{"id":689047,"date":"2026-05-23T07:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/689047\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T07:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:42:10","slug":"sga-reacts-to-flopper-chants-from-spurs-fans-after-thunder-win-wcf-game-3-doesnt-fuel-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/689047\/","title":{"rendered":"SGA Reacts to &#8216;Flopper&#8217; Chants From Spurs Fans After Thunder Win WCF Game 3, &#8216;Doesn&#8217;t Fuel Me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander received &#8220;flopper!&#8221; chants from San Antonio Spurs fans en route to OKC&#8217;s road 123-108 win on Friday in Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Those chants didn&#8217;t faze SGA, per his <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ohnohedidnt24\/status\/2058031899289756096?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">postgame remarks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;It does nothing. Doesn&#8217;t fuel me, doesn&#8217;t discourage me. I&#8217;ve been dealing with it for a long time. I don&#8217;t really hear it,&#8221; Gilgeous-Alexander said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Gilgeous-Alexander started hearing the chants after drawing a personal foul committed by Spurs guard Stephon Castle in the middle of the third quarter. He ended going a perfect 12-for-12 from the free throw line for the evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">SGA was third in the league in free throw attempts per game this year (<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/stats\/player\/_\/stat\/free-throws\/season\/2026\/seasontype\/2\/table\/offensive\/sort\/avgFreeThrowsAttempted\/dir\/desc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">9.0<\/a>). He&#8217;s finished second or third in free throw attempts each season since 2022-23 but never first. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">He&#8217;s certainly received his fair share of commentary and criticism for a penchant for drawing fouls and going to the free throw line, and Spurs fans voiced their opinions loudly on that front Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">At any rate, Gilgeous-Alexander finished with 26 points and 12 assists in the 15-point win, and OKC now has a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series. Game 4 is in San Antonio on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander received &#8220;flopper!&#8221; chants from San Antonio Spurs fans en route to OKC&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-689047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}