What is your most hated basketball act of all time?

[catch24]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgny3lyPf3U
On this dunk, Stromile Swift dunked on Dirk Nowitzki, big woop wanna fight about it, but the swing back up and wrap his legs around him move was unneccessary. What bothered me as much if not more, was the fact no Mav, including Dirk himself, said or did anything. It was actually Pau to come over and take Swift's balls almost literally from Dirk's face. You don't have to go all Rafer Alston and slap hm, but say something, fake get in his face, the refs will allow you that, at worst you get a double T. I feel like if we still had Fortson, or Raja Bell in the incarnation of him we had (before he turned into a flopper and developed a 3pt shot), they would've stood up for Dirk.

Definitely unnecessary. You can see he blatantly tried to wrap his legs onto Nowitzki's neck... Ball facial lol.

[jlauber]

Not sure if this qualifies, but the officiating in the Gold Medal Game in the 1972 Olympics...

[Fatal9]

Jamario Moon tried that the year after except I think he might have actually been able to do it. When he was about to make his attempt they told him that he had to use a teammate so he had to change his dunk completely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfL9Ew3b0uE

I almost buy it.

[the_wise_one]

Ive seen Marbury with Keith Vanhorn right under the basket on a fast break instead run like 6 dribbles up the court to dunk it himself instead of passing it to Keith uncontested under the rim.

That's racism.

[the_wise_one]

Kobe Bryant breathing.

[lurch67]

I take it you've seen Snatch

Plenty

[AirJordan&Magic]

Ricky Davis "triple double".

Josh Smith showboating (and embarrasing himself) in the playoff series vs the Heats.

Demarcus Cousin's childish elbow vs Louisville.

LeBron James dancing like an idiot during the Bulls' game.

Kobe Bryant's chucking in games 1 and 4 of the 2004 Nba finals.

Jerry Stackhouse swinging on Jeff Hornaceck.

Shawn Kemp's failed windmill attempt (as KBlaze stated).

Xavier McDaniels choking Wes Matthews.

Andre Blatches' "failed triple double".

Raja Bell's clothesline to Kobe.

[boozehound]

malone taking zeke down with a hard foul and shortening/ending his career. all out of spite too.

[AirJordan&Magic]

Another moment that kind of ticked me off, was the Pippen-Kukoc incident in 1994.

Honorable mentions:

Chris Paul's nutcheck during his time at Wake forest.

Nick Van Axel pushing the referee back in 1997-98. (And I'm a Lakers' fan)

Greg Anthony's dumbass hitting Kevin Johnson from behind in the 1993 Suns-Knicks brawl (And the idiot was not even active in the game )

[KenneBell]

Not one mention of JR Smith doing anything? Is that possible in this thread?

[AirJordan&Magic]

Not one mention of JR Smith doing anything? Is that possible in this thread.

He makes me ad in every game he plays. Unbelievable talent but makes the dumbest choices.

"JR, you're 35 feet away from the basket and you getting hounded? Do you want to..."

"Don't mind if I do"

*Takes contested 35 foot turnaround fadeaway 3*

Karl:

Agreed.

Pretty Much anything J.R Smith does ticks me off.

[DuMa]

not done by a player, but rather done by referees. tim donaghy and his band of rogue referees. the famous game 6 of the 2002 WCF comes to mind. no rightful basketball fan can say they saw that game and enjoyed basketball at all.

the other acts of trying to get triple doubles, stat padding are not that big of a deal to me. only hurts the stat junkies the most, and if stats play a big effect on how you see the game, then you're seeing the game wrong.

[lurch67]

Did anyone mention the "Malice at the Palace"?

[Rose]

Did anyone mention the "Malice at the Palace"?

I dig your new avy.

[KenneBell]

Did anyone mention the "Malice at the Palace"?

I didn't hate that one.

Jermaine's sliding dragon punch might have been one of the funniest punches I've ever seen.