![]() The former player in him likely kicked in there. I think he was just reacting in the heat of the moment. I don’t think he was intentionally holding the ball to prevent the Nuggets from going on a 5-on-4 break. This is where I disagree with my friend Sam Vecenie. ![]() The ball fell in his lap, and as he stood up, he looked over to see Jokić coming toward him and starting to grab the ball. ![]() It seems to me that Ishbia was surprised by Jokić. You played for the Spartans, not the Blue Devils, right? (Kidding, Dukies, kidding). Mat Ishbia, what are we doing? That flop will go down as one of the most hilariously lame acts we’ve ever seen from an owner at a game. Jokić probably should realize that the chicken wing he threw out there to clear Ishbia out was done against a 43-year-old who was listed at 5-foot-10 when he was at Michigan State. It does appear that Ishbia created the contact on the play. Ishbia is a former player so it feels like we can use basketball parlance here. “I thought the league is supposed to protect us. “He told me I was elbowing the fan, but the fan put his hands on me first,” he said. What did that accomplish, other than bad optics when Devin Booker joked (I think) afterward that “he got us a point!”Ĭlearly, Jokić felt like Ishbia was the aggressor. Still not sure we needed a technical foul there. But this just seemed like a silly decision. The discourse around his MVP candidacy went places it had no business going and he absolutely belonged at or near the top of the voting. I’m a card-carrying member of the “Jokić Is Incredible” club. You know what’s not smart? Trying to rip the ball out of a fan’s hands like he’s battling Deandre Ayton for a rebound. That’s really smart with Okogie splayed out in the front row. Nikola Jokić, what are we doing? OK, you wanted to get the fast break started. Krawczynski: I needed to watch the video like eight times before I really processed what happened, and after each viewing I kept saying, “What are we doing?” And that was directed at every party involved. I believe he interfered with the run of play and should have been ejected from his own arena. To me, Ishbia’s actions as a spectator are what led to this situation. That led to Jokić trying to rip the ball from him. My guess is that Ishbia, a former college basketball player under Tom Izzo at Michigan State, recognized this and decided to hold onto the ball for an extra split second to hopefully allow Okogie time to stand up. Jokić goes to the corner and tries to get the ball from the fans because he sees Okogie in the stands, and he wants to start a fast break – something he always tries to do as quickly as possible when he sees a man advantage. To recap, Jokić looks over and sees the ref on the sideline point to say it’s Denver’s ball. To analyze the situation, we asked NBA national writer Sam Vecenie and senior writer Jon Krawczynski to analyze what they saw, what they believe should happen and what they think will happen based on what the NBA rulebook says and the league’s history of ruling on such incidents. Now, the focus shifts to whether the league will assess any further discipline to Jokić, whose absence would surely tip the scales in this series. Nikola Jokić appeared to shove Suns owner Matt Ishbia after the play.
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