BootySharingCouple

615 | a day ago

Seems like he’s got a good head on his shoulders for sure, it’ll be interesting to see what the league looks like post-Lebron

Potential_Meat_5103

133 | a day ago

It’ll be different for me since I’ve seen the dude my whole life basically but the league will be in good hands

the_guitargeek_ | Spurs

42 | 19 hours ago

I’m ready for a post-LeBron league. It’s in great hands with the next crop of talent.

Zoulogist | Lakers

47 | 19 hours ago

Ben Simmons is not here

O_J_Shrimpson | Nets

17 | 17 hours ago

What about Pat Bev? Are the next 5 years still his?

gerardguey | Bulls

4 | 14 hours ago

those five years ended like 3 years ago

glen_ko_ko | Pistons

1 | 10 hours ago

Pat Bev got 3 to 5

Sumo_Cerebro

3 | 11 hours ago

It’s 10 years later and he is out of the league.

Unreal.

Leavingtheecstasy | Thunder

8 | 18 hours ago

Id like to keep hin around at least another year. Want to see him retire on cleveland

craigrak | Knicks

2 | 19 hours ago

Okay colin cowherd

LevelDry5807

-11 | 19 hours ago

It’s true. Never has the face of the league had a more negative impact on the fan experience

drvgonize

1 | 15 hours ago

ive been ready for lebron to leave for years

GunstarGreen | Thunder

13 | 14 hours ago

When LeBron joined this league I was 20, in university. Im now 42 and a lecturer. I simply cannot believe how much life has happened, and LeBron is STILL going, still balling, still the face that runs the place. He’s carried it all this time. It seems impossible to imagine an NBA without him. The league is gonna be very different to the one he entered.

glen_ko_ko | Pistons

3 | 10 hours ago

What do you lecture about? I’ve changed careers 4 times since LeBron became an NBA player. It’s been a really long time.

GunstarGreen | Thunder

4 | 9 hours ago

When LeBron came in i was in the middle of an Internaitonal Politics degree. I now lecture in Prop Making and occasionally Production Design for Film. My career path has not been linear!

glen_ko_ko | Pistons

3 | 9 hours ago

Are there labs? That sounds like a sweet class

GunstarGreen | Thunder

4 | 9 hours ago

Nah, we have a studio space and set space. I dip my feet into both, as well as the theory. My other job is working as a prop maker for an opera house. But I am doing a masters degree in teaching to help transition to that full time. Prop making and set building takes it out on your joints

morning_thief | Spurs

2 | 8 hours ago

Random film making question – I am a LOTR fan, especially the Extended Editions on Blu-ray. Watching them, especially the Appendices / Behind the Scenes, I’ve always thought they were kind of a crash course in movie making.

Is that assumption correct to a degree?

GunstarGreen | Thunder

1 | 7 hours ago

Kinda Its a crash course in a basic structure of an art department and certain roles within it. It’s a way of understanding how certain departments are expected to work. But in terms of understanding the technical aspects of what goes into a day on set, just how many things are considered, the preparation work. Those DVD extras are probably a lot of people’s first exposure to that and theyre great for shining a light on just how much work goes into these things. But it barely scratches the surface of just how much work.

Moviereference210 | Spurs

1 | 8 hours ago

Shiiiit … I think I was in 8th grade when LeBron was a rook, I may have been a freshman … fuck that was so many different lives ago

dizzymidget44

2 | 14 hours ago

Don’t sleep on Sharife Cooper

One_Seaworthiness323

-53 | a day ago

The league has moved on from LeBron. When’s the last time he won anything?

ThrowawayCorporate2 | Knicks

28 | 21 hours ago

He is a top 2 player all time lol league doesn’t move on until he retires

Nice_Cash_7000 | Heat

11 | 21 hours ago

Or even after tbh

doodoovoodooo | Cavaliers

21 | a day ago

This is NBA Cup erasure

Pociana | Spurs

15 | 21 hours ago

Yeah, but he’s still the biggest name, especially with his retirement around the corner.

slamajamabro

5 | 21 hours ago

MJ was still the king even when he was on the wizards even tho the wizards were trash

-fallen | NYK

2 | 19 hours ago

Bron moves on from the league, not the other way around. You don’t have to like him but you cannot deny that he is talked about by various people on various platforms at various times of the day. including by you, apparently. the league benefits from and greatly desires having someone like Bron around, regardless of whether achieves one last major accomplishment in the twilight of his career. him playing at the level he’s playing at, at his age, is the major accomplishment that is a “win” in and of itself, in terms of the sustained level of great play on display. it allows people to continue discussing him and therefore generate the league more profit through its numerous media channels and advertisers. as long as enough people continue to mention “LeBron”, he retains his crown and the ability to choose moving on on his own terms. the league would opt to never move on if that were possible.

One_Seaworthiness323

-8 | 19 hours ago

lol I ain’t reading all that

Kankiii | NBA

4 | 16 hours ago

we know. now put down your phone, go get a book and work on that non-existent attention span of yours.

Detonation | Pistons

1 | 4 hours ago

Embarrassing how stupid people refuse to read one paragraph and act like it’s a great wall of text. 2nd graders have a stronger reading level than you.

damjanv1 | Serbia

-52 | 21 hours ago

tbh people will quickly realize how shit a face of the league Lebron was.

yeah he didn’t get into trouble with the law (yet) but he ushered in and was partly responsible for a lot of the shitiness of the modern day NBA

- not taking regular season seriously

- load management

- not participating in dunk comp (he was elite in McDonalds HS dunk comp so save me the “he is an ingame dunker”)

- unorganic team building

- conflicts of interest between players and agencies

- many more

slamajamabro

41 | 21 hours ago

Feels like you only started watching the NBA recently. If you watched from the early 2000s on, you wont be talking about LeBron load managing or not taking the regular season seriously.

DannyBoyCocane13 | Knicks

23 | 20 hours ago

Ya nobody that watched first stint Cleveland LeBron would talk like this

The dunk contest point is dumb too, outside of Dwight stars had already moved on from doing the dunk contest when LeBrons been in the league

damjanv1 | Serbia

-26 | 19 hours ago

nah bro , born in 83 watched all through the 90s and 2000s. all I remember is LBJ in 00s having major flaws that get covered up massively now. gaslit and made everyone believe that “making the right play” was more important than true leadership/ puttign a team on your back, having his bench actively beg him to take over games and step up, having players no where near his level (see PP) call him a pussy straight to his face lol… then he started making superteams (and still failed to an extent) and became the first dominant player to have the rules change in his favour rather than be changed to minimise his dominance

slamajamabro

12 | 18 hours ago

Not too sure what you were watching if that’s the conclusion you came to. I respect the right to have an opinion of your own but let’s look at some of your nonsensical points:

Passing to an open shooter when you’re triple-teamed is called playing a team sport. It’s funny that “true leadership” in your book apparently means ignoring the open man to take a contested fadeaway just to prove a point. If making the right play is a flaw, every coach in history should be fired.
It’s funny you talk about Pierce when Pierce needed Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen (one of the OG super teams) to finally get past a 22-year-old LeBron.
“The first dominant player to have the rules change in his favor.” - The league literally outlawed hand-checking to help perimeter players across the board, and they changed the “illegal defense” rules (zone) specifically to stop guys like LeBron from bulldozing to the rim.

It’s okay to not like a player, you don’t have to start coming up with fake narratives and conspiracy theories to justify it. Be a man and just hate someone cause you hate someone lol

damjanv1 | Serbia

-9 | 18 hours ago

who said anything about shooting over triple teams. When you are the highest paid player on a team your job is to a) take responsibility b) put your team in the best position to win (this includes driving into a collapsed defence and then kicking out) all too often teams would soft shade and LBJ would just swing it to the open man and cry “bball iq”… massive difference between that and drawing a real 2x team and swinging it to a open man with a entirely collapsed defence…; good example here – dude is literally ball handling in a p&r making the “right play” but not using an iota of his talent to make the defence commit further and get his man open even more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8B9XDqvk9w -- u really think the heat paid him and the coaching team wanted him to be the ball handler to hand off to joel anthony lol
the point isnt that PP was LBJs superior its that he was seen as a mentally weak competitor by his peers – and players could visibly get into his head – I would shudder to mention that about shaq or any other truly dominant force (hilarious to even think about in the case of MJ)…

slamajamabro

9 | 18 hours ago

Dude you are literally cherry picking to try to prove a point that any intelligent watcher of the NBA will disagree with. Stop wasting your time trying to shit on at worst the second greatest nba player ever and just admit you hate him cause you hate him, it ain’t a big deal.

Jkru3 | BKN

3 | 14 hours ago

You’re gaslighting yourself buddy

THRlLLH0 | Australia

3 | 13 hours ago

first dominant player to have the rules change in his favour rather than be changed to minimise his dominance

I don’t know the specifics but there is a pretty famous story about Wilt and Mike arguing about who the GOAT is, and supposedly Wilt said “they changed the rules to slow me down, they changed them to help you” and Mike had no response. I only started watching in the ‘00s though so I need someone else to say if this is accurate.

Detonation | Pistons

1 | 4 hours ago

You’ve been allegedly watching the NBA that long and you’re still this clueless about basketball? Yikes my guy.

costanzathegreat | Warriors

23 | 21 hours ago

You say this but LeBron is undoubtedly a top 2 player of all time and one of the most famous athletes ever, the NBA has grown because of him

It’s hard to believe any of the next generation can reach that level of stardom that can increase the league’s popularity

damjanv1 | Serbia

-6 | 19 hours ago

lebron is a top 2 player I guess - not sure about his fame though…. He has always had a troubled relationshiip with fans - many like me see him as a douche and if we are honest as stated above he has bought as much good influence as bad to what constitutes the shape of todays NBA. The league definitely follows the lead of its best player and todays all-star game is a good indication on how a single player can influence the quality especially of its one of the top dogs (the format had nothing to do with it lol). Re fame - the Beijing olympics should have been a good litmus test, all these personal brands in a single stadium vying for love from the largest growing market in the world at the time… Kobe got all the love (not a Kobe fan just saying)… That sentiment is abound, top 2 or not there are many other players that resonated more with their audience

Felixboy242

1 | 12 hours ago

What a dork, get a life.

PoIIux | Spurs

4 | 17 hours ago

You’re right, LeBron should’ve just sat out multiple seasons like MJ instead of multiple games per season

Jkru3 | BKN

2 | 15 hours ago

Most of the things you said just overlap. The dunk contest thing is not all that serious. Then you say many more

Whyamibeautiful

-10 | 21 hours ago

Super team nonsense too

Objective-Product361

258 | a day ago

Wemby fan here. Yes he set the tone early, but credit as well to the rest of all stars for responding. They could’ve gone not caring but they did. It’s fun to watch!

yiwang1 | Knicks

93 | a day ago

Cynically the other all stars probably know that if they continue to not take it seriously while even one person (Wemby) is, it’ll reflect even worse on them. All it takes is one dude to say fuck it we’re really competing.

Pociana | Spurs

20 | 21 hours ago

Oh yeah if they just let Wemby dominate them then they’d look terrible so players have to step up.

Pociana | Spurs

50 | a day ago

Oh yeah, Ant is just a great competitor. I love whenever the Spurs and Wolves play.

TeamRAF19

212 | a day ago

It is not just Wemby. You also have Cade with steals and chasedown blocks. Even the old heads like KD, Kawhi, and Lebron are playing well.

Maybe the fault is with players like Jokic and Luka after all

Comrade2k7 | Spurs

74 | a day ago

Today we are all KD truthers

BWolfy92 | Spurs

11 | 21 hours ago

Finally people see the truth, KD my 2nd goat

Kvsav57

-7 | 16 hours ago

I don’t think anyone doubts that KD is incredible. Steph and Lebron are still playing great but KD seems like he’s had the least decline in ability of the three.

mateohhhh

-4 | 15 hours ago

And Kawhi with the least decline of the 4.

TeamRAF19

4 | 15 hours ago

Because he is the youngest.

mateohhhh

0 | 15 hours ago

But also faced the most injury adversity.

super_chill_21

16 | a day ago

BARNES

BatmanHive | Lakers

124 | a day ago

He does, I hope he has a long and healthy career

ticarus3

-38 | a day ago

I see what you did there… and I’m sure he will have a very lonnnnng career

everpresentdanger | Thunder

109 | a day ago

Bring back actual player/team rivalries.

He legit hates OKC for some reason and it makes the games between the two mean more.

Bring on a playoff series.

Pociana | Spurs

81 | a day ago

I think he just hates Chet. They all try hard against the OKC because they’re the champions and want to make a statement, but I honestly think Wemby hates the fact that he’s compared to Chet.

Rocinante24

7 | 13 hours ago

I think that’s true, but I think he also hates that the thunder defense gets away with hacking people like they do. The look he gave Caruso, when Caruso took two huge hacks at him and Wemby still scored, was some serious beef. I love it so much.

mainvolume | Spurs

20 | 20 hours ago

I’m a firm believer it takes a playoff series to develop a rivalry. Spurs have been MIA from the playoffs for a minute so all of the old ones aren’t there anymore. Hopefully we see some good shit develop in the coming years.

Baskin5000 | Lebanon

1 | 6 hours ago

Detroit and Charlotte don’t need a playoff series to be rivals (they haven’t made the playoffs in forever)

BARBASANN

0 | 9 hours ago

I doubt it OKC is on another level but if the spurs get another star then we will be talking

Next-Supermarket9538

62 | a day ago

It’s interesting how much the tone and culture of the league follows the alpha dog(s).

LeBron ushered in an era of camaraderie which Curry did nothing to change. Now it seems like we’re getting back the hypercompetivity of the Bird-Magic and Jordan eras.

Sensitive_Worry2499

53 | a day ago

a bit too early to say that, but we can hope.

thr0waway2435

10 | 21 hours ago

But Bird and Magic ended up being great friends. Wemby/Chet bestiehood when?

the_guitargeek_ | Spurs

9 | 19 hours ago

The media tries to push the Magic/Bird rivalry-turned-friendship on long-standing rivalries.

I remember reading an interview with Tim Duncan where the reporter asked him about his rivalry with Kevin Garnett. Duncan said he never really liked Garnett. The interviewer asked if he ever thought about developing a kind of kinship in the style of Magic/Larry. Duncan responded, “Define ‘kinship.’”

The closest we’ve had to that in my lifetime is LeBron and Curry. I have serious doubts about that developing with Chet. If anything, Wemby has it happen with Ant.

JurtisCones

3 | 21 hours ago

Chet gonna be little spoon

thr0waway2435

2 | 21 hours ago

Naw they’re not the 2 spoons type of besties, they’re a pair of chopsticks type of besties

Armanewb | Spurs

2 | 20 hours ago

Wemby more like a cooking chopstick

thr0waway2435

2 | 20 hours ago

Wemby = cooking chopstick, Chet = regular chopstick

Bubsy509

8 | a day ago

Man talk about putting the cart before the horse

Efficient-Trouble697

1 | 21 hours ago

I feel like that has more to do with how often players get traded or switch teams.

mateohhhh

1 | 15 hours ago

Teams, and leagues, take on the identify of their leader.

HenrikCrown | Pelicans

53 | a day ago

One of the few big men to be the face of the league

Pociana | Spurs

22 | a day ago

The only other one I can think of is Shaq but I guess earlier it’d have to be either Wilt or Russel.

wawacryin21 | Spurs

51 | a day ago

Kareem

Pociana | Spurs

12 | a day ago

Oh I feel dumb now how could I forget about Kareem.

HokageEzio | Knicks

6 | a day ago

Mikan and arguably Kareem (but he wasn’t the most beloved)

Pizzadontdie | Trail Blazers

2 | a day ago

Giannis?

escaflow

1 | 9 hours ago

Not anymore after the Kalshi fiasco

adad239_

-6 | a day ago

Your forgetting Jokic

Pociana | Spurs

13 | a day ago

He’s the best player, but I wouldn’t consider him the face of the league. Not that popular outside of basketball. Luka is more of a face of the league despite being worse because he’s very popular.

udontknowball31 | Thunder

2 | 16 hours ago

Big men have been the face(s) of the league for the majority of its existence…

Koolkat9 | Warriors

0 | a day ago

Kareem, Wilt, Russell, Shaq, Duncan, Hakeem. I guess it’s hard to say which ones were truly the face of the league

Little_Sherbet5775

18 | a day ago

Duncan or Hakeem weren’t really the face of the league. The face of the league isn’t always the best player, it’s who’s the most known, the most marketable, or the one who has the most influence.

Koolkat9 | Warriors

3 | a day ago

Yeah that’s true. I kind of disagree with the original comment of this thread, because they’re making it seem like there’s been significantly more non-big faces of the league, when in reality I think there’s been a decent split among guards/bigs

udontknowball31 | Thunder

2 | 16 hours ago

By those metrics Wemby isn’t the face of the league now then. He will be soon but not yet

disappointer | Trail Blazers

1 | 16 hours ago

David Robinson

Whittaker | Australia

-1 | 20 hours ago

Duncan vs Kobe was very much a thing and with how many rings he won he was definitely a face of the league if not the face.

VersaceBandz | Lakers

6 | 13 hours ago

man stop the cap. If he was anywhere close to being face of the league he would have gotten more flack for losing in the olympics than lebron did. Duncan vs Kobe was never a real convo until around the end of their careers.

Little_Sherbet5775

1 | 7 hours ago

No way. Most people outside of basketball didn’t know him and he didn’t have insane popularity. Many casuals like teams due to the glitz and glamor of them and their players. Kobe and Shaq had that. Michael and Lebron did too. Duncan’s more like a Jokic, where he’s amazing, but much more quiet and not in the spotlight as much.

Kae_D_Rukawa

25 | a day ago

Bro got everyone to compete!

moby323 | 76ers

16 | a day ago

It was PERFECT that the game started with him just hammering down a dunk.

It’s like he planted a flag and said, “Motherfuckers I’m here, come and take it if you think you can.”

Kae_D_Rukawa

11 | a day ago

Too bad his teammates are ass 😭

moby323 | 76ers

-4 | a day ago

What are you talking about, Murray is balling out

Kae_D_Rukawa

8 | 21 hours ago

You mean the dude who went 0-6 in Game 1?

PROFOAK89 | Bulls

13 | a day ago

Obama did say we found aliens! 👽

Chickachic-aaaaahhh | Thunder

13 | a day ago

Tier 1 glazer

nicfanz

2 | a day ago

Another bitter thunder stan 🙄

Chickachic-aaaaahhh | Thunder

-3 | a day ago

My boy. Be real. The concept of the conversation is whats the topić.

nicfanz

10 | a day ago

Why do OKC fans hate Wemby? That’s the real question

Chickachic-aaaaahhh | Thunder

-9 | a day ago

Hating wemby? Dude im talking about what the poster was talking about. Wemby is the what the epitome of the league should be…. like wtf type of comment is that. You can be a fan of wemby but the dude has issues and health concerns. Let him become what hes rising up to be to drop shit like this.

nicfanz

6 | a day ago

All the glazing comments come from Thunder fans. You guys hate Wemby for no reason

Chickachic-aaaaahhh | Thunder

1 | a day ago

I was talking about the poster and you think i hate wemby because i called someone else a glazer? You a bot?

nicfanz

4 | a day ago

I said all the glazing comments come from Thunder fans. Coincidence?

Chickachic-aaaaahhh | Thunder

2 | a day ago

Yeah you struggling rn

nicfanz

6 | a day ago

So is the Thunder

BlunderDefect | Spurs

-1 | 20 hours ago

Poster is a Spurs fan. Why are all the glaze comments from Thunder flairs? It’s like if op had a Thunder flair and the topic was about SGA and seeing a bunch of Spurs flairs claiming OP was glazing… In other words you guys are just hating.

Chickachic-aaaaahhh | Thunder

6 | 20 hours ago

Bro you guys have such a wierd mentality about any topic whenever a okc fan replies. This isnt about hating wemby. You wierd ass people keep trying to turn this conversation into that but it isnt.

BlunderDefect | Spurs

-2 | 20 hours ago

Scroll through the comments. You’ll see other OKC flairs claiming OP is glazing.

Pociana | Spurs

2 | a day ago

Are we still saying “glaze”? I haven’t heard that word for like 2 or 3 years.

Little_Sherbet5775

2 | a day ago

People still say glaze. It’s still a common term amongst children.

Chickachic-aaaaahhh | Thunder

-2 | a day ago

Goo goo gaa gaa mofo

Chickachic-aaaaahhh | Thunder

1 | a day ago

Whats the slang you kids using nowadays. I cant skibidi up.

Speakdaword

14 | a day ago

🤣🤣 really?

Cheterosexual_7 | Thunder

5 | a day ago

Wow you guys got that glaze so thick you don’t even remember the skills competition from last season lol.

Jec1027 | Warriors

26 | a day ago

Skills competition was garbage he singlehandedly saved us from that trash event

RD_Alpha_Rider | Slovenia

2 | 21 hours ago

Exactly the competition was a joke and it was hilarious it was CP3 of all people to expose the rules and get it removed. I came across that video randomly yesterday and it’s still funny, especially that they were boo’d.

BaseballDramatic4465 | Knicks

2 | 17 hours ago

Apparently it was Wemby that came up with the idea to find a loophole to win

Davidpaulngo | Spurs

10 | 19 hours ago

If anything.. they were trying to exploit the rules.. to win. That’s being TOO competitive if anything.

Cheterosexual_7 | Thunder

3 | 18 hours ago

That is a fair spin honestly

RadicalRaspberry | Lakers

2 | a day ago

Thunder fan btw

Cheterosexual_7 | Thunder

6 | a day ago

Wow, was it the username or the flair that gave it away? I actually really like Wemby. I even have a comment from a few weeks ago saying he’s in my never hate on category if you’re feeling nosey.

nicfanz

2 | a day ago

STFU thunder fan

Little_Sherbet5775

2 | a day ago

That skills competition was fun and funny because of him and he’s always competing; that’s a good thing

rPopularIsPropaganda

7 | 21 hours ago

I hate the Spurs as a Suns fan but damn it if its impossible to hate Wemby. Love how passionate and unapologetic about it he is. Plus he seems like a guy who wants to be smart rather than cool

YoungFlexibleShawty | Charlotte Bobcats

5 | 16 hours ago

Spurs got gifted a franchise player thanks to this lottery system 🙌🏼

Jayjaybingz | OKC

5 | 17 hours ago

I honestly enjoy wemby even as a thunder fan. It reminded me of how i hated lebron and curry who were both bonafied faces of the league. Even if wemby continues to torment us, i will gladly admit he is the face of the league.

OhNoMyLands | Timberwolves

3 | a day ago

Not sure how that’s true when Ant is out here giving his white boy Mount Rushmore.

This contrast is gonna be so fun for years to come

Pociana | Spurs

4 | a day ago

Ant is just such a personality.

Jkru3 | BKN

3 | 15 hours ago

Honestly Ant has really impressed me. Both on the court and off. After this weekend I can actually buy the idea of Ant as one of the faces of the league. I was always kinda apprehensive but he’s shown he’s pretty elite as a player and is a character others will follow when he stands for things that are good for the league, he and Wemby make it cool for others

zimbear64

1 | a day ago

Nah, ant is still making up for his disgraceful left handed three point attempts in the skill challenge that one year

mudkip-yoshii | Timberwolves

9 | a day ago

If that dqs him from face of the league talks, Wemby is dqed from last year too

zimbear64

1 | a day ago

At least wemby had the serious intention of short cutting through loopholes to get a win. Ant literally treated it as a joke from the start

EmitLux

2 | a day ago

He should be All Star MVP - the most valuable to an All Star game in over a decade.

Safe_Studio_5818

2 | a day ago

He is definitely the face of the league going forward.

totallytuatara

2 | a day ago

Yes

no_nao | Thunder

2 | 21 hours ago

I absolutely hate Wemby, and at the same time I absolutely love Wemby.

Impossible_Boat2966 | Knicks

2 | 18 hours ago

Hate Wemby? Or are you afraid of him?

SignificantNatural11

3 | 21 hours ago

The glaze is unbearable

jumboponcho | Hawks

2 | 20 hours ago

He really is the one. He’s the next in line of psycho competitors after Jordan and Kobe. He genuinely looked pissed at KAT for the missed assignment.

howbedebody | Nuggets

2 | 18 hours ago

i hate watching jokic in rhe all star man i know it’s just a silly pickup game but it sucks to root for your star who hates being apart of the event

Driicky32 | Bucks

2 | 15 hours ago

I dont understand this face of the league stuff why does it matter and why do you care?? It’s just a bs media narrative they use to get clicks

po2gdHaeKaYk

1 | 9 hours ago

I dont understand this face of the league stuff why does it matter and why do you care?? It’s just a bs media narrative they use to get clicks

I don’t think it’s a narrative. Maybe some people feel that way.

But historically the NBA (and all things) proceeds through generations: Magic/Larry, Michael Jordan, Kobe/Shaq/TD, Lebron/Curry, … These are players that didn’t just dominate a handful of years, but helped to define the sport for people through literally their entire childhood or through adulthood. People still talk about these generational players.

People are talking about it because it’s anticipated to be a problem: Lebron dominated for so long and was such a great ambassador for the sport that there is fear there isn’t really another one after his cohort retires. I think there’s also a degree of xenophobia in this because the next in line are dominated by non-Americans (Jokic, Giannis, Wemby, Doncic, …).

America want their next great ambassador for the sport. Here are those from the last Dream Team: Haliburton, Ant, Derrick White, Tatum, Bam, Booker. Which one of these are supposed to lead US basketball for the next decade?

Pociana | Spurs

1 | 7 hours ago

Reasons like this. When someone like Wemby plays hard in the All-Star Game, everyone starts playing hard. Luka and Jokic are both some of the best players, and because they don’t try in the All-Star Game, other people don’t see a reason to.

IlikePogz

1 | a day ago

Hes gon need to play more and have some career defining playoff series so still long way to go

garrethehuman

1 | 17 hours ago

This shit gonna age poorly. Y’all upvoting ai

d0mzilla

1 | 14 hours ago

And beside that he has actually opinions on things.I like that!

GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace

1 | 14 hours ago

I joked with my friend that if Wemby got the itch, he could try and win the 3 point, dunk and all star MVP. Giannis already got it on Kalshi.

Argythebilly | Mavericks

1 | 10 hours ago

He is also pretty interesting. He gives plenty of talking points and isn’t too media trained

Pociana | Spurs

2 | 7 hours ago

Yeah, he has an ego and I hope he doesn’t try to be too humble. Same thing with Ant; I want less media-trained superstars.

outsidehere | Lakers

0 | a day ago

Yep

Focused_Sky

0 | a day ago

He’s got next.

kennyloftor

1 | a day ago

300+ nba players

only 2 are competitive

ok bro

Fat-Singer-9569

0 | a day ago

I wonder what you would have said if he landed awkwardly with an injury?

Antique-Lychee-8029

0 | 17 hours ago

If only SGA and Giannis were there…

Gloomy-Art-2861

-1 | 21 hours ago

Lazy ass luka and Jokic

Slyric_ | Knicks

-1 | 14 hours ago

Lmfao Reddit loves the Frenchie what a surprise

MisterShazam | SAS

1 | 4 hours ago

Reddit literally created the “French 🤮” meme.

LegateDamar13

-3 | 21 hours ago

Nope. Not good enough yet.

Wanting =! Being

Pociana | Spurs

0 | 21 hours ago

I mean he’s top 5 at 22.

LegateDamar13

-1 | 21 hours ago

I mean he never played enough games nor reached the playoffs either.

Poopcie

4 | 21 hours ago

I said he’s the greatest player we’ve ever seen

MalHeartsNutmeg | Thunder

-1 | 19 hours ago

Gives it his all as he ethically falls to the floor too lol.

Impossible_Boat2966 | Knicks

2 | 18 hours ago

You’re petrified of Wemby, and you should be 😭

TomaHawk504 | Bulls Tankwagon

-3 | a day ago

The (real) chosen one. The hero the league needs (but doesn’t deserve)

Overkillemall | Lakers

-4 | a day ago

Tbh I don’t like how stupid he uses his offensive skills often, thinking he is some 8ft Kyrie Irving and I don’t like how overhyped he is despite zero playoff games and being obviously worse than all these tier 1A guys, but can’t help but love his level of pettiness be that making ASG somewhat a little bit more competitive or him taking this so called rivalry with Chet so serious and intense

Pociana | Spurs

3 | a day ago

He’s very young with his offense. Sometimes he’ll get 30 points in 20 minutes with ease other times mediocre but his defense is alway consistently great(being 8 feet tall doesn’t go away). And honestly I only have SGA and Jokic as obviously better than him, Giannis is probably still a little bit better but by the end of this season I could see Wemby being better and Luka and Wemby is hard because its Generational defense and good offense vs Generational offense and meh defense. Personally, being a biased Spurs fan, I have him at number 3.

Overkillemall | Lakers

1 | a day ago

Yeah, I agree he is still very young and raw, but I have more questions for your coaching stuff tbh than for Wemby. It’s okay they allowed him to experiment on his offensive game when the team wasnt trying to win anything, but now he is often both dont use his full potential and actively harm team offense by doing that shit with stupid turnovers on dribble or bad shots. And I think he still lacks consistency to be compared to Giannis offensively. Luka I agree is hard to even compare due to such a different style

mateohhhh

3 | 15 hours ago

That’s all part of the growing process. Wemby isn’t supposed to have it all figured out yet because he’s game is still evolving. He capable of doing a little bit of everything on the offensive end but when you have so many tools the maturation comes when you learn when and where to use each one. The coaching staff is still learning too because there’s never been a player quite Ike Wemby before with his combination of length, skill, mobility and shooting.

LehMone

1 | 19 hours ago

wow almost like he’s a really young player and should be allowed to experiment and learn from his mistakes.

People are so fucking impatient with younger players these days. Its in spurs best interest to let wemby do whatever the fuck he wants offensively for now

nicfanz

2 | a day ago

He’s better than the Lakers

Little_Sherbet5775

1 | a day ago

I think bro forgot what defense is because he’s a lakers fan

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Pociana | Spurs

6 | a day ago

Wow Bankai Broke you really got me with that one.

nicfanz

1 | a day ago

I can say the same to you

beatmileslack | Spurs

-2 | a day ago

I’ll be gagging for the rest of my life

Wemby epitomizes what it means to be the face of the league.