Luka to D Booker: Next game don’t wait until there is 3 seconds left to start trash talking

[garrick]

Can't believe how petty some fans are.

Gary Payton who is an all time great defender was a notorious trash talker but since he never won a championship should have he just kept his mouth shut and only started talking trash only when he won a championship?

If you restrict trash talking to players that won a chip you're excluding the majority of the league.

Anyway Booker wasn't even talking trashing he was talking to the ref asking why Luka wasn't called for a charge and then Luka somehow took offense and started acting like a fake tough guy.

[KingFox]

I never really see Booker talking a lot of crap. Maybe i don't pay attention

[Devilanche]

I never really see Booker talking a lot of crap. Maybe i don't pay attention

That’s because he does it on the court and not on the press conference .

Totally normal . It’s what we all did when we played sports when we were young.

Build some drama and let’s go for it in the playoffs.

[BodieB]

Booker is constantly doing and saying some sneaky stuff during games. I'd get Luka the benefit of the doubt on this one.

Lol why?

Luka is literally quoted saying Booker waited until there's 3 second left to talk.

When you just reinforced that Booker talks all game regardless if he is up or down. Everyone knows this.

Luka is wrong in this quote and for those who watched the game and the replay it's pretty easy to decide that Booker was the lesser evil in regards to this incident.

Why? Again, Booker talks a lot of mess on the low. Wouldn't surprise me if he said some more slick stuff under the guise of talking to the ref. Aside from that, there's no wrong here, just some words exchanged, big deal.

[TOO]

A 6th seed added Kyrie and you're talking about the rivalry becoming lopsided. Many people don't even think they are contenders after the trade and you think it compares to an already contender adding KD.

What seed were the Suns when they added KD?

And if you think the Suns were a contender before Durant, you dont actually watch basketball.

That doesn't even prove or take away from any of the key points here. Wherever one had the Suns, whether contender, whether pretender, whether non-contender, they were still above the Mavs in talent and stature. I wouldn't even need to prove the suns were true contenders or even at all to say this. Learn to read critically so you don't make a fool of yourself.

So you use your own opinion as fact to try to insult me? Oh boy.

[NZB2323]

Can't believe how petty some fans are.

Gary Payton who is an all time great defender was a notorious trash talker but since he never won a championship should have he just kept his mouth shut and only started talking trash only when he won a championship?

If you restrict trash talking to players that won a chip you're excluding the majority of the league.

Anyway Booker wasn't even talking trashing he was talking to the ref asking why Luka wasn't called for a charge and then Luka somehow took offense and started acting like a fake tough guy.

And you could say the same thing for Reggie Miller.

[kan_t]

I prefer they do trash talking instead of whining to the ref.

[kan_t]

Can't believe how petty some fans are.

Gary Payton who is an all time great defender was a notorious trash talker but since he never won a championship should have he just kept his mouth shut and only started talking trash only when he won a championship?

If you restrict trash talking to players that won a chip you're excluding the majority of the league.

Anyway Booker wasn't even talking trashing he was talking to the ref asking why Luka wasn't called for a charge and then Luka somehow took offense and started acting like a fake tough guy.

And you could say the same thing for Reggie Miller.

MJ and Larry Bird

[Mrakar]

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Out of whole game and tens of bad and questionable calls you pick out that one? ...


I think refs made terrible job in this game, there was a lot of bad calls on both sides. Both Luka nad Booker had couple of offensive fouls which didnt get called or they were called as defensive fouls. Refs need to do better job there, how you are suposed to defend when you cant move and cant hold your ground?
Also some of they players should have been T'd in 1st quarter. Luka was talking to the refs 48 mins and you know it will not stop unless he gets the T and they still didn't do anything. Suns were not much better in that area ...

[Revived]

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I’ve long had the belief that basketball fans generally have the lowest IQ among fans of all four major sports (NBA, NFL, NHL & MLB) and this type of thing is one of the reasons why. They complain about players being too buddy-buddy with each other and how they miss the competitiveness and trash talk of the old days…but then when something like this happens and they do go for each other’s neck, suddenly it’s no-no.

[Impuniti]

I hope these two meet in the POs. Would be a fantastic series. The scoring of the two duos is on another level.

It feels like an easy Suns in 5 game

[Devilanche]

Can't believe how petty some fans are.

Gary Payton who is an all time great defender was a notorious trash talker but since he never won a championship should have he just kept his mouth shut and only started talking trash only when he won a championship?

If you restrict trash talking to players that won a chip you're excluding the majority of the league.

Anyway Booker wasn't even talking trashing he was talking to the ref asking why Luka wasn't called for a charge and then Luka somehow took offense and started acting like a fake tough guy.

And you could say the same thing for Reggie Miller.

And that’s why I love both of them . Great when they are winning , even better when they are losing .

[NO-KG-AI]

Competition is literally only about bragging rights lol. The fact that people can't take people bragging is hilarious and weird.

[sunsbum]

Not sure if that's worth anything. Booker's had the better team pretty much the entire time AND he got knocked out in the only series of games that actually mattered (including one particular game that was historically bad for his team).

And Booker’s still gone further in the playoffs than Luka has ever gone. One playoff series, and one albeit historic game 7 loss by 60 pts, doesn’t change that.

No Jalen Brunson this season and Mavs didn’t look like much of a contender or even playoff team until Kyrie got there. They really haven’t had the level of injuries the Suns have had this season either.

I mean... it's a team game? Luka went H2H with him and beat him with an inferior team. Booker making the finals has nothing to do with the conversation when the conversation on which team has the better roster the last few years shouldn't be a question. Dallas beating PHX is embarrassing not just bc of Game 7, but the fact that PHX just had a way better team.

You're funny, this is the second post in about a page I've seen you deflect.

[MavfanAus]

Both of them need the STFU and actually win something. So much talk, and not enough results.

[baldur]

two guys hooping who are trying to win. you love to see it. nothing dirty or out of bounds.

This. I love it.

[Revived]

Both of them need the STFU and actually win something. So much talk, and not enough results.

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[MavfanAus]

Both of them need the STFU and actually win something. So much talk, and not enough results.

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Cool bro

[Revived]

Both of them need the STFU and actually win something. So much talk, and not enough results.

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Cool bro

I’m just saying man, do you want them to be friends with each other or do you want there to be some rivalry among the players? Can’t have it both ways now.

[Revived]

Competition is literally only about bragging rights lol. The fact that people can't take people bragging is hilarious and weird.

And sad.