NBA Countdown’s Mike Greenberg, Stephen A. Smith, Jalen Rose and Michael Wilbon react to Philadelphia 76ers head coach Doc Rivers’ comments about James Harden being ejected during Game 3 between the Sixers and Brooklyn Nets.
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Look. It's part of life. If you get into a fight with someone who has nothing to lose, you will ALWAYS lose. These stars need to have better tempers.
I remember when Phil Jackson would send his peons to antagonize the star player on the other team. Hilarious.
Nhl players can punch each other in the face and be back on the ice in 5 mins. No ejection there
Wilbon foh Joe Dumars played for the dirtiest team in history now he suspends mfs😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤦🏿♂️
They soft the nba soft the world soft pathetic
The instigators are a part of playoff basketball, and their role is to literally get under the skin of the superstar n throw them off. If your superstar can’t handle it then maybe that’s y harden hasn’t won
Or NBA players can be mature adults and walk away. I’ve never seen more fragile egos than the NBA. They have load management, wwe scripted basketball, coddled superstars, and a vitamin d deficient alien as a commissioner.
Wat if they just get ejected for a quarter instead of the whole game
Why do they all talk like they're very sure that Green and Sabonis incident were intentional from both sides? It might be accidental for both. There should be some kind of a court in the NBA to prove innocence 😆
Seems to me fans get screwed again,
Start of the games refs are just waiting to call the techs and ejects to toss players,,, seems it’s more common then ever now
Wilbon is a 🧁
Draymond has history that's all harden shouldn't have been ejected it felt like oh we fucked up so your out lol
Protect the star players? Yeah yeah yeah. For like 3 decades now. Let the grown men go at it. It’s not as violent as the NFL. What’s the problem
They protected players with the "space to come down" ruling, you can protect them again from instigators – even when you really want the instigator to win. It's only right, even when it doesn't feel that way.
Jalen rose looking like a LEGO.
The reason I think he got ejected, it's money on these games. That ejection was suppose 2 b a lead way 2 at least one win for the Nets. Ref's r paid to ref the game in a orderly fashion, but people do kick money in2 the pockets of officials as well. There was no reason what so ever 2 throw Harden out, that's my opinion on that call.
Common Jrose W
They should sit players out for the remainder of the quarter. And if it’s idk within the last 2 minutes of the quarter then they sit out for the half of the next quarter.
Sport becoming trasher and trasher smh
Doc doesn’t have a point at all. Embiid is just soft. And also Stephen A wasn’t saying this when Lebron did they EXACT same thing if not worse to Jason Terry back when Lebron was in Miami. He loved it. I remember the segment that had on it. Embiid was in the wrong here, Claxton did what players world wide have been doing for decades. If the roles were reversed would Doc be complaint then? Probably not.
I've saying this for yrs yes y not go to the root of the problem to control problems from happening in the first place. Thats the only it will minimize drastically
Draymond deserved his suspension. I don't care u can't jump off a man's chest. U can't, stomping someone's chest is worse than a punch, grabbed leg or not. Then to say what priors beside 2016, I could go for days like when Draymond decided I'm a star player they won't throw me out in the finals so he did the fool all six games including a hard foul on Tatum and sitting on Jaylen Browns head. This is ridiculous. He deserved to be suspended period. I like rivalry and physicality but stomping and jumping off a man's chest is immature dangerous and uncalled for. It's not 🏀….
This is Joe dumars we’re talking about here, this man was apart of the bad boy pistons. If ANYONE Knows what qualifies as an ejection or not it’s that man😂
Can people please stop calling this sport ‘physical’? A physical game is where contact is allowed. In basketball you get called for tickling someone
Wilbon is right 💯
They talking about instigating grown men. Be serious, the players get paid millions, have some control.
"The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors." –Napoleon Hill
Bro Jaylen hairline crisp 🔥
It’s part of the game so they shouldn’t be quick to dash out suspensions
They fight in hockey games everday
Joel Embiid should be suspended