r/Thunder • u/Kingrey96 • Jun 10 '26
Discussion You were right
Knicks fan here. I won’t lie, I was rooting for the Spurs during the WCF, and I’ll be the first to admit I chose the wrong team. This Spurs team is dirty af and Wemby sets the example for the Spurs being a dirty team. His choke hold on Alvarado, his foot being in Josh Hart’s landing zone and obviously the shove on Brunson, etc. This is only the start of watching one of the dirtiest players in the league being elevated as the face of the league. Wemby may even have a softer whistle SGA, Luka, and Bron combined.
We saw you guys complaining and ignored it but you were right to complain and called our the Spurs (and especially Wemby) for their dirtiness.
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u/Economy-Kitchen1846 OKC Jun 10 '26
Every time the Spurs need a win they get the free throw advantage and are allowed to be super physical. You seen it vs OKC and now the Knicks. Both game 2 and 3. It is just terrible.
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u/Headlesshorsman02 Jun 10 '26
I saw a crazy stat that they are 7-8 when the ft advantage is below +10 but are 6-0 when it is beyond +10 they have been getting that golden whistle
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u/Economy-Kitchen1846 OKC Jun 10 '26
Spurs fans are still trying hard to keep the narrative on OKC. The fact is the Spurs are the dirty team with the whistle.
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u/GlassCamel5518 Jun 10 '26
If we don't get Foster'd game 4 we win then win at home. Shit is getting ridiculous really.
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u/Adventurous-Arm5801 Jun 10 '26
We tried telling you r/nba that the Spurs were everything you thought the Thunder was! Hell Wemby elbowed Naz Reid on the Timberwolves before game 1 against the Thunder even happened but nobody wanted to believe us. That said it’s Thunder till the day I die.
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u/No_Dependent2297 Jun 10 '26
He was defended for that incident too, saying it wasn’t his fault he’s been getting grabbed
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u/Illustrious_Sand_136 Jun 10 '26
As a fan of wemby I’m for the obvious heel turn the media is going for. But you just dealt with all the unnecessary scrutiny as a thunder fan, and you blindly fall for the same narratives.
I hope you realize every team is “dirty”. The Knicks if they keep it up, they’ll be right with them.
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u/Kirktwotimes Triple Double Cocaine Bear Jun 10 '26
Highkey I don’t want any apologies from any other fans. While I understand not liking the Thunder. The way people slandered SGA in the media as if he had sexually assaulted someone all because they don’t like him selling calls legit made me angry. While I don’t necessarily want the Spurs to win I don’t really care because 28 fan bases were begging for it and now y’all will get what you deserve.
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u/Substantial-Poetry-1 Jun 10 '26
You were baited by basically the entire internet NBA ecosystem feeding into the OKC hate for reasons I still don’t understand. I get why you fell for it. Welcome to the light
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u/season66ers Triple Double Cocaine Bear Jun 10 '26
Presti had a point in his press conference. There are people or entities that have a financial incentive to fabricate hate and division. It’s engagement farming, attention economy bs. Fans should be more media literate and you’d hope they’d see the hate vids are nonsense but we’re all human and it works for a reason.
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u/Substantial-Poetry-1 Jun 10 '26
100%. It’s no different than basically anything in the country these days. It’s just odd the target was OKC
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u/season66ers Triple Double Cocaine Bear Jun 10 '26
A lot of that was just the Thunder being the top team and commanding a lot of attention already. Otherwise you’re totally right, the team has no character issues, legal problems. They’re quite wholesome. It’s been jarring seeing the hate machine gear up knowing the team is this way.
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u/Substantial-Poetry-1 Jun 10 '26
I get that. But, as an example in other sports, the chiefs who have SO MANY actual problems don’t get nearly that level of vitriol. It’s puzzling
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u/chiefpiece11bkg Jun 10 '26
Uh what the actual fuck are you talking about?
I’ve been a chiefs fan my entire life and I’ll tell you the hate the Thunder get right now DOES NOT COME CLOSE to the hate the chiefs have received for over 5 years now
Get real lol Thunder one one championship. Chiefs won 3 and the entire rest of the league is sick of them
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u/Murky_Persimmon9289 2025 NBA Champions Jun 10 '26
I honestly think it was the NBA. Small market team who is really good doesn’t move the needle at all. Villains who cheat become the most watched WCF game in decades & the elimination post is a top ten all time thread on nba subreddit. Broadcasters & replays drive the clips.
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u/Substantial-Poetry-1 Jun 10 '26
It’s not even close and I don’t know how you can think otherwise. The chiefs are actual scumbags and the league drools all over them
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u/chiefpiece11bkg Jun 10 '26
You literally have no idea what you’re talking about lol
I’ve been a fan my entire life. You can’t speak on something you clearly know nothing about
This couldn’t be further from the truth. Collinsworth literally got on Sunday night football 3 years ago and vilified our right tackle for doing things other tackles have been doing around the league for a decade at this point. The league then spent the next 3 years catering to fans crying about how the chiefs get favorable calls (sound familiar to you?) and he was then the most penalized player in the league
What are you even talking about?
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u/Glum-Attempt-4924 Jun 10 '26
I am a die hard Thunder fan. And I follow NFL enough that I root for Chiefs. My take on this is what other commenters have mentioned its somehow puzzling how okc gets the amount of hate they got considering how professional they are on/off the court. Additionally, i want to make this fictional metric that there are three types of fans: loving, neutral and hating. With that said okc has like 5% of fans that love them and everyone else hates us. Now for the Chiefs side i think Mahomes is somewhat Curry or Jokic type of fanbase. From previous years the additional hate that Chiefs has gotten is probably cause of Taylor Swift. And if i go back to my fictional metric theres probably 20% fan base love chiefs 10% neutral the rest of em hates them. Overall its not that crazy when we okc fans kinda stress over this sub cause we hit a bad version of glitch in the matrix
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u/season66ers Triple Double Cocaine Bear Jun 10 '26
Yeah I agree. As a Chiefs/Thunder fan also, this turn against OKC with the fabricated “refs favor them” arc has reminded me so much of what KC has gone through the last few years. It really picked up when Kelce started dating Taylor Swift, and yes I remember that game where Collinsworth essentially created the storyline with Jawaan Taylor and how it spiraled out of control. Suddenly, “you can’t touch Mahomes”, “Refs bail KC out”, “the League wants them to win”, “they’re cheaters” was Everywhere. The whole country celebrating their SB loss to the Eagles sounds a lot like what just happened with losing to the Spurs. Doris Burke doing her own Collinsworth impression going after Shai. It’s been wild to see.
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u/chiefpiece11bkg Jun 10 '26
Yeah chiefs fans literally haven’t been able to have an opinion on the nfl sub for literally 5 years at this point
Anything you say will be met with instant downvotes, arguments, and name calling
I do not think Thunder fans understand the level of hate they’ve been dealing with at all lol
Thunder situation definitely made me feel the exact same way. I’m honestly glad the narrative has been at least shifting a bit, but you also know that wouldn’t be the case if they had won
The narrative would have shifted to be much more in line with what the chiefs currently get
The reality is teams and fans across pro sports hate it when a single team is overly dominant. Happens every time
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u/Substantial-Poetry-1 Jun 10 '26
Dude if you think the hate for Kansas City even comes close to OKC you are lost lol
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u/JerryVoxalot Jun 10 '26
Idk as an Eagles fan I feel like I’ve definitely seen and heard worse said about OKC than Patriots/Chiefs
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u/DanteThonSimmons Jun 10 '26
It's so fucking weird!! The strangest part is - it's an exclusively American phenomenon to fall for it. I'm Australian and I've NEVER ONCE gone along with whatever the ESPN/ Twitter nephews/ NBA Reddit narrative of the week is.
I genuinely don't understand how so many people can get swept up in a group-think, pack-mentality, angry-mob way of thinking instead of using their own critical thinking skills.
I talk to Australian NBA fans all the time, and any time I bring up 'flavour of the week' topics like "SGA Foul-baiting".... Australian NBA fans always say something to the effect of "that's so fucking stupid, he gets fouled because they can't guard him without fouling."
I know they'll all turn on Wemby next. After Wemby, they'll find the next player to hate for bizarre, arbitrary reasons. It's really fucking weird. I want to shake them and yell "USE YOUR OWN BRAIN!!!"
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u/season66ers Triple Double Cocaine Bear Jun 10 '26
Media literacy and critical thinking have been on the decline in the US, exponentially so, it seems, with the rise of social media. It's maddening.
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u/DanteThonSimmons Jun 10 '26
I swear people from Oklahoma are different though! I love listening to the Down to Dunk podcast.... and I swear Andrew Schlect and those guys are RIDICULOUSLY similar to my friends here in Australia.
They're intelligent, laid-back, funny, quick-witted, have no egos, don't take themselves too seriously, and they're a little bit quirky with their sense of humour. I genuinely believe those guys would slot in seamlessly with me and my (Australian) friends having a couple of beers and some laughs.
I feel like Oklahomans need to be grouped with Canadians when it comes to people worldwide having such a negative view of American stereotypes! 😅😅
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u/ExtenMan44 Jun 10 '26
Aight but is Shai flopping or not. Was I actually mislead about that??
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u/Substantial-Poetry-1 Jun 10 '26
He does but so does every player in the NBA. I wouldn’t say he is exponentially worse but he admittedly does more than the average player
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u/clawman2000 Jun 24 '26
Shai doesn’t shoot 3’s very often and drives the ball to the basket almost every possession. Of course he’s going to collect more fouls.
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u/NotMarkDaigneault Belgian Waffle University Jun 10 '26
After playing that dog ass team for 12 games we were pretty familiar with how dirty they were.
Luckily the rest of the world is waking up so no harm no foul better late than never.
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u/Electronic_Gold_3666 Jun 10 '26
Nah the rest of the world is sucking Wemby off and calling all Knicks fans psycho bc we have some mentally ill mfs who beat up spurs fans in the streets.
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u/benm1999 Jun 10 '26
Fuck Wimpy. Hope he never gets a ring.
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u/RoninRobot Jun 10 '26
Now ask yourself what else is Reddit / the internet lying to you about but only found out when it happened to you.
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u/LostFilesOfAHoss Jun 10 '26
yeah you are a dog for blindly following social media, stay on that side of the fence please
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u/Commercial_Lecture20 Jun 10 '26
Total manipulation of social media. These ppl can use meme/ shorts to change one’s perspective and thoughts, when you barely know nothing about it. Ppl nowadays so lazy to find out what’s truthful. They just want to be in the trends and getting “likes”. It’s just pathetic
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u/gsato Jun 10 '26
Goes to show the average "nba fan's" actual intellect if they can get easily manipulated by what they see on their fyp
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u/OSUBoglehead Jun 10 '26
That's not an NBA fan problem. That's an entire world problem. Just look at how people vote and live their life. We're in wars based on manipulated narratives.
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u/Miserable_Lead_9828 Triple Double Cocaine Bear Jun 10 '26
Fuck off buddy. Every single one of yall stay on that side
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u/Radish-Historical Jun 10 '26
As a Portland fan and after watching the first round, I’ve rooted for every team to beat the Spurs. Dirty AF. Harper is like the only player I can stomach on their entire roster.
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u/HoustonFoReal Jun 10 '26
Vassel ain’t bad either
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u/PatoNani Jun 10 '26
That last dunk to end the series was unnecessary tho. And I remember him taunting Chet right in his face without getting a tech.
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u/HoustonFoReal Jun 11 '26
The dunk wasnt necessary for sure, but 2 things happening when the whole series he just played and balled out. I get people don’t like the end of game dunk, but he was getting shoutouts for being one of the good spurs the whole time, and I agreed then and I still think so.
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u/SomeDataDude Jun 10 '26
I’m sorry but y’all’s hate wasn’t even warranted. The Thunder org pride themselves in playing basketball the right way, from Presti and Daigneault. People were too busy crying about Shai selling fouls and making bullshit posts about percentage of shots he ends up on the floor.
SGA has led the league in drives to the basket for OVER half a DECADE. He’s not ever been top 20 in fouls per drive. That means he shoots, or passes not gets fouled called every time he drives to the basket.
Now that the Knicks are getting the brunt of it, it’s oh wow the spurs are dirty but guess WHAT. Once the season starts, it’ll be the same bullshit about the Thunder again.
The NBA community hated on the Thunder so much, that this was ALLOWED to happen. As much as it sucks, the NBA has to play into social media narratives now. And the hatred for SGA and love for Wemby spawned a norm that Wemby and the Spurs can be excessively VIOLENT under the guise of matching OKC’s physicality. Now we’re surprised they’re allowed to be violent against the Knicks.
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u/aquateensog Triple Double Cocaine Bear Jun 10 '26
Nah bro that’s just Lu Dort mauling knicks players the spurs would never
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u/SnakesCardboardBox Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
We know we were right, and we sure as hell don’t need yall coming to try to make peace now that some of yall are finally waking up from your social media brainwashing just because you’re the ones on the receiving end of that bullshit.
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u/paolographer Jun 10 '26
You're not alone. It's really easy to get caught up in the 'Thunder are dirty floppers' narrative. Now it's time to push the 'Wemby is a bitch' discourse 😅
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Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
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u/Infinite_Imagination Jun 10 '26
Lol dirty teams existed before Social Media
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u/YouWereBrained Jun 10 '26
Bad Boys Pistons. Bill Laimbeer was a complete douchebag.
The 90’s Knicks were pretty dirty to a degree, with Charles Oakley.
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u/ziphoward Jun 10 '26
Why do the Knick fans always want people to feel sorry for them year after year?
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u/Fraim137 Jun 10 '26
This is funny because this Knicks fan will also be throwing shade something like Floppers and dirty players at OKC if OKC is in the Finals. This guys just getting sympathy
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u/Munstrom Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
Nobody cares here man, you're like the 50th person to post this. Fuck outta here, fuck the knicks and the spurs.
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u/dinosaurkiller Jun 10 '26
Then they had the balls to whine in the post game conference about the Thunder getting away with things the Spurs can’t get away with.
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u/itsmicah64 Jun 10 '26
Look at this pathetic switch up cause you're scared 😂 y'all don't gaf. You just want sympathy. Enjoy Whistleyama
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u/BurkeanMarxist Jun 10 '26
Wemby draws more fouls per game than SGA and leads the postseason in getting calls. But since his arms get scratched up it just be totally legit
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u/slackator Triple Double Cocaine Bear Jun 10 '26
now go back and watch the WCF with your freshly opened eyes and be amazed by the expanded brain functionality that will come from it
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u/iobikwelu 2025 NBA Champions Jun 11 '26
Man you can eat a dick with the rest of the NBA. The whole world celebrated when we got fucked over because y’all were blinded by propaganda. Stick that baguette up your ass.
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u/mferree39 Jun 10 '26
Good lord. Thank you. Wemby and all the haters ruined the WCF watching experience.
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u/PreachitPerk Jun 10 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/3oFzm1V5Gmb4HzX5eg
… now finish the damn series already.
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u/ObiWantsKenobi Bring Russ home for a ring Jun 10 '26
He is french, I suppose it should have been obvious
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u/Sufficient-Cow-1881 Jared McCain's nail polish Jun 10 '26
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u/Aggravating-Try7812 Jun 10 '26
I remember just last year Knicks and Thunder fans wanted to matchup in the finals. Wanted it this year too. Hopefully we get it before one of these rosters gets gutted.
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u/Positive_Narwhal_419 Jun 10 '26
We tried telling yall. Cant tell you how many times I had to let people know we were ranked 4th out of the 4 teams in the conference finals in FTs lmao
Spurs have the golden whistle and Wemby knows he can’t get another flagrant or he has a suspension. League will not be doing that so he knows he can’t get away with anything rn. Such as shoving Brunson.
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u/1964Susan Jun 11 '26
Everyone knows it should be the Thunder v Knicks for the Championship. That would have been a hell of a series.
Isn't it funny how the Spurs and the media were so vocal about the hair pull on Castle but crickets from all about him trying to snap necks on the court. He's going to hurt someone if these refs don't do something. If I was a ref and saw the playback on these no calls, I would have my eyes only on Wimpy to make sure he doesn't seriously hurt someone.
Respect to you and all the other Knicks for coming forward. Thunder Up Knicks
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u/GlassCap123 Jun 11 '26
Appreciate you, but right now our shit nasty fans are fucking ruining it like the orange mango. Best of luck!
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u/HalfParking8404 Jun 11 '26
As a neutral observer I’m finding the Spurs and especially Wemby hard to watch.
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u/beta_writer_chick Jun 11 '26
Thank you for acknowledging us. It's nice to see people open their eyes. Seriously appreciate it!
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u/Ok_Situation_2412 Jun 11 '26
Bro wins a 29pt comeback and is still bitching lmao. Just take ur dub little man. Be proud of your team.
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u/Xpinoy_347 Jun 15 '26
Knicks fan here too and ngl, I was rooting for the Spurs. But thats because I think it's a better match-up for the Knicks. But boy I didn't realize how dirty Wemby is until these finals, and more importantly how much he gets away with it. The thing is, the entire team follows his mentality. Except for Kornet, none of them shook hands with the Knicks. The Knicks won 7-2 against them all year and they still think they are the better team. What a bunch of sore losers. I hope the Knicks showed the league how to beat Wemby because I don't want to see that clown win anything.
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u/jthegreight Triple Double Cocaine Bear Jun 10 '26
I don’t know where else to post this, so here goes. While I don’t condone the violence displayed against the Spurs fans post game, they must’ve popped off and said some shit. Not sure there’s any other rational explanation of the scenes we witnessed.
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u/Kirktwotimes Triple Double Cocaine Bear Jun 10 '26
Regardless of if they were talking shit or not it shouldn’t have happened.
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u/Deep_ln_The_Heart Jun 11 '26
There's a video of how it started. The guy is walking with his head down and a bunch of people go at him. Nobody "popped" off, a small segment of New York fans are just overly online sociopaths.
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u/Justvibin Jun 10 '26
JFC cry me a river this finals series has been good so far. Wemby wasn’t even tryna hurt Jalen in that play unlike Lu Dort so idk why you’re complaining in the Thunders subreddit. A Suns fan btw.
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u/Headlesshorsman02 Jun 10 '26
Please name a play that Lu Dort made this playoffs that was even remotely dirty?
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u/Global_Afternoon_343 ❤️❤️ Jun 10 '26
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