{"id":487405,"date":"2026-03-10T08:33:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=487405"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:33:49","slug":"dort-hits-jokic-the-commentator-shouts-are-you-kidding-me-but-its-all-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dort-hits-jokic-the-commentator-shouts-are-you-kidding-me-but-its-all-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Dort hits Jokic, the commentator shouts \u201cAre you kidding me\u201d&#8230; but it&#8217;s all true"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"236\" data-end=\"570\">An incident occurred at the end of the match between Oklahoma City Thunder and Denver Nuggets. Nikola Jokic fell to the ground after blocking Lu Dort, and the television commentator initially shouted that it was flopping. But it turned out differently&#8230;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1677\" data-end=\"1973\">Thunder wing <strong data-start=\"1690\" data-end=\"1707\">Luguentz Dort<\/strong> said he apologized to <strong data-start=\"1730\" data-end=\"1746\">Nikola Jokic<\/strong> after committing another fourth-quarter flagrant in the <strong data-start=\"1803\" data-end=\"1830\">Oklahoma City Thunder\u2019s<\/strong> 129-126 win over the <strong data-start=\"1852\" data-end=\"1870\">Denver Nuggets<\/strong>. \u201cJust lost in the competition\u2026 I shook his hand, said \u2018great game\u2019 and I apologized,\u201d Dort told ESPN.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lu Dort received a Flagrant 1 for this foul on Nikola Jokic \ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NjA8LFFfzE\">pic.twitter.com\/NjA8LFFfzE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/2031198137600114743?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1975\" data-end=\"2323\">The play was ruled a <strong data-start=\"1996\" data-end=\"2010\">flagrant 1<\/strong> after review: while fighting over a Jokic screen on the wing, Dort swung his left arm and caught Jokic in the face. Jokic downplayed it afterward, saying there were no hard feelings and that the issue was \u201cover since last time,\u201d referencing the earlier incident 10 days prior that sparked a bigger confrontation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>OKC announcer: \u201cAre you kidding me\u2026 He didn\u2019t even get hit in the face! Take a look at this folks, I gotta show it to ya.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>**replay shows Dort elbowing Jokic in the face**<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 silence \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vXZQHIqZYB\">pic.twitter.com\/vXZQHIqZYB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CJ Vogel (@CJVogel_OTF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CJVogel_OTF\/status\/2031189923198390438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2325\" data-end=\"2719\">Thunder coach <strong data-start=\"2339\" data-end=\"2358\">Mark Daigneault<\/strong> also addressed the backdrop, saying he regretted how he initially handled the previous situation: \u201cLu acknowledged the play was unnecessary\u2026 and I don\u2019t think my comments helped. The timing was insensitive.\u201d Denver\u2019s reaction this time was more muted, with <strong data-start=\"2616\" data-end=\"2633\">David Adelman<\/strong> saying he was \u201cdone talking about that,\u201d and focusing on moving on and trying to win.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lu Dort with an elbow to the face of Nikola Jokic \ud83d\ude2c<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SMHighlights1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SMHighlights1<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sD5yk0IPIG\">pic.twitter.com\/sD5yk0IPIG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fullcourtpass (@Fullcourtpass) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fullcourtpass\/status\/2031189425460257064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dort: \u201cLost in the competition.\u201d Daigneault admits his previous postgame comments \u201cdidn\u2019t help.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":487404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-487405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/Dort-Jokic-flagrant.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487405"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=487405"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=487405"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=487405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}