Warm_Cartographer258

51 | 4 hours ago

Love that he talks about all the things he didn’t do well even after an MVP season. That’s superstar mentality.

Responsible_Focus424 | Lakers

-33 | 3 hours ago

That’s literally every person looking to improve themselves ever. Jesus Christ the bar the is the floor for you guys here.

Even-Ad-4947

17 | 3 hours ago

Imagine being the very very best at your field nation-wide and still looking to get better instead of being complacent. That is hard and remarkable..

iwannabe1two

1 | 2 hours ago

That’s most MVPs though, isn’t it? Most of them will talk about the work they still need to do to get better, most of them talk about being incomplete. Name me a sports star in the last decade that said “yeah, I’m the best and there’s nothing left to do.”

EndWish

10 | 2 hours ago

Lmao stop. Every person is not the reigning champ and MVP and still not satisfied with their work. It’s a rare trait that we generally only see from the greats. Some people need to minimize everything lol. Most people are doing the bare minimum to get by whether its work, school, fitness etc.

Weary_Substance_4776

1 | 37 minutes ago

Exactly lol. Pretending like this is the norm. SGA literally reached the pinnacle of his craft and got paid, he could easily take his foot off the gas. That’s what most people do, including top level athletes, we see it all the time in different sports.

Weary_Substance_4776

1 | 39 minutes ago

There are levels lol. You can want to improve yourself all you want, but if you don’t have the discipline, self control and consistency, it’s not going to pay dividends. The hardest part is the consistent grind that goes into truly improving, even slowly.

BlueeyeswhitePIKA | Nuggets

1 | 3 minutes ago

Its reddit dude. People love simple, dumb takes. You’re 100% right though

Marsupial_Last | Thunder

43 | 4 hours ago

I like how she asks him about the positives from last year but Shai insists on seeing where he can improve.

EpicNinjaSloth

15 | 4 hours ago

Exactly. focusing on growth over praise shows real drive. That’s how you level up consistently.

SkillIsTooLow | Supersonics

10 | 4 hours ago

Its like the opposite of Michael Scott’s “my weaknesses? I work too hard, I care too much, and sometimes I can be too invested in my job”

mr_kap_ | Australia

24 | 4 hours ago

As a certified SGA hater, he is not lying…..its crazy the improvement he made in this regard from last season to this season, pisses me off how good he is now.

comeonbjxgo

20 | 4 hours ago

Sorry but he is better than Kobe

super_sayanything | Bulls

16 | 4 hours ago

He just needs to go do it for 10 years, and the narrative will swing fast that way.

Genericthrowaw4y | Thunder

7 | 4 hours ago

This sub is not ready to hear that

Victor_Wembanyama1 | Spurs

10 | 3 hours ago

Because he’s still only a three time all star.

You’re not gonna place him over Kobe yet or other greats. He’s just starting.

SwimFar1221

10 | 4 hours ago

Wym? This the only place where you could say this bc it’s much higher on SGA and much lower on Kobe than most bball communities

Genericthrowaw4y | Thunder

1 | 4 hours ago

This sub hates SGA lmao are you kidding. Watching this guy make history has been the most entertaining thing this season

myteethhurtnow | Minneapolis Lakers

7 | 4 hours ago

Sure but the sub doesn’t like kobe much at all, especially compared to the rest of the internet.

SwimFar1221

1 | 4 hours ago

Absolutely not compared to other places. I see new advanced stat and efficiency metric every day to hype up SGA and I only been here a month. People saying he MJ. Nerd community like reddit are much higher on sga than hoop community and other social media like youtube

WeBelieveIn4 | Raptors

5 | 4 hours ago

Lol you’ve only been here a month, that’s why.

CartographerFar681 | Lakers

4 | 4 hours ago

I won’t downplay SGA, he’s great, but the hate boner this sub has for Kobe is fuckin ridiculous lol

KL2ConspireLLC | San Diego Clippers

19 | 4 hours ago

TIL it’s ridiculous to hate a rapist.

ExpressionAlone5204 | Thunder

4 | 4 hours ago

It’s crazy. For a dude everyone bowed to while he was alive, man died and everyone started shitting on him. Like ok there’s some valid complaints, but it was pretty quiet while he was still breathing

SwimFar1221

1 | 4 hours ago

Nerds hate Kobe a lot and need to downplay him wit made up stats

atlasdtalos | Brian Grant

2 | 4 hours ago

all stats are made up.

Due_Orange_3723

3 | 4 hours ago

This is rage bait right?

AbsoluteGarbaj

2 | an hour ago

He’s even better than Lebron.

amiabot--

-1 | 4 hours ago

Better at flopping for sure. His flailing game is second to none.

Interesting-List-641

23 | 4 hours ago

It’s just an experience thing for him at this point, he’s seen every coverage and all teams are doing now is switching up those coverages, so all it really is for him now is just how quick he is reading what coverage teams are throwing at him on any given possesion, and what his counter is going to be.

His speed at making those quick decisions is what’s really stood out for me this year.

ScionAurelius | Canada

15 | 4 hours ago

That game 7 was brutal for him efficiency wise. Glad it happened though since he’ll just keep improving from it.

Parallel-Quality

15 | 4 hours ago

When was the last time we saw an MVP winner meaningfully improve their game this much the following season?

And it wasn’t a weak MVP either, it was a hotly contested MVP with two guys putting up crazy numbers.

Then he shows up this season with a freaking step back 3, and is shooting 44% from 3.

He was shooting 34% from 3 just a couple years ago.

Not_tim_duncan | Spurs

12 | 4 hours ago

Probably Curry in 15 & 16. Quite a lot of parallels between the two of them at the moment.

Parallel-Quality

7 | 4 hours ago

I would say the main difference is that Curry’s 2015 MVP wasn’t nearly as strong as SGA’s 2025 MVP.

But the 2016 and 2026 ones look to be on the same level.

Marsupial_Last | Thunder

10 | 4 hours ago

Shai’s hypothetical 2026 MVP won’t be unanimous like Curry it’ll probably be highly contested again.

Guaranteedoffbeaten

3 | 3 hours ago

Shai’s competition for the award is a 7’0 foot center (the best playmaking center of all time) who’s averaging a triple double on otherworldly efficiency.

Marsupial_Last | Thunder

3 | 3 hours ago

Glad I got that Serb on my fantasy team

Due_Orange_3723

7 | 4 hours ago

Jokic

xychosis | 76ers

1 | an hour ago

Steph. He was a fantastic and worthy MVP in 2015, and then became God disguised as Wardell Stephen Curry II in 2016.

Due_Orange_3723

-9 | 4 hours ago

Jokic

WaviDeity

6 | 2 hours ago

SGA has a legendary work ethic, He takes a weakness and turns it into a strength. He will constantly improve and has the mindset, skills, and talent to be one of greatest of all time.

fun_hung | Mavericks

2 | 3 hours ago

I don’t even necessarily think he’s more talented than Luka is (I’d argue less so) but SGA’s self-awareness as to what he’s lacking in, where he can improve on, and general willingness to do what it takes to get better as a player and teammate is what really made this guy the superstar he is today.

Luka will say all the right things to the media after a tough loss but apply none of those lessons to what he does on the court, and will just keep winning and losing games doing the usual Luka things because it somehow doesn’t bother him at all that he’s not the best player in the NBA yet and he’s been overtaken by some random lottery pick in his draft class who wasn’t anything to write home about a mere 2 years ago. Mavs fans never stopped believing in Luka until the trade, and even now many of us still do, but ultimately his legacy is what’s at stake here and he needs to decide how he wants to remembered.

Ok_Track_7904

3 | 3 hours ago

It really is depressing watching SGA improve every year to get to where he is now when he wasn’t even in the same stratosphere as Luka even 3 years ago. Obviously the trade was stupid as fuck, but it probably must’ve been frustrating as hell to Nico too lol. I just wonder if Luka even cares about being the best in the world, cuz there should be no way he doesn’t take SGA lapping him personally

fun_hung | Mavericks

3 | 2 hours ago

In all likelihood he cares more about winning than being the best, but it’s not as if the two are unrelated because becoming the best makes it inevitable that you’ll be in the position to win. His teams have been in win-now mode since his sophomore season—the Lakers can either keep flaming out and retooling every year trying to find the perfect roster to put around what might already be peak Luka, or he can decide he’s finally done losing, take his game to a whole new level, and start playing like the ATG he’s supposed to be.

TNT_FC

-1 | 2 hours ago

Homed* in on.

Genericthrowaw4y | Thunder

-6 | 4 hours ago

As long as he’s healthy we’ll break 73+ easily. Regularly sitting in the fourth is load management at its finest.

butterbeancd | Thunder

11 | 4 hours ago

“Easily” is crazy.

Genericthrowaw4y | Thunder

4 | 4 hours ago

We’re regularly beating teams by 20+ while not even being healthy all season. Once I hart and Dort are back I don’t see us losing many games

WeBelieveIn4 | Raptors

6 | 4 hours ago

I don’t believe in jinxes, this is just hubris or inexperience or both.

No-Web-5557

-11 | 4 hours ago

FTA

Due_Orange_3723

-16 | 4 hours ago

He just tries too hard to act cool. It all comes off like an act

digitcruz

13 | 4 hours ago

Nuggets fan says it all

Due_Orange_3723

-6 | 3 hours ago

Says the thunder fan…

Marsupial_Last | Thunder

7 | 3 hours ago

All I see are a couple of flare-less pions, yeah you too u/digitcruz

Due_Orange_3723

-11 | 3 hours ago

He wants to be Kobe so bad it’s annoying

amiabot--

-18 | 4 hours ago

Manipulating the game offensively = flop and flail until his ref boyfriends give him freethrows.

True mastery at work.

Bradyj3

10 | 3 hours ago

Watch the games

amiabot--

-13 | 3 hours ago

I do. He gets a laker whistle.

Imo every flop should be a suspension. And yes, “selling” the foul is a flop.