SGA melts down over Jokic’s nonexistent push, a breakdown

We'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 gonna 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 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, referee almost got hit with the ball. Could've 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 use. Let's listen to it. I mean, that's just prose right there. That's good stuff. And do they make it? No, ball don't lie. Anyway, we're gonna 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 hip check and we're gonna get our guy because we're mad. And don't even just wait for it, wait for it, wait for it. Okay, I'm ready. Bam, got him. Jokic goes down and then gets up and then just menacing bumps his chest into him. And watch this face. I can't read his lips because I don't even know if he knows what he's saying, but watch right here. We're gonna 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, eh, I don't want that. Or was he gonna like rip his hair? Whatever he was gonna do with his hair, he stopped. And then, just look at this. Oh, oh, I'm guessing it's something. This is how Max Scherzer in Major League Baseball talks to himself on the mound. He's like, *******, call that a ball, just seething. I think that's seething. That's the definition of seething. 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. We're trying to calm everyone down, but there's one guy that's not calm. A coach for OKC and he's gonna 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 Jokic 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 prose this whole time. We will penalize any player. Had to bow out. Let's take a look. Intentional, Jokic is coming back and then just plants his left leg and 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 Jokic's 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 flagrant foul ejected from the game. I'm so impressed with 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. Lou Dort has been ejected from this game. Jokic missed one, made the other, and that's it. Guess what? If you're watching this, that means you have a head and sometimes you wanna put something on it. Maybe it helps you with the sun, maybe it just makes you look better. Lids has got you covered and you can get 15% off your next in-store headwear or apparel purchase by texting BREAKDOWN to 29017. 29017. They've got the latest New Era 3930s. Or do you say 3930s? Say whatever you want. Just go check it out.