Dillon Brooks has never been interested in being a quiet character in someone else’s story. Some players answer rivalry with a shrug. Brooks answers it like a man auditioning for the role of basketball’s last true heel, the kind of antagonist who does not simply lean into boos, but merchandises them.
His latest act is almost too perfectly on-brand: Brooks has collaborated with Underdog on “Unethical Hoops,” a parody game modeled after the classic hand-eye coordination board game “Operation,” built around the modern internet debate over Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s foul-drawing style. The premise is simple and deliberately ridiculous: try to steal the ball from Shai without getting whistled. Underdog promoted the game with the line, “If you touch him, it’s a foul,” and announced that only 100 copies would be made available through a limited giveaway.
Dillon Brooks playing a board game where you can’t touch SGA is CRAZY 😭 via @Underdog pic.twitter.com/geUKZPqvrB
— BrickCenter (@BrickCenter_) May 21, 2026
Underdog’s Original Game: Unethical Hoops is now LIVE
It takes a very steady hand to steal the ball from Shai…
We’re only giving away 100 copies of the game, so click the link threaded below for your chance to win 🤝 pic.twitter.com/rvrKpaKGGt
— Underdog (@Underdog) May 21, 2026
That is the joke, but it is also the argument. Gilgeous-Alexander has become one of the most devastating offensive players in the league because he lives in the uncomfortable spaces defenders hate most: elbows, gaps, angles, leaning shoulders, late hands, desperate reaches. He is not simply hunting contact. He is manipulating balance. He makes defenders wrong before they know they are wrong. To his supporters, that is craft. To his critics, it is foul-baiting. To Dillon Brooks, apparently, it is a children’s game with a buzzer.
The timing gives the whole thing its bite. Brooks has already made public comments about Shai’s physicality, calling him “frail” and criticizing what he described as “dropping,” “falling,” “flopping” and “flailing.” The “Unethical Hoops” game turns that talking point into a prop, a meme and a miniature culture war all at once.
