Draymond Green:
“Shai, you've reached a new level of greatness my man... you got sports media coming out and talking about what they don't like about your greatness, as if SGA is running up and down the court with the whistle in his mouth calling a foul for himself... you all think the NBA is that easy to where this guy just flops and goes to the free throw line and he becomes the back to back MVP? We really gonna dumb the NBA down to that?”
(via @DraymondShow)
@DeeXL_ Na them 2 were just getting called out when it fit the narrative most. You win = the hate … nobody says anything about jh bc he not winning, rocket days though? yeaaaa … nobody said anything about sga couple years ago bc we weren’t winning, nowadays though? yeaaaa
Not only does this reel show off how many falls are Shai either being fouled or falling to avoid landing on a defender’s foot, many of these weren’t even called fouls.
Appreciate this bozo doing the legwork to clip them all.
OKC bouncing back from a blowout to beat the Spurs in a pivotal Game 5 without JDub and Ajay Mitchell should be the #1 talking point the last 2 days.
Instead, that headline was buried under these stories:
Wemby skipping media.
Plumlee elbowing McCain.
A (correct) non-challenge.
Wemby bad game.
A gambling company negatively using a player’s image without permission.
Free throws and flopping, of course.
And that is sports discourse summed up in 2026.
Tim Legler says people just need to accept the fact that OKC wins games because they’re a better team, not flopping:
“I know a lot of people want to make it about the whistle every time Oklahoma City plays because they hate Oklahoma City, whatever. To me, this game was not about the whistle. It was about the fact that Oklahoma City had more guys step up and raise the bar that needed to on a given night.”
(via @ALLCITY_NBA )
Raymond Felton says James Harden started this with the foul baiting, and now it’s a issue when SGA is doing it:
“I don’t get it, their team is good bro. Forget the fouls, forget what he’s getting. Like, the man is still a bucket. Yeah, he gets fouled. He’s learned how when people come to his body, how to act that’s a part of the game. I don’t get it. I don’t understand why it’s such a big issue because it ain’t just one person talking about it, it’s like everybody talking about it. They always want to make an excuse when somebody being successful, I don’t understand it.”
(Via @ToTheBaha)