Keldon Johnson: “This is my guy right here. The best player in the world. The MVP. If anybody got anything to say, come holla at me.”
đđ Iâm loving the mark ingram and Lamar Jackson reference.
As a ravens fan, me too!
Big truss woo woo
He was standing back there like a proud Dad shaking his head like âmhmm thatâs right, tell themâ
What can he say… “proud dad moment”. Always one of the best feeling ever.Â
he pretends to have more of an accent than he does just for fun
“kayl-dawn” i love this man
lol yeah he said it way more american the second time lol
Theyâre so likeable
Never seen a Spurs squad this close before
Same. The 2014-16 team comes close with the foreign legion and coffee gang and everything, but Kawhi and Tony were always off doing his own thing. This team every single player is reposting each other’s memes all the time and hanging out.
The Manu - Patty - Tiago - Boris - Bonner second unit gang was such a good group of guys.
Starts with Wemby.
They’re just all very clearly super close friends off the court, that positivity is very infectious. In general Keldon Johnson would run through a wall for anyone on that team, he’s got a really good heart.
Case closed then. Or does anyone want to contest the words of human pitbull Keldon Johnson lol?
Wemby says he’s gonna try hard now after he ducked Jokic three days ago. Too late.
Thunder flair, comment invalid
You mean when the team forced him to rest lol âduckedâ
Sure they did.
LOL lay off the salt youâll die early
You guys sat your entire starting lineup against us the last time we played in San Antonio.
Those in glass houses…
Last time we played it was a full squad and we whooped your ass. But I’m also not the one, unlike Wemby, saying I’m going for MVP while sitting important games down the stretch
Heâs gonna play big Jok in April, on the road instead of at home, and show heâs not ducking shit <3
Top tier bromance going on here, they’re absolutely hilarious together
I respect the stars who do their part to create immaculate vibes for their team like this. Superior leadership style in every way
Prove it
God I hate them already.
2-0
Hey Keldon (in hollering voice): he’s not either of those things (yet).
4-1
Elite ragebait you got these guys FUMING lmao
24 PPG
Best defender in the association.
(By far)
Of all time**
Defense
Jokic had 24.5 ppg in 2023 tbf, and was in best player talks. If he can do so much more than scoring the ball, especially being one of the besr defenders ever, for me heâs the total package and the best itw, with Shai
In 29 minutes… Averaging 50% more blocks per game than the next closest competitor and by FAR the most impactful and best offender in the association.
Yeah, you might get a game off of us in the playoffs.
I thought the mvp was a regular season award?
Fried
Regular season head-to-head records mean just about nothing for the MVP convo
SGA outplayed Wemby in the 4 games theyâve played each other
SGA- 29.5PTS 4.5REB 5.5AST 1.3BLK 2.3TOV 58.9 TS%
Wemby- 17.5PTS 8REB 2AST 1BLK 3TOV 60.3 TS%
The first game the spurs were down and he completely changed the momentum when he came in causing their win. He was also on 20 minute restrictions every match up. Imagine wemby with his current minutes.
I can imagine. Wemby went 17/7/1 when he played 28 minutes vs the Thunder in a 21 point loss
Remember, he shaved his head after!
Shaiâs second worst TS% against any team is against the Spurs. Who are also the team he has the largest sample size with. The only worse rank is against Orlando who he only played once.
Wemby has a higher TS% against Oklahoma than Shay has against San Antonio.
And he did that while recovering from injury.
Keep talking.
Shaiâs +/- is -0.3. Wemby is +19.3.
The same Wemby that had to check back in with 4 minutes left against the OKC Blue or the same Wemby thatâs had 2 of his worst career games against OKC?
I guess Spurs fans can be the new Nuggets fans who said âwe took OKC to 7 gamesâ..
Wemby- 6pts/8Rebs/2ast 44.4 TS%
20/0/100 shooting splits
Or
Wemby- 8pts/14reb/2ast 26.7 TS%
26.7/0/0 shooting splits
Wemby .593 TS%
Shai .589 TS%
And Wemby was hurt and on a restriction for most of those games.
Wemby +19.3 in 25.1 mpg Shai -0.3 in 35.5 mpg
Per 36 Wemby averaged like 3 points less per game with triple the rebounds.
Wemby 5⁄8 3P .625 .524 FG% Shai 4⁄21 3P .190 .506 FG%
Only advantage for Shai was FT%
But all that really matters is +/- and W/L.
What stats are you even pulling?
None of those numbers are from him against you this season.
He was on a minutes restriction and/or coming off the bench for most of the games. Averaging 25 minutes.
I donât think youâre making the point you think youâre making.
You lost 4 out of 5 against the Spurs with Wemby on limited minutes and not fully healthy. lol
Wemby lost by 21 points in the game he played 28 minutes(around his average) vs the Thunder. Also, Iâm glad the postseason doesnât have 2nd night of a b2b or 3 games in 4 nights.
I got a question. Do you think the Wemby/Spurs would be the #1 team in the West if they were the 2nd most âman injured teamâ in the league?
Werenât you guys basically without your starters in one of the games? SGA has only played like 3 more games than Wemby this year.
Jalen has only played 26. Mitchell and Hartenstein only played 45 and 36 respectively.
Maybe worry about your own injuries.
You didnât answer my question because you know Wemby wouldnât be able to carry a team like SGA has. Enjoy the postseason :)
I have no idea what your question is
Uhhh didn’t Victor average like 24 minutes a game in those matchups?
You say 4-1 like thats the result of an actual series and not the regular season. Wolves beat OKC last reg season too and got packed up. Save ur trash talk until the playoffs
Mvp is a regular season award not playoffs
You know what, youâre not wrong and ill definitely look at the MVP race differently
And Wemby has not one a single one, so the poster above is right. ;)
My comment is for the plethora of spurs fans that are desperately trying to hold the regular season series over OKC fans. When in reality the only thing that really ever sticks are playoff series wins
You say that like regular season matchups has never accurately foretold how postseason meetings go and that’s simply not true
Any Spurs fan or anyone in general that thinks San Antonio would be a favorite against OKC because of their four and one record are delusional and silly
Any OKC fan that thinks they’re going to just run roughshot over the Spurs and that there’s not genuine Real matchup issues there for you guys is equally delusional
The playoffs are absolutely about matchups and the Spurs match up as well as any team in the league with the thunder and that’s just an objective fact
I remember in 2011 when San Antonio was the number one seed, won 60 plus games, and people thought I was being paranoid when I told them how desperately I did not want to play the grizzlies in the first round.. They were a nightmare. Matchup, had proven so in the regular season, and were a solid team in their own right. But because we won like 10 games more than them not nearly enough of the fan base was worried. We saw how that went
The regular season matchup is not the end-all be-all. But we can learn things from it when it comes to trying to guesstimate how things will go in the postseason
i have clear recollection of spurs fans confidently shit talking thunder fans over their 2-1 regular season advantage heading into the 2012 WCF.
I’m sure there were definitely some. You guys were a young team and decently doubted in general that year from what I remember.
If anything Spurs fans were probably more confident about the fact that we had won. I believe 18 freaking games in a row going into that series more than us winning the regular season matchup with you guys.
But at least all the Spurs fans I knew who were really following the league that season were, like me, where pretty scared of you guys. We had had some real issues with teams that could push the pace earlier in the year before we turned it on and looked invincible to end the season Were you guys were one of the most athletic teams I’d ever seen. The fact that we were in such great form gave me confidence, but there was definitely a part of me that was worried about that matchup
some? it was nearly unanimous. spurs fans were absolutely convinced that the 2-1 season series was indicative of insurmountable dominance.
it’s interesting to witness the same thing happening now.
the spurs are going to ass fuck the thunder so hard sga will retire in shame
Only on r/nba can I say something so logical and get hate lmfao. Yall can keep the regular season series I’m only concerned about the playoffs. You’re lucky okc is a small market and yall have the numbers advantage to beat down on them
Brother, I don’t know who told you SA is a big market but you should probably stop listening to them lmao
Almost double the population and much bigger state
Your flat population growth is your own fault.
Rockets and Mavs get most of the state. Thunder get like all of those cow patty states.
City populations are extremely misleading. Oklahoma City is a small City. But So is San Antonio in a sports market sense . San Antonio is like the 36th biggest metro in the US.
going by simple City population is misleading because there’s there’s no universal definition of what constitutes a city and where you draw the actual line on the ground where you stop counting population. If you go by City population, Boston has like 1⁄8 the population of San Antonio for example
Which we all know is absolutely ridiculous and that’s a much more massive market than San Antonio
Are you really talking like San Antonio is LA and isnât also a small market team?
What an insane comment.
Itâs not anyoneâs fault but your own that nobody wants to live in fucking Oklahoma.
The only reason anyone continues to live there is the median monthly mortgage is less than people pay to rent a room here in Los Angeles.
Let me reiterate then…. smallER market. I’m just saying one of the main reasons this has become an echo chamber for OKC hate is bc there arent enough OKC fans to defend themselves lmfao
No. Itâs because your team is simultaneously super foul-baity and dirty af, with probably the dirtiest player in the entire league trying to injure every superstar on an opposing team.
Also you all are uneducated and insufferable.
As an uneducated and insufferable Thunder fan. If he’s sporting Supersonics flair, he is almost certainly not a Thunder fan. They hate us for existing.
lube that hole
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What’s wrong with that?
2026 and people are still using gay as an insultâŚ
Tbf. In his defenseâŚ
Oklahoma is ranked the fifth worst state to be gay in. So heâs just playing his part in being a hateful bigot.
Not even an insult the other guy says gay shit to insult others
The amount of like anal and dick comments he makes is just weird
Yea, heâs the weird one here, not the guy from the state with the third highest rate of rape in the nation whoâs also the fifth most hostile state to LGBT folks.
Youâre right. That is a problem considering your state is one of the ranked in the bottom five in being friendly to LGBT people. Youâre one of the five worst states when it comes to LGBT rights.
Which youâre proving with your homophobia. You afraid youâre going to catch the gay or something?
Maybe you should be more confident in your own heterosexuality and less scared about turning gay?
Youâre also ranked bottom 10 in GDP per capita.
And you have the third lowest median home price.
And you have the third highest rate of rape.
Quite the utopia you got there.
Like its frustrating youre trying to spin this on me for being ‘homophobic’ when this guy can be a fucking weirdo and thats normal and orderly for spurs fans
Bro holding this regular season record like it’s a ring. When the spurs go out in 5 games in round two y’all can still say you went 4-1 in the regular season.
top 1% commenter, no flair. Holy coward.
And youâre talking hypotheticals. How is that better?
You’re literally doing exactly what you’re trashing them for. Projecting and talking on hypotheticals
San Antonio clearly matches up well with the thunder. That’s a fact. Everything else is nothing but projection both on people saying San Antonio is going to beat them, and people like you clowning on the Spurs and saying they’re going to go out early
OKC fans, like their players, are big cornballs
Okc isnât even a real city. Went once for work, couldnât wait to leave
Itâs not even a real state. Pretty sure their number one industry is Trump Bibles.
Thatâs why theyâre ranked near bottom for almost everything except crime
Rare W from a Knick fan, much respect
Modern Society Tour
Look here class, these comments above demonstrate what is known as a “circle-jerk”. Where 2 people who have nothing really in common with each other, find a way to jerk each other off on a topic they both happen to agree on. It’s best to just avoid these types, as they’re very secular and territorial.
Moving on through this sub, we’ll see plenty more examples of cognitive dissociation, an all too common mental dysfunction in today’s population, especially in online spaces designed to isolate groups away from others.
I’m not gonna disagree but this was easily the cringiest way to fire back, you come across looking like an absolute cornball lmao
Oh no, whatever shall I do?
I’m a Cornball! The stigma shall never leave my name so long as I live!
Thanks Obama
At least you’re leaning into it! Remember to wipe off your computer screen when you log off, you’re definitely the type that spits when they talk
Says a Texan! What’s your industry? Closing public libraries and abortion clinics?
Iâm born and raised and have lived here in Los Angeles my entire life. Iâve been a Spurs fan in LA since David Robinson started his career when I was a small child.
Oil/energy manufacturing aerospace and medicine
Manufacturing reasons to deport innocent people, maybe.
OKC fans continuously make themselves look like losers over and over again. They think more about the Spurs and Nuggets than their own teams
Wow, I could say the same thing about Spurs fans I see on this subreddit. It’s so funny how bias works!
Yup. You hate to see it. They used to be a humble franchise that stayed quiet, now they’re insufferable like their players.
I used to like this nba team when they lost every game, and then they started winning and now I hate them all!
Trust me, it has nothing to do with the Thunder’s relatively brief amount of NBA success. Any team with Lu Dort on it will be on my hate list. And it doesn’t help having all the corny quotes that come out of that locker room.
Why are Spurs fans so insecure? Keldon Johnson can say dumb stuff but no one can respond?
Yikes
I dunno. In offense he is top 5 imo. On defense he is number one at the moment. You can’t always see it on the stat sheet but players are afraid of going to the rim against him.
Ain’t top 5 in offense, my friend.
Top 5 in offense for the last 2 weeks or whatever, but definitely not for the season at 24 ppg he’s not consistent over time yet
I get it. OKC are the champs. Hats off. But what I think the butt hurt Thunder fans in these comments are feeling is jealousy that the Spurs are pretty likable cool guys and the Thunder come across as some weird nerds.
If you think Wemby is cool, you’re weird. Bro pretends to be a monk in front of cameras in the off-season and you fall for it. Lame af.
y’all forget J-Dub doing the same thing with Shai like 3 years ago. Not meant to be taken as objective fact even though he is closer to Shai now than Shai was to Jokic thenÂ
I’m not saying Keldon shouldn’t have said it. But he just literally asked if anyone had anything to say to say it. So I said it on reddit where he’ll hear.