The Phoenix Suns evened up the series with a 129-124 win over the Denver Nuggets. Devin Booker finished with 36 points and 12 assists, while Kevin Durant also scored 36 and snagged 11 rebounds. The other story was Nikola Jokić, who scored 53 points but was seen making contact with Suns owner Mat Ishbia after trying to snatch the ball from the big man, who was attempting to speed up the team’s offense. Ishbia tweeted that quote: ‘Suspending or fining anyone over last nights incident would not be right.’ Nick Wright, Chris Broussard and Kevin Wildes discuss whether the Joker should be suspended or not.
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Should have been fined $10 max for that. Owner was actively trying to affect the game.
Of course he should be suspended what I'm missing? He didn't have to run over there and do nothing he wanted to push him 😂
About time that we finally got some coverage on the basketball gods 👏👏 great job Nick 😅
Robbed of historic 3 peat MVP Bcuzz he's white!
Nick sounded like an idiot talking about the basketball gods
nick thinking that the basketball gods punish flopping, while believing lebron is the GOAT is PEAK comedy 😂
Nick = suns hater
Was the Ishbia fined?
Suns took away Denver 3s and let jokic/Murray play 2 man game. Suns didn’t really try hardest to guard jokic if they did someone would’ve fouled out.Denver is best when everyone is popping
Denver in 6. Suns huffin and puffin more from exhaustion with each game
Manu Ginobli was a historical flopper, basketball gods were ok with him
jokic doesn’t deserve a suspension (i mean, he does based on the rules &his history, but it would be in bad taste) but he was 100% more in the wrong than the suns owner.
you can’t go into the crowd to retrieve the ball — that’s the refs job. you also can’t touch fans.
there’s a LOT of commotion ab the suns owner who check notes didn’t give the ball back fast enough and touched jokic’s back?
these idiots aruge about Suns bench ? what about Denver`s atrocious bench ? they have 3 guy in rotation that legit dont do anything ,
All the owner did was hold a ball. If that makes it ok to push them then i hope that energy stays the same when a fan punches back
Nikola Jokić 👑💪Kralj
Jokic vs the premaddonnas
WAIT A SECOND.
i know they’re not calling booker the best player on the suns.
when kd was on the warriors playing lights out, it was “it’s only bc steph gets all the double teams.”
now that a team is constantly doubling durant and having booker go one on one — literally the gsw situation — he’s better? if the nuggets were more afraid of booker, they wouldn’t have their best defender on kd.
Suspension would be out landish
And ishbia needta calm down fine em both n leave it be quit gaming me son
Lebron biggest flipper ever
White privilege
Jokic had no help they need to trade Murray
I think kevin Durant understand to win he will have to sacrifice like curry did when he was on the warriors. they are playng good right now. ppl wants kd to score 100pts and losse the game i c, let Booker shine its okey. win as team KD
A fine is BS. Any other fan would have been removed.
Finally, someone acknowledging Jokic is far and away the best player in the NBA.
No Knicks Heat segment? Jk nobody cares about that series
The warriors could win tonight and Nick would still pretend they are no threat to his lakers. The guy is just a biased fan.
Lebron James is the biggest flopper in the past 20 years!
Shoutout to Broussard for calling out Lebron for being a flopper too 😂
Us Suns fans remember when Diaw and Amare got suspended after coming off the bench cause of the letter of the law… strange how this time they don’t. I don’t think he should have gotten suspended, but it’s strange how sometimes it’s the letter of the law and sometimes it’s not.
Draymond woulda got suspended 2 games
Suspend him. You cannot push the dumb fans.
First Things First: Time out! Mat Ishbia did nothing wrong. Jokic can't just take the ball and in-bound it. The ref first needs to hand the ball to the one in-bounding it, to resume play. There was no need for Jokic to do what he did. I also don't think Jokic should have been given a technical; neither fined, which is coming from a Suns fan.
Suns finding different ways to win this series. Let's get real. Denver is a better team and I'm just s BB fan. Glad Jokic was not suspended but even fining him sucks .
Joker went off. Im a lakers fan but i really wanted him to win that game just for the sake of the sport
Nick's basketball gods take got put to rest real quick by Broussard bringing up LeBron 😂 Nick couldn't take it
Smote. Not Smited.
WOW …… YES -THAT IS ISAHA THOMAS NEXT TO THE OWNER ! Thomas did hold and pull the Jokers jersey, but nothing happened to him.
I'm not a nuggets fan. But Jokic has been a monster in this series. He's already great but he is balling out right now. His passing is ridiculous. So fun to watch.
Kevin Durant is better than Devin Booker.
Please let’s not have a repeat of what we saw with KD and Steph.
The NBA rule States no player and I mean no player shall enter the Stands he entered the Stands he initiated the contact he through the elbow. He is the one responsible for what happened no one else
Fined for what?
Way wrong. Number 1 flopper: Lebron "Flopron" James.
I think a lot of people are missing the fact or not talking about that what joker did was wrong and excessive. The suns owner is in the wrong as well but ive seen almost everyone defend Jokic like he didn't do anything
Lebron was literally the face of flipping y’all tryna rewrite history that’s crazy 😂😂😂😂
2:29 what about the regular fan that got tossed for tapping Jokic elbow.. i think that was bs
Nick says it's not possible because he's not a ball player. Thinks he knows everything and he's wrong most of the time. I've watched since the show started and he's let the fame go to his head! 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼
Im a huge KD fan and imma be real, this is probably the best chance the west has at beating the suns. Pheonix needs to Trade CP3 and Ayton for Donovan Mitchell and Jarrett Allen.