Wembanyama on a potential Spurs and OKC rivalry: “No one can claim to have a rivalry with them, they’re in their own tier.”
This sub in shambles.
This one isn’t gonna hit like the one about ethical basketball, that’s for sure lol
Wemby playing both sides tho, smart
Even with the “ethical basketball” quote, like 1 minute later he was praising OKC and saying he wanted the spurs to reach that tier
Also he wasn’t talking about ethical basketball the same way this sub does. He was talking about style of play rather than grifting and foul baiting
man even in the one about how he thinks spurs play ‘correct’ it was crazy, literally the quote in the title had removed every single qualifier Wemby offers whilst saying the very thing being quoted. people here show up for drama, posters know it and act accordingly.
i know nobody reads the articles, but i didn’t know people didn’t even bother listening to a 30 second video instead of skipping that and going straight to the comments to shit on whoever said what the title says they did.
He’s also used “ethical basketball” several times in the past without ever talking about OKC. I think it’s just a language thing.
Can’t believe anyone thought he meant the latter in first place.
Exactly!! I really hope okc fans actually heard what Wemby said and realize he was not taking any shots at them like that. He knows OKC is at the top and spurs have a long way to go to reach that
Even the full quote on that made it pretty obvious he wasn’t taking shots at OKC.
This probably went way over my head, but what’s the deal with this Ethical Basketball thing? Like why is that seen as a jab, and how are people somehow thinking it’s something negative directed at the Thunder. When Jarrett Allen originally used the phrase Ethical Basketball, didn’t that mean unselfish team basketball? Isn’t this the same context being used in the quote from Wemby?
I believe your interpretation should be the correct meaning. People on Reddit / social media have adopted it and essentially use it to put down teams and players they don’t like.
Some people use ethical basketball in contrast with foul baiting / flopping
And then I guess they think since others used the same words in order that they are on the same page
Your understanding of ethical basketball is the same as what Wemby is describing. Except fans on social media have altered the meaning of “ethical” to mean the opposite of “foul baiting” (or whatever definition fits their narrative that day 🙄).
The one who will bring balance to the Force
I think he’s just being true. He has a big chip on his shoulder but also understands how good OKC is.
I don’t think he’s being fake either, I just think he’s intelligent and walks a line between some a bit of spicy talk and genuine respect
“No, no, no, see I’m playing both sides, so I can always come out on top.”
“Why would you tell us you’re playing both sides?”
Everyone needs shoes
Yes, the glazing is scary. OKC lost by 2 shooting 24% from 3
There’s something about the NBA Cup that makes the Thunder go ice cold from three
Man that finals last year was genuinely awful. We couldn’t hit shit
I don’t think it’s just the NBA cup, it feels like they’re still going hot and cold on 3s in general.
We gotta give ourselves some credit here. Last season it was like every third game, and this season its been like every 7th game lol. Progress is progress.
Just the days Joe’s out lol
goes for every team in the NBA, including the “good” shooting teams as the Celtics demonstrated in the 2023 and 2025 postseasons. OKC is just able to offset 3P shooting variance better than anyone else bc they typically dominate the shot margin with their turnover generation on defense and they have the best midrange scorer in the world
That’s just how randomness works isn’t it?
I meant more game to game. It’s very feast or famine. It feels like they never have an average game shooting 3s, either they’re all going in or none of them.
I looked at their last 5 games and they shot something like, 25%, 30%, 33%, 40%, 55%. This seems like a very normal distribution of 3 point shooting percentage.
I mean the Spurs couldn’t hit the side of a barn to start either, 0/11 or whatever it was?
Vegas ain’t for everybody
I can play this game! OKC lost by 2 with Wemby only playing 20 mins off an injury.
And shooting 31% from 3 lol people out here acting like they didnt start the game like 0 for 12 with a ton of misses from Barnes on wide open corner shots.
I think the difference is okc usually hold opponents to those numbers and win easily. Spurs 41% from field and 31% from 3. The thunder allow 42% from the field and 34% from 3.
In a vacuum thats a totally valid argument, but watching the game itself the Spurs were generating a lot of wide open looks from 3 in the first half that just didnt fall. Barnes had at least 3-4 wide open looks from Castle/Fox collapsing the OKC defense that just didnt drop, and hes shooting somewhere around 44-45% from the corner three this season. After the 0-12 start, the Spurs finished 13⁄30 (43%) from behind the arc, with a lot of the same quality of three.
That’s true. But that’s how OKC plays defense. They allow the 8th most 3s made and the 7th most 3s attempted. But have been number 1 for 3 years against points in the paint.
The beg you to make 3s. They bet on percentages. You’re more likely to make a layup than a 3. And usually that works. But as you stated they got hot after the 1st quarter and OKC went cold… That’s pretty much how they lose almost all their games. Spurs defense was a big reason why they went cold though, there’s no denying that.
I agree 100% thats how the OKC defense is designed, but I also think that in the specific case of San Antonio there is a few key differences compared the the rest of who OKC has played. The first being that there isnt another team in the league that has a guard rotation that lives and finishes in the paint to the same level as Fox/Castle/Harper. OKC’s defensive gameplan surrenders a lot of 3s, but they are generally contested 3’s because a) They dont collapse as far as they had to against the Spurs and b) theyre freakishly long and athletic defenders thay can get back out to at least get a hand up there.
The second point is, like I said before, Barnes is shooting like 45% from the corner. Hes top three in the league in corner 3 point percentage. With the degree to which the defense was being forced to collapse, it was creating what were basically uncontested looks for one of the 3 best corner shooters in the league and he was just whiffing them. Thats a genuine problem in a match up against the Spurs, and one they frankly got lucky to dodge if theyre playing the percentages against a 45% corner 3 point shooter.
yeah. Some of the talking points last year was that you guys were allowing too many threes in the corner right ?
Yep. Year before too. At this point, it is what it is. They have done better about those corner 3s though. Still have PJ Washington nightmares lol.. aka Game 6 Klay whenever he plays us.
You missed watching the game when even the announcers were calling out how many wide open 3s Spurs were missing.
I watch every Thunder game and the announcers say this often. OKC will give you open 3s.. they have for years. They bank you not making more than 35 or 36%.. which is still pretty good, but that usually means you’re not taking easy shots and long rebounds equal transition points which OKC usually leads the league in.. AND those shots usually don’t drop in the 2nd half after being hounded by 5 or 6 all defensive team guys. They just couldn’t make shots themselves in the 2nd half.
Can I join in? The Spurs lost back to back games to the Warriors (lol) with Wemby playing 36+ minutes in each game
And Curry scoring 97 across both games.
TIL Curry averages almost 50ppg against the Spurs this season and a mere 29ppg against everyone else.
Yep, he freakin’ hates us, I guess. I wonder if having Harper would’ve made a difference. I feel like he could’ve bullied Steph quite a bit though probably would’ve have prevented him from going nuclear.
Steph then scored 11 pts and 9 pts on the games on either side of our pair of games…. He most certainly hates us (or loves us??)
You guys gave him his first playoff series loss and he took it personally
Dude was in full sky fuckery mode.
Huh? The discussion was about the Thunder and the Spurs game? Why include the Warriors games? Stick to that first. I’ll join in. OKC lost even with their brand of defense of allowed grabbing and slapping.
r/nba when the thunder finally lose a game: 🫵🤣 🫵🤣 🫵🤣 🫵🤣
LOL what’s the connection again? Learn to stick to the topic.
u/n1nj4k1d21 when random redditors don’t follow his “rules”: ༼;´༎ຶ ༎ຶ༽
Nah, I just know how to contextualize but you do you, I guess
u/n1nj4k1d21 when he thinks spurs and thunder prior results isn’t context for discussing spurs vs thunder results: ╰⋃╯(◕ᴗ◕✿)
But no one diminishes the Spurs win?
The guy above just did LMAO
Tbf we only made 4 more threes than them and had 5 more TO’s but yeah its been a bit of an overreaction
And the Spurs won with limited minutes from their best player and shooting 30% from 3 lol
I think OKC is an amazing team who are absolutely the title favorites but I also think they are totally beatable in a 7 game series in the right matchup. They’re being treated like a flawless juggernaut on here- and while they are an incredibly good team, they’ve also inarguably had a very easy schedule (look at their November schedule lol)
Teams like the Spurs and last year’s Pacers team that are young and can get out and run the floor the entire game are capable of pushing the pace and beating this team. Denver took them to 7 last year while banged up and look like a better version of themselves this year.
Would I be shocked if they repeated this year? Not at all. But I thought the 2016 warriors looked literally unbeatable and they STILL didn’t win the finals. Ya never know
They survived the WCF through sheer fuckery and Game 6 Klay so they were beatable
The Spurs shot more open corner 3s that missed by good shooters this season. I think they made 2-11 I think and the Thunder shot 5 corner 3s. You don’t have chip Boston’s level of shooting across the board and Wemby shut down the paint when he was in so you were forced into tougher 3s by Shai especially and less rim attempts. Your team has mostly streaky shooters and could easily lose a shooting competition if the paint is closed for your team and you have to take more than you want of tougher off the dribble 3s.
All NBA talking heads in shambles too.
It’s hilarious how quick people are to find anything to fuel the hate they have for OKC.
Can we not enjoy great basketball being played without finding something to tear down?
r/nba 9⁄11
us drama fans punching the air rn
He would need another big time player before it’s a rivalry
Wemby loving shit-talk all the time but also being genuine humble is such an awesome combo
Apparently he likes to stirr things to motivate himself. People gotta stop seeing him as Tim Duncan. He’s more like KG. Talking trash gets him going. But at the end of the day he understands what’s really up.
I’ll admit this is blasphemy, but his comp in this regard is Jordan lol Mj was legit super humble in his approach to the game, but he also knew he was the fuckin best and would let everyone know – Wemby has that same alpha + humility combo that could get super scary for the league
Excuse me what did you just say? jordan is super humble? The guy who called muggsy bogues “midget”? Did you know he’s so humble that he gave his teammate steve kerr a blackeye? Seriously wtf.
“in his approach to the game” lol
The bogues “midget” story is bogus. Muggsy himself said it never happened. Even if it did, a part of the story is that his shooting never recovered after that moment, when his career stats show no such dip in efficiency.
anyways the main point is MJ speaks with poise and humility to the media regardless of how intense he can be in the midst of competing
If Jordan thought you were a hard worker, an elite talent, or someone who fulfilled their role perfectly, he showed respect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-JccLFiDbg
Watch the last 10 seconds of this clip, no disrespect to Shaq, just a big smile like damn you cooked my ass.
He has repeatedly said Magic and Bird should be in the conversation with him for the greatest of all time.
Unless you were Tony Kukoc. He had a vendetta against him.
Nah the vendetta was against Krause, Toni just got caught in the middle.
Bingo
In that aspect (hate to be a homer) that belongs to Ant then.
Wemby as a trash talker is neither KG nor TD I think he’s in a league of his own when it comes to trash talking
Meh, I don’t think that’s the case. Wemby’s not “talking trash” for the sake of it, and he definitely doesn’t do it to get under people’s skins (which was I think KG’s approach).
Wemby does it more like Jordan: “you guys think (insert Jokic, Giannis, Chet, US Olympic team, Summer league Kai Jones, Vegas showcase Scoot, US U19’s when he was 17yo) is better than me? Fuck that”.
He recognises “the moment”, and for better or worse, tries to play up to it (and usually does). What he needs to learn, and this usually takes Bigs years, so no rush, is that playing up to it also involves slowing down yourself and getting your teammate more involved (before) the moment defences all crash in on you.
Edit: and for the record, I don’t see why people think Timmy wasn’t also like this? I know he was quiet, and you would never hear him say it publicly, but he 100% had that killer instinct to try and dominate anyone considered a rival.
What he needs to learn, and this usually takes Bigs years, so no rush, is that playing up to it also involves slowing down yourself and getting your teammate more involved (before) the moment defences all crash in on you.
This is kind of funny to read right after another comment in this thread asking “isn’t ‘Ethical Basketball’ supposed to mean unselfish team basketball? Isn’t that what Wemby was talking about?”
Because if that was what he meant then it sounds like he agrees with you.
He’s nothing like KG wow this is off
That said I do wanna hear Wemby tell Shai his girl tastes like Honey Nut Cheerios
KG himself had a meeting with wemby and gave him advised about mental aspects of the game.
Yea, what a take. Calling Wemby a shit stirrer and more like KG than Timmy just because he’s met Garnett one summer lol.
I think he’s saying like KG in the way he pumps himself up - but you’re right KG was way more of a psycho where MJ and Wemby are more cold-blooded
He’s French, trash talking is in their blood
Ehh disagree
He doesn’t even shit talk. Most of the time he sounds “arrogant”, he is just being honest while using super formal english because that’s how he learned it.
Like the “ethical” comment, I’m 99% sure he was talking about the Spurs having a lot of guys who can score and not one guy putting 30 shots every night. It had nothing to do with OKC lol
Hahah I know what you mean but at the same time that man did literally point and scream in Caruso’s face staring him down lol
I have Zero doubt that Wemby actually is a Basketball psychopath. It only shows in the heat of the moment though.
That’s because he got hacked and didn’t get a call
No it was because he scored on him pretty badly too. And that’s fine. Basketball is a game built on talking trash
“Genuine” is the word you’re looking for.
LOL. Exactly. I was like FINALLY I GET TO HATE WEMBY.
Then just as fast, back to thinking he’s an amazing, humble guy with a good head on his shoulders.
DAMN IT WEMBY LET ME HATE YOU!
Isn’t this shit talking Jokic and the Nuggets??
Saying Denver and any other hopefuls are just as incapable to beat them as the Spurs!
I genuinely think this is
rivalry doesn’t start until they meet in the playoffs
Rivalries also just don’t require competitive matches. Nobody would say the Packers and Bears aren’t a rivalry despite the extreme disparity in success over the past 35 years.
One team can be CLEARLY better than the other and still be rivals.
The real love for divisions meaning something.
I think it’s the secret sauce the NBA is missing
The NBA doesn’t really market the divisional angle at all. Your divison either has the rivalries and hatred or it doesn’t it seems. Atlantic and central definitely have that rivalry spirit, same with Pacific. I’d say southwest can get pretty chippy too.
The big thing is that divisional winners have huge implications on seeding in NFL playoffs so the need and importance to win your divison is so important. The infrequency of games and the focus each week gets probably plays into rivalries too.
There’s nothing to market. Sure, you play them 4 times instead of 3 or 2, but there are essentially no playoff implications that rely on those games. Tiebreakers aren’t enough of a threat that the wins and losses have the extra meaning that creates a rivalry.
The biggest rivalries in the NBA were between players or between franchises with very little structural backing.
Bird v Magic and Celtics v Lakers, Curry v LeBron and Warriors v Cavs, etc. I guess Bulls vs Pistons was a division rivalry but that wasn’t the reason it existed. Most NBA rivalries are built from playoff series rather than the regular season.
Compare that to the NFL where having the best record in your division guarantees you’re in the playoffs and divisional games are 35% of your entire yearly schedule. NBA divisional games are 16 of your total 82 games, or 19.5%.
When the games matter more, people will care more.
In the NFL, single games matter much more. A loss against a division rival actually has a major impact on your playoff chances. In the NBA, you get to play that rival 3 more times. NBA scheduling also plays a role, as it’s basically random. In European sports leagues, matches against the same team are spaced evenly, e.g. you play once in the fall and once in the spring. In the NBA, some teams play their regular season matches in a span of 5 weeks which kind of distorts the competition. But due to the regular season having 82 games, there’s no real way to create an even schedule, especially with the need to have games on every day of the week. Just look at Golden State’s schedule this season, it’s bonkers.
I think what we’re saying is fewer games or a different requirement to get into playoffs. We’re 25 games into the season and we already know who will make playoffs. We don’t need more teams making the playoffs either. The odds of a 1 losing first round is so small.
Should just make divisional games count double. If you win against a div. Opponent it counts as 2 wins and same with loss’s.
A 4 game swing is pretty big stakes. Or maybe just double the wins but not the loss’s because decent teams in really good divisions might get dumped on
It’s not too difficult to make people care about the divisions. Rejig the schedule so that these teams play more (let’s say 6 times a year). Then play them as two three game series (where the games against each other are consecutive). Those games will get chippy, I guarantee it.
Right now there’s no real difference for teams when they play in division or out division teams, so rivalries don’t form there naturally.
please for the love of fuck they need to hype up division rivalries more
The next 35 years are ours though
He better stop being so humble. Or cocky. Or answering any questions at all. Just keep your head down and not celebrate anything until you’ve won three finals.
Bro needs to just do himself. I love every bit of him, cocky or anything else. Y’all don’t just have an elite athlete, you have a certified star.
Yeah, he’s driving fan engagement that’s going to make future Thunder/Spurs matchups legendary.
Keeping his head down is literally the one thing he can’t do!
I want to see him in a stovepipe hat
With an Abe Lincoln hat? 👀 this sub would go crazy
You can argue that it’s something he constantly has to do
you would think the last line is a dead giveaway but I guess redditors really need the “/s” bullshit
I love imagining him so unbothered by this discourse. He seems like he could be the type not to pay attention, at least I hope that for him. For the game I just want him to stay healthy and talk all his shit.
Yup. Keep it vague and simple. Show and prove on the court. The Spurs healthy, with a fully realized Wemby, even now, are dangerous. There is no reason they can’t win it all this year. They just need real playoff reps.
Or answering any questions at all.
NBA players are contractually obligated to participate in these interviews.
I hate this take. Let him be humble, talk shit, win games, lose games, win MVPs and chips. Just keep working, stay healthy, and go down as the goat.
To all who say this dude talks a lot, watch this. Him being confident and ultra competitive (aside from being a tactless french) does not equate to being a tasteless arrogant bitch. If you’re as talented as he is, you’ll understand his superb confidence. We all know true arrogant beeches have no place in the spurs organization.
And honestly? He might have been also advised by silver to stir some shit up just for engagements. Last year, wemby was asked by adam silver to speak in a conference where NBA was promoting a product (I forgot what it is). The two had a scripted dialogue about the product that I’m sure wemby doesn’t even know at all. I realize then players are damn good actors. The players’ media interviews? many of those were PR trained. Some stuff you see are just for you to buy tickets, league pass, or subscribe to amazon prime.
nba fans: we miss the trash talk of the 90s/00s!!!
nba player: talks trash
nba fans: not like that!!! what a dick!
NBA fans: we miss physical defense and mid range shots and we don’t want 3pt chuckfests
OKC: Does exactly that
NBA fans: Fuck Adam silver and the Thunder
Yeah sensitive folks. These people have no idea how much more trash talking are going on the court during games.
Could also be a difference in culture. French people have a certain smugness and assholeness in them and that’s just normal civilians while he’s a 7 footer and one of the best players in the world at his age.
It’s just honesty to French people. Obviously I’m not as familiar with US culture but it seems to me that there is value put onto being a “people pleaser” even if that means being smarmy, while in France such people will often be seen as straight up fake and therefore untrustworthy.
Nous sommes juste meilleurs, c’est tout
Frenchman here that has lived and worked on both sides of the Atlantic.
What Americans call smugness, we call honesty and not sugarcoating everything enough to give you type 2 diabetes.
Which can lead to interesting situations in the workplace, I’ve seen projects in the US stuck for months because nobody wanted to openly point out what part of them was shit unblocked in minutes because some random french employee that was visiting said in a meeting “Uh, this, this and this is shit and won’t work”.
I really like Wemby but I definitely anticipate this sub getting fatigue with all the quotes and commentary when the Spurs start knocking peoples favourite teams out of the playoffs. It’s not really even something that he can control, but I feel like we’ve been getting Wemby quote after Wemby quote, he’s just too insightful for his own good
Of course it’s the NBA. Fans and media drama will always be there. And when your team start beating other teams?? Oh boy it’s you against the world 🤣
I mean, he’s a perfect villain. Black and silver, number one pick wearing 1, and with a physical gift that almost no one alive can match. He would be considered too obvious of a bad guy in a sports movie.
Nah I love that he talked trash BEFORE THE GAME.
Then during the game backed it the fuck up.
Then after the game is humble since there is more to prove. That’s not just Star. That’s SUPER STAR.
As a big OKC fan, i hope we get to go against this guy for the next 5 years. He is great for the league and i am relishing the opportunity to root against him.
He’ll be around for much longer than five.. now I’m anticipating Spurs games more than every other opponent
I just want us to win one more. Pretty sure the next 5 years are wembys after this season health being the only factor. There’s literally no way to stop him if he gets any better.
It might be different if his team was ass, but hes got a young core around him.
It’s GG for the league 2026-2027 and beyond. The NBA has one more shot at a ring before its over.
I just want us to win one more.
dont you think you’ve had enough tho? what about the other teams like the Lakers or the Warriors or Boston? what about them !?
I’m a giant Spurs haters, about 25 years running, so I love when they’re good. No fun beating them when they suck. I hope this rivalry picks up. I live in south south texas so I’m surrounded by spurs fans
lol it SOUNDS like you saying this as if OKC has been better than SA for the last 25 years, and that it’s better when we are good and able to compete with you guys…
…but I’m going to assume that’s not what you meant.
I don’t think that’s what he was saying, but OKC hasn’t been around for 25 years. Our first season was 2008-2009.
The Spurs have had more postseason success in that time, but since the Thunder have been a team, both teams have one championship. OKC’s win % since 2008-09 is .590 and SAS’s is .585.
Edit: Maybe I was misspoken about postseason success. OKC has 79 postseason wins since 08-09 and SAS has 69.
More so that it’s nice to see another team have an effective rebuild and be in a good position to compete for the next 10+ years, especially with an organization that’s capable of capitalizing on it. After last year I think we’ve had more or less identical success in the small sample size of OKC’s existence.
He’s walking it back here, but there’s been rumblings about him and Chet for a while, and that game (weird ending aside), and his comments that day are the start of something I’m very much looking forward to.
I love how you can go to three different posts on this thread of different clips from this post game and come away with the vibe that Wemby is super humble, that Wemby is super arrogant, that Wemby is a Machiavellian schemer, or that Wemby doesn’t understand how his own team plays.
Y’all need to stop living on sound bites.
this sub shits on the reactionary twitter pages and espn and give the same half ass takes themsevles lol. cant take this place serious anymore. It used to be bad during the summer but now its even during the season. we should be happy the league is in good hands post curry and bron
Wemby just stirring up some shit for hype. Maybe it was Adam Silver’s request. In reality, Wemby knows OKC is the real shit. He is still competitive and wants to beat them, but he truly respect that team.
I think of part of this is that he is just 22 and English is not his first language. People should stop treating him like a perfect philosopher - he is a 22yo basketball player and sometimes says cocky things and sometimes humble things.
He’s a fantastic player as is SGA, league is in good hands moving forward
The leagues fun when we can appreciate the abundance of stars we are getting to witness
There’s no point in trying to appease anyone. Wemby talked just a little bit of shit and instantly had dirk disapproving. Now people are calling him an arrogant French boy.
Who cares, in a perfect world we’d only let the media near these guys once or twice a month, but these days these guys are more shaped by the media than anything else in their lives.
Fans are so annoyingly sensitive. When players are friendly, they say this era’s weak. When they talk little smack they are arrogant. Damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
Not all trashtalking players are toxic. Sometimes they do it for engagement, sometimes they have fun with it. Edwards and Wemby are good examples. Edwards will talk smack to you all game but will later say you belt his ass 🤣
Meanwhile, not all the quiet dudes are nice. Kawhi Leonard is all looking nice and quiet, but behind closed doors he was plain disrespectful to his coaches.
But yeah, there are some real toxic arrogant trash talkers. Ja Morant is one of them.
This smooth bastard. I hate (love) him
He’s just like me for real.
Respects the shit out of OKC and the team they’ve built, but every now and then you just got to let some shit rip since they employ Chet Holmgren
Bro just can’t miss.
Wemby is not wrong
He’s already the best NBA interview at 21
IDK, this Spurs team is almost as young and almost as scary (when healthy), I think it could be shaping up.
Tbf the top 3 young stars (Wemby, Castle, Harper) for Spurs are younger as than Thunders (SGA, Jdub, Chet).
Are geographic rivals no longer a thing? Texas always beefs with Oklahoma
Ya. And Fuck Nico for ruining that rivalry. The Luka Mavs had our number every game.
We still have the Rockets and Spurs though.
So fuck you too :)
I like that he has the humility to say that they’re better right now. It’s honest. Just like the ethical basketball comment.
People be calling everything a rivalry nowadays lol. Good thing Wemby knows his shit.
Respect is how it all starts ladies and gentlemen.
Get ready this will only be disrespect from this point on.
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Its wild that you seem to think wemby is even remotely hated…
What the actual fuck is this? You think Wemby is hated? Breathe a bit and stop putting on a victim complex from non-existent narratives
Is it common to paraphrase a quote but still place in quotation marks? It doesn’t change what he said but genuinely curious
Mitch made sure he got some more media treating after his last quotes lol.
The media wants this to be a rivalry so bad. Must have come from the top to stir the pot and boost viewership
Okc vs Dallas could have been the best rivalry ever. Okc to Dallas is an evening drive. Okc to San Antonio is a two airport adventure.
Imagine if all french players were this cool
You idiots just interpreate sound bites the way you want then wonder why it sounds like hes contradicting himself. Ethical basketball isnt the same as what reddit definition is
Bro is walking back all that hubris 😅
It’s like they made Wemby in a lab, including optimizing the “media skills” perk.
Him giving them their props is shit talking!
That’s why the monks taught him.
Rivalries are forged in the playoffs. Everything else is just bullshit
Hali and the Pacers took them to 7 last year. If Hali doesn’t get hurt I’m certain the Pacers win and we’re probably talking about one of the biggest upsets of all time.
I think this is the first time I’ve heard his voice. It’s a deep voice! Reminds me of Mutumbo a little.
How about the teams that just took them to 7 games? Ok, fine one of those teams got sent to the shadow realm by injuries, but the other one? That got better this year? Is in their division? And is only 5 games back despite missing 2 starters for weeks? Not saying OKC aren’t favorites against everyone, but Nuggets are the rivalry. I guess if they meet a few years in a row it’ll be more clear cut.
You saw okc last year learning …they are better this year …no one can take them to 7 games this season and we will find out ..
Probably not. Anyway, Nuggs in 6
“Yeah we beat a team so good they are in their own tier”
They shot terrible I hope you beat then by 20 . But beating them by 2 when they shoot 24 percent .please , chasing okc for years
Once the Sonics are back the rivalry will be very real lol
Lifelong Spurs Fan here (my first basketball memories were David Robinson’s rookie year).
I’m so excited we have some trash talk on the Spurs now. Wemby is way known for it, but Sohan and Fox jaw quite a bit as well. Pop would have sat a player for jawing like Wemby does, so we’ve been without that for decades.
But Spurs are still gonna Spurs, so of course Victor is still humble and gracious talking about the best team in the league. But I also love the fire that he wants that rivalry.
It’s never not been good to be a Spurs fan, but I’m especially excited right now.
The mavs were gonna have a rivalry with them…
Rivalries need to be more than a handful of games lol
You saw an okc team that just shot terrible ..24 or so percent from 3 , that won’t beat anyone in the NBA consistently…spurs won by 2 points LMAO..other okc loss was 2 points …when they shot bad too. …other than that okc is way ahead of everyone atm .. they handled the loss like champions because they know it happens in the NBA ….spurs can be close , like Denver and even lakers but everyone is and will be chasing the thunder for years ….
Didn’t they play the Spurs? I think they played good defense, and I think that had something to do with OKC’s shooting, I don’t know, I might be wrong.
Smirks in Daniel Cormier
… Of GARBAGE! Kick em in the nuts Wemby!
It’s weird people extract humility from this. You’d be a clown to declare yourself a rival lol
OKC vs Spurs rivalry since Wemby has been drafted
5-2 average margin of victory 15+
3-2 in games where Wemby is playing
They had a nice win the other night but like he said the gap is still pretty wide
The Spurs have won at least 3 games since Wemby was drafted? Once his rookie year, a Cup game last year (without Wemby), and the Cup Semi this year.
The Thunder have gone belt to ass on us several times in that time too though
Wemby knows OKC is fucked anyways ; just give the spurs one more year and they’ll have built a team worse than them. OKC has no answer for wemby
I agree. No matter who they draft next year, long as wemby has his current supporting cast, nothing’s gonna change. OKC will always worry about him.
Okc shot 24 percent from 3 ..can’t beat anyone shooting that …spurs won by 2 points LMAO . Other okc loss was 2 points and were shooting terrible … ..spurs can’t beat okc in a series and will be chasing them for years
the foul baiting S tier
Well spoken egg
Tough thay even wemby knows that okc is toughhh
This guy is 100p a chode the more I hear him talk
I don’t just need Wemby to win, I need OKC to lose. Everything.
“Fine in the west”
Nah that’s a top tier arrogant moment in modern sports. 🤣
Mitch talked to him.