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[StreetsofBeige]

LOL. Giannis had a career night with 64 pts. But the Pacers had a new guy who got his first points of his career. So both sides fought for the basketball at the end of the game.

Funny thing is Sportnset showed a clip that at the final buzzer, the ref handed the ball to a Bucks security guy. So he had it. But I guess the Pacers got the ball off him and took it to their locker room. Thats when Giannis was pissed and ran down the tunnel looking for it.

Giannis claimed he was looking for the ball for Damian Lillard who passed Kyle Korver in 3 pointers list.

Giannis drops 64; scuffle over game ball ensues

Giannis Antetokounmpo scored a franchise-record 64 points, but a postgame scuffle involving the game ball overshadowed the Bucks' 140-126 win versus the Pacers.

www.espn.com

 

[KrakenIPA]

That's wild. Dame has plenty of game balls I'm sure, and Giannis will probably get plenty more in his career. Just give it to the kid on the Pacers, I guess. I do like his fire though, Bucks are looking great!

I would have hit my 6-team parley if Washington covered against New Orleans yikes, I am not betting on those guys anytime soon.

 

[Soodanim]

Like children.

"I want it, let go!"
"It's mine I want it, give it!"

They need a teacher to take it away and give it to someone else as a lesson to them.

 

[Lunarorbit]

Nba players are the most delusional out of all the sports in NA. They have their egos pumped up starting in HS and lots of them never learn to be emotionally mature.

Give the ball to the rookie. Giannis and dame have rooms filled with awards and they won't remember this game ball at the end of the season. The rookie scored his first points in the NBA and you throw a bitch fit?! Fuck off

 

[GymWolf]

Nba players are the most delusional out of all the sports in NA. They have their egos pumped up starting in HS and lots of them never learn to be emotionally mature.

Give the ball to the rookie. Giannis and dame have rooms filled with awards and they won't remember this game ball at the end of the season. The rookie scored his first points in the NBA and you throw a bitch fit?! Fuck off

Yep, dude acted like a basic bitch.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

 

[AJUMP23]

I lead the state in rebounding, no one gave me a game ball ever. I deserve a ball.

 

[killatopak]

Dude is passionate if anything.

All NBA players gets to score once. Only a few can get 60 pts.

 

[THE DUCK]

The kid deserves the ball, get over yourself giannis. Most overrated team and player ever.

 

[DR3AM]

No one will remember the "new guy" and he will be out of the league soon
People will remember the 64 point game.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Funny thing is Sportnset showed a clip that at the final buzzer, the ref handed the ball to a Bucks security guy. So he had it. But I guess the Pacers got the ball off him and took it to their locker room. Thats when Giannis was pissed and ran down the tunnel looking for it.

Giannis claimed he was looking for the ball for Damian Lillard who passed Kyle Korver in 3 pointers list.

Is this some sort of nu-speak sexual slang?

 

[a multicultural team of v]

Wait, do they really use a single ball for the entire game?

 

[EverydayBeast]

You and I both know if this were a home run ball the fan would be auctioning it off on eBay in 5 minutes

Fan who caught Aaron Judge's 62nd HR offered $2M for ball

The owner of a sports memorabilia auction house says he has offered $2 million to the fan who caught Aaron Judge’s American League-record 62nd home run.

apnews.com

 

[Mesousa]

Nba players are the most delusional out of all the sports in NA. They have their egos pumped up starting in HS and lots of them never learn to be emotionally mature.

Give the ball to the rookie. Giannis and dame have rooms filled with awards and they won't remember this game ball at the end of the season. The rookie scored his first points in the NBA and you throw a bitch fit?! Fuck off

Dont blame that on US. Giannis is from Europe.

 

[12Goblins]

Wait, do they really use a single ball for the entire game?

Ha that's the thing. Im pretty sure there's multiple which makes this look that much more petty and sad

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

The kid deserves the ball, get over yourself giannis. Most overrated team and player ever.

That's Michael Jordan.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Wait, do they really use a single ball for the entire game?

Ha that's the thing. Im pretty sure there's multiple which makes this look that much more petty and sad

Indiana coach Rick Carlisle said afterward the Pacers took the ball for Oscar Tshiebwe, who scored his first official NBA point in the contest.

That led to a confrontation between members of the teams in the arena hallway. Carlisle said several Bucks players, including Antetokounmpo, came into the Pacers tunnel looking for the ball and that a scuffle ensued. The coach said Pacers general manager Chad Buchanan was elbowed in the ribs by one of the Milwaukee players.

"Unfortunate situation," Carlisle said. "We don't need the official game ball. There's two game balls there; we could've taken the other one. But it didn't need to escalate to that. Really just unfortunate. Third game we played these guys within 2½ [weeks], three weeks, so things are heated with the competition, and I understand all that. But for it to come into the hallway, it didn't need to happen that way."

 

[analog_future]

The kid deserves the ball, get over yourself giannis. Most overrated team and player ever.

Dude's averaging 32 pts a game with a 63% shooting percentage and he's "overrated" lmao

 

[a multicultural team of v]

Indiana coach Rick Carlisle said afterward the Pacers took the ball for Oscar Tshiebwe, who scored his first official NBA point in the contest.

That led to a confrontation between members of the teams in the arena hallway. Carlisle said several Bucks players, including Antetokounmpo, came into the Pacers tunnel looking for the ball and that a scuffle ensued. The coach said Pacers general manager Chad Buchanan was elbowed in the ribs by one of the Milwaukee players.

"Unfortunate situation," Carlisle said. "We don't need the official game ball. There's two game balls there; we could've taken the other one. But it didn't need to escalate to that. Really just unfortunate. Third game we played these guys within 2½ [weeks], three weeks, so things are heated with the competition, and I understand all that. But for it to come into the hallway, it didn't need to happen that way."

I'm actually surprised there are only two game balls. Most sports go through a ton of them.


edit: even hockey goes through like 10 a game and a puck is literally just a slab of rubber

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I'm actually surprised there are only two game balls. Most sports go through a ton of them.


edit: even hockey goes through like 10 a game and a puck is literally just a slab of rubber

Probably because not many go into the crowd. And if they do, the refs always seem to call the ball back from them as the ball will only be flung maybe a couple rows in. Hockey and baseball have errand shots and foul tips every minute zooming to row 40.

 

[Lunarorbit]

Dont blame that on US. Giannis is from Europe.

True.

 

[Pegasus Actual]

Winning team should decide on what happens to the ball. Though it does kind of sound like the equipment guy gave it up. Proper attitude is for the guy to let the rookie have the stupid ball, and look to score 65 the next night

 

[NickFire]

Sympathetic to Giannis on this, but his team was away and a home team rookie scored his first points. Ball should go to the rookie. Would go to Giannis is his team had been home.

 

[12Goblins]

ahahah wtf

 

[bender]

I'm all for giving rookies a game ball but he didn't even score his first basket, merely a free throw. Give the rookie the secondary game ball. 64 is a Bucks scoring record so it has personal and historical significance. It was on the Bucks home court. Ball belongs to Giannis, optics aside.

 

[THE DUCK]

That's Michael Jordan.

Lol, no!

Dude's averaging 32 pts a game with a 63% shooting percentage and he's "overrated" lmao

The guy just steams rolls through other players with size and a higher amount of speed than most players. The dunks artificially pad his shooting percentages.
The guy is shooting 22.5% from 3 this year, and his mid range game is average. Not skilled at an elite level, just big and fast.

Bucks had a cakewalk to 2021 finals due to crappy play, brackets and injuries. They had no business winning that title, and he would still be a losing player in the playoffs due to his lack of diversity in his game.

 

[German Hops]

Dame Dollar will make you holla

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Lol, no!


The guy just steams rolls through other players with size and a higher amount of speed than most players. The dunks artificially pad his shooting percentages.
The guy is shooting 22.5% from 3 this year, and his mid range game is average. Not skilled at an elite level, just big and fast.

Bucks had a cakewalk to 2021 finals due to crappy play, brackets and injuries. They had no business winning that title, and he would still be a losing player in the playoffs due to his lack of diversity in his game.

Jordan couldn't shoots 3s either. His efg wasn't elite and the Bulls team defensive efficiency IMPROVED when he retired to play baseball.

He is the most overrated athlete in the history of sport.

 

[THE DUCK]

Jordan couldn't shoots 3s either. His efg wasn't elite and the Bulls team defensive efficiency IMPROVED when he retired to play baseball.

He is the most overrated athlete in the history of sport.

Jordan's 6 championships say otherwise.
Bu the time Jordan retired he was clearly not the same player physically, so nice stat.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Jordan's 6 championships say otherwise.
Bu the time Jordan retired he was clearly not the same player physically, so nice stat.

When Jordan retired in 93, he wasn't the same player physically? Lol wut

 

[bender]

Jordan couldn't shoots 3s either.

 

[THE DUCK]

When Jordan retired in 93, he wasn't the same player physically? Lol wut

Typo there, 2003, he was much slower, overweight, and a shadow of prime jordan. He should have stayed retired, and his numbers reflected that for those years 2 years Also that Wizards team sucked hard, all of his numbers were reduced by those 2 crap years. He still ended up shooting 33% career 3pt vs Giannis at 29%. And he brought many more tangible things to his team to make it a winning team.
Giannis will never measure up to Jordan's career.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Typo there, 2003, he was much slower, overweight, and a shadow of prime jordan. He should have stayed retired, and his numbers reflected that for those years 2 years Also that Wizards team sucked hard, all of his numbers were reduced by those 2 crap years. He still ended up shooting 33% career 3pt vs Giannis at 29%. And he brought many more tangible things to his team to make it a winning team.
Giannis will never measure up to Jordan's career.

No, I'm talking about the Bulls defensive efficiency improving in 94, after he retired the first time.

Also, his 3pt shooting stats took a major bump when the NBA moved the 3pt line in for bad shooters in the mid 90s. Remove those years and his 3pt shooting averages drop dramatically.

What tangible things did he bring to the team?

I'm not saying he was a bad player. He's certainly a top 10 all time player, but he's definitely overrated and won 0 rings without Scottie. The Giannis vs MJ debate is certainly reasonable.

 

[THE DUCK]

No, I'm talking about the Bulls defensive efficiency improving in 94, after he retired the first time.

Also, his 3pt shooting stats took a major bump when the NBA moved the 3pt line in for bad shooters in the mid 90s. Remove those years and his 3pt shooting averages drop dramatically.

What tangible things did he bring to the team?

I'm not saying he was a bad player. He's certainly a top 10 all time player, but he's definitely overrated and won 0 rings without Scottie. The Giannis vs MJ debate is certainly reasonable.

You can say any player wouldn't have won rings without X player (s).
The single biggest thing Jordan brought to the team was his drive to win, it was insane. He also had a knack for hiting timely shots, guarded or not. The game was also about 5x more physical back then, he took so much more abuse every single game and got up every time to take more punishment.
Guess we will see in the end how GIannis does, I don't see him winning another champtionship on the bucks. Lillard is a leaky valve on defense and in the playoffs teams will burn that to death.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

MJ is an awesome player, but he needed the supporting cast to win those rings. Before the core team got assembled and matured, the Bulls did nothing. And that makes sense because Pippen just started and Jordan's best linemates in some years were Charles Oakley and Dave Corzine. His per game stats were actually BETTER in the late 80s, but the teams did worse. When the core linemates were all set and matured when they won championships, Jordan's stats got worse but the team played way better as a unit. He was clearly the best player at the time against the losses vs Pistons, but Pistons won as a more balanced team.

Championship rings to me mean nothing in team sports because it's a team game. Now if MJ was single handedly winning championships with Oakley and Corzine and Jim Paxson were the next best players that'd be different.

Jim Paek won two Stanley Cups as the 6th Dman on the Penguins when Lemieux was dominating. Ray Bourque has one ring he got tagging along an Avs run at age 40 and then retired. Jim Paek is not better than Bourque.