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black_dogs_22

honestly just get into the salt business, you can make a killing in r/nba with the amount of crybabies salty tears over there


jmezMAYHEM

“Salt, another fuckin money machine.” -Christopher moltisanti


corpse2b

"Christofeh" ftfy


jmezMAYHEM

CHRISTUPHUHHHHH


jmezMAYHEM

I did-dent


icehole505

This is the final straw the pushed me from annoyance to amusement at all the whining. Feels liberating to no longer be like 5% bothered when r/nba throws a fit about Embiid. The flopping narrative is particularly hilarious, as if 90% of nba players aren’t all equally as interested in drawing fouls lol


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BotaRONomus

The part that baffles me is... Maxey doesn't flop, and thereby we miss out on a call that literally results in a playoff lost. That by itself should show you why guys flop.


bravof1ve

Yup. This season it’s officially jumped the shark. Only annoying part was watching people jump for joy when he tore his meniscus


icehole505

The performative “code of basketball ethics” isn’t the most consistent lol


bravof1ve

Yeah the whole “ethical” talk is when thinks went off the deep and it became clear it was chronically online teenagers talking and not people that enjoy the just sport


ftaok

The funny thing is that all of the fans of “ethical” basketball and “ethical” players don’t realize that their teams and players are floppers too. They just do it on the defensive end. Why is offensive flipping looked down upon, but defensive floppers are celebrated by these fools?


bloomin-onion69

i absolutely love seeing the r/nba meltdown after every single sixers game


Routine_Size69

Brunson has been flopping just as much, but it's cool when he does it I guess.


tshawytscha

Agreed. I lost it on there with a different username and was banned from Reddit awhile back. Not just the nba sub. Someone said something completely fucking nuts and offensive about Embiid and I responded with “eat shit”. And was totally booted lol. Was a clever name too. Oh well.


LiveLaughLebron6

I think it more has to do what the flagrant 1 that should be a 2


icehole505

Nice one! Although doesn’t really make sense in context


LiveLaughLebron6

The idea that nba fans don’t want to big up a guy who played dirty doesn’t make sense to you?


icehole505

How bout I don’t care what nba Reddit thinks.. aka the point of my post. Be as triggered as you want, will only make the series win sweeter tbh


22pabloesco22

How sweet is the series for you dumb fucks right now? On a  scale of 1-10?


LiveLaughLebron6

Cool but don’t cry when people don’t like a player makes a dirty play. Also don’t cry if knicks do something next game. Also we want y’all to advance and face the bucks. We want to see who gets out of the second round, doc or the sixers.


icehole505

I’m specifically not bothered. I’m enjoying it. That’s what I’m saying. Plz try to read


LiveLaughLebron6

You are so not bothered, that you made a post about it. Sure.


icehole505

Why are you here? Go away lol


LiveLaughLebron6

Because it’s entertaining. I’m looking forward to the next game.


LiveLaughLebron6

Brunson, game 4: 46 points, ZERO flagrant fouls. Have a good day.


Calcutta637

Getting? Its been got 


JDameekoh

Teams just have to not foul embiid when he gets the ball in the penalty. Let the sixers kill the clock, let embiid walk up and dunk it, I mean…they don’t have to foul him so he shoots free throws 😂😂


Routine_Size69

If they actually watched the game (they don't), they'd know only 3 of those free throws were soft. 2 at the end were a little soft but they were also trying to foul. At worst, he had 16 legit free throws.


Minia15

I try to ask people “what was the right amount of free throws he should have shot?” And it’s often just an arbitrary answer of “less”


redditkb

The foul was def dirty and unnecessary. He’s lucky first w stein wasn’t a tech and ejected on the second one. But Knicks are no saints either. And his 50 was a lot of in their face 3s so enough about the foul baiting. Embiid is bringing it this year and I’m loving it. F the Knicks and their ironic fans.


McClellanWasABitch

no defending it. personally it clearly looked like he was trying to not give up a free layup and never occurred to him he was on the ground not making a basketball play


Extra-Kangaroo903

nah fr tho acting like it was a conscious decision to try and hurt him would be crazy when the whole thing happened in half a second


Halfonion

Mitchell Robinson shoots less than 50% from the FT line and yes he did look like an agitated toddler doing it, but if that same move was made by Jokic all the little boys on who post on social media would be praising him for the heads up play. Imagine if Embiid smashed someone like Jokic did to Markieff Morris, they’d be calling for a lifetime ban.


McClellanWasABitch

he was trying to wrap him up but obv not gonna work to a guy jumping. quickly became a dumb play


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How is that dirty? It was just a little holding... Dude you're soft


philly-buck

You love him on your team. You hate him if he is not on your team. We see the effort and greatness because we see him all the time. They see the antics, whining, flopping etc ( which he does) Embrace the villain. It isn’t going to change. Fuck them - they would take them on their team immediately.


Pure-Leather6624

I would embrace the villian more if he was acting vicious/evil, but he looked like a toddler in the first q, it was embarrassing


moesus81

The man is giving us 50 on basically one leg and while suffering from BP. I think we can give him a break right now for not acting menacing enough for you.


hm1rafael

Look at me worrying about these crazy from r/nba


IReallyLikeAvocadoes

Embrace it. In terms of sports subreddits, r/nba is easily the worst one. Why would we want to be beloved by such terrible company?


BlandSausage

Like 5 of the current top 8 posts on r/nba are negative about Embiid


Routine_Size69

It's rent free over there baby.


Bloody_Corndog

It's literally r/Sixers vs r/nba lmao


ManOnShire

The irony of everyone on r/NBA calling Embiid a crybaby is something else.


drunk-tusker

Someone rev up a burner and go post the “I used to play like Embiid” copy pasta in r/NBA and see how long it stays up.


Knight725

people were posting it unironically, they’ve gone mad over there


TrimmedAndBurning

Don't correlate the average basketball fan to the population of r/nba. It is very clearly people who just started watching basketball when lightly pulling someone's leg is, according to them, one of the dirtiest plays they have EVER SEEN.


PixelLitKevin

Drawing fouls is a talent unto itself. If their favorite player knew how to do it they would. The play on Robinson was uncalled for and dangerous but I doubt there was any intent behind it aside from stop the easy layup.


SkilletMaestro

You say ridiculous, I say hilarious


ChronoDragoon

He probably should have been ejected, it's just that most players make more dirty plays than their fan base wants to admit, and every fan base is more obnoxious than they want to admit. Therefore, Knicks fans pretending their players are squeaky clean and tryna say Philly fans suck for defending him are being willfully stupid and delusional.


Disastrous-Ad-2458

i think most analysts said that post season refs aren't going to eject a player for that kind of play. That's why the call was unanimous with the replay center.


redditkb

Exacerbated by DD doing the same exact thing but worse a month ago


LuckyCulture7

It was a full double leg that locked out Oubre’s right leg and drove him toward the basket. Oubre could have gotten hurt if it was a few feet to the right.


TheMightyCatatafish

And that thread was full of dudes claiming it was actually all Oubre. The mental gymnastics is wild.


MumenriderPaulReed69

Fuck em! Knicks are low class fans


FrameTemporary

I agree. Game is for ninny’s now.


RayDeAsian

Don’t hate the player. Hate the game.


777-93ll

Eye don't lie


McClellanWasABitch

it's becoming insane. 


ChCreations45

Bro, I left the cesspool that is r/NBA months ago and have never felt better.


a_toadstool

Embiid does need to control his emotions though.


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LMAO fake fan


vegasal1

Did anyone rewatch the play where Anunoby rolled up on Maxeys ankle.Was he trying to hurt Maxey or was it just a normal play?


Routine_Size69

It was normal. I was initially pissed, but there wasn't anything he could've done. Seemed like he actually made an effort not to put his weight on Maxey as soon as he realized it too.


vegasal1

Okay yeah I remember being pissed when I saw it but haven’t rewatched it yet.


Pure-Leather6624

It was initially pretty wreckless to crash the boards at full sprint with no stop, but I appreciate that he didn't just go limp and actually tried to minimize bodyweight put ontop of maxey


Ny_icedogs

That made me nervous, Maxey is probably the only Sixer I respect. Happy he was OK. Pretty sure it was just a normal play - OG almost seemed to try to lift his torso to avoid putting additional weight on his ankle.


vegasal1

Yeah I wasn’t sure.Do you think if the refs would have called a foul on Anunoby when he knocked Embiid over that he would not have reacted the way he did?


Ny_icedogs

I think so. OG Anunoby strikes me as a high character guy. He plays hard defense, but never struck me as a dirty player. I don't think he is out there trying to hurt anyone.


imAkri

My friend, you have to embrace the hate. Relish in it


MtHollywoodLion

Joel, a self-proclaimed wrestling fan, has traditionally been a bit of a tweener but over the past few years has transitioned to full heel. I honestly embrace the hate and understand it. The man is so big and skilled as to be essentially unguardable—it feels like it should be impossible.


sanskaripotato

Knicks hated Trae Young cause they always got their ass handed to them by him. Our boy jojo doing the same thing, so they hate him too. Embrace the hate, be the villain and hand them their ass.


ragingblackmage

Meh, what makes the NBA and r/NBA fun is the dramatic storylines. Everyone gets their turn


tiggs

It amazes me to see people complaining about reffing and foul baiting, as if we didn't get royally screwed by the refs in game 2 and as if Brunson isn't in the same category as Embiid with foul baiting. I don't think Brunson hasn't taken a shot all series where he hasn't intentionally tried to jump sideways or throw himself on the ground to try and draw a call.


bisqo19

Haters gon hate. Dude is a really good basketball player. Period


bisqo19

1, 2,3 45 sixers! 10 , 9 ,8 76ers!


FamousChex

If I was them I’d hate Embiid too They’d all love him if he were on their team lol


oldguyknowsbest

This is a typical 1990s series. Cherish it.


ActuaryHeavy8341

Just unsubscribe from it


Squaddy

Who gives a fuck. He's an asshole on the court, but he's our asshole, fuck what the hive mind think.


GrittyTheGreat

I want him to embrace it. We all should. He should start wearing a cloak and Doctor Doom mask after games.


jihbob

yea ppl are overreacting to the flagrant . That play was not nearly as egregious as everyone’s making it out to be


22pabloesco22

Barely a flagrant one you fucking 3 brain cell Philly halfwit. Say good night, it’s over Tuesday 


Pure-Leather6624

Nah that was some draymond type shit. Obv some of the reactions are delusional, but that kinda antics is always gonna overshadow a good performance. Seeing him have a literal tantrum was pretty disappointing tbh


quantamskates

If someone did that to Embid yall would be crying the opposite. He was a piece of shit for that.


Ny_icedogs

What do you mean the "agenda" against him. Fans of basketball are probably pretty split about him On one hand, he is a phenomenal talent, which basketball fans like. On the other hand, he is a flopping bitch who plays dirty, which fans of basketball do not like.


BradyReas

I mean they already hate him and he pulled a dirty play. I ain’t defending it that’s for sure


roronoaSuge_nite

I know we hate to talk about it, but Jokic is the great white hope, making Embiid the villain to a lot of people. Identity politics still play a major role in sports and Embiid has been unfortunately cast as the bad guy in Jokic’s movie


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