OT - Okafor rejects Durant above the rim at the rim

[Bank Shot]

Just looked Thunderstruck up and Jim Belushi is in it lol

[Volcano]

:lol: calling it a foul...come on now. Clean block.

Ken Mauer and Dick Bavetta?

OWNED NEWBS. Okafor gets NO piece of the ball after this moment.

[raptormage]

He gets the ball first, no foul.

[®ated]

[J Dilla]

It was ball first, then contact

I don't know how the rules work when the block leads to a contact

[®ated]

in this case its clean block vs momentum of offensive player. It should be ruled a block.

[Cool-Hand-Luke]

That was a block man. He had the ball blocked first. Durant lost possession of the ball after.

[kmatrixg]

About as clean a block as you can have. Ball first, then contact is a defensive play on the ball. Contact first, then missed/contested shot is a foul.

[tracey_nice]

he follows through with his arm swinging downward. clear foul. if he kept his arms straight up it'd be cool. good for okafor. still a huge bum. remember when bosh dropped 27 points on him on 9/9 shooting? lol

[S.W.A.N]

Those of you calling that a foul should be ashamed of yourselves.

Its a hard call for a ref in the heat of the moment but you have slo mo replay showing contact with the ball before momentum created contact.

Dick Bavetta loves you though.

[tracey_nice]

durant still had control of the ball after okafor made contact with the ball tho :/ (see pic by Volcano) and okafor followed through and hacked his whole arm. nba is soft/refs are corrupt is the meme+agenda though i guess? cool.

[S.W.A.N]

durant still had control of the ball after okafor made contact with the ball tho :/ (see pic by Volcano) and okafor followed through and hacked his whole arm. nba is soft/refs are corrupt is the meme+agenda though i guess? cool.

Okafor got ball, Durant's momentum created the arm contact as he pushed through for the dunk. No foul

[Scase]

Those of you calling that a foul should be ashamed of yourselves.

Its a hard call for a ref in the heat of the moment but you have slo mo replay showing contact with the ball before momentum created contact.

Dick Bavetta loves you though.

[Volcano]

Those of you calling that a foul should be ashamed of yourselves.

Its a hard call for a ref in the heat of the moment but you have slo mo replay showing contact with the ball before momentum created contact.

Dick Bavetta loves you though.

It's tough to see live, so I have no problem with the non-call, but in hindsight with replay, it's an obvious foul.

DURANT STILL HAS THE BALL AFTER OKAFOR GRAZES IT. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF HE TOUCHED THE BALL FIRST. HIS FOLLOW THROUGH AFTERWARDS WAS A COMPLETE FOUL.

LEARN NBA.

[Volcano]

durant still had control of the ball after okafor made contact with the ball tho :/ (see pic by Volcano) and okafor followed through and hacked his whole arm. nba is soft/refs are corrupt is the meme+agenda though i guess? cool.

Okafor got ball, Durant's momentum created the arm contact as he pushed through for the dunk. No foul

he didn't "get" the ball, he altered it at first and Durant was STILL palming it.

Instead of stopping it head on, he changed it's course of direction while Durant was still controlling it. His follow through was swatting it down on Durant's wrist..THAT part was a foul. It wouldn't have been a foul if Okafor kept his hands straight up in the air.

Ignore everything before the moment of the screenshot that i took. The sequence of events is: 1) ball in Durant's hands 2) Okafor hits Durant's wrists downwards and gets no ball

It doesn't get any simpler than that.