The Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder have a status for getting all of the foul calls after their jaunt to the 2025 NBA championship final season. That hasn’t essentially been true up to now to start out the brand new 12 months: the Thunder solely rank No. 16 within the league in free throw fee, and nobody on the crew apart from Shai Gilgeous-Alexander even averages 4 free throw makes an attempt per sport.
Information often don’t matter in terms of forming NBA narratives, and the Thunder’s status is simply going to get extra ingrained after they have been on the receiving finish of a ridiculous foul name on Sunday in opposition to the Miami Warmth. Warmth star Bam Adebayo went as much as contest Thunder guard Cason Wallace on a quick break layup and didn’t seem to the touch him. The refs nonetheless known as a foul on Adebayo after Wallace missed a dunk, and the foul name was upheld on replay assessment. Decide for your self right here:
Perhaps Adebayo touched Wallace’s hair? A little bit little bit of a shoulder rub, maybe? This can be a play the place there’s seemingly no foul known as if Wallace simply flushes the dunk. When he missed, the refs thought there needed to be contact. What ever occurred to a superb, ole common contest?
Wallace ended up splitting the free throws. I believe that also counts as a Ball Don’t Lie?
In the meantime when the Thunder are on offense, Lu Dort is simply shoving defenders out of the way in which with no name:
Once more, the numbers don’t match the narrative that the Thunder get away with a variety of calls. OKC’s greater crime in opposition to basketball is that they foul their opponents continually so the refs can’t name all of them. We’ll see if that holds true once more within the 2026 NBA Playoffs.
The Thunder beat the Warmth, 124-112. OKC doesn’t look fairly as unstoppable because it did earlier within the season. Getting calls like this the remainder of the way in which certain would assist.
