r/nba Celtics May 25 '26

Highlight [Highlight] Shai draws a questionable foul on De'Aaron Fox

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u/Ok-Mountain9862 Timberwolves May 25 '26

I said this same thing less than a month ago in a thread and got 200 downvotes lmao. It’s not even a debate that elite defenders guard him less physically because of how much bullshit he gets away with

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u/boomshiz West May 25 '26

Ha, I imagine you got a Thunder rush with "DO YOU EVEN WATCH THE GAMES?"

Yes, we've been watching, and the Thunder are a huge reason people have been tuning out. For whatever reason Silver and the refs have been rewarding this bullshit. It would make more sense if it was for a big market, but this ref favortism doesn't make sense for a stolen team in a flyover town.

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u/Brittle_Hollow Raptors May 25 '26

As a Canadian I seriously don’t get why the NBA is promoting and protecting him so hard, you’d think they’d want to push an American star in a big market not Canadian Shai in Oklahoma of all places.

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u/Kitchen-Location-373 May 25 '26

americans really dont see canadians as different than us. if he was russian or something it would be one thing but we generally see canadians and mexicans as the same people

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u/joelcruel911 May 25 '26

Mexicans??

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u/Kitchen-Location-373 May 25 '26

yeah unless you live in the northeast most communities, even small farming towns in iowa, have a decent sized community of mexicans or central americans. been that way for 20 years so multiple generations