The 30 Most Disrespectful Blocks In NBA History

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The 30 Most disrespectful and embarrassing blocks ever seen in the NBA.
These are 30 of the craziest rejections from NBA history! Featuring players like LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Ja Morant and many more!
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AI GeneratedThis video transcript is a compilation of high-energy basketball commentary focusing on spectacular defensive plays. It highlights a series of \"shot blocks\" and \"rejections\" from various NBA eras, featuring legendary players and modern stars who use their athleticism to deny opponents at the rim.
Mercer on the right. Oh! Oh!
Turns the corner.
Williams on the right.
Oh!
D-9!
Oh, are you kidding?
This is fun.
...has come in the last five minutes
with Billy Owens on the floor.
McGrady blocked by Ben Wallace.
Woo!
Took it out of the air.
Well, if Mikey Moore wanted a lesson
on how to keep the ball inbounds on a block,
look at this thing.
Here it is.
Eat it up, Ben.
You're right, Fred.
I mean, he keeps this thing inbounds.
He controls it.
Michael Jordan got blocked by Artist.
Hopefully to Mercer.
Mercer on the right.
Oh!
What a play!
What a defensive play!
A two-hand block steal.
Game, set, match.
They're trying to foul.
Oh, my goodness.
What a play.
Michael Jordan took it down.
We go the other way.
Three on two.
One of them is Mourning underneath,
trying to slam it.
Mourning blocks his sixth shot.
A tremendous block.
The guy can't get any higher than that.
That's one of the greatest shot blocks I've ever seen.
I'm flushing this one.
...no, no.
Elevate a little higher.
He meets him at the top.
...Blakers get it up the floor in a hurry.
James.
Hard drive.
Oh, the throw just got the king.
They're going to push the pace.
Big old block by Jared Allen.
All of it.
He got all of that ball.
There was no dispute right there.
Blakers get it in.
Push shot, Kuzma.
Goes right to Akeem.
Good heads-up play.
And a steal by Strickland.
A lazy pass.
Well, Akeem gives, and Akeem taketh away.
Matthews turns on the Jets,
and it's blocked inside by Bamute.
Once again, Blazers are trying to do it too much.
Sports Center, that's a highlight.
You won't see a finer block in the NBA.
Oh, heck of a play.
Wow.
That is as athletic as you would hope to have any ballplayer.
Many people in the East play the zone.
Matthews, a drive baseline.
Oh, McGee just grabs it with the right hand out of the air.
I told you, he's fun to watch.
What a block.
Here comes Harper out with it.
The Cavs have four on one.
Hartley being the one.
How about that?
Straight to the open court.
He's telling the adults.
Nobody tells you to say, hey, kid, get that stuff out of here.
It looks good to me.
First look.
Denied for Zingas.
Big-time block.
Two shots.
This is in for Zingas.
That's a block.
You grab the ball.
A block steal, that is.
Williams in the penetration, and it's knocked away by Mutombo,
but into the hands of Peter Sanders and Antonio Davis.
Off the rim.
You are standing up on your couch right now,
seeing Russell knock down his first shot.
Good feed inside, rejected by James.
Are you kidding?
Erases the shot inside.
You've got to be kidding me, Jamal.
You've seen LeBron take a charge of first possession.
Meet me up top at the summit, the second possession.
He's setting the tone early for his team defensively.
He's double-teamed, and he gets rid of the basketball.
It means you have numbers.
Turn around and find the open man.
Leonard raises up.
Another with a block.
Goose.
Or just come in, come off, and shoot it.
Harden.
Block.
Got him late.
That ball is destroyed off the glass.
Aldridge with the block, right?
No, that was Kawhi.
And then there's LA getting a piece of it.
Yeah, I was upset he didn't get it that time.
A great defense.
Oh, blocked by Rob Robinson with a rejection.
And Yao Ming is hurt.
Well, here's Nate Robson coming over.
That's a clean block.
They get John LeBron on the right baseline.
He'll square up, send it, miss it.
Rebound kept alive by Rodman,
and Barkley deep in the left corner,
and Rodman pulls it down.
On the floor to the hoop, stripped by Henderson.
Off to Barkley.
Charles Barkley with the drive against the triple team.
Block.
Rodman blocks it out of bounds.
Holy cow.
How about that?
A real chip drill down here on the defensive end.
And then he comes back and gets that one.
Dennis Rodman with a sensational block.
Williams picked up by Paul.
Turns the corner.
Denied.
Darren Williams had it blocked.
Clippers go the other way.
Out of bounds.
Darren was looking for the big stuff.
And these guys like to go after him, block shots also.
Brown gives it up.
Took it away from Weston, met him at the top,
and the crowd really liked him.
The crowd on their feet.
His teammates liked him too.
I told you that's a defensive guy.
I mean, he is athletic as can be.
Turn over and all of a sudden Shannon says, whoa.
He used to do that all the time.
To give Minnesota a three-point lead.
He missed it.
Pacers are not going with a timeout.
They advance the ball.
Neesmith lays it up.
Oh, man.
A defensive play as Neesmith was trying to get to the rim.
They block it.
Minnesota wins it, 113-111.
The Pacers have a shot blocked at the rim.
Avery Bradley with the deflection against Baines.
That you're going to ever see.
Yeah, Baines, the initial defender,
and he blocks it with two hands.
And almost grabbed it off the glass.
Timeout on the Moran.
I mean, Unreal is right.
This guy, just look where he is.
When he catches it at the top of the square,
the box on the backboard, look at his hand.
Four on the shot clock.
I don't know if Phillips knows that.
He lost the handle.
Tinsley, Reggie Miller, and it's blocked again.
Oh, what a block.
How did Prince get there?
What a block.
I didn't think it was any way possible.
Clock at seven.
Working against Butler.
Got downhill.
Couldn't punch it.
Bam, says get it out of here.
Adebayo, sky high with the block and rejection.
Adebayo won.
Wow.
A meeting at the summit, Dorris.
That is a ridiculous defensive play.
Jason Tatum is clearly by everybody else,
high above the rim.
Category.
Emphatically.
But this is, that's just tremendous block.
Look at that.
He just took it from him.
And looked at him.
And get a pick and roll.
Marford Castle, Hartenstein overplay.
Took it away.
They want the double dribble, not both.
Hartenstein goes up and stops it.
Here's the block he talked about.
The steal by Hartenstein.
He believes he has the wide of the rim.
Out of nowhere.
Luke Cornett with the beautiful rejection.
Four to shoot.
Oh, and a block from James.
Throws it back.
It's Twitter who is ready to dunk.
Oh my goodness.
With Tucker on him.
Throws it up for Aiton.
Shot Giannis.
This is one of the great recovery plays you'll ever see.
The lob booker to Aiton.
We've seen it many times.
And that reaction and block is special.
Multiple effort on the play.
Irving drives.
Hop step inside.
Pulls it up.
Misses.
Rebound taken by Iguodala.
Iguodala to Curry.
Back to Iguodala.
Up for the layup.
LeBron James with the rejection.
Oh my goodness.
Great pass by Curry.
Running hard by Iguodala.
And superhuman defensive recovery by LeBron James.
