these are the 25 biggest mind games in NBA history and up first watch Amari Stoudemire absolutely violate Shane Battier Stevens Wright goes inside when he's gone dunks over him puts his hand down like he wants to help him up and then takes it away I mean what is up with that my man with the help battery her up realize the Knicks were down three to one and then changed his mind uncanny but at least there's hope for Stoudemire Paul Pierce on the other hand not so much [Applause] tell him to shut up [Applause] come on man that's cold blooded but not as cold-blooded as what LeBron once did to Ben Simmons because one time LeBron got in his head so badly Simmons actually attempted a three Simmons surveying out front LeBron laying all the way back in the key daring him to shoot Simmons does there's Simmons LeBron just playing free safety laying back in the key definitely nobody argued about it Ben Simmons took a three and you could hear the fans kind of rise up don't worry though Ben LeBron lives red free in everyone's head ain't that right Knicks impeccable motor every single night and he's used that as motivation to get him into that motor mode Clarkson has a pretty good motor himself going right now he's revving it up he's got 14. I believe things will change wow one pass in the entire team is tripping but if you thought that play was mental you ain't seen anything yet cause still to come it's the time Lance Stephenson was blowing kisses or better yet the time marker smart owned James Harden for an entire minute only first it's the time Kobe Bryant put one trash talker in his place and Ron still talking I'm surprised the assistants are allowing it I mean seriously they should kill both of them knock it off there are three types of people you don't mess with your parents your teachers and the Black Mamba however it's one thing to mess with Kobe it's another to go against Larry Bird in the Three-Point Contest because heading into the 1988 Three-Point Contest Bird's confidence was through the roof so when bird entered the All-Star locker room he asked who's coming in second yeah and then afterward this happened he has 60 seconds 25 balls he has to beat 15 points a close start but he warms up as he gets going three points out of the first round now he's all over the place in this rack usually he comes back with that Big Money Ball that keeps him close he's hit both the money balls both the two-point balls I think he's over adjusting he's come up short and then he's all of a sudden throws in a little bit long he certainly doesn't have that normal bird rhythm going for himself he does not in 25 seconds remaining has only seven has to be 15. that's eight make it nine and ten and eleven as we're counting 13.
huge rack that time for birds 14. this is a tie for the money yo first the smack talk then competing with his warm-up Jack still on somebody needs to Humble this dude and you know who else needs to be humbled LeBron James one time fans decided to take matters into their own hands an interesting thing to watch Team LeBron against team Giannis Rajon steps onto the court here with 1. 3 remaining in the quarter and with 1.
3 this is where if you make the free throw you make hold up how the Hawks gonna disrespect LeBron when they haven't even won a championship yet shaking my head that said LeBron can handle some smack talk but what he can't handle is bad calls but now it's the Lakers [Music] [Applause] it hits somebody's foot so that complaint by LeBron turns over a call that should not have been it was the correct call to begin with bro literally passed the ball off Russ's foot complained and got the car reversed which means one of two things either LeBron's a crybaby or he's a wizard Harry but then again it's better to be a crybaby than get distracted by a homie the cows have to do one thing though oh man what and meanwhile the Cavaliers give up two wow safe to say J. R Smith is strongly reconsidering his friendship after that just like defenses always have to second guess injuries thanks to this next play here Comes [Music] Marion with an offensive board just like Carter hurt himself on that place go ahead but it seems like he slipped after taking that jump shot foreign [Music] was playing with fire and the same goes for Reggie Miller since if there's anything you don't do it's messing with Michael Jordan however someone forgot to tell Miller that when he was a rookie so instead he poked the Beast and lived to regret it years later here's what Miller had to say about the whole situation my rookie year uh-huh we were playing the Chicago Bulls and this is Michael Jordan's third or fourth year in okay and we were playing the next exhibition game I'm a wide-eyed energetic rookie and Chuck person who's on my team who's a trash trucker as well is like can you believe Michael Jordan the guy everyone's talking about who's supposed to be able to walk on water you're out here killing them Rich this has been the first half he's like you should be talking to him he's like you know you're right Michael who Do You Think You Are the great Michael Jordan that's right there's a new kid on town right kind of looks at me and starts shaking his head so at half I have 10 and he has four points right I'm doing all this talking he's like okay into this end of the game in the second half he ended up with 44. and I ended up with 12.
stormy sure and be careful you never talk to black Jesus like that do you ever do it again never tell Michael Jordan man could talk to talk but only MJ can walk the wall on the other hand Katie doesn't have to worry about Jordan's Antics so instead he's out here acting like the school bully on Durant gotta like this matchup if you're Brooklyn Rays is up over him and knocks it home it's nothing but Ned did he just pinch his fingers as if to say like this too little you're tiny this close Evan well I'll be damned slim Reaper be calling Fournier small when he couldn't even do one rep on the bench during the 2007 NBA Combine and speaking of which Katie's former teammate Russell Westbrook also steps out of line since during the 2019 playoffs this happened you could almost say they've been mucking up the whole game the way they played so physical basketball from the opening 10 counted and the foul and the signature rocking the baby to sleep only Russ would live to regret it a chance to send the Thunder home Lillard long range three [Applause] are you kidding me oh my goodness damn one emo and Dame sent his ass home bro took that one personally although at least he's not taking an eternity at the free throw line like Giannis answers to Koopa the Sixers game seven Philadelphia [Music] [Applause] rumor has it that 20 years from now Giannis will still be shooting free throws but while Giannis is still shooting free throws LeBron James decided to buy Jonas Jerebko a one-way ticket to Brick City dang the disrespect was so cold it might even have the ice bucket challenge be do you know what's even more disrespectful not checking out Squarespace the sponsor of today's video because LBJ might have the skills on the court but I'm willing to bet he doesn't know how to build a successful website this is where Squarespace comes into play since Squarespace will take care of the hard stuff for you allowing LeBron to focus on what he does best basketball here are three ways Squarespace 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first purchase of a website or domain but now it's time to go from cold to below freezing since now that we've reached the top 10 these mind games are going up a whole new level and it all starts with Kobe's legendary bet because on November 20th 2012 the Brooklyn Nets were in desperation mode down by two against the Lakers with less than five seconds remaining so Gerald Wallace thought let me try to get in Kobe's head bad bad bad move pal because the Wallace is dismay Kobe wasn't thrown off by the trash talk it actually inspired him to do the unthinkable yeah this time relishes it and here Gerald Wallace are having a conversation that's Kobe and Gerald Wallace going at each other walk Toby's on the free throw line Gerald still talking to him they're still having a conversation as Kobe is about to shoot the biggest creeper all tonight three-point game my man really risked half a mill just to prove a point however it still doesn't compare to the most disrespectful free throw in NBA history instead the title belongs to the one the only Michael Jordan with three games now right Jordan eyes closed or not bro never ceases to amaze this wasn't the first time MJ talked smack against Mutombo and backed it up because during the 1997 All-Star break Matumbo mentioned to Jordan that he never dunked on him something MJ would take personally you haven't got me yet huh don't even try it I haven't got you recently yeah I agree with you you haven't got me in the six years and you already know bro was doing whatever attempt to get revenge so later that season MJ got his chance to make Mutombo eat his words and told him to subscribe to the channel well okay maybe not instead this happy [Applause] yo we already knew air drone was like that but still Matumbo got guy which brings us back to a familiar face Kobe Bryant only Kobe doesn't just talk to talk he's smart about what he says too just ask Gilbert Arenas you said that Kobe talked intelligent trash explain so we were playing and you know it's like a 201 break and Quran foul stops the break so everybody thought good job let's stop slaps two points Kobe walks over to him and says hey who are you guarding oh you huh how many times you got I got one so you only got five left yeah well you need all six fouls to guard me and you just wasted one on him stupid stupid play right and you had to think about that if trash talking guys ever gifted Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan a child it would 100 be Kobe Bryant why Charles Barkley you may ask well believe it or not Chris Webber has the answer he's a little older I think uh you know it was maybe four more years in his career but you know and uh I follow him and I get you know get away with it come back down and uh the next time uh you know he's going off at the ref he found me he found me and I'm like I ain't following me be over there crying and the ref he's like uh he looked around he's like I scored 24 000 points or something I scored 20 000 points right here in this position you gonna tell me he ain't found me and the rep just shook man ain't no way Chuck can count to 24 000. when he can't even spell precautionary I'll take my clothes off right now oh Lord don't try to spell them hey all right Shaq now where's my money on the other hand the word precautionary doesn't exist in Kobe's dictionary because back in 2004 the men's Olympic team failed to win a gold medal for the first time since 1988 so coming into the 2008 Olympics they needed to set the tone that's when the Black Mamba came up with a plan see Team USA Was preparing for their matchup against Spain when all of a sudden Kobe Bryant dropped the bombshell and let's just say no one will ever forget it Bob said he gonna set the tone to start the game said I'm running through Paul's [ __ ] chess first play of the game I'm running through Pokemon all over the floor whoa whoa this is my teammate Kobe could have gone around that screen there's no question he was like holy [ __ ] yo these guys won two championships together yeah Kobe's out here trying to get Gasol injured Bros Relentless but now this brings us to the time Marcus Smart played the best defense of his career because if we rewind back five years to December 28 2017 you'll realize the Celtics were trailing by one to the Rockets with only 7.
3 seconds remaining when all of the sudden the game became less about the Celtics and the rockets and more about Marcus Smart and James Harden 7.
