When an NBA player's shoe falls off, chaos reigns

There’s no rule in the NBA to address what happens when a player’s shoe falls off mid-game. So when one does, it’s a free for all. You can chuck your opponent's shoe into the stands, you can just pick it up and carry it around, you can kick it at the ref’s head... well you might get a tech for that last one, but you could argue it afterward.
Boogie Cousins once got a tech for merely throwing a rogue shoe off the court, but it was later rescinded. It’s Air Bud law, If there’s no rule that says you can’t, you can!
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Illustrated and animated by Tyson Whiting
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[@jrid4853]

“When an NBA player’s shoe falls off, chaos is afoot” would’ve been the perfect title

[@arghanothername]

Ah yes, “the agony of de-feet”

[@darudemarc6114]

@Secret Base petition to change the video's title to this

[@holstorrsceadus1990]

Earning that World's Greatest Dad mug

[@tombstonejones9581]

You're expecting something that clever from someone who isn't Jon Bois.

[@dwilliams380]

@@tombstonejones9581 😂💀

[@oogrooq]

The rulebook doesn't say dogs can't play basketball. Dogs love shoes, so a good strategy would be get a dog on your team and have him go after shoes.

[@itsyourenotyour9101]

Well that's how we got Airbud. RIP every dog born then getting their nose bonked with a basketball all day thinking your dog was the next air bud.

[@rickycarrillo7821]

Both Tyson chandler’s shoe block and wades shoe toss and shuffle backwards while making eye contact with Bibby (his future teammate) KILLS me every time.

[@ralph.javier]

*former teammate

[@nedflanders2943]

I had no idea Bibby was ever on the Knicks

[@tangykombucha5558]

Former teammate

[@roshango125ab]

Imagine if there was a stoppage of play if you lost a shoe. All of a sudden guys would be losing shoes all the time "on accident" in the last 2 minutes. Or somebody goes on a breakaway so instead of running him down you just take off a shoe to force a whistle

[@wlee9888]

I can see Jason Kidd untying players' shoelaces in timeouts lol

[@simon_patterson]

Yep. This is exactly why the rules are as they currently are.

[@irsever]

Shoe Flop

[@jesserice7777]

@@wlee9888 JR Smith, too.

[@floijd]

They'd be starting crunch time wearing flip-flops.

[@hierosglephic]

"Fight the enemy without his shoe" -Sun "Shoe" Tzu, Art of War

[@gregburrow3350]

Well done sir

[@Mekasoundwave]

Tzuless Joe Jackson

[@heavenlyrey]

**Flashbacks to Mike Miller hitting a three with only one shoe.**

[@imightbebiased9311]

"He's 3-ing on one shoe!"

[@denistuohy2535]

“Welcome to moment in history”

[@conenubi701]

Greatest 1shoe 3pt shooter of all time

[@trystanolbertson7220]

South Dakota legend

[@b.j.morgan8175]

Mike Scott has done it as well. Something bout the name Mike...

[@majestyzx9081]

An enemy with exposed feet, is an enemy to easily beat. Sun Shoe, Art of War.

[@ihaveskillissue69]

I thought Sun Shoe wrote Art of Wear

[@richardtherichard26]

Disappointed that you didn’t use “defeet” instead of “beat”. Smh

[@majestyzx9081]

@@richardtherichard26 I thought of that minutes after posting, but I heeld back on it.

[@klungusxyz]

clara is just one of those people who can explain things in a funny way

[@Keithustus]

Yes, but it’s hard to tell if that’s her real voice or if they’re applying the witness-protection filter to it.

[@Zebraturkey96]

That dab physically harmed me

[@Tydusis1]

Imagine if this had happened to Shaq. That shoe would have been like a flying brick to the stands

[@AirKangLocker]

ppl in the stand: "TACTICAL NUKE INCOMINGGGGGGG"

[@metzger5850]

Only if someone could lift it

[@nathansheldahl]

And an ass whipping afterwards. Followed by him yelling about his 4 rings. 😝

[@ZGryphon]

This new "Weird Absences of Rules" format has a lot of potential. I mean, there must be literally _millions_ of things that aren't mentioned in the rules of major sports. :)

[@tbow13gbr22]

Ain’t no rule days a dog can’t play basketball

[@DarthAnimal]

This is such an interesting episode. Its like the Anti-WeirdRules Its a rule that doesnt actually exist, and Ryan is the recipient of this knowledge

[@miche1df]

Reminds me of JR untying people's shoes because...you know, he's JR.

[@thareelhelloagain]

Weird Rules is my favorite consistent Secret Base series! Yaaaaaaay :).

[@richardtherichard26]

I miss Jon bois and the “pretty good” series but this is certainly nice.

[@episodesglow]

@@richardtherichard26 jon bois will be doing a 6 or 7 part series on the Atlanta Falcons

[@therealosama7368]

Boogie gets a tech for everything😂 next time hes gonna get a tech for playing😂

[@natemarx4999]

Clara Morris should be on every upload from here on.

[@p00lboy]

her voice tho😍🥰

[@hierosglephic]

@@p00lboy bro, i love her voice but my mom does not. She's literally annoyed by her lol

[@p00lboy]

@@hierosglephic whats your mom sound like?😶

[@banga2827]

No

[@hierosglephic]

@@p00lboy i honestly don't know how to describe it

[@tuckisbad]

I really got a *KICK* out of this episode 😂 I’ll show myself out now

[@ltodd1987]

C'mon dad

[@jacobhouseman7448]

You’ll shoe yourself out more like

[@marinthecreator]

Tactical Yeet should be an official NBA term

[@thegenericgaijin]

Ref goes up to the mic “the ruling on the floor will be overturned, the play in question was a Tactical Yeet and the ball will be reset with 24 seconds on the shot clock and 8:29 left in the third”

[@jjleblanc8151]

It looks like Clara has the first dartboard ever made and a modern one behind her😂😂

[@SecretBaseSBN]

that's a carrom board, it's an Indian game and you have to remove it from the wall to play and I regret thinking the wall was a good place to store it

[@Katsos44]

@@SecretBaseSBN Clara’s lighting makes her look super young, what kind of home lighting does she have at home?

[@jjleblanc8151]

@@SecretBaseSBN we should play sometime, I’d like to challenge Seth to a game.

[@TangoWolf09]

This episode has a lot of sole

[@rickygill661]

This is the most soulless conversation I have ever watched. Like wtf is this? Do people really watch this podcast or whatever it is. These 2 have zero chemistry

[@mazajee]

@@rickygill661 *soleless

[@cookiewoke1899]

Boooo!

[@nert-13]

What about when Manu Ginóbili's shoe just...died. The whole sole came clean off the shoe

[@imightbebiased9311]

It happened twice, right?

[@nert-13]

@@imightbebiased9311 yep

[@benshepherd488]

@@nert-13 gotta be manus fault at that point

[@AirKangLocker]

@@benshepherd488 seriously? Nike was known for making bad quality bball shoes around time lol

[@JayLandon64]

Kinda like what happened to Zion at Duke?

[@oliverdennis3115]

Thankyou, Tyson Whiting for amazing quality in animation, as always to be expected from this channel.

[@TheAtkey]

"Who throws a shoe? Honestly!"

[@TheWolfInNerdKlothing]

I'm going to watch every SB video. BUT, I'll hit "LIKE" a hell of a lot faster once I hear Clara. 👍🏾

[@tyroland06]

I'm just imagining a guy for the home team picking up an away player's shoe. He then tosses it into the crowd and they all start throwing it to each other like a beach ball until it's on the 2nd level of the arena.

[@tuckisbad]

I’m remembering that time Patrick Beverly was on the bench and took someone’s shoe and ran down the floor with it

[@isaachenry2132]

I wish they would’ve mentioned the time Marc Gasol used his own shoe to hit Derrick Favors

[@TheAlmightyConch]

was looking for this lmao

[@alexpowers5187]

I was at the Mavs/Warriors game! The crowd absolutely lost it when it happened. Tyson Chandler had the crowd on their feet and laughing when he swatted that shoe

[@Bigedub101]

It was funny especially show why Tyson Chandler is a DPOY

[@pushing2throttles]

Love Clara and Ryan. They do good work. Thanks SB

[@WunderbredSyndicate]

I think this is one of the best chemistry duo on the channel.

[@samarcher2871]

Basically that's why JR was untying people's shoes all the time. To get an advantage. This man is a genius I tell ya!

[@Owen-bk5fc]

A bit disappointed that they didn't have a full animated segment about their ideas of *how* you could take advantage of it to the very max. Like, ideas for how you can legally get people's shoes off of their feet.

[@dasfowler]

I think the obvious next evolutionary step for basketball to take is to incorporate losing a shoe into the game more proactively. Maybe make it not a foul to remove a shoe from an opponent if they are not on their feet. Then any time someone flops, their shoes are up for grabs and a secondary keep away game ensues. Game within a game.

[@dvaldez9330]

Happy that there is a Secret Base video,Sad it’s only 6 minutes

[@liamcoulter9627]

As a hockey player this surprises me a lot. Because hitting a stick when it’s dropped is an instant penalty, and I can think of 3 or 4 times throughout my youth hockey days where an interference was called for this specific reason, one of them was when someone hit my stick away lol

[@Baker33]

Had to come back to this video after the AD ejection. Bulls in 4

[@12packersfan]

The real question is is it legal to use your fallen off shoe to help you in defense because I’ve seen that once or twice

[@TheAlmightyConch]

Marc Gasol did it and i think he was fine?

[@BlackSoap361]

Can’t wait to see a game devolve into keep-away with an opponents shoe and they forget to play basketball for a minute.

[@bernier42]

Wait, is Seth lurking in the background of all these Weird Rules?

[@Bro_Tickle_Me]

He's probably one showing them the little clips we see

[@DoubleATam]

I like how the thumbnail can't have the rule number since there's no rule for it, so it's just signed "- The 2021 NBA Rulebook"

[@varizza]

I would love to see one of these players throw a shoe to the rim, or probably dunk it.

[@gakk8658]

Just leave it up there sitting on the rim extension between the hoop and the backboard. The other team had better swish...

[@joao_gomes]

That block with the shoe from Taj Gibson was the perfect consequence of no rules applied

[@chef7423]

never forget mike miller draining a 3 in the 2013 finals without a shoe. huge play

[@howisthatgay4275]

When he nodded and said thank you in response to “or if you become an NBA player in the future” was the best part

[@twchalk]

Idk why but its really funny to me seeing ryan in the opposite position of having the weird rule scenario presented to him

[@zhangshinyi]

Hahahaha 1:20 heart of gold requirement is pretty funny

[@davidfalterman8713]

Tyson Whiting had way too much fun with that Renaissance painting 😂

[@Mind_Idiot]

You hear that Ryan? The window's still open! You've got time!

[@HexorMastah]

Wade throwing Bibbys shoe and giving him that "go get get it white boy" look🤣🤣

[@javierantoniosilva8477]

These videos make me think NBA rules are like gen 1 pokemon coding; 9 times out of 10 works fine, but every now and then it creates a black hole of shenanigans.

[@egully6755]

I remember when Marc Gasol lost his shoe and tried used it as a club to poke the ball free and get a steal

[@brookdavidson6376]

Talk about exploits. There was a rule in a Seattle, WA co-ed soccer league that made it illegal to kick the ball from behind and in-between a player's legs. So one season I constantly dribbled the ball into the 18 yard box, turned around with the ball in front of me and spread my legs - ball clearly visible from behind. The result of doing this got me a good dozen goals that season on top of the other ones that I scored - easily placing me first in the league of scorers. If you are in such a league in your city/state - I highly recommend this exploit. It's great to rack up points but the joy from doing it is beyond measure!

[@johnnytimestamp8224]

Here after Anthony Davis got pissed the ref wouldn't stop the game for him so he got ejected.

[@justagamingchannel7209]

Have they forgotten this happened This year in the nba playoffs when trae got his game winner John collins came over to screen and he lost his shoe

[@Celestatiune]

Needs to be a law that any object leaving the field of play that is caught by a spectator in any sport is legally the property of whichever fan catches it.

[@Be_Gee]

Boogie can breath and he'd get ejected for "stealing the air thus; committing an unsportsmanship-like conduct that breaks the spirit of the game".

[@corvettez06usa]

I'd kick off my remaining shoe and play in socks until the game stopped.

[@kayleighlehrman9566]

Last time I was this early the chanel was called SBNation

[@pavarottiaardvark3431]

Tennis, Hockey, Football, Everyone Else: Let's have rules for equipment malfunction. NBA: yolooooooooo

[@bangaamen501]

Secret Base makes my day 🔥🎯

[@chrisnixon5819]

Thank you bringing these back, they’re so fun!

[@rogerszmodis]

Just getting a tripping hazard out of the way.

[@xavierwalt7927]

But as soon as I do this to my sibling, I get my ass beat. Hmm.

[@MiaovenWinter]

Before you criticize the league on this, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you do criticize them, you'll be a mile away and have their shoes.

[@DrawingTheDefense]

Slow clap

[@sandman1008]

I shouldn't have laughed at that as much as I did.

[@bpnation37]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@publiusii4246]

The smack it out of the air bit killed me

[@lainewiens]

The greatest thing on KZbin every time you upload in the series!

[@siircartiier]

that mike miller three has to be one of the most underrated finals moments of the 2010’s

[@gregharper6382]

“The double not is almost complete bullshit” lmao sooo accurate!

[@drabalisallat2188]

The... the... the... DAB?! why? I thought this is a peaceful place where I can hide... and now they violate my whole being... I JUST CAN'T HANDLE THIS!

[@fakeemmcee]

Beef History: Dante Exum vs Good Luck and Not Getting Injured

[@MoxieInfernape]

I really enjoy Clara and Ryan's banter (plus the cameo from Seth and Will)

[@justalittlebitmo]

My dream is now having players sneakily untying other players' shoes in those chaotic loose ball situations. Once the untied shoes come off, chucking them to the nosebleeds! 😂👟

[@ThePeachTube]

Whenever I think of shoes falling off I think of Mike Miller shooting a three with one shoe and everybody in the media losing their minds…like calm down everybody😂he easily could’ve made that three with no shoes on at all.

[@jdixie2010]

The SB logo would be fire on a sneaker😏

[@dermondreigns8045]

I think it was on one of the Dazzling Dunks and Basketball Bloopers VHS tapes where Bill Walton talked about throwing his shoe at the ball to block it. It got called a foul for not being "within the spirit of the game"

[@tengahmain1055]

Who else got here after AD lost his shoe and gets a tec

[@Imaiden124]

Hey, I have an idea for an MLB Rule Loophole video. In a recent game, Chicago White Sox vs Milwaukee Brewers, the bases were loaded for the White Sox and a runner was attempting to go home, wasn’t tagged, and was called safe at home. Although, upon further inspection, it became clear that the runner had missed home plate and should’ve been called out. But the Brewers manager didn’t challenge the play because he didn’t have enough information to challenge. So what does he do? He calls timeout to make a mound visit, where basically him, the pitcher and catcher, and the whole infield meet around the mound and talk about whatever they’re talking about. Now, there’s a rule that you can have no more than 20 seconds after the end of a play to challenge a call, and at this point it was over, so the Brewers manager used a pretty clever loophole. He had the players appeal the play, where they basically just threw the ball to home plate and tagged it in hopes of calling the runner out by the umpires after the play, and when the runner was called safe again, he then challenged the appeal, which ultimately had the same effect as challenging the play. This clever trick worked in his favor and the runner was called out, end of story.

[@zadazoom310]

the reason the game isn’t stopped when a shoe comes off is because when teams have no timeouts they would just start kicking shoes off too regroup,basically the hold on i gotta tie my shoes method

[@JonatasAdoM]

Oh great... for a moment you made me imagine Greek Basketball....

[@armadillolover99]

This kind of thing is even more crazy in the NHL. Every once in a while guys will lose a skate blade-which is an actual hazard that you can very easily imagine resulting in an injury-and have to crawl/hop back to the bench because there’s no rule saying they have to stop play

[@ReverendTed]

5:03 - "No one has a perfect shoe tie." Ian Fieggen, "inventor" of the Ian Knot, would like to have a word with you.

[@The_ukulele_guy]

Can’t wait for this to come into play the next time Florida and LSU meet on the hardwood

[@declanssportsdesk]

I am once again asking for more baseball football and basketball Collapse episodes. Please.

[@tobiastolls126]

do you enjoy the sensation of pain?

[@declanssportsdesk]

@@tobiastolls126 No. I just enjoy all the Collapse episodes that SB does.

[@JonatasAdoM]

A rule like this would have to be shoehorned in.

[@brennan3895]

taj gibsons shoe block was elite

[@tylerthegiraffe]

Someone said Clara looks like Ted Bundy and i can’t unsee it

[@dylanward4512]

Clara Morris is awesome and she should be on every video

[@whogon]

I've played basketball without shoes on before.....ouch...theory BUSTED.

[@sentientsardine9729]

I'm reminded of the Roller Derby rule in WFTDA ruleset about what happens if the jammer loses their helmet cover. If anybody touches the helmet cover other than the jammer or pivot, they're given a penalty. So when the cloth cover falls into the middle of the track where everyone is skating, only two players are allowed to move it out of the way. And even then, there are rules about what they can and can't do with it. It's not unheard of for the jammer to zip through, lose their helmet cover, and the pivot decides to helpfully get it off the track for when the jammer comes back around by throwing it into the referee lane. Because y'know, if referees trip over the cover that's not their problem.

[@grife3000]

2:58 "No no no, Not in my house" It feels wrong that there's no footage of the Florida Gator losing the game with his 20 yard shoe toss.

[@griffinhays2053]

Catch a shoe, get both the guy whose shoe it is AND the guy who threw it to sign it after the game

[@bobbob465]

...Aaaand we now know that the channel is called "Secret Base" because Seth has built a secret listening post in all of the on-screen talents' homes.

[@Ozmodiar-JM]

Secret Base at it's finest! The weird and strange of sports is most interesting to me

[@joewlaschin6970]

Clara Morris you are great my favorite of Secret Base you and Jon Bois do a great job and leave me wanting more keep up the amazing work.Ok Ryan your great too (sorry Ryan just didn't want to cheapen my once a year sprinkle of compliments lol)

[@user-er8le9hn6v]

If the time stopped because shoes came off, having loose laces would be a tactic when you run out of time-outs

[@100DollarBillYall]

love these guys

[@mmmcertified9877]

I still remeber Taj Gibson trying to block a shot with his shoe in hand 🤣

[@ReverendTed]

So, are there any rules that would address "intentionally?" stepping on the heel of your opponent's shoe to encourage it to pop off, and then just chucking it into the cheap seats?

[@Stinky_Steven]

If there was a rule that losing a shoe stopped the game, a player could purposely kick their shoe off for a tactical advantage.

[@lawfulneptune14]

I love the black hair!