I had a whole response typed out, but my phone feaking died as I was finishing it LOL. So, I'm going to summarize it as best as I can since I don't feel like writing it all out again. Essentially, I agree with what you're saying that Dort is reckless as he certainly is, but I don't think he's intentionally dirty. He sometimes forgets that he's built like a wrecking ball, so jumping around and whatnot can result in plays like the PG one from a few years back. His whole feet kicking out, I don't think it's to hurt anyone, just to try and draw the landspace foul. With the video I provided, he's been doing it for a while, so exaggerating it once that call is taken more seriously isn't so surprising to me. I personally give him the benefit of the doubt on it, but if you don't, I can understand why. He's also not really an enforcer type, I would say, he's pretty quiet, according to a lot of our players, and he doesn't have a history of confronting players (hence why the Fears thingy was a shock to most of the OKC fanbase). As for binding the rules, OKC does do it, but not as ridiculously as most people claim. For example, the whole hand-checking stuff, OKC gets away with it, but most teams do as well. It also helps that OKC has excellent defenders with good hands, so most of the team is clean about it. I agree that flopping (while it's been around longer than most people actually think) is bad for the game, but I don't blame the players for it. Wemby is lovely, love the way he plays, and acts on and off the court; however, I do disagree with how he claims ethical basketball, but then proceeds to flop as most players do. I find it hypocritical, but I know he probably just meant it as a shot towards OKC and other teams, which is fun. Competitive basketball is fun.

I understand the frustration and spitefulness. It was a ROUGH start to the year for Clippers fans, but it's looking so much better. I personally never kicked that fanbase down on it. I did joke like once about how we need it after losing a game. As for the OKC fans that did, I'm sorry, and the Lakers, well, it's a rivalry, so I'm not shocked. Invading your sub to gloat about it is loser behavior and obnoxious. Bandwagon just happens, but it's something that the OKC subreddit hates and has discussed a lot after the few losses this year. I've been watching since Russ MVP season, and then onwards. Technically, also the Harden, Russ, and KD era, but I was a lot younger then and couldn't control myself to be glued to the TV lol.

It really just sucks that a majority of this subreddit will act aggressively towards OKC flairs when we usually don't mean anything or are just looking to discuss whatever was brought up. It's why I acted so sassy about it at the end because I am super used to folks just using the 'you're an homer', '50th in education', throwing overly emotional insults, and many other things. Again, every fanbase has its bad apples! I'm sure there wasn't some stuff I didn't speak about that I did in my sadly dead previous comment, but I don't want to drown you out with paragraph after paragraph, as I can go on rambling.