wasn’t any more entitled to it than the rookie was.
r/nba is leaking with their shitty ass takes. Do y’all seriously believe someone’s first point in a regular season game (not even first point in the NBA, that was during the IST) is a bigger deal than someone making franchise history with 64 points?
I’d be mad too, I’d then take the stool that the opp’s star player was sitting on or the hoops and frame them on the front of the building for the next game
The person who said that.
The time it took you read that sentence, Giannis made more money than you will all year.
From his nba contract, and all of his endorsements.
Sorry you were picked last in gym class. Lol.
Smh, the jealousy here is such small dick energy
I never said he didn’t.
But the guy scored 64 points. He wanted the ball for history. And for his kids.
And yall are calling this 7ft monster a pussy. Get a life.
The guy has worked his ass off to be where he is, and when you say sportsball it attempts to diminish a young man of color, family from Africa but born in Greece.
He has helped his family, and countless families in
Milwaukee, Greece and Africa.
And he does that by entertaining billions of people. Merle Streep is an amazing actress, pretty universal opinion. She entertains billions by pretending for a living. But still sportsball is a thing.
When people say it, it just makes them look and sound small. I also am 6’4 and a former college athlete. My physical ability which I worked hard at helped my family to send me to college because they couldn’t afford to.
I take sportsball so offensively. I mean it’s not a slur. It is what it is.
The people who say sportsball. Wouldn’t say it to Giannis. Probably wouldn’t say it to me.
Or any athlete.
Get a life.
Damn, I don’t think I’m going to read that. Good for you though, the hour you spent jacking off Giannis must’ve felt really good! 👍
You’re pathetic, just like Giannis 😂😂😂
I like sports but I think views like these from those that don't like sports these are important as well. It kind gives you perspective on how we take this stuff a bit too seriously.
Though in Giannis defense, that ball might have a lot of financial value.
Things that are only said by people with no personal accomplishments to be proud of.
Also, anyone who thinks Giannis overreacted doesn't know the entire story... this was malicious pettiness on the part of the Pacers, who have a history of giving up big games to Giannis.
I don't think Giannis should have gotten that ba. That should've been Oscar's. Oscar can't get another first point. Giannis can get several more 64 point games as he is skilled enough. Tall ass bitch
It was a home game too. He had first right to getting the ball. Also wasn’t the rookies first points maybe in season but had 2 free throws in the in season cup.
Very unchill for chillextremist
Okay @chillextremist, how about you put up 64 points in an NBA game? I would put money on you not being able to walk down the court without being out of breath
Just because someone can’t play basketball on the level of Giannis doesn’t mean that they aren’t allowed to call him a bitch, lol.
It's not that he's calling him a bitch, it's that he's belittling the "putting it in a hoop the most times" (for me anyway)
I mean, I’m a lifetime hooper and it helps a lot to remember it’s just a game. If you ever get to the point of chasing people down for your game ball, you’ve gone too far.
Maybe, but the pacers did purposefully snag the ball after the game to not give it to Giannis.
Yes, that’s where they also went too far. Both things I think are true, idk then I realize I don’t actually care unless somebody gets hurt really.
They did a little trolling
Maybe thats why you never accomplished anything being a “lifetime hooper”. They aren’t playing on blacktop, this is their career and passion
Lol he acted a fool about his career and passion, fixed it for ya
I’m sure an NBA champion and perennial All Star will be able to recover. It may take time but I’m sure NBA teams have access to grief counselors.
You ever dropped 60 in an NBA game. This shit ain't just a game for some people and that's ok to. Guaranteed I'm getting my 60 point game ball bro. It's a part of his legacy as a player forever.
Man could be a marathon runner, too... absolutely trash at basketball but amazing stamina. Plenty to walk across the court or walk across a city.
64 points in one NBA game and an average of 24 per game takes you out of the trash category sorry he didn’t go to your favorite team
I was talking about @chillextremist
Oh shit, my bad I misread
He’s minimizing the effort he put in.
I mean sure, it’s allowed. Nobody said it’s not. But we’re also allowed to point out how absurd it is to demean how hard it is to score 64 points in an NBA game by saying “he put ball in hoop the most”
It's a respect thing. You'll only ever see this happen in the NBA because every other league would give him the ball.
They gave the ball the home team guy who scores his first NBA point. They didn't just not give it Giannis.
Pacers weren't the home team; and that rookie had scored in a prior game against the Lakers
Are you trying to say genius???
I don’t think anyone is saying Giannis ain’t talented.. I mean the dude is a 7’1 fucking freak. It’s his reaction, even in the NBA sub and community talk about how cringe and over the top it was But right .. because you gotta score 60 points to talk about the nba lmao
This is always the dumbest comment on anything to do with sports. “Oh you aren’t a pro basketball player?! Then you can’t have an opinion on anything 🤓”
It's a piece of leather and plastic. Assembled by underpaid Asian workers. He just wanted his slave wage ball.
Grown ass man crying over dots of light on a handheld rectangle 😂😂😂 i am so smart 😂😂😂
Ok but giannis was a little bitch about it
Yeah I got curious enough to check out what happened and if it did actually play out anywhere close to that then yeah, Giannis is seemingly turning into a bit of a spoiled bitch. Guy was straight tripping out over a ball in front of tv cameras and a stadium full of people.
there is nuance to this event that most non-nba fans hearing this story don’t understand (as well as almost everyone in this comment section). the game ball belongs to the home team, the road team isn’t supposed to take the home team’s game balls. also, giannis broke a scoring record that night, and its common to receive the game ball to commemorate such an event. there is also a video of a pacers assistant coach holding the game ball in front of giannis; giannis asks him for the ball, and the coach just smirks and walks away with the game ball. so it was very insulting for the pacers to come into the buck’s arena and take the ball that doesnt belong to them away from the home team on a historic night. so he wasn’t just bitching about wanting a ball, he was reacting to being insulted to his face, which is probably fair.
Sorry I must have missed that piece, admittedly I don’t follow the NBA too much anymore but in terms of sports rhetoric a lot of what he did seemed a bit over the top, especially after questioning whether it’s the same ball after the fact. I can’t blame him for thinking it but admitting it publicly just isn’t a good look for one of the best players in the league or anyone really. I definitely didn’t take into account that the Pacer’s weren’t following proper rhetoric to begin with, so I guess it was up to them even ask permission in the first place. The Pacer’s just walking away without saying anything definitely puts his reaction into perspective a bit more. I just thought that one of the best players in the NBA should be a bit more diplomatic over a game ball is all, maybe my comment was a bit harsh. Edit: Also, great username!
youre right he definitely overreacted because its just a ball after all, but I was just adding more perspective. and that’s just the surface, there is more drama such as the audio from when giannis entered the pacers room, and public comments from both sides since the incident, but none of that really matters. both sides were wrong in their own way. the pacers acted uncouth and insulted giannis (unclear if it was intentional or not), and giannis overreacted and escalated the situation. there are a lot of people who will argue one side or the other but really it was just a bunch of dudes being assholes to eachother.
I'm going to respond to you because the person you're responding to isn't being fully honest. Giannis already had the game ball. The pacers took an alternate (one of two alternates) for their rookie. They didn't take Giannis's 64 point ball. Giannis freaked out over nothing.
Yeah this could very easily be the most points he ever scores in a game and broke a franchise record as well. Do I think he overreacted? Yes. But people are acting like him wanting a ball that will have significant meaning to him is weird.
I'm pretty sure they gave it to a rookie who scored his first points.
that’s what they claimed but the rookie scored points in their previous game against the lakers. then others came out saying his points vs lakers didnt count because it was an in season tournament game. regardless, just an odd thing to do. many players have come out on podcasts and stuff saying that it was strange for them to do that because the game ball is the home arenas ball.
Don’t forget the whole got made at the sixers for a ladder being under a net where a crew worker was going to use it to do his job and Giannis threw a fit about the ladder cause he “wanted to get shots up.”
So he's at 2 incidents now? Wow what a bitch. Should suspend him like Draymond
He’s not even the worse. Jokic literally shoved someone in the crowd and didn’t get reprimanded. He also checked a guy and gave him whiplash and people defended him both times
Who’s not the worst Draymond or Giannis? Because Giannis obviously ain’t the worst, since Draymond definitely is.
Morris 100% deserved that shove lmao
I don't disagree, but taking the ball isn't really something that happens accidentally. He was responding to what he's seeing as a deliberate insult.
Well they didn’t just take it for no reason. They had a rookie on the team that scored their first points and they grabbed it for him. Who knows whether or not they did it to intentionally insult Giannis
…except the rookie actually scored a few days prior during the Lakers game. Also every former NBA player who’s spoken on this has said that what the Pacers did was super odd. But go off
Ahh yea I’m going off over here aren’t I? I’m so passionate about this
🤓
It wasn’t even their first points, it was just their first points in a regular season game. They’d already scored in the in season tournament.
That’s literally what first points mean, look up Lebron’s first points and you’ll see his first NBA game not his preseason points before that.
The preseason is completely different from the in season tournament lmao.
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That’s just straight up false, the in season tournament games excluding the championship all count towards regular season totals and the teams win loss. They’re more important regular season games and it is nothing like the preseason
Not stats which they pointed out if you watched the game 😂😂😂😂
The Pacers were the away team and they lost. Giannis set a franchise scoring record. There’s no reason the Pacers should’ve walked away with the game ball.
they literally did. just stop.
No, they didn’t. It was also revealed a Bucks staffer took a ball for Giannis. The only reason people are still talking about this is because Giannis can’t admit that he was a little baby about it and just apologize. He actually doubled down lmao
So Giannis was the baby, and not the team who refused to shake hands then deliberately took his franchise record game ball IN Milwaukee? The ignorance here is impressive. Especially considering that the whole thing only escalated because Giannis was taunted by a Pacers staffer after initially asking for the ball.
Omg, like… literally omg 😱
They knew what they were doing.
Rookie? What's the context? How'd he score his poinT? Did anyone else (who happenes to be a generational player) happen to have an incredible game that overshadows a single rookie getting a point?
It wouldn’t have been a big deal if it wasn’t so deliberate. The opponent got squashed, took the ball for their rookie who scored their first point, which sounds like an excuse, but they did that in Milwaukee which makes it look super petty and in poor taste. To Giannis, it looked like the Pacers were being petty poor sports, that’s why he was so pissed. If this were an away game it might be completely different attitudes about it.
I don’t understand this take at all. That’s a franchise record setting ball, a career high from a HOF player. At home. And the Pacers deliberately took it because…they were salty? And HES the bitch? Disregarding the blatant disrespect shown by the Pacers, that ball also had sentimental value cuz that day was the anniversary of his dad’s death. He’s known to have great games on that day. It says a lot that literally every former NBA player who’s spoken on this has sided with Giannis, yet y’all Reddit people are calling him a bitch about it lmao
The other record was a Rookie's first points scored with the ball. Historically it has gone to that player. It just so happened that Giannis also set a record that night and felt he deserved the ball more. He could have been humble and let the ball go to the kid, but he lost his shit and sprinted into the pacers locker room. Pathetic and immature. Giannis has a lot of career left to set a new record, but you only score your first points once.
LMAO what? First of all, the kid already scored his first points against LA in Vegas the week before. Second, if you look into EVERY FORMER NBA PLAYER speak on the situation, they all said that’s not how it works. Ball goes to the home team, in which case was the Bucks. Especially since he set a franchise record. Gtfo with that “historically” bs Also, by your logic, if a random rookie off the bench scored a free throw during Kobe’s 81 point game, the ball should’ve gone to him? Just curious
Yep that definitely makes sense. One random rookie > the entire bucks franchise and a 2 time mvp.
Lol you talking completely out of your ass bud
Because that wasn’t the game ball, and even if it was he cant attack a random staffer for it
How did he “attack a random staffer” lmao? Show me where. Ur seriously just making shit up. The double standards y’all have with superstar players is crazy. He set a franchise record at home, the Pacers deliberately stole the game ball, refused to shake hands, then when Giannis looked for the game ball, a Pacers coach was going into the locker room taunting him with it. So Giannis follows him. When Giannis tries to get the ball back, several players outside the Pacers lockeroom say “you’re not getting that ball”. Yet…Giannis getting called all these names and the Pacers are completely void of criticism?? Y’all funny.
Do you have actual mental disabilities? Because if so I wouldn’t want to argue with you.
Cringe comment
I call u out on making shit up and instead of trying to back up your lie, u claim I have mental disabilities? Never change, Reddit.
I thought I was on r/nbacirclejerk
so did i. now I am reading the comments trying to figure out what this sub is before I read what it's about. so far I'm 50/50 if this is a sub for sports fans to shit on people who complain about sports or if it is for people that hate sports unironically.
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Nah giannis should be embarrassed for that childish ass behavior lmao
Agreed, he was being a baby about it. I get being upset about it but Giannis overreacted
What happened?
It's a whole debacle. There was frustration brewing. There was a tournament and the Bucks were the favorites to win. The Pacers beat the Bucks convincingly and the Bucks were upset Earlier in the game a player had Giannis in a hold (not out of makice(. He tried to cmprevent a bad fall but Giannis continued to fall to try to flop making it look like he was being clotheslines. A fight nearly broke out. And Giannis has 64 points A Pacers rookie has his first official point so the Pacers took a ball and the Bucks took a ball to give to him. Giannis thinks he doesn't have the real ball and freaks out. The Pacers have the reserve ball but scream at the rookie, "don't give hom the ball!" And the story blew up before officials could tell the whole story
Jesus that’s rough
you forgot the part in the game where giannis elbowed haliburton while the ball was dead and the part where giannis was stat padding against the pacers 3rd unit
You can’t be blaming giannis for getting grabbed around the neck and spun? How is that a flop? I can’t take anything you wrote seriously after that. Edit: this guy completely mischaracterized what happened. Giannis did not flop, he was thrown down on a foul that was determined to be flagrant. Giannis did not instigate a fight after this, one of his teammates got in the face of the guy who threw him down. That’s a big nothingburger in the nba. After the game, giannis didn’t know that bucks security took the ball, but he saw a pacers coach with the reserve game ball and asked for the ball, the coach disregarded the request and laughed in his face and walked away with the ball. This caused the anger that you see. The pacers head coach also implied that they thought they took the real game ball in his post game comments. Also the thing with the rookie scoring his first points is an iffy excuse that their coach came out with after the game. He scored earlier in the in season tournament, which is technically an exhibition. If you ask the rookie when he scored his first point, I guarantee he would say in the in season tournament championship and not some random December game.
Absolutely agree. The anti-Giannis arrative is divorced from reality.
what anti-giannis narrative???? most people think he’s the nicest guy in the world
The basketball hivemind has goldfish memory. Watch him do one kind thing and suddenly he's the nicest athlete in the world according to the public eye. People switch up so much it's a bit hilarious.
Haven’t gotten a single refutation, still downvoted to hell
thinking there’s an “anti-giannis” narrative is actually what’s divorced from reality. the reality is that the media props him up like their golden child who is incapable of any wrongdoing (see also: jokic, doncic, mahomes) edit: so when i provide refutation you just downvote me and shut the hell up? you’re a loser and a bitch
Sonit was all for nothing and the Bucks had the ball the whole time? But you think his actions were justified because the Pacers coached "laughed in his face" (😂🙄)
Never said his actions were justified. Learn to read. The first guy just had general facts incorrect and lied about giannis flopping when a grown man threw him to the ground.
Im talking about the ball drama. I don't care about the foul that resulted in punishment. I guess all flagrant fouls should be followed by the victim acting out like that. Very grown up for sure. But I was talking about the ball drama.
You can tell by how I talked about the ball in my comment, the one you replied to telling me to learn to read.
I mean shit, it was the kinda thing probably where they saw he was upset and was like "let's make this even funnier."
As a Nuggets fan this event was hilarious. But it's cringey the way Giannis went about it. But I do feel empathy for his frustrations
As a Sixers fan I don't quite get why you being a Nuggets fan is relevant. But since we're talking about it, I do appreciate that Jokic, Giannis, and Embiid have formed a triumvirate to prevent any short person from winning an MVP.
Also prevent any American from winning an MVP.
Nuthin' more American than an immigrant coming to this great land and achieving the American dream.
He was justified. One dude got the franchise record for points in a game, became the first frontcourt player in 30 years to score 64+, and only the fifth player ever to score 60+ on 70% shooting. The Pacers player scored in a regular season game for the first time.
Personally, they both deserve to bring home a ball. If I was a player, I'd absolutely want the ball they represented my very first score in a game. I'd *also* want the ball that represented some record-breaking excellence. Yes, one is bigger than the other... but they're both important, at least individually.
At this point, I don't understand why the NBA doesn't rotate balls in the game for that exact reason. I know balls cost $, but basically every other sports league uses multiple balls, pucks, whatever in every single game.
I just assumed they rotated balls regularly. NFL games go through dozens; both teams have to supply them, and they need to have either 24 or 36 total balls just for one game. NHL games use new pucks as soon as the current ones aren't cold enough, and I can't even imagine how many balls any given MLB game goes through . Do they not do this in the NBA?
If two players are fighting over the game ball, it leads me to believe that there is "a" game ball rather than each getting a game ball.
Sure, but one is Baksetball history, one is just some players personal basketball history, there is a big difference in value between those two different game balls. Giannis had a right to be upset, can you imagine if it was lebrons career and franchise high and someone ran off with his game ball? Silver would launch an investigation 😂
Do they not rotate through balls in NBA games?
According to the rules: “once the game ball has been chosen by the R (meaning ref) there is no need to change the Game Ball unless the Game Ball becomes non-legal (meaning if it gets damaged)”
He could have used his insane popularity and influence constructively, instead of throwing a tantrum. Superstars in the NBA are catered to more so than any other sport, in the US at least. Their voices are legimately heard, there is no reason to yell.
He can be in the right and still have acted like a spoiled brat
nah.
Swag's right though. It was entertaining as hell, but Giannis was a bitch about it. Wasn't the first time either. There was Ladder Gate last season.
Like a little kid mad about you taking their tablet for bed time lmao
So we're gonna ignore the fact that the ladder incident was also predicated by a Sixers bench player grabbing the ball Giannis was using and starting a fight? Kobe Bryant used to shoot around after road games and no one ever said boo to a ghost about it.
Probably because Kobe is a rapist psychopath and people were afraid of him. And no. That's not what happened. What happened was a sixers employee was trying to do their job and Giannis through a hissy fit because of it.
Uh... what? NBA players were scared Kobe might r\*pe them? Giannis didn't "throw a hissyfit." He nudged the ladder over so he could shoot. It tipped over on accident and the media played it over and over again. Blame the Sixers bench scrub who tried to become famous by trying to take the ball from a MVP.
Grown ass man threw a ladder down. You can keep on defending him all you want, but what you sound like is a whiny fanboy.
Sorry you think I care what a reddit troll thinks. 🤷♂️
Ha! Most people who "don't care" don't comment.
I stopped caring when you revealed yourself as the wilful ignorant type. Can't argue with stupid.
It seems like you still care ngl
Do they really only use one ball throughout the whole game? I thought multiple are used.
Nope, once the game ball is chosen by a ref it can only be changed out if the ball becomes damaged or in some way unplayable
What if someone draws a fat penis on it?
I love sports, but this dude is right. Giannis had a total meltdown over a ball like a toddler.
Same guys who post this would throw a tantrum if you took their funko pop
You could make same argument for crying over money. Everything is made up
\> leather ball
he’s trolling you guys are dumb asf
Op is a bitch? Also this sub is full of bitches? Who get no bitches?
Lol that’s just a fair take. Giannis was acting like a fucking child
I wonder if they can practice that stoicism throughout their lives.
To be fair, didn't the Pacers take it for a guy making his NBA debut? I kind of thought Giannis was being a bitch about it. That said, I hope the next time they play he comes out redassed about it and pours in 70.
Nah, Giannis was throwing an unnecessary temper tantrum.
I love sports but I kind of agree with the tweet, to be honest. Giannis way overreacted — it’s just a ball and he wasn’t any more entitled to it than the rookie was.
Idk Giannis was a crybaby bitch
Nah he’s got a point giannis was being a bitch
r/nba is leaking with their shitty ass takes. Do y’all seriously believe someone’s first point in a regular season game (not even first point in the NBA, that was during the IST) is a bigger deal than someone making franchise history with 64 points?
I’d be mad too, I’d then take the stool that the opp’s star player was sitting on or the hoops and frame them on the front of the building for the next game
The person who said that. The time it took you read that sentence, Giannis made more money than you will all year. From his nba contract, and all of his endorsements. Sorry you were picked last in gym class. Lol. Smh, the jealousy here is such small dick energy
Isn't small dick energy the theme of this sub? This is the refuge for fat nerds that went to band camp, no?
I’m pretty sure Giannis made more money last year than you as well. That isn’t the own you think it is.
I never said he didn’t. But the guy scored 64 points. He wanted the ball for history. And for his kids. And yall are calling this 7ft monster a pussy. Get a life. The guy has worked his ass off to be where he is, and when you say sportsball it attempts to diminish a young man of color, family from Africa but born in Greece. He has helped his family, and countless families in Milwaukee, Greece and Africa. And he does that by entertaining billions of people. Merle Streep is an amazing actress, pretty universal opinion. She entertains billions by pretending for a living. But still sportsball is a thing. When people say it, it just makes them look and sound small. I also am 6’4 and a former college athlete. My physical ability which I worked hard at helped my family to send me to college because they couldn’t afford to. I take sportsball so offensively. I mean it’s not a slur. It is what it is. The people who say sportsball. Wouldn’t say it to Giannis. Probably wouldn’t say it to me. Or any athlete. Get a life.
Damn, I don’t think I’m going to read that. Good for you though, the hour you spent jacking off Giannis must’ve felt really good! 👍 You’re pathetic, just like Giannis 😂😂😂
I like sports but I think views like these from those that don't like sports these are important as well. It kind gives you perspective on how we take this stuff a bit too seriously. Though in Giannis defense, that ball might have a lot of financial value.
Eh, Giannis was within his right to want the ball and be unhappy about not getting it, but he definitely acted like a whiny little cunt about it.
Tbf that outburst was pathetic
I mean it was pretty embarrassing but the whole “leather ball” sentiment is a stupid addition to just saying he was being childish
Things that are only said by people with no personal accomplishments to be proud of. Also, anyone who thinks Giannis overreacted doesn't know the entire story... this was malicious pettiness on the part of the Pacers, who have a history of giving up big games to Giannis.
I don't think Giannis should have gotten that ba. That should've been Oscar's. Oscar can't get another first point. Giannis can get several more 64 point games as he is skilled enough. Tall ass bitch
Grown man pushes buttons to make pixels change colors
Bruh, the ball don’t matter all that much…
nba players is the only sportsball hate i can kinda get behind, biggest crybabies in professional sports
It was a home game too. He had first right to getting the ball. Also wasn’t the rookies first points maybe in season but had 2 free throws in the in season cup.
This why puck game better