I’m pretty sure the hate is solely on his flopping/foul-baiting.

This isn’t true because the hate is far greater than the level of flopping and foul baiting that he exhibits.

He’s getting prime Harden level hate when he’s shooting free throws at the same level as MJ and Kobe.

He’s never even led the league in free throw attempts in his career (Jordan did 3x, and Kobe did 2x).

After watching those complaints and flopping from doncic and ar, I could never hate him anymore(especially after his smile for getting flopping back)

Luka leads the league in FTA/game btw.

Everyone had a problem with not him. If you ask anyone they will tell you they know he doesn’t shoot an absurd amount of free throws but they will bring up Dort and Caruso. Idk how you can hate somebody because of somebody else

He just gets a nice whistle. I’m not a fan of Embiid, Harden , etc because they’re already good without a crazy whistle. The last play on Derrick white is a prime time example of it

Yeah the hate for that stuff is way overblown too

Yeah and he’s a great player when he doesn’t play to foul bait

Reminds me of Embiid and Harden fans acting obtuse on why their player gets hated lol. It’s the flopping, that’s it.

Who the fuck hates Tyrese Maxey?

Not to this extent. Look at any comment section anywhere on the internet and it’s full of it.

It’s a narrative

Steph is the most universally liked that comes memory. And even he got hate for the dumbest things like chewing his mouthpiece.

Yeah Curry was definitely hated for years. He was also disrespected until he finally won FMVP in 22. SGA is exactly the same. Its just too early in his career for people to know how much of an all time great he will go down as.

Jaxson Hayes. KPJ doesn’t get enough.

Kobe

KD on GSW, but the threats were a bit much so 🤷 

I wonder what the narratives will be. Probably something really stupid 

“Wemby is just genetically gifted. No real skill. Defenders that look like they might even brush his twig legs get fouled out by halftime because the league wants a new dynasty for ratings. Bla bla bla”

I consider the Thunder the Spurs’ little brother for various reasons (we are your hat, Presti’s a spurs alumni, etc), so aside from wanting to smear y’all about an inch thick on the floorboards i have positive feelings and won’t be participating in all that bullshittery lel

Respectfully, Steve Nash and Leandro Barbosa used to flop 100x worse than SGA… did you have a problem then?

So then you don’t like basketball? Because every all time great scorer has foul baited, it’s a part of the game and it’s BEEN a part of the game.

These Thunder fans downvoting you know exactly what they are.

Wembanyama is just jealous of Chet because Chet is odee shooting hang pulls

I’m pretty sure he also hates Chet.

https://www.fiba.basketball/en/news/olympics-men-2024-news-wemby-s-thirst-for-revenge-in-rivalry-with-chet

“Every time I face someone that was on that (USA) team - and it has happened several times - I remember it, and it’s in the back of my mind,” he said to L’Equipe.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/38881720/why-victor-vs-chet-nba-next-intense-rivalry

When Wembanyama saw Holmgren in the hallway, he smiled and turned to introduce Holmgren to his mother, Elodie, who was making her first visit to Oklahoma to see the game.

AS HOLMGREN MET Mrs. Wembanyama, he collegially brought up the one previous time they indeed had all been together in the same place. It was in Riga, Latvia, in July 2021 at the U19 FIBA World Cup final. Team USA had beaten Team France 83-81 in a hotly contested game during which Wembanyama had frustratingly fouled out in the fourth quarter.

It is only the worst basketball memory of Wembanyama’s life – “Just thinking about it makes my jaw clench,” he has said – and one of the great accomplishments of Holmgren’s. Though he didn’t play exceptionally by his standards in the championship game – Holmgren had 10 points and five assists – the American player was named the tournament’s MVP and returned for his freshman year at Gonzaga with a gold medal. Wembanyama had put up 22 points with eight rebounds and eight blocks before having to watch the final minutes from the bench.

Yep. They should be comparing him to SGA, the franchise guy. Chet is maybe 3rd banana on OKC?

Yeah I’ve never gotten that impression lol, the only players I imagine might hate Shai would be Luka, Jokic, KD, and JB. Jokic glazes shai, Luka is just competitive with him, KD glazes him. I think JB is chasing an mvp more than actually hating him

I feel Ant does not like SGA’s foul baiting. He obviously respects his game. They aren’t mortal enemies….but Ant plays pissed off vs Thunder purely because of SGA’s whistle.

Mannnn watch out 😭😭😭😭😭

Luka and Jokic bait fouls too. I wonder what the difference is 🇨🇦

I think people might be loving individual players a lot more compared to their team than they used to so your favorite player winning MVP is almost seen equal to your team actually winning the championship. People take everything about the frontrunners (especially whoever is in the lead) being good as an insult to their own favorite player (who some people are more defensive of over their team itself) not being good.

Yeeeep. The only other people that really get it are Sixers/Embiid fans.

SGA started to feel the flames of the internet hate when he started polling above Luka for 2nd in MVP voting. The Luka stans started freaking out that some “random nobody” was polling above their predestined Chosen One, and it got really toxic. Theeeen once he started to peel away first place votes from Jokic it hit the levels it’s at today – both Luka and Jokic stans pretending he is terrible and not worthy of being in the same conversation as him every step of the way.

He got the same treatment as Embiid but now it’s been longer as he’s sustained being in MVP conversations. We are hitting the level of “begrudging acceptance” from a lot of them because he’s clearly not going away, but it’s all still out there.

And why is it like that now? It’s almost as if a certain group of fans demand that their favorite player be unanimously accepted as the objective MVP and best in the world every year, and anyone positioned as a threat to that is met with extreme toxicity and consistent negative-narrative pushing via memes and posting of cherry picked clips.

Also naaaah. Refs have got hard job and yet are often expected to be right 100% of the time. It’s literally never going to happen it’s not possible. It’s real time, blocked views, calls that are ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ and down to interpretation.

NBA wouldn’t do it because it would make people plmore focused on them, but having a public refs stats would be interesting. If you had league wide averages and some historical ‘all time stats’ then maybe people would be more accepting of missed calls?

Like for the playerss, no ones expecting sometime to hit 100% of the shots and people use league averages and historical shooting to judge performances.

Actually I think this team is too smart to overlook anybody.

Even if some fans didn’t learn a lesson from Indian last year, I bet the players and staff did. These guys are too professional and too committed to dismiss anyone.

I agree with you 100% it could but unlikely 

The anchor is shooting. They are one of the worst 3-pt % shooting teams in the playoffs and have a guard rotation of poor shooters (Castle/Harper/Fox). Teams sagged off Giddey every possession.

What’s San Antonio’s glaring weakness

we have no sizable forwards (like an AG or Randle) so there’s a chance that hole could be prone to exploitation in a playoff series

forrtunately we have a nice rotation of bulky, taller guards so that patches it slightly