Wemby when asked about Deni Avdija: “Takes a lot of free throws”
wemby’s on a generational run rn
mad annoying that this dude the next goat and is also beloved by everybody
those two things shouldnt be true at the same time
He’s still young, there will be an Evil Wemby arc and I will be there to defend him
As a Thunder fan I already don’t like him, but god dammit do I respect him
He’s the perfect hero/heel for the coming generation. I pray he stays healthy even though I fear him in the playoffs. It’s a confusing relationship
The league needs rivalries, and Spurs vs OKC will feed families if both teams remain healthy and competitive for the coming years.
Yeah I hope he stays healthy. Please don’t go down the Embiid route
Thankfully Wemby plays for Spurs
The founding fathers of load management
To your point, he rarely plays above 35min in a game even when not under min restriction. His season avg is under 30min and lowest of his short career so far this season (certainly partly due to those games when he came off the bench but even healthy he rarely ever tops minutes played in the roster).
It seems like he’s been on a similar regimen to Yamamoto ⚾️. Focusing on flexibility, structural alignment, and balance to keep him on the court. He’s spoken about not maxing out his bulk intentionally. This kids the real deal
Young superstars are usually well-liked until they start winning a lot. I used to love SGA.
As Pacer fans, we may have deeper reasoning why we hate SGA and that Thunder team as a whole. Fucking Dort. He’s the worst of them.
I thought this was clear to everyone when curry and the warriors were the “heroes” against lebron in 2015, then during their 73-9 follow up were public enemy number 1
I think that was because of KD
Would add Draymond’s antica getting old. Both things at the same time was a lot
Draymond definitely did a lot of heavy lifting for the Warriors hate, and rightfully so
They also begin getting into off the court controversies in addition to starting to win more, not sure Wemby is gonna have that issue
Unless he runs afoul of Britney Spears again.
That was so wierd.
People find excuses to hate on superstars, doesn’t need to be a real controversy. Remember when his security guard smacked Britney Spears in the face? Never gets mentioned any more because he didn’t really do anything, if he was a title-winning superstar instead of a rookie when it happened that shit would be at the bottom of every single Reddit thread about him until the end of time.
Saying the security guard smacked her in the face is a hell of an accusation when the video and police say otherwise. She ran up behind the group reaching for him and the guard pushed her hand away like he’s supposed to. Her own hand hit her face.
Honestly in terms of that incident, fuck Britney. They apologized to her at the restaurant but she still wanted them to do it publicly on top of her lies about it.
Wemby talks a lot and eventually he will say something that social media will get pissed about. It really only takes one thing that some feel doesn’t align with their world view for this to happen. Keep in mind this will primarily be social media nonsense. There is hate I see on these subs that don’t I don’t hear in the real world when people talk basketball
Has Shai done anything off the court? I thought the majority of his haters were all due to on court stuff
Yeah, look at Giannis and Jokic. Curry is the only who really have almost a spotless run.
As soon as Spurs start winning titles and he’s winning all the individual awards, people will hate him.
Give it time, people will find reasons to hate him. Real ones, if possible… if fake, just as good. lol
It’s possible but doesn’t always happen. Some players are pretty consistently well liked. Duncan, Jokic, and Steph are recent examples. They have haters but definitely receive more relative positivity than their peers (like LeBron and Embiid).
Very early but I think Wemby is more likely to follow path 1 than path 2. There’s nothing rly to root against and the immediate LeBron disdain isn’t there with him but maybe it’ll start??
I mean I think Wemby is just that much of an alien that his natural likeability is high. People want to root for him because they want to see him do crazy shit we’ve never seen before, at least not if you’re too young to have remembered Wilt.
Given his charisma and his competitive nature on both ends I think he’s going to have proportionately more fans than haters. But there will definitely be people making threads when Wemby has a bad game, too.
Well ya every superstar ever has ppl making threads on bad games, that’s just universal
Once you get popular enough you will get hate. Especially if he’s trying to be the goat, he will automatically have Bron, Jordan, and Kobe, fans against him.
Wemby is far more blunt and outspoken than those three players. He draws a lot of attention to himself with his words to the media and aims to back it up on the court. If and when he falls short of his own lofty standards the criticism will come in waves.
He doesn’t really have the “underdog” or “overlooked” narrative of Steph/Jokic either. And he’s not avoidant of all attention like Duncan. He’s a generational talent and expected to be the face of the nba. With that comes a ton of pressure, and envy.
No way he follows path 1. Duncan and Steph in particular were very diplomatic, clean-cut guys who basically never said anything controversial. Meanwhile Wemby is already extremely spicy with these quotes and puts down other players all the time in a condescending manner. That’s classic villain behavior. The backlash is 100% coming if/when (1) his team is the favorite to win it (2) he fails in the playoffs.
Can also see him totally shit-talking team USA if France takes gold in 2028.
Wemby already showed he is not scared to speak out on issues that he sees as injustice. In my opinion it will start there at some point. Him being Black and from another country could make that more of a factor unfortunately
I think there is always going to be generational factors as well as the you think he is better than my favorite player nonsense.
This is every player’s arc.
If you don’t win = hate
If you win too much = hate
I got one
fr like i’m not supposed to like the spurs but he makes it so hard for me to not root for him. he tries hard in the all star game, likes fantasy books, collects pokemon cards, likes anime, and hates okc. it’s impossible to hate this mf. maybe after a few years of him dominating the league i’ll be sick of him
He’s also mad smart and very introspective - a very refreshing change from the typical NBA superstar who’s usually the opposite.
i wanted to include that too but i didn’t wanna jinx it. i have a hard time trusting any celebrity these days lmao
LeBron was the same way. Shit, remember how people felt about OKC KD?
Just wait, he’ll say something crazy like “human rights are good” and then half the population will hate him
Give it time. Eventually ppl will start hating him. Especially if he wins a lot.
Nah. He will be hated when he reaches the top. If Steph can be hated, Wemby can be hated too, and I’m a big Wemby fan.
Even crazier is the fact that everyone is on board with him just being real AF all the time. He certainly has a filter, but he also is unafraid to speak his mind and he has yet to say anything wrong.
I’ve seen some dimwits bash his comments on ICE because “athletes should unite people and him saying ICE-killing-people-is-bad is divisive”.
also divisive: literally killing people
Wait until he turns Texas blue, homie
Why the fuck is everyone asking about Deni
Why did they ask all of the New York Mayoral candidates where they’d take their first trip as Mayor to?
To the New York City of Turkey!
The ISTANBUL of America
And then the one dude who said he’d stay in New York was called antisemitic for that answer lmao
The game is changing but the old playbook is staying the same.
And one of the very first things the former mayor did after the election results came in was take a tax payer funded flight and say “I wanted to come back here to Israel and let you know that I served you as the mayor.” It was only like a week after lmao that whole election was a circus
You know why. They want some ‘gotcha’ clip to throw around.
They want that Israeli superstar bad but Deni not like that
Who’s “they”?
1000%. Ragemaxxing is so sad in the “press” these days.
I mean, it worked in LeBron’s case. People took the super canned and generic statement he made about Deni and Israel and were mad about it because he didn’t denounce Israel during a completely unrelated press conference about basketball. I don’t know what people expect these players to say when they get put on the spot
I get that it was a canned response but a master of PR like LeBron really should have had something better prepared than “I’ve heard nothing but great things about Israel.” He could have just praised Deni as a player and left it at that.
He’s gotta be the dumbest man on the planet to say something like “I’ve heard nothing but good things about Israel.” Even Israel’s biggest supporters aren’t delusional enough to claim that lol
They’re exactly delusional enough to claim that, and then some.
People would’ve respected what LeBron said more if he just gave an actual answer. “I haven’t heard anything but good things” is kinda crazy. Regardless of what side anyone’s on nobody believes that answer. Even if you didnt wanna be political he could’ve been like “idk about it enough to comment”
It wasn’t a political question to begin with
Exactly. Everyone wants a moment like that so they make some crazy headlines. That’s the sole reason why Deni is coming up so much.
IS this a RAEL question
Really sucks that gold like this about to be glassed
Well done
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A better analogy than mine, straight up. Respect, good sir/ma’am.
Engagement for their sorry companies
Because people are trying to stir the pot about him being Israeli so they can moan about it on the internet
Because he’s from Israel so everyone has to kiss his ass
Seems kind of like the opposite no?
Sportswashing Israel is a thing. That’s what they’re doing.
For the same reason this interview and LeBron interview got posted everywhere. It gets clicks and attention. The same reason you and me are commenting and opened this thread.
It’s probably just an Israeli reporter who’s proud to have a local as an All-Star
It was asked by an American reporter though.
Deni was next to interview, maybe the reporter was trying to create something.
Reporter just tryna get their $7000 🤣
Some of these reporters worship him. No really. They asked Wizards 2nd year players in the Rising Stars game if they could play with him. It’s all because our president of basketball operations Michael Winger was asked a few weeks ago about the trade and he said yes, he’s happy for Deni but they did that trade and he implied they’d do it again and Deni wasn’t on our timeline and we got 2 first round picks, a player, and 2 second rounders for him. So these reporters asked Kyshawn George that question just to try to have an article to write about how somehow Michael Winger is wrong and the Wizards should have kept him.
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For a solid five or six seasons from 2017-2023, Wizards fans wanted to tank. Trade Beal, trade everybody, and tank for a high draft pick. It got to the point where people HATED Beal and wanted him and everybody else from the Tommy Shephard era gone. And so that’s what happened, and we started new. But that has made the franchise hated by those who worship Deni. Not Blazers fans. Deni fans.
NBA trying to build up a new guy to market
Bro no one is trying to market deni 😭😭😭 i haven’t seen anyone besides mrbuckbuck talk good about him
It’s a process making everyone spamming questions about him is how the sauce starts getting made
If Deni was Chinese maybe. Israel ain’t that big of a market for the NBA. Not to mention it would be a PR nightmare if they tried to.
Israel ain’t that big of a market
Never stopped them before.
NBA also markets to cities with much smaller populations than a whole ass country.
Wemby legit hates everyone.
He is just being french
He lowkey is starting to make me… ^(like them)
KEEP THOSE THOUGHTS TO YOURSELF! HAVE SOME DECENCY!
I feel like a lot of the American cultural hate of the French is left over from the Bush years and the whole freedom fries bullshit after they opposed the Iraq war. The French are based as fuck in a lot of ways (really shitty in others though)
The French were so right for that and for never allowing a US base on French soil. CDG was a damn visionary.
He is a very interesting figure to say the least. But yeah, I respect the hell out of France for being a consistent critic to the US
I feel like a lot of the American cultural hate of the French is left over from the Bush years and the whole freedom fries bullshit after they opposed the Iraq war.
Francophobia was a cultural thing for centuries before that. US military breifed their soldiers during WW2, that french are not degenerates and need to be treated as humans.
Over the years it turned more into playful banter, with shit like “cheese eating surrender monkeys” or the whole Al Bundy “its wrong to be french” shtick.
The freedom fires bullshit was only reheated leftovers.
He has spite in his heart. I respect it. I wish more players just straight up hated guys. He thinks that he’s the best player in the league and everyone else is shit. I want him to prove it. It’s so entertaining, man.
My favorite athletes are the ones who talk a bunch of shit and back it up.
I desperately want him to back it up. Since my team is finished this year, I’m rooting for the Spurs just because I want to see Wemby get that ring.
I think it is actually condescension more than spite. Typical French trait. Like this is a perfect Wemby quote - ‘Some of the guys I used to like are lazier than I thought. How disappointing.’
“In both a good and bad way, it’s how truly like the best of the game are,” Wembanyama told Sports Illustrated recently when asked about what surprised him during his rookie year. “In a good way, some of them are really impressive and inspiring in the way they approach the game every night. But others that I used to like, now it’s like I’m just not sure they deserve it. Like they don’t seem like they put as much work in as I thought.”
He really is, he is not coasting on his physique, but rather taking competition to another level, impossible to hate
Nah he’s just French
That actually explains everything
being french on this sub sucks man.
Or anywhere outside of France really
It sucks in France too. If you think people outside of France dislike the French, you should hear how we talk about ourselves. Self hating is a national sport.
The japanese have a weird obsession with france, they didn’t even touch their terretoreis during WW2.
I’d say most asians have a rather positive view of the french, the same way everyone in south and east asia “hates” Japan, while they are usually seen positively in ethe westen hemisphere.
Or reddit. The “jokes” are always so funny
Shit been too sweet for a while it’s so refreshing
Mrbuckbuck writing Wemby in his death note as we speak
That loser blocked me when I made a comment under one of his posts that was vaguely against his beliefs. Is he still a frequent poster on here?
He said Palestinians were “people” and when I called him out on that he blocked me forever. Dude is crazy
What do you mean, how are they not people?
He’s saying the Buck dude said it with the quotations, implying they aren’t
Wow, wtf
Ah thanks for the clarification
He should honestly be banned from this sub.
He has said a lot of disgusting stuff on Twitter. If you’re blocked by him, it’s probably because you’re a normal person
Yes mostly posts highlights.
Reddit’s block feature is absolute worst, now you can’t even see a huge chunk of the subreddit’s highlights. Because one guy blocked ya.
Ah so the guy that takes every opportunity to karma farm the SGA hate train is a Deni fan??
You can’t make this shit up.
as a Thunder fan i have to laugh LMAOOO
What’s the lore here?
Do you still wanna know ?
Why is everyone at the all star game being asked about Deni? Its super weird
umm… prob a jewish reporter tbh
I won’t say what kind of reporter
https://imgur.com/a/Ywqrq5X
“He was a Jewish free throw merchant”
It’s sad engagement bait. Almost feel like I have to preface this by saying free Palestine, Netanyahu is a war criminal, there’s an ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide, otherwise it will be seen as me defending Israel.
But coming from the most controversial (again, for good reason) country in the world, Avdija is a lighting rod for hatred, and nothing drives engagement like hate. Yet while some of this is fair, like criticizing statements supporting Israel’s actions or talking about it as “the good side”, some is over the top. It’s fine and totally fair to dislike a player’s brand because of their beliefs, but with Avdija it often spills into blind rage that leads to having a honest discussion about Deni Avdija the basketball player impossible. Rather than actually talking about why he shoots a lot of FTs, people will roll out the 3000 years jokes and everyone claps. There’s people saying he’s getting FTs to pump his stats to push the NBA in Israel, while every thread is an example of why it would make no economic sense for the league to bring an Israeli star to the spotlight.
All in all, posts about Avdija will generate 1) the same four tired jokes about Israel 2) free Palestine comments 3) comments from supporters of genocide arguing with the above. All of this increases engagement and makes media companies money.
So every reporter will ask questions about Deni that don’t even necessarily have to do with basketball because that shit gets clicks and generates controversy. It’s a sad, sad business that profits from genocide and hate in all directions. Again, I’m not trying to both sides the question, I’ve made it clear where I stand. But it would be foolish to ignore the reality of media profiting over the question by encouraging hate, both in support of Israel as well as against it.
I agree witht the general sentiment of this comment but it seems to imply Deni is an innocent victim in this situation when the reality is he continues to feed the discussion when he comments on it. Deni could start dismissing the questions about the conflict tomorrow (in a way that doesn’t say everyone who doesn’t support Israel is uneducated) and the news cycle would move on, same way it did for every other famous jew that doesn’t believe in Palestinian independence but is media trained enough to give a non-answer on their position. He certainly is surrounded by people capable of training him to prompt those answers, he simply refuses.
I fully agree, I don’t think I was clear enough with that. He has brought at least part of this controversy upon himself. If I was in his media team I’d be begging him to be fully dismissive and take the angle of “I’m not a politician, I play basketball”. I personally find his views abhorrent. That doesn’t change that the media uses him to farm hate clicks, which I find just slightly less disgusting.
I’m not here for sympathy for folks who support what he supports. There are other players in the league who have played for that national team. None have pictures wearing the geno-military uniform or quotes supporting it like him.
It’s all just words, and thats 100% in bounds. He’s not being starved to death or forced to sleep in deadly cold or shot for no reason. He hasn’t grown up watching his grandmother brutalized or his sister sexually assaulted or his father humiliated regularly. He hasn’t endured .00001% of what the average person he is happy to put through all of that.
People dislike him for what he supports. He deserves it.
I wasn’t being sympathetic to him. I’ve made pretty clear that I dislike his views. I’m just answering the question above. Why so many Avdija questions? Controversy bait
Jews=news
It’s just click farming, both anti-israel and pro-israel people eat this stuff up.
The mods are going to nuke this so hard bro.
The Modsad you mean?
Tel On You
Internet Defense Force
Benjanitor on the Internetanyahu
They put the net in Netanyahu
Yeah bro you’re right
Did they?
Lemao Letanyahu
LeMao
IDsteph not safe either
Add KDF to the list
LeKud James
Free Russell WestBank
Twitter been calling him Lekud.
I cannot lie. That has to be the greatest Le nickname I have heard.
My favorite is LeChaim.
MrBuckBuck boutta find Wemby’s personal address
who is mr buckbuck?
Someone who got banned here early in the season, but then everyone got pissed because they weren’t seeing as many highlights posted, so he was unbanned. Then the community turned on him….hes kinda like Elon musk on Reddit.
What does Ja Rule think about Deni?
WHERE IS JA???? PLEASE, CAN SOMEBODY FIND JA!!
Someone warn deni that wemby isn’t an elderly man, woman, or child
How tf did this topic turn into a Lakers fan crashing out about Mamdani in the replies LMAO
Some people can’t help but make everything into one giant omni-cause.
This doesn’t sound like hate to me. Deni is averaging 2nd most FTAs this season, so it’s accurate to say Deni takes a lot of FTs. Seems like Wemby can’t think of anything else specific to say about Deni because he follows up with pretty generic statements instead of answering the reporter’s question.
Why do reporters keep asking about Deni, it’s weird
Israeli media. He’s the only player they have in the NBA.
it’s hilarious to me that liberal ass portland of all places throws all integrity out the window to defend deni avdija of all people
What has Deni Avdija personally done to deserve this agenda against him? Please provide concrete evidence.
He was recently interviewed, I don’t remember by whom, but it was a big outlet or publication, I’m sure you can easily find it, where he said essentially that people don’t understand because they aren’t from there. And that people need to be educated. Now considering the only people suggesting Israel has NOT committed egregiously evil crimes in Gaza are the perpetrators and its allies (and by that I mean other countries that provide significant material support and would clearly be implicated as aiding genocide), he is clearly defending Israels actions.
Let see how the Modsad handle this one
Modsad is frickin hilarious loll
Thank you for coining modsad. 10⁄10.
Haha he does drive a lot and force contact. But he’s become a pretty good ball handler, especially in transition
Bro France has committed genocide in Algeria and currently still financially has colonized multiple African counties , US and Europe coalition killed more Muslim civilians in the Iraqi and Afghani war than Israel has in Gaza, turkey is committing genocide against the Kurds, yet we don’t call players from any of these countries genocidal monsters. Just because deni is from Israel doesn’t mean he’s a genocidal monster. You’ve all let this propaganda and hate corrupt you to the core .
you’d have a point if Wemby said people shouldn’t talk about what France did to Haiti, Algeria, etc. but he didn’t. And Deni’s grandchildren also should not get an ounce of criticism unless they actively justify historical wrongs.
Wemby has potential but now its going to be tough for him. 🤐
Best case scenario for him now is he gets Tonya’d in his sleep
Just a fucking weird question, and I don’t think Wemby answered in a manner that’s talking trash, it’s just a really plain answer about how you’d wanna play Avdija.
Feels like the reporter was just blatantly baiting him to either take shots at him or talk about politics.
Wemby said “he’s a man, has brown eyes, can walk”
Remember guys, Wemby is not su!cidal. He loves life and loves the game of basketball
if i have to watch another interview clip of someone being asked about d*ni i’m going to do something very evil
“I thought he would have better stealing ability on D”
Removed by Mrgluckgluck
I wonder why people here care so much about what Wemby thinks about Avidja, I guess we will never know
They wanted him to sing Deni’s praises and he called him a foul merchant lmaooo every clip I see of Wemby I love him more and more
Wemby is too smart lol I love this guy
Man one bad Wemby playoff and EVERYBODY will turn on him.
If there was an opposite of “let’s all be family” it’s this dude and I’m so here for it. As someone who loves the thunder and has enjoyed watching SGA get just absolutely railed once he started winning, this dude is gonna be hated pretty quickly AND he talk that pointed shit to everyone.
This dude don’t care who you are, he’ll just send you into a spiral for talking shit and then watch you fly off the handle in the game cause he’s in your head lol.
We had literally zero answers for a dude this tall and this athletic for 3 straight games this year. If he stays healthy, Thunder and Spurs are going to duke it out in the playoffs for a really long time.
Fr tho Wembys right.
Geni Avjida’s Step is he improved his Whistle, minutes and marginally his ball handling.
Hardly should be a candidate for MIP.
Wemby you’re too based😩
Wemby is a real one. Guarantee you he has feelings on this one.
Backhanded ass compliment
My question is why is this interviewer asking every star player what there thoughts on deni is lol
That reporter must be Mr.buckbuck trying to spread his deni agenda.
because the reporter that asked HeBron James about his love for genocide got circulated around the world
Ethical answer.