[Rosen] Tyronn Lue on Kawhi Leonard being snubbed from the All-Star Game: “Congratulations to all the guys that made it. They all deserve it, as well. But Kawhi, I think, to me, the last six weeks has been the best player in the NBA.”
Well the season started 14 weeks ago, Mr. Lue
He’s played more games than LeBron
It’s almost like there’s a benefit to engaging with media and fans
Insert creepy laugh
That says something about the media and the fans..
One thing it says about them is that they’re human
We are all human. Their job description is “humans who can opine on basketball players without caring who engages with them”..
That’s not a fan’s job.
I was talking about the media..Not that fans are excused
Yeah LeBron telling us about his golf hobby for the 700th time is really engaging
Yall complaining about the wrong dude when Chet is right there
Chet might be defensive player of the year and is the Vegas favorite to win it ight now.
Lol what. It’s Gobert and it’s not even close. Especially with Wemby kinda working Chet h2h
i don’t think they were claiming Chet, moreso informing you that Vegas favors chet more than gogurt
Thunder deserve multiple all stars, they’re the 1 seed and best team in the nba.
LeBron is likely to make all star indefinitely every year regardless of his season numbers. Just like Jordan in his waning years, LeBron will be judged more on his body of work and name recognition before considering any single season drop off in stats
Damn
How many of those weeks did LeBron play?
It’s Lebron….. different level of fame.
He’s earned the legacy all-star nod more than anyone ever could
LeBron has missed an insanely uncharacteristic amount of time this season, whereas Kawhi has spent more time hurt than playing for the last 6 years
he’s this year’s winner of the Annual LeBron James All Star Charity Nomination
Is it a charity for you if they’re making their money off of you being there?
dawg im just bein silly about lebron getting gold stars while 93 years old im not tryna make a revenue flowchart
Lebron should be in the ASG every year until he retires. It was that way with MJ and Kobe. Lebron has earned that right.
Saying this when as late as last year he was better than every single player on the Knicks is something
Lol “annual”
Who plays for the 10th seed in the west?
They were using seeding to justify why AD was snubbed a couple of years ago, keep that same energy
Legit injury. How many healthy scratches has kawaii had the last decade? Yeah, take that argument somewhere else.
Kawhi literally has a degenerative knee injury. Casuals showing up with this take is so pathetic
You can apply this thinking to all players, might as well be objective about it
Again, how many healthy scratches has kawai had?
He’s never healthy. They’re to manage his chronic knee to condition…
How many under the table payments did the Lakers give LeBron?
bruh… a dead Lebron still has a higher stock than a healthy Kawhi at this point
No he doesn’t
Ok i’m convinced
dumbest comment i’ve seen all week so congrats
You must’ve been out of the loop with the US politics then
He’s leading the league in steals with 28 ppg on 50-40-90. It’s been overlooked but he’s been excellent
last 6 weeks hes at 29/6/4 on 50/40/92 with 2.3 steals, clippers have been winning too
And the previous 8 weeks he put up 25/6/3 on 48/35/98 and the clips were 4-13 in those games.
You can’t just pick and choose which parts of the season you want to base it on.
Funnily enough these are still better stats than a lot of the other players picked. Any advanced stat will tell you that Kawhi has been a top 5-7 player impact wise for this season. That is undebatable.
i picked the last 6 weeks because thats what ty lue mentioned in his quote 👍
Wait those stats are pretty excellent as well though
And they’re led by a cheater and no one watches their games outside of the 43 clippers fans in existence.
Just a simple discussion here, no need to get so angry
Not angry. Just stating cold hard facts.
He’s leading the league in steals
Off the court too
I just can’t take him seriously, anytime I watch him play I wonder if I just got lucky tuning into a game where he’s not “injured”
People are missing the forest for the trees here. I’m stumped. I’ve seen comments that he didn’t want to play anyway but I think all players aspire to be all stars. I think having the personality of a tree really hurts him with fan voting. Hopefully this plants the seeds in peoples minds that he’s one of the best in the league
He shouldn’t even be playing regular season games right now but since the league decided to let him play, he deserves to be on the all star team.
Yea he can no show at this all star game too
Your center has a domestic violence charge and didn’t miss a game
This from a team that cheats and signs paragons of virtue like Porter Jr. and Primo. Ballmer bots are truly pathetic.
Kawhi still cheated the game of basketball and fucked the integrity of the sport. He should be punished.
Damn what did I miss about Ayton?
Edit: Its Jaxson Hayes, my flair lives on for another day
Only thing Ayton is beating on is his game controller
From the fan base that still loves Patrick Beverly
Have you considered clippers bad though?
I don’t think you know how guilt works
Lol 80 upvotes. Looks up and sees Laker fan.
deserves an all star spot over chet that’s for sure
Chet’s assist and ppg to me aren’t enough for his spot. Hes capable of a lot more but this season, so far, he’s not elite.
Over deni imo. Similar records and kawhi is better. Also no one wants to see an IDF soldier in the all star game
No one averaging Deni’s counting stats has ever missed an all star game.
Kawhi has been more efficient and has nearly a top 5 epm, I got no qualms with Kawhi > Deni.
But really the argument should be Chet and Bron.
You reference EPM, which Chet is #7 in
I think Chet is good. Right on the cusp, and certainly Chet > Bron.
But at 17.8 / 8.6 / 1.6
The counting stats just aren’t there imo. For a case over Deni/Kawhi.
Im certainly not mad though, I’m a Chet fan.
Holy shit enough of this IDF soldier shit.
It’s such a tiring conversation and doesn’t belong in the discussion about all star merit.
All they have to do is stop killing children and taking more land and all of the complaining will stop like that.
No one wants to discuss it but you feel bad if you ignore it. I didn’t like it when the US was bombing Iraqis either so I’m not picking on Israel
The IDF shit is extremely fucking stupid because you are literally forced by law to serve in the IDF once you turn 18 if your Israeli. Like put politics, beliefs and anything else aside. He has to do it Simply because he’s from there.
Didn’t he defend his country’s actions like 9 days ago and call anyone against the Genocide stupid ???
Literally 10 days ago
You don’t have to love what I stand for or how I look, but if I’m a good player, give props. All this hate … for no reason. Like, I’m deciding things in the world. I’ll be honest: What do people expect me to do? This is my country, where I was born, where I grew up. I love my country; there are a lot of great things about my country. But obviously, not everyone is educated and knows what is going on, and that’s what pisses me off. Because if you are educated and know what is going on, it’s fine to say what you think and say who you think is right or wrong. But if you are not educated and you are not part of the Middle East, and you don’t understand how long this goes back and understand the consequences and everything … just don’t say anything.”
That excuse would work if he didn’t continually defend it and tells people to be educated. He said he was proud of it and it shows whenever he addresses it.
Aren’t the athletes excused from that?
It’s the same any other country that had or has mandatory conscription. Serve or go to jail.
In the end, it’s just some loser who’s too afraid to be overtly racist so hides behind ‘IDF soldier’ comment.
You haven’t seen him talk about it in interviews then. Clearly he had no qualms about it
20 year old guy is proud to be from his home country.
Holy shit, my mind is literally blown!
So if an Iranian defends the actions of Iran against protestors, it would just be being proud of his home country? Give me a break. You’d all be rightfully on his ass for defending a despicable act.
Bro he basically said it’s a complicated subject and a lot of people just refer to him as like some psychopathic Nazi just because of where he was born. If it was me, I’d probably start to get defensive too.
Regardless, none of this even fucking matters because Israeli or not Deni has been hooping and I like watching players play basketball. That’s why I’m in this sub and he has put together a season that’s 100% worthy of nba all star honors.
Ya’ll making this shit political is just pathetic.
Sure buddy. I bet you get defensive about Ice when America gets criticized for it. Clearly blind loyalty is the only metric to loving a country. Iranians probably have no choice but to defend Iran when they criticize protestor killings. Very complicated subject.
Yall making this shit political is just pathetic
Welcome to Reddit. Chronically online masses digitally virtue signaling despite never actually going into the real world and attempting to understand the issues that they’re “fighting” for. And by fighting I mean doing absolutely nothing other than making a comment on Reddit and claiming that if others don’t do the same then they are Nazi racists. Or the other way around. It’s all performative and meaningless when it’s not face to face with in real life with real consequences.
I’m not seeing any of these clowns cutting checks to these causes they claim to not even fall asleep while knowing about.
It’s always funny when people expose themselves as complete and total braindead idiots. I’m not saying that’s what you’re doing. Just in general, it’s hilarious when that happens. Just thought I’d drop that somewhere random, just so happens to be your comment. Definitely not because you said something heinously stupid.
No one wants to see the clippers do anything so where are you going with this? Love seeing clippers fans cry over stuff like this cus you’ll never sniff anything legit in the post season. So you gotta make sure you get your kawai all-star snub complaining in while you still can.
I’m saying nba fans don’t want to watch Deni over kawhi when he isn’t even playing better. That’s where I’m going with this.
You’re full of shit.
Fan vote for Deni: 2.2 million.
Fan vote for Leonard: 561,000
Plus Clippers are cheaters. Even if they won a ring this year, I won’t acknowledge it.
Just imagine all the teams that can bypass 2nd tax apron. Also, over the years they’ve signed a lot of good role players. Who knows if Balmer had under the table deals for them too?
Dudes been an owner for like 10 years and already caught twice. I guarantee there’s been more deals we’ve never heard of.
Oh no cheating in the nba! So much more heinous than being a IDF soldier
No way a fan of a team owned by the UAE is talking. Much rather support a cheater over a country that supports genocide in Sudan
Oh yeah all those votes were from non Israeli nba fans. Everyone knows why he got that many votes and no one cares
remind me, do votes only count when they are from US?
I guess Israeli bot votes count in the nba. Is that what you’re trying to say? Should we be giving Yao a spot this year too?
Is Yao in the NBA with 2.2 million votes?
Don’t lie to us and pretend like Kawhi had the fan vote when he clearly didn’t.
better an Israeli than an American
No one cares that he’s Israeli or Jewish. It’s him being in the ID and defending it. I never see anyone shit on Sabonis for being jewish
who said anything about religion. I’m asserting that Israeli’s are morally superior to Americans.
Chet deserves it easily if you think defense is important
Kawhi is literally leading the nba in steals per game
Luka is top 10 in steals per game, he must be a top 10 defender
And I’m sure Luka also had 2 DPOY’s in his resume too right? What a dumbass comment..
Referencing an award he won almost a decadge ago to support your argument is a choice
Kawhi also deserves it, Chet is still a more impactful defender and will likely win DPOY anchoring the #1 defense in the league. the people who should be questioned are Bron and Deni
Over lebron
deserves it over Norman Powell, Jalen Duren, Siakam
Ah yes because they’re in the same conference
that’s what i mean. all star format is team usa vs team world. but nba still thinks conference should matter. it don’t make sense
Didn’t realize he’s 7th in scoring all season
Now that’s something to ASPIRE to
Are we all going to pretend we dont know why he didnt make it?
Because the clippers started 6-21 obviously
He has been incredible. Honestly this snub is moral punishment in the eyes of the voters.
The first thing they thought of when they saw Kawhis name on the ballot was not his play, it was Aspiration, it was “cheater”.
Unfortunate, but understandable.
Nobody cares about aspiration except reddit. Kawhi is king load management this is an exhibition he’ll be happy to miss
hes certainly been good enough to warrant his coach saying that.
No way they were letting him in with all the Aspiration crap..
It’s crazy how good Kawhi is in the context of his health issues. Honestly a testament to medical progress, and for his career remains a bigger what if
He wasn’t snubbed. He’s an “under the table” all-star, cashing them checks in and out of the NBA
Aspiration
He’s literally a top 6 player rn. It’s one of the biggest snubs in AS game history
hahahahahhaha
please check his stats and stop being delusional
I honestly think harden was a bigger snub, he’s been damn good and has played 44 games for Kawhi’s 34
6 weeks doesn’t cut it big dawg. He plays good for 6 weeks every season.
what about 28 pts on 50/40/90 and leading the league in spg
He’s been really good for most of the year.
If they wanna knock him for missing 13 games so far then whatever, I’m OK with that. But when he has played he’s unquestionably been better than Chet, Booker, LeBron, and Deni.
He might need to sit out the All Star game until he gets paid from Aspiration though, so I don’t know…
I think Shedeur Sanders should be there too
More rest for him. Who cares about the all star game. It’s been a clown show the past couple of years
Such a fucking shame he’s gotten so fucked by injuries. He’s been missing like 50 games every season and still comes in and dominates. The biggest what if in history imo. Top 5 peak ever.
They put Chet and Deni in over him LOL
Wow he’s played more games than LeBron?? Is LeBron in the all star ?
He can still aspire to be an all star next year.
All these dudes wanna get in their feelings if they miss it but none of these dudes wanna actually try in the game.
Kawhi should’ve been picked over Chet.
He’s supposed to advocate for his players. 🤷🏾♂️
This might be the last season where he plays at this level and they robbed him. He should’ve been a damn starter
This is because of the Fraud… I’m on with it
Go plant a tree
First of all: Kawhi should’ve been in jail.
Dude stop he’s not been better than Shai chill
Yeah and that’s all he gives every season
When he plays like 6 weeks a year?
I mean he’s played really well for most of the year, it’s just the last six weeks in particular he’s been like top tier elite levels of good.
And he’s played in more games than LeBron has this year.
He’s played more games than Bron
Kawhis a bum should probably tradem also will likely suspended for for 50 games after All-star break for underhanded deals including punishing the Clippers. -Nico
Who gives af all that cheating for the 10 seed.
Crazy how people have no integrity anymore. He should be suspended indefinitely.
The sub-.500 10 seed shouldn’t get one when there are so many other players having great seasons in the west.
the sub .500 9 seed got an all star so i dont see why the clippers being 1 game behind them makes a difference
We just saw a 10th seed and 14th seed in the East each got an All-Star too lol In 2021, the Lakers were the 24-27 and both Davis and James made the All-Star Game too. I don’t know why people act as if record suddenly matters and act like the Clippers are 14th— after tonight they could be 9th.
I’ll walk back my initial statement because it shouldn’t be that black and white, but record has always mattered.
Yeah but the cheating angle probably played a part in the coaches not voting him in. They look at that kind of thing
“In the East”
10th seed don’t get you all Star little bro
ah yes because the 12th and 14th seeded giannis and pascal siakam didn’t make the all star game
Tell that to Pascal Siakam
clippers are unironically a 4 seed bare minimum if they are in the east