2025 NBA PLAYOFFS West First Round: #4 Denver Nuggets vs #5 LA Clippers (Series tied 2-2)

[Chuck Everett]

We're guaranteed first round playoff games at least until Thursday.

[HotRocks34]

This is an epic series and let's just hope it stays that way.

Both of these teams are seriously dangerous.

Still can't believe Denver won this after Game 3 and with their injury issues. Big time heart.

Rudy T quote insert here.

[Roscoe Sheed]

The ball was through the net. That was an easy call

His hand was still touching the ball

[Tor_Raps]

Joker bailed out hard

36 21 8 while having to play 43 minutes because the team is G League worthy when he's not on the court. Ya, bailed out...

[Duffman100]

The ball was through the net. That was an easy call

His hand was still touching the ball

What is the actual rule?

[Duke4life831]

It’s one thing to essentially play a 6 man rotation when you have 3-4 All stars in the starting lineup.

Nuggets are forced to play 6 guys without all the star power in the starting lineup. Because are you really going to play a 36 year old DeAndre Jordan or Jalen Pickett big minutes in a playoff game?

The roster construction over the last decade outside of the Gordon trade has just been criminally bad. I truly believe random posters on here could’ve put together a better roster over the last 10 years.

[ky_23]

Replace Jokic with LeBron at the same age and the Nuggets lose this game.

At the same AGE?

Nuggets probably never blow the lead if they have LeBron at that age.

LeBron would be getting killed for air balling the final shot even after playing great

and? does it make it right for jokic to get hate for every missed oppurtunity. lebron used to get unecessesary hate and so does jokic now and it doesn't make it any sense, it just proves this guys too great that people focused on their every single mistake

[ejftw]

I don't no if that's the rule, but if it is it doesn't make sense to me.

"Ball on the hand" should be reserved for a player being in the process of taking a shot.

In Gordon's case, he had already put the ball through the hoop, his fingertip may have just been touching the top of the ball but I don't think that should be considered Gordon still being in the process of shooting (or dunking) anymore.

So if that was a three point shot and the ball was on the shooters finger tip when time expired, it should count?

C'mon now

That's not what I'm saying.

In this case the ball was already through the hoop.

Ball through hoop in time = basket.

The only thing that's debatable is if Gordon's fingertip was still on top of the ball or not.

What I'm saying is that is that this should be considered inconsequential in a scenario when the ball has already gone through the hoop before the buzzer.

I needed a laugh, thanks.

[B-easy]

Would have been better for the clippers to get blown out than this happen.

[Wolfgang630]

Im gonna start reporting lakers fans. They got nothing better to do than whine about Denver and lose to Minnesota.

[AmIWrongDude]

He had a costly turnover, missed a free throw, and airballed the gamewinner in the last two minutes. He’s a beast but this isn’t the time to be throwing a parade for the guy.

Yeah stuff Lebron has done. You lakers fans never stop hating

I think that’s his point though. LeBron gets crucified for that stuff, which is also undeserved

Jokic played great and I don’t think he should be slammed for what happened late

Jokic won’t get bashed for it and rightfully so but you know damn well Bron would get bashed for it

[NyKnicks1714]

Read on Twitter

Wow. Rigged AF

Wow, he is touching it. Not sure how that can count unless there's a weird rule. Seems like clippers could protest so if they don't then there must be a reasons it's good.

Curious what the rule is. Where does it need to be to be a bucket, even if he's still touching it?

Does the ball have to be past the rim? Through the net? When is it considered 'a bucket'.

He can't be touching it at the buzzer. I get why people might think that's a dumb rule...but it's the rule.

[FreeBird23]

I love how Lakers/Lebron stans are trying to minimize Jokic's impact.

[Mk0]

He had a costly turnover, missed a free throw, and airballed the gamewinner in the last two minutes. He’s a beast but this isn’t the time to be throwing a parade for the guy.

You need some green font my dude. He straight carried that team all game.

Definitely did, but I'm still gonna call him what I have been due to his pathetic flopping. #ISaidWhatISaid

Not arguing the flopping. He and AG went full Brunson-Bobblehead mode today. The first half was rough to watch.

[Mamba Mentality]

This is an epic series and let's just hope it stays that way.

Both of these teams are seriously dangerous.

Still can't believe Denver won this after Game 3 and with their injury issues. Big time heart.

Rudy T quote insert here.

Let’s be real here this injury reports are definitely exaggerated. I saw something this morning that said Gordon can’t even up jump and the dude just dunked the gamewinner.

[jokeboy86]

This series is going 7 similar to last year's TWolves/Nuggets series. In fact I expect one of these next games to be a Denver blowout win and then they lose a game big and then we get game 7. The deciding factor for the Nuggets winning this series is will Murray have that one game where he goes nuclear. He hasnt really had it since the ''23 title run.

[mademan]

Im not sure about the technical rule and it does look like Gordon is still touching it, but he also got fouled. He got to the ball first and got hit...this was the right outcome. There's no injustice

[Duffman100]

Wow, he is touching it. Not sure how that can count unless there's a weird rule. Seems like clippers could protest so if they don't then there must be a reasons it's good.

Curious what the rule is. Where does it need to be to be a bucket, even if he's still touching it?

Does the ball have to be past the rim? Through the net? When is it considered 'a bucket'.

He can't be touching it at the buzzer. I get why people might think that's a dumb rule...but it's the rule.

Curious though, say he was even higher and still touching it as the ball was almost through the net, still not a bucket?

It HAS to be out of the hands even if it's through the net?

[Raps in 4]

At the same AGE?

Nuggets probably never blow the lead if they have LeBron at that age.

LeBron would be getting killed for air balling the final shot even after playing great

and? does it make it right for jokic to get hate for every missed oppurtunity. lebron used to get unecessesary hate and so does jokic now and it doesn't make it any sense, it just proves this guys too great that people focused on their every single mistake

LeBron got hate because he started ring chasing at 26.

[Sharkboy242]

The ball was through the net. That was an easy call

His hand was still touching the ball

It was a matter of whether the ball was through the hoop at the time of the buzzer. Hand placement is irrelevant in that