Luka Dončić scored 53 points in the Los Angeles Lakers’ 124-118 win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday night, his second 50-point game of the season. Ziaire Williams wanted to say something about it.
He found the wrong teammate.
Austin Reaves was standing courtside giving a postgame interview to Allie Clifton on Amazon Prime Video when Williams came up behind him and shouted “50 BALL!” into the shot.
Reaves did not turn around. “I’m the wrong white person,” he said.
Watch Ziaire Williams congratulate the wrong teammate on X
The exchange aired on Amazon Prime Video. Clip posted by @HaterReport on X.
It works because Williams was not wrong about the night, only about which teammate he was congratulating on it. Dončić’s 53 came on 33 field goal attempts and 18 free throws, and accounted for 43 percent of everything the Lakers scored in a game they won by six. Reaves had 25 of his own on 22 shots, a night that graded out at a C+ against the rest of the roster. Williams played 20 minutes off the bench and scored 8.
Nothing is at stake here, which is most of the appeal. A team that has just won by six is allowed one of these, and the tell is how fast the line arrived — Reaves did not pause, did not look, and did not appear to be hearing the comparison for the first time.
The exchange aired on Amazon Prime Video during Allie Clifton’s postgame interview. SportsCenter clipped it; the post embedded above is from @HaterReport. Both quotes were confirmed against reporting from Awful Announcing and TalkBasket. Scoring figures are from the Nov. 6 box score.
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