Social media reacts to Phoenix Suns' shocking loss to Adelaide 36ers in NBA preseason game
The Phoenix Suns dropped their NBA preseason opener to the Adelaide 36ers on Sunday, 134-124 in a game in which they entered as almost 30-point favorites.
Social media reacted to Phoenix's loss to the team from Australia at the Footprint Center with shock and jokes.
Check out what NBA Twitter was saying after the Suns' loss in Phoenix:
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with the Adelaide 36ers coming into this game as 28-point underdogs against the Phoenix Suns, im pretty sure we just witnessed one of if not the greatest NBA ATS upset ever?
— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) October 3, 2022
The 36ers aren’t even one of the better teams in their league 😭😭😭😭😭
The Suns just lost to the Pistons of the NBL pic.twitter.com/EiUgz6OIsw— Rcito 🇵🇷⚡️ (@ramon_rican) October 3, 2022
Congratulations to Luka Doncic, Craig Randall, and Robert Franks on becoming the new co-owners of the Phoenix Suns 👏🏽
— Tomer Azarly (@TomerAzarly) October 3, 2022
The Suns just lost a preseason game to the Adelaide 36ers…
😳 pic.twitter.com/8q5ZgfTfE4— Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) October 3, 2022
The Phoenix Suns just lost to the Adelaide 36ers
It's the first time an NBA team has lost an international exhibition game since 2016, and only the fifth time in the last decade pic.twitter.com/dBTvYIat9y— SB Nation (@SBNation) October 3, 2022
THE PHOENIX SUNS ARE NOT THE BEST TEAM IN THE @NBL!!
— Espo (@Espo) October 3, 2022
NBA twitter looking at the Suns pic.twitter.com/9uKUZeN8rA
— Bryson🐻 (@BrysonWright3) October 3, 2022
The Adelaide 36ers from the NBL in Australia defeated the Phoenix Suns. 😳
It's the first time an NBA team has lost an international exhibition game since 2016. 😱 pic.twitter.com/vTTNMHt0MB— theScore (@theScore) October 3, 2022
the suns just lost to a team that didnt even make the nbl playoffs 😭😭😭😭😭😭💀💀💀💀💀 pic.twitter.com/VQtb3U9M3O
— T (@CookedByT) October 3, 2022
Pre-season NBA Update: The Phoenix Suns Lost by double digits to the Adelaide 36ers
That team went 10-18 in the NBL (An Australian basketball league) last season
Good night. pic.twitter.com/uQu0EjUun5— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) October 3, 2022
The Phoenix Suns shouldn't be maken fun of for losing to the Adelaide 36ers.
It proves that the NBL is for real. They get players drafted each year and are a top-5 domestic league worldwide.
One of the studs in that game Antonius Cleveland played for Dallas not so long ago. pic.twitter.com/NChd7vIm1m— Ersin Demir (@EDemirNBA) October 3, 2022
The Phoenix Suns getting cooked by a bottom 4 Australian NBL team needs its own Disney Channel movie.
— r/CFL on Reddit (@cfl_reddit) October 3, 2022
In non-NFL news: The Adelaide 36ers of the Australian NBL just upset the Suns in Phoenix's first preseason game.
Obviously it's just a preseason game, but worth mentioning because Suns closed as 29.5-point favorites and shorter than -10000 on the moneyline. Crazy upset.— Jack Miller (@JackMiller02) October 3, 2022
That’s an embarrassing loss by the Phoenix Suns to Kai Sotto and Adelaide considering the Suns starters have played. Somehow, the NBL’s stock have gone up because of this massive win!
— Joey Villar (@JoeySVillar) October 3, 2022
An NBL team who play 10 min quarters on FIBA sized courts just slapped a 60 win NBA team with NBA rules. 2013 Suns are back!!!
— Lyle Swithenbank (@LyleSwithenbank) October 3, 2022
NBL Salary Cap is $1.7 million for '22-23
Suns payroll is $167 million for '22-23 👍#NBLxNBA— Simon Smith (@SimonSperling) October 3, 2022
Kinda don’t care about the Suns losing to an NBL team in the preseason.
Preseason is about working on different things and while it would be nice to win, that’s not the point.— Talkin’ Knicks (@TalkinKnicks) October 3, 2022
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