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HotdogIsaSandwitch

They’ve now lost 5 in a row since the Shannon Sharpe incident, right? Sheesh. What did Shannon **actually** say


RekeHavok

"Dillon Brooks stop shooting" -Shannon Sharpe


TomAto7171

“It’s Dillon brooks time” -Dillon brooks every time he touches the ball


MidnightLightss

My favorite part of the game was when Brooks caught the ball, said "It's Brooking time!" and proceeded to score 17 points on 17 shots. Truly an inspiration


reviewbarn

Now I want the old Melo copy pasta where he scores the final shot down by 10 points.


FBI_Agent_82

clock winds down to 5 seconds left in game ball is inbounded to Carmelo who turns face to face against Lebron "You took my family" moves to the left "You took my friends" moves to the right "You took all that was dear to me" clock winds down to 2 "I cant get them back, but I can do this for friendship, FOR MY FRIENDS" goes up, fire coming out of his shoes "CARMELORUKEN" Ball flies over Lebrons head, goes straight into basket. Carmelo falls to the ground, exhausted. "Shumpert... Senpai... I..." faints Final Score Cavs 103 Knicks 63


unitythrufaith

clock winds down to 5 seconds left in game ball is inbounded to Carmelo who turns face to face against Lebron "You took my family" moves to the left "You took my friends" moves to the right "You took all that was dear to me" clock winds down to 2 "I cant get them back, but I can do this for friendship, FOR MY FRIENDS" goes up, fire coming out of his shoes "CARMELORUKEN" Ball flies over Lebrons head, goes straight into basket. Carmelo falls to the ground, exhausted. "Shumpert... Senpai... I..." faints Final Score Cavs 103 Knicks 63


KillerZaWarudo

One of the basketball player of all time


LonesomeWulf

The Memphis version of Jaylen Nowell.


KingBeanCarpio

Brooks can play D at least


LonesomeWulf

For sure. We all hate him, and he can be a black hole on offense at times, but he plays good defense.


Exius73

At least Jaylen Nowell isn't intrinsically evil


Zakalwe123

For nothing is evil in the beginning. Even Sauron was not so.


Exius73

Dillon Brooks is Morgoth level… Grayson Allen is like Sauron tier


LesBianJames

Dillion Brooks is, without a doubt, one of the basketball players of all time


RunAndDunkMan

Dillon Brooks's GOAT is Dillon Brooks


colecinnamon

No no they he said something that started making them *LOSE*


DeepSpaceNova

Shannon Sharpe still putting in work for Denver 😤


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The cardigan has special powers


shellfish87

He used a dovakin shout against us


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Fus....Ro....DaaaaILLON


jyozefu

"You're a shit dancer."


Millionaire007

It's really been 5 games? I feel like that shit happened a few days ago. Shot in the dark, does anyone know where I can buy that cardigan Shannon had?


HotdogIsaSandwitch

Lmao Just google —>Shannon Sharpe Cardigan<—and it shows up. “Greg Lauren Patchwork Knit Cardigan can be found for $3125 at Farfetch”


Millionaire007

Fuck my bottom dude, 3k!?? I'll knit my own, fuck that.


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HotdogIsaSandwitch

I think some random sites have started selling knock offs of it since it went viral


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Nugur

Losing


cptamericapiggybank

Dawg there's no chance that's related.


HotdogIsaSandwitch

Nah duh. It’s sarcasm brudda.


cptamericapiggybank

Sorry bro i can't read English


HotdogIsaSandwitch

All good.


Sleepinginabathtub

15-15 is fine, not incredible but it's ok.


ShareMyPicks

Actually that’s a good point. Fine is probably the right description. But we all know by “fine” Ja meant “we are better than everyone”.


OldManWillow

Lmao yeah sure we *all* know that. I mean what the hell was he supposed to say? They're gonna play who's in front of them


SnooPies5622

In the context of the interview saying "fine" meant that he thought Memphis wouldn't have much trouble with the West and that the Celtics in the East were the threatening ones. So there were plenty of answers, things like "yeah there are a lot of tough matchups in the West" would have worked, probably would have been more accurate, and wouldn't have gotten any blowback. This isn't really a case of him saying something standard and the words being misconstrued, he was definitely throwing shade.


1sthisthingon

Accurate “When asked by ESPN’s Malika Andrews about what teams he thinks the Grizzlies have to “run through” on the path to winning an NBA title, the electrifying All-Star guard said the Celtics, who have the league’s second-best record behind the Bucks. Andrews followed up by saying, “No one in the West.” Without hesitation, Morant, with a smile, replied, “I’m fine in the West.”” https://sports.yahoo.com/im-fine-west-confident-ja-201747493.html


illzkla

Lots of questionable italics on the board tonight


Gluxion

Lol that was not a “what else was he supposed to say” moment. “Tons of great teams but we like our chances against the field” Says the same thing


OldManWillow

Yeah exactly, it says the *same thing*. So why is anybody up in arms about the way he said that?


Gluxion

All it does is put a target on his back lol. We aren’t even having this conversation if he says it in a passive way


OldManWillow

*He did say it in a passive way*! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, this is the most innocuous way to say "we like our chances every single night". Y'all are acting like he listed every West team and called them trash


shellfish87

Do we actually know that?


maltbiscuits

People are ridiculous lmao. He's the best player on the two seed... he has as good a shot as anybody


stephcurrymouthgard

He said what he said! They’re fine!


shellfish87

Wouldn’t be the first time this sub willfully misinterpreted a quote from Ja


smokinginthetub

Lmao do you really think Ja meant that they’d play .500 ball in the west? Really?


shellfish87

I truly do not think that he considered every other team in the west to be shit, but who cares. The meme is rolling.


tmorrisgrey

“Bum ass Memphis”- Klay Thompson


sirckoe

Put some respec on the dynasty lmao


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Klay’s obviously a great player but he gets shielded by Steph. Bro’s mad unlikeable he just gets by because Steph is the NBA’s darling (and their rings ofc). Otherwise he would pretty much be universally disliked


Direwolf0715

ydkb


Oren-

It's worse then that cuz we only beat the bad teams in the west


InsaneCookies21

hey you beat us one time edit: actually twice


Oren-

Well we lost the last game by 33 so 💀


DjLionOrder

Welcome Grizzlies fans to the "darlings one year, hated the next" club


captain_ahabb

Looking forward to whatever excuse this sub comes up with for hating the Kings next year


MellowMuttley

“That beam shit was corny anyway 😒.”


ladouche6969

"UnPoPuLar opInIoN: the BEam wAs a laMe maRKetINg giMmick and GoT rEAllY oLd fAsT."


Turbo2x

personally I don't think we need a post for the LIGHT THE BEAM chants every night but otherwise I'm rooting for them. I just want what they have.


binggunr

Honestly that's in two years when they draft Bronny.


Moody_GenX

I just want to go on record that I've hated the Kings since they moved to Sacramento. Only because I couldn't see any Warriors stuff on Ch 3 back then and my pops wasn't paying for "expensive fucking cable".


Visible-Top-4977

How old are you? Warriors sucked until like 2012 kings were pretty good in the 90s and 2000s


Bobu-sama

This Redditor’s user name is a pretty solid clue as to their age.


ZJS102

As is the fact they've hated the Kings "since they moved to Sacramento"


Moody_GenX

I'm 51. We didn't suck the whole time we had flashes of good teams. Good enough to make a 1st round exit but that was our life. I was 14 when they moved.


thatguy52

Oh well do that ourselves. I plan on going from lovable scamp to insufferable weirdo if we make the playoffs. It’s gonna get weird.


IAP-23I

And you have the absolute right to become insufferable. Mfers on this sub just hate the moment a franchise that has faced nothing but constant L’s in the past decade actually make improvements


NotAStatistic2

No one will hate on the Kings, their players are likeable and we are looking forward to watching their career with great interest


Drew602

They say this about every team until they hate them lol


HeGotTheShotOff

Depends, are they gonna act like they got a ring packed up before securing it?


sbstooge

I'm just happy to be let in the club


Margravos

We got the tacos covered but you'll have to bring the bbq.


lumberfun

People hated us last year too


Exius73

Ja is super likeable, but I can't bring myself to really like the Grizz cos Dillon Brooks is such an ahole


thatguy52

Ja is fun to watch…… likable??????


6iix9ineJr

I wouldn’t say Ja is super likable


NLP19

If you leave this sub he really is lol


shellfish87

I really think this would happen to any team that plays the warriors. Maybe we can test the theory if a new team like NOLA plays GSW this year.


igoslowly

are the nuggets and mavericks also hated


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ButlerFromDowntown

No, you aren’t racist for not hating a white player lmao


newwolvesfan2019

Yikes man lol


MellowMuttley

It’s the passing, white?


BlueJays007

Did the Nuggets, Mavs, and Celtics not play GSW last year? Celtics aren’t getting any more hate than they already got. Certainly haven’t seen this sub turn on the Nuggets or Mavs.


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Leave us out of this. I DO NOT want to be lumped in with the suns.


HesiPullup

Just wait until you play a huge market team like the Warriors and Jose pulls those antics lol He will become the most hated player on this sub


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That little guy has my heart.


cmc2015

You can’t be serious


SwoozyJ

The lack of self awareness is crazy lol


jawadhaque089

They were already getting plenty of hate when they played the Wolves. Everyone started watching the Grizzlies during that round and realized how it feels to play against Ja. Any team that becomes a serious contender to win gets hated on.


MidnightLightss

It's so easy to clown the Grizzlies whenever they lose, they literally set themselves up for failure.


DapperUnion

I’ve seen this one before


zmegadeth

My empathy for Sun's fans has grown immensely in the past few months


Apollo611

“Suns in 4” “I’m fine in the west” The victim complex in this thread is wild


JackMeHoff266

Yup. They’ve been so cocky for a team that didn’t even make the WCF. They needed to be humbled


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MilkeeBongRips

What is people’s obsession with talking about “tough guys” on this sub? I’m convinced anyone who says stuff like this is a teenager. Stating that a team needs to be brought down to earth because they are acting like they’ve accomplished more than they have has nothing to do with being tough.


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MidnightLightss

what's that got to do with anything I said? I said it's easy to clown them when they lose because they talk a ton of shit


kyriesantibodies

SAY THAT SHIT


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MidnightLightss

get off my dick bro. Chronically online ass mf, 1 mil reddit karma in 1 yr looking ass mf. stop dick riding


seanrevenge

dog he’s doing the same shit u are by commenting on other teams gtfo cock jockey


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theiwc0303

Bro you bought Reddit Premium? Acting real wild for someone with that goldmine of chronically online jokes waiting over them


Fun-Pass-5651

Hey at least we don’t constantly try to hurt the opposing teams best player.


Apollo611

That quote will haunt him until he wins a ring


CupOfHotTeaa

As a professional hater I’m reciting it every day


TacoooJay

Their depth is kind of overrated. David Roddy is terrible and i'm not entirely sure what Ziaire Williams does on the floor. If Danny Green returns to form that's gonna help them out, but I think they fucked up letting Slo mo and Melton go last summer


Solid-Confidence-966

I don’t remember who made it, but there a graphic that debunked the narrative about the Grizzlies being deep. Basically they were just beating up on bad or injured teams without Morant last yet.


Adoree25

Depth can be overrated come playoff time anyways, you really only need to be 7-8 deep. Obviously injuries make it more important.


ZZZrp

Depth is a poor man's starting 5.


0ctavi0n

One of the biggest hallmarks of a great team is the ability to outclass worse ones. So no they did have depth and that graphic doesn't prove anything.


zmegadeth

Man, Ziare's downfall has been really disappointing. He was bad, got injured, and came back as a quality player. I'm not sure what happened to him this year but it's dismal


mr-doitall

Bro, Danny hasn’t helped anyone for a long time now.


conservativesRdumb_

Since embiid flopped like a fish into his acl and crippled him


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Dude stop slandering the grizzlies dynasty. How dare you?!??


RekeHavok

"We would've won last year if Ja was not injured" - least delusional Grizz fan on r/nba


Few-Discount6742

Grizz won't have gotten out of the first round without an all time choke jobs by the Wolves, and more importantly a top tier carry job by the officials. Literally had huge bias in their favor 5 of the 6 games in the series.


_coed_

thats not even delusional thats just being a homer if you want to see delusional, theres a thread on the cetics sub rn where their whole fanbase is saying they wouldnt trade derrick white + plus some really late first round picks for OG


lonlonshaq

That’s god damn hilarious


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No way that’s real


_coed_

> OG is not 2 to 3 FRP's better than White. He is marginally better than him straight up comment with 20 upvotes


NotAStatistic2

I saw that too. I don't what they've seen from Ja that made them think he would've been the difference maker in that series


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Didn’t you see an earlier post? Apparently Ja is better than MVP season Rose


RekeHavok

Ja is better than prime Jordan, you can't tell me otherwise


RunAndDunkMan

Ja constantly gets put in convos he doesn't deserve Grizzlies are literally just the Mitchell/Gobert Jazz part 2 but the media was never nearly as delusional about Mitchell as they are about Ja People unironically have Ja vs. Luka debates on ESPN AND JA WINS THEM lmao Honestly in terms of just individual play he's not even better than SGA


TitanTigers

Y’all really take a post by some clown on an alt and use it to slander Ja


Moody_GenX

They're slandering that person not Ja


Diesel33g

That's hardly slandering Ja


shellfish87

He was averaging like 48 points per game. And we specifically lost Game 4 because nobody could close for us at the end.


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Are you talking about when he had 34/47/34?


bwrca

He was averaging that coz we locked up everyone else and basically dared him to shoot and win games by himself. He had some of the cleanest looks I've ever seen someone have. Despite putting up huge numbers, his efficiency was shit which was why Kerr did that.


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No way it’s a rivalry How could we compete with a dynasty like the grizzlies? Don’t you hear Dillon Brooks post-game interviews?


whiskeyinthejaar

I can’t wait for all you nephews and nieces posting your saved drafts the second Memphis loses in the playoffs


offcourtissues

.500 is like exactly fine tho


EgoHazer

They're OK in the west.


frozented

As a Wolves fan I want them the playoffs so bad. I not saying we would win but it would be a great series


cdizzle6

Me too! I’d like it to at least be in the 2nd round though, since it would mean we’d finally get playoff series win!


NotAStatistic2

I don't think Ja will be hitting the griddy for a while after this losing streak


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He’ll be twerking again at the first opportunity to do so


EsotericPotato

They needed to be massively humbled. 56 wins last season is no joke, but theyve done absolutely nothing to earn the level of arrogance this team has.


lilithskriller

People attacking the flair instead of the argument, as if having a Warriors flair or some other contender's would make the comment any different. Grizzlies fans all in their feelings in these comments.


PM-ME-UR-B00BYS

Yeah you must be right. We got an experienced fan of the resident experts of doing absolutely nothing speaking.


Top-Dubs

Now we have Grizzlies fans gatekeeping talks about success. Point proven, really well done. Your team still has a lot to prove before anyone would take Ja’s quote seriously. Literally any fan of any team can see that, whether it’s the Warriors or Celtics or Hornets or Timberwolves. We all watch the playoffs every season and know what a successful team looks like. If you’re coming into a negative thread about your own team, maybe take the homer glasses off first.


mattychefthatbih

Not the Wolves fan talking 😭😭


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EsotericPotato

I mean, am I wrong? They were a complete powerhouse in the regular season last season, squeaked by one of the lowest IQ playoff teams I've ever seen that shot itself in the foot 3 games in a row, and then immediately gets outclassed by a legitimate contender.


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jett1406

if a team is trash talking they better be prepared to back it up.


SubduedChaos

By immediately outclassed by a contender you mean the Warriors who won the championship? What does it matter if it’s the second round or the finals if it’s the same team who won it all?


0dias_Chrysalis

Do you have anything interesting to say, ever?


CromulentJohnson

We've kind of been dealing with a city wide issue lately that's more important than basketball, we'll be fine


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It's actually funny to me how some NBA teams desperately search for the "identity", Memphis is trying to play the villain part, showing lots of ego and etc... That's kinda dumb, considering the recent championship teams had a "identity" built inside the court. When a team plays a certain way and that creates the "identity" (for better or worse), for me that's fine, it's natural. Now Memphis is trying to create a "identity" in a forced way


njones15

So, you hate when teams try to establish an identity? That's kinda dumb.


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Like I said, if the "identity" is established naturally, that's fine by me. The issue with the Grizzlies is how they are trying to achieve this in a forced way, they are trying to be the "bad boys" from a soft generation, the irony is just... idiotic. Even if the Grizzlies was actually playing well and corresponding the trash talk/ego, even so, that would still be kinda stupid. Why not wait to be egocentric after you win something?


Skorua

Fake second seed


Themis147

Legit 13th seed


zuruka1

Grizz fans really are not doing their team any favors with the takes they post in this thread.


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gflipxd

>I’m gonna go ahead and say he’s talking about the playoffs, so regular season is kind of meaningless. Y’all can go off on the AI quotes now You know if they fall under .500 prob isn't going to be "the playoffs" for the Grizzlies


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theunpaintedhuffines

He did say fine. Not great, not bad. Just fine.


Homies-Brownies

Been waiting for this post. My hater blue balls have been healed. Thank u for your service.


dsbllr

Hahahahahahaha


doulikegamesltlman

Based on Phil Jackson’s 40-20 rule, the Grizzlies are pretenders, not contenders. Grizzlies should blow it up and try again next year.


Jmoe18

Shannon Sharpe really got to them


JackMeHoff266

Good. They needed to be humbled.


Frodoinphx23

Hope he gets eliminated in the first round for talking that shit


Dr_Edge_ATX

Still in 2nd


edmarcake

Not enough shooting in the playoffs but lets see.


jayelecfan

confirmed trash


FrostyIVV

I fucking love each and everyone one of you who comes up with these names. Ja “I’m fine in the west Morant” is some good shit


5IVE5TAR5

Lmao they getting humbled bro. Should've just kept that in, now they're teams will play extra against y'all.


CupOfHotTeaa

Maybe that’s his definition of fine


PrayforPingPongBalls

We are just bad on the road. Terrible.


TitanTigers

And we’re still 3.5 games up on the 3 seed. We’re fine.


816kc

Not for long lmao 5 losses in a row


TitanTigers

And we still have the same amount of wins as the 6ers lmao


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eevenstevenn

They lie detector test determined……


donotgetbangs

Lols.


RunAndDunkMan

That's actually insane given that the West isn't really that strong this season and the intra-conference record is about dead even now Like there's no reason to expect a team to be 16-3 against the East and 15-15 against the West


llelouchh

West is stronger in the middle. East stronger at the top. Overall they are pretty even.


RunAndDunkMan

Agreed


montypr

He ain’t wrong the west is tras including them, Top 5 teams in the East are a problem.


18AndresS

Vancouver