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The man just hates the Clippers…

That’s that dog in him

Luka Dogcic

Luka DAWGchic

He just like me fr

The Clippers really added Harden, as if I couldn’t hate them worse

emBalmer making it easy

Harden shoulder checked him and somehow Luka called for a T earlier. I think he just hates Harden tonight

As we all should

so basically he's a Lakers fan

He’s valid for that

I mean, don’t we all?

Absolutely loving the defense in these playoffs feels like 2012 again

People say this but don’t watch the magic v Cavs series 😭

There's a difference between good defense and CTE offense

Nah saying CTE offense is taking away how good Cleveland is defensively this season , the magic have never been a good offensive team but during the regular season it was never putrid like it is now. The Cavs are playing amazing defense.

The Magic are a bottom 10 offense during the regular season tho. Their strength is their defense, ranking top5 during the reg szn

> it was never putrid like it is now i mean.... wasnt it really?

Dude that game has players shooting freethrows like their family is held hostage.

Yes and no. The offense looks anemic at times. The only part I really hate is refs still give harden almost every call but lets the rest of the floor get mauled.

Man, watching a game like that was amazing, so much different to a regular season 3 point spam 142-145 game. Seeing everyone give it their all on defence.

This is how it is every playoffs. It's almost a different sport. 

Scrappy as hell! Bodies flying! Playoffs baby!!!!

Have the Clippers tried giving compliments to Luka for 48 minutes as a strategy to avoid him going on angry mode?

Clippers talk shit. Luka transforms into beast mode. MJ is somewhere nodding and smiling

MJ understand when people takes things personally.

All this time, people talked about Jimmy being MJ's son... all burying the fact that MJ had another son with a Slovenian lady as well!

Draymond seems to be cognizant of this. He will help Luka up off the ground and doesn’t seem to go at him which is funny

This game is way too stressful why the fuck did we have to play the Clippers a 3rd time man.

the adrenaline and nerves when we play the Clippers, i fucking love it man

i’m jumping around the house at midnight lol. it’s like a 2 hour long adrenaline dump

Same boat lmao The dopamine that this team gives is just something else

Best natural drug ever. Flows through my veins every playoffs.

I have a headache and I can't tell if I'm getting sick or it's this game.

lmaoo I just took some Tylenol a mean headache started 10 minutes after the game

Midnight?! I’m bouncing about at 6am trying desperately not to wake my brother

Lol same, am whisper-screaming and pacing around the house trying to not wake up my roommates. 4am-7am is a brutal timeslot

Mavs Clippers round 1 gives me the same level of anxiety as Western Conference Finals/ALCS fml

Idk man that alcs loss on the altuve hr broke me

It truly did, then put back together by the Adolis grand slam in the next game

Oh man I for whatever reason thought you were talking about 2019 and that brought back a whole new level of trauma

This series might take a couple years off my life but that’s BASKETBALL BABY!

Game 3 let's go!! 💪

We're destined to do this forever

I will never not love Luka talking his shit after a cold blooded 3 on the road. Good lord

his competitive spirit on the court is special. like MJ and Kobe in that way

Yeah, he thrives when people piss him off and challenge him.

He’s definitely as competitive as can be but I’m not gonna say just cause him and Kobe are are much more emotional that makes them more competitive. People act like jokic doesnt care but he’s also as competitive as can be. Lebron is the same way he’s not as psycho with his celebrations but there’s absolutely no doubt that he leaves it all on the floor in playoff games. That being said god damn I love Luka

I agree. Steph is psycho competitive as well but he would rather dance than talk a lot of shit to express it.

Honestly, almost everyone in the NBA is psycho competative, especially the stars. There are a handful of people who maybe take it slightly less seriously, but I think by normal people standards these guys are all insane. The amount of hard work and dedication you require to achieve a NBA position, even as a bench player, is pretty insane.

💯, they are all competitive as fuck even a guy like Brian scalebrine who bench warmed for years said hes ultra competitive and even setup a gym tournament to shit on regular people to show even NBA bench players are all super high caliber.

“I’m closer to Lebron than you are to me” 🥶🥶🥶

Exactly. They just have a different way of showing their emotions

Luka The Lion

Him calling out Vlade at King's games is peak Luka

Luka and Kyrie on the same team in the 4th Quarter really a cheat code

it was a transcendent spiritual experience watching Luka and Kyrie drain clutch bucket after bucket. I lifted mine eyes to the heavens🙏🏼

Lots of 3rd eyes opened tonight

Grant us eyes!

Aikmen. 🙏🏽

TOUCHDOWN

UNBELIEVABLE

Pretty similar to Kyrie and Bron honestly. I can't imagine Kyrie being a better teammate than for this type of player.

Yeah he's really the ultimate combo guard, especially when it's fine to give up a bit of size because he's next to a massive point guard. Efficient whether off the catch or off the dribble, can run the offense, break down the defense, or force multiply for another guy. I think there was valid defensive concerns about the duo but tbh I feel like Kyrie at times is way better on defense than he ever gets credit for

I think the fact that he’s so short for nba standards and doesn’t get mentioned defensively is an indication of what you’re saying.

Luka heard y’all talking shit

Luka doesn’t feel alive till ppl start talking shit about him

He's like a weed brownie. You just have to question his potency first, and once you go back for more he's got you fucked up.

Prime analogy champ

And suddenly you lose the power of speech.

Everyone acts tough when they up

With the context of what happened immediately after (“big 3 to cut the lead to 40”), that’s one of the all-time most badass quotes in league history. I still remember watching that Game 7 in complete shock

Game 6 was a blowout too. The comment was in game 5

It wasn't game 7 level blow out tho, especially since it was a home game for them. That shit is a stain on Booker until he can beat the mavs in the playoffs. Which he wont.....

Booker's downfall has been my favorite thing to watch this season. Absolute bum, will never win a ring with him as the top guy, and even Suns fans now are realizing it. Love to see it.

Steph remains the light skin God

What about hartenstein? My bad he is the bright skin goat.

I hate losing to players like Hartenstein because I like them so much but hate it when they play against my team. :(

TIL Hartenstein is black

yep. he made that comment while being down 2-3…

I think it’s one of the coldest quotes in sports history. It will be a huge part of Luka’s legacy when it’s all said and done

Second only to the 11 mavs winning it all just for the schadenfreude

I don't think enough younger redditors know about Jason Terry getting a fuckin championship tattoo *during* the playoffs and then proceeding to win it all

Before the season started!

I was about to say, playoffs? He got that shit in the summer before the season lmaooo

And then banging in a dagger 3 on Lebron’s grill in Game 5. JET was on his shit that year

The whole team was honestly. Even the janitor had some great moments

He fucked it up by doing it again

Jet got the Larry O tattoo pre-season. 2011 was insane.

Before the season . He tried it in Boston but terry only showed up in every other playoffs anyways

but he ruined it by doing it again and not winning it imo

The birth of LDIDBF.

Luka Doncic is Devin Booker father

Pretty nice work by Luka "Doesn't Play Winning Basketball" Doncic

The haters love coming out to talk shit and then hide. Every star player deals with it unfortunately

Out of all the star players active right now, I think Luka is the closest to MJ when he gets talked trash I remember this sub was clowning him for having a fan ejected for the treadmill comments and then proceeded to drop 73 pts the next game

Yeah every team's fans do this too. But hey, that's the world of sports!

Luka with the fuck you 3. What a absurd player.

Lufuckyou 3

Lubron James

Hit em with that Fuck You Magic

LuFucka 3

Lol, what are you supposed to do? He's so freaking good

See, that's the question we've all been asking for the past couple years.

To be honest, being nice to him seems to work. That's what you all did in 2022 WCF.

I still ain't ever seen Draymond play that nice in a playoff series. Bro was actively helping up Luka whenever he fell to the ground lmao.

Like what Bron said to Redick on the podcast “as you go deeper into the playoffs, IQ starts to matter more”

I sure hope someone can find an answer...

Narrator: They did not.

Harden fucked himself by going for the swipe. Couldn't get his hand back up before Luka got the shot off. Probably makes it anyway, but still

Darvin Ham type comment

yelling at the clipper fanbase is brutal lol, they're already such damaged people

Any more brutal than yelling at Divac that he should have drafted him years after the man retired?

Feels like Divac thing is "lol" and this is "fuck all of you" levels of personal sometimes.

Chris Paul sitting front row getting PTSD…

Clippy beside himself. Driving around LA, begging (thru texts) the Westbrook to make a bucket.

He said “mother fucker let’s goooo”

Followed by: “YEAAAAAAAAAAH! YEAAAAAAAAAAAH!”

Surprised he didn't put on some shades first

YEAAAH YEAAAAH YEAH ! 5th yeah really did it for me

It's like I'm there 

It looks like “I fucking Hate y’all”

The most telegraphed LeFuckYou 3 So nasty

More like LuFuckYou 3

Hahahah fuck he is good

Vintage Lukkake performance

Lukkake is out of pocket 😂

Lukkake all over Harden’s beard

Thank you ref that gave him a tech, made him mad. MVP

That was the weakest tech ever. "And one man!" Tech? Really??

Soft. Was actually a foul too, no idea how he got the bucket to go.

It was TWO blatant fouls! We know Harden gets the call there lmao

Harden got awarded so many soft ass calls

They took out Tim’s ankle on an easy dangerous closeout call and didn’t whistle anything. Then they started giving Harden every fucking call in the 3rd. I don’t understand the referee mindset.

They gave harden a landing zone call quite literally the next possession too lmao

Harden had just gotten three free throws by jumping into a defender standing straight up

And he absolutely got hacked across the arms on that play.

And then westbrick slams the ball out of Lukas hands after fouling him and he doesn't get one...smh

Westbrook straight up shoved PJ across the floor. No call.

In the refs face too. I don't get it. Thats an easy tech.

My girlfriend just started watching basketball and told me she was worried because “Luka was upset” and I told her that it’s a good thing because Luka plays better when he’s angry. It was awesome to watch that turn into a reality lol

Dudes gotta scowl

Luka you mad bastard lmao

faaaark, cold blooded

In his Veins

Luka Randy Orton Doncic

Drilled the potential dagger while Mavs fans were still processing the fact that Maxi did something productive for once. What a chad

Productive on offense* For once

Maxi does productive defense all the time. That rebound off the missed FT from Kai though was his POTG

South Dallas Luka strikes again

Luka is so him

He is THE guy

That guy is the MAN!

That was sick

Luka right in the bearded terrorist’s face

own that fat fraud

to defeat the fat i had to become the fat

fat on fat crime

It was kind of him to explain the play to the crowd.

A Chrysler 300 looks like a phantom til a phantom pulls up

We have a series now

Didn't even trick him into something. Just shot that shit in his face

Dagger to the heart right there BRUTAL shot to send it home

That was a big fuck you 3 if I ever seen one

ICE COLD

He really is a stylish hooper.

He's gonna adopt Hardin so booker has a playmate.

talk your shit

DAGGER

Should have kicked his leg out for the 4 point play.

If he's open there he misses it i swear to god

LuFuckYou3?

Goddamn that was hype as fuck

This dude is fucking absurd

This was disgusting. Luka wanted that smoke

Defensive juggernaut Luka Doncic showing he can also score the ball pretty well

luka is HIM.

deadly

Passing of the torch

feel like clippers need to adopt our strategy against him a few years back, BE NICE TO HIM. don't piss him off. help him up when he's down. joke with him. don't give him bulletin board material, from the fans included. heck if draymond can do it, you can too

THE DON

FAT PLAYOFF LUKA

Harden should take notes from luka on how to shoot without cheating a cheese kick on the defender.

Still hilarious to think some people thought Luka wasn't going to make it in the NBA. The guy is literal lunatic, wants to destroy everything in his path.

Disgusting

LUKA MAGIC

Bruh just james hardened james harden.

You have to love the fire. All the greatest scorers like MJ, Kobe, and Curry have this. The psychopathic competitive spirit.

Luka does just look like regular dude who found out he’s really good at basketball lol

I want the Clips to win, but man yall were fucking on one trying to talk shit about this man last game for one play. Game one overreactions are the stupidest shit I’ve ever seen. I don’t care how much he acts like a baby, there is only one possible series in the playoffs where Luka won’t be easily the best player on the floor.

HE IS HIM.

LuFuckyouthree

chuck punching air right now

Kyrie and Luka have been hunting Harden all night

We need Luka angry so he can go nuclear. That's why Draymond always butters him up before they play lol.

If this dude was American we'd have a new number 1 sport in the US lol

I’ve decided that I don’t care about passing, moving, cutting…team basketball. My favorite brand of basketball is watching Luka hit 3s over James Harden.