The NBA Is SCREWING The Thunder…
In today’s video Ryan Breeden tackles the topic of free throws and officiating around MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder. The OKC Thunder are off to a 5-0 start including wins over the Houston Rockets, Indiana Pacers and Sacramento Kings, but a major talking point is with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and his free throws. SGA has been heavily scrutinized about this topic, but Ryan believes that he’s actually being unfairly officiated now as a result of this public discourse.
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We’ll win despite this and then the league will respect us 🤷🏾♂️
I can't lie the rockets lineup is kind of scary😢
You’re right. It would be nice if the nba didn’t fight so hard against us. What are they afraid of. Excellence?
It’s bs shai gets 26 freee throws ins 2 overtimes and everybody cries
And moans but Austin reeves gets 22 in no overtime’s and people don’t say shit
Bro wat will it take for the league to respect us? we drafted all our guys fairly and didn't cheat the game. We won a chip and our main player got an mvp. All this for them to treat us like shit over some tweets. I thought we where pass ts pff.
its the jews
We were bottom 3 last year in FT disparity. It’s a joke.
This is sich typical of NBA bs
Same as last year. They do not want the Thunder to be number one.
Go Spurs Go !!!!!!
I remember seeing that stat and even as a Shai and Thunder fan who knew they were legit trips to the line, laughing to myself that "he's not beating the allegations". I shouldn't have jinxed it because now he's beating the allegations.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 SGA is mad cause he didnt get 20+ ft in a single game? You guys are so delusional its hilarious
Just submitted
Didn't they have over 20 ff in one game ?
The entire NBA needs less like 50 percent less free throws. SGA shouldn’t have won the MVP and his game is terrible to watch. Please, stop comparing free throw merchants to each other.
They been screwing the Thunder every since they have been the THUNDER in OKLAHOMA they started the 2025 CHAMPIONS IN 8th place and put a play-in teams above them😮😮😮 they don’t want them in the #1 seed… they hate that! They CANNOT WAIT for them to lose! WE GOING HIGHER 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤
Haters will Hate!!!!!
Wait till we find some other way to win, the haters will be complaining about that, too.
OKC is getting the Mac McClung disrespect. Neither fit narratives where money is invested by the league producers. Don't worry suits ruin everything we love
Like your perspective
Media is bought and paid for paid for weather it’s politics or sports everyone should know this by now
It’s one thing to hear it from the trolls on the internet but when the refs are being influenced by the trolls, then we have a problem
Think joker and curry only 2 players in history to average 30 in a season with not atleast 9 ft attempts per game
Yes, the narrative is so tired. Socials and media clips love taking that one 10 second clip that either has him foulbaiting or getting an offensive foul, post it and get everyone started on the hate. Non OKC game watchers only see those clips and get it stuck in their head he is a merchant. I could honestly go through every NBA game and find clips of whatever narrative I want to sell on that player and post it and have people jump on the bandwagon, especially the haters for the player or team. What they dont see is all the fouls on him when he drives that dont get called. Not their fault for not seeing it, took OKC to win a ship to finally start getting nationally televised games to actually watch an OKC game. I am bias but win or lose OKC has exciting games to watch whether its a blow out or tight game. Definitely a fun team to watch if you just like basketball.
Tell you this much, if the narrative wins and he doesnt get the calls he deserves and he still can drop 40+ points on the night the NBA needs to be shook cause he will be on another level. That's the mentality he has, he doesnt live in the doubters and haters and takes every opportunity and disadvantage and uses it to grow. So this will only improve his game even more. Plus having this OKC squad, winning now but can you imagine getting the entire team healthy and on the floor.
Anyone calling Shai a "Free Throw Merchant" doesn't know or understand NBA ball, it's as simple as that
All I am gonna say is this. I watched multiple Wizard players run multiple marathons last night with no travel calls…I watched many elbows to the face with no calls….the only actual contact call that was made was a violent shove. The officiating is problematic and people are justified in feeling every professional sport is rigged. This team is good enough to overcome it thankfully
The biggest joke in the NBA is the refs. Been to many Thunders games. That's what I think.
Yall are really complaining when miami was locked into spending 25M on a player thats not playing because he was under FBI investigation and the NBA green lit the trade still. And miami is forced to give this money back to the NBA in escrow on top of that they don't even get a pick or any form of compensation. Yall got it sweet stop crying. That being said, i do think okc is being played with the whole free throw merchant thing. It's true that theoretically he could be getting way more considering he drives the most its nit even close.