“How can you not say I’m the Sixth Man of the Year.” Keldon Johnson makes his case.
Reporter: “Make your case for why you should win *award*”
*player states his case*
Y’all: “omg they’re begging for awards”
Just say you’re illiterate
His answer was pretty tame. People just want to be mad.
It’s also an intentional broadcasting tactic to increase engagement because they know the answers will get shared more than the questions.
this has happened to bam every time he gets askes a dpoy question
“omg y is he constantly complaining not getting dpoy, the 1 or 2 times a year he gets asked about it in the offseason is so annoying”
It’s Taylor. They will say anything to her
a reporter prompting you to be a tacky self-promoter is no excuse for being a tacky self-promoter.
Shut the fuck up 😹
Huh?
Of course it’s an OKC flair LMFAO
Goddamn dude, at this point I just feel bad for Oklahomans.
The consummate professional. Thank you Keldon, for upholding the legacy of Spurs greats.
He deserves a ring with us more than anybody on the roster. Heart and soul, I can’t imagine this squad without big body!
My boy was with us through the DARK dark. I’m so glad he’s on this team and has been able to see Spurs success.
He is the only player on the team from before 2020. I’m glad he’s here to experience the upswing.
It’s starting to get to a point where I just go right over the comment when I see the thunder flair because holy is it some dumb shit every time
50th in education, 1st in every comment section.
Been that way for years. It’s the contaminated water from all the fracking
Relax Texan
Wanna know why Texas doesn’t float away into the gulf? Cause Oklahoma sucks
I got curious so I scrolled the whole thread, and there was a whopping one Thunder flair. He is trolling tbf, but you’re just looking to be outraged by us at that point lmao
well you’re also forgetting that any fan with no flair means they’re your least favorite teams fan duh
These comments generalizing fans by teams are the weakest form of karma whoring
Slight correction tho. That guy is actually stupid, not trolling.
Idk man there’s enough of a recurring pattern. I’m not even American but from what I’ve gathered, being on this sub, you guys are looking pretty fucking bad.
So do you lol
Gen Z is learning why the Thunder were so hated even before they got good again - it’s the most vocal minority in all of sports. Nature is healing.
Lowest education state btw
Two words. Naz Reid.
No bias from me.
Little known fact, “Naz Reid.” is a complete sentence.
Naz Reid.
Naz Reid!!!
Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaz Reeeeeid.
And a tattoo
Mans is the subject and the predicate
He’s the noun, and the verb
the great Naz “Naz Reid” Reid
Two words, Juan Wick
No bias from me
He already won it once - let someone else get it
I love how many Spurs haters there are again. Let’s me know were back.
Just a bunch of Okc bandwagoners hating
Some of us are old enough to remember the dirty spurs who acted like they were the purity of basketball
Bingo. It’s got nothing to do with OKC.
Nothing annoys me more than seeing spurs flairs bitching about Kerrs handling of Draymond when Pop did the same shit with Bruce Bowen. They screwed the suns also
Absolutely robbed Phoenix that year. And you can’t tell me that wasn’t calculated
Obligatory fuck Robert Horry. Nash deserved the ring that year.
Always rooted against the spurs (except against Miami) as Kobe is who made me watch the nba and anything Timmy did took away from Kobe. But always respected the play style of the spurs and the front office was so good that every one learned from them. Now I’m able to see the game more as just an nba fan and damn y’all have a fun team and damn wemby could so be the goat
Yup it happened to the Thunder
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Riiiight 😶🌫️
He’s right, now that I think about it. Who else is a contender? Peyton Pritchard? Jaime? Naz? I’d go Keldon too.
Pritchard isn’t eligible bc he started like 45 games or whatever but I’ll still take it
Payton*
It’s been a pretty crazy race for 6MOTY.
Jaime has the best counting stats and an impressive 15/5/5 but his advanced metrics are horrible and despite shooting 50% from the field shooting under 30% from 3. Somewhat inflated stats from the first month but a flawed player.
Naz was cooking and the favorite until recently, but he got injured and really cooled off after the all star break.
Ajay mitchell was making a real case but his season got derailed by an abdominal injury.
Reed Sheppard deserves a shout too. The numbers don’t jump off the page but hes made a real leap especally surronding the defensive concerns.
Personally I was rooting for Jaime with his versatility and bounce back, but the 6MOTY is Keldon. The numbers dont reflect his impact (although the advanced stats do). But at the end of the day winning matters above all, he has been that guy off the bench for the 2 seed, closing on 1 seed spurs.
Would be honestly great if every player in the races for these awards was asked this question…let them speak about it. What do you expect them to say when asked lol
What do you expect them to say when asked lol
i dunno.. something like, “i make my case on the court.”
Thunder flair are not allowed to speak on this
Chet promoted SGA as the “MVP” many times last year (it was okay). SGA endorsed Jdub as the ROY over paolo (fine too!).
I can’t stand the fakeness of this OKC cornball fans.
You want everyone to say that??? Are these guys not supposed to have some confidence and thought behind what they’re shooting for and why they deserve it?
Spurs really cracked the code for these awards. Just go and beg infront of media.
What has been Jaylen Brown doing during the whole season then.
What award did Jaylen beg for? And give the clip.
Not sure if I’d call it begging or not, but here’s where he said he deserves to be MVP:
“I feel like I fit the criteria for it. Especially what people were saying about me before the season, that I couldn’t do it or I wasn’t capable of being this or being that. I’ve been able to kind of shoulder that and then also help lead my team to where we’re at now, but people constantly just move the bar… I probably never will (fit the criteria to be MVP), no matter what I do.”
https://www.newsweek.com/sports/nba/jaylen-brown-gives-honest-take-on-nba-mvp-race-11663044
If you wanna say that’s him being salty, sure. I wouldn’t disagree with that. But it definitely isn’t him begging for the award.
He’s whining for it then, fair enough
There is no way you can interpret that comment as anything close to a request for votes. He’s complaining about what he sees as moving goalposts.
The clear implication is that he’s deserving but overlooked. Pretty straightforward
And that isn’t begging by any definition. Pretty straightforward.
it’s begging
Then what does it make spurs players stating their cases for the award when asked begging?
Why are you asking me? I didn’t say anyone was begging. Making a case for something isn’t begging.
Which one of his streams lol
beg these nuts keldon is 6moty
Pritchard’s started like 3/4s of the season
He started 49 games and plays 32 mins, he really hasn’t been a 6 man this year.
Payton “Starter” Pritchard
Destroyed us yesterday
they asked him a question
What? He has 0 starts all season
Then y’all say they’re begging in front of the media, damn pick a side and what the hell do you mean he started 49 games
He hasn’t started a game in 2 years you bum.
You’re not allowed to talk shit about anything when you don’t have a flair and hide your post history
I swear the trolls just come into these drama threads to light fires. They have to be no-lifers or bots to pump up engagement.
“Beg” he was asked a question, your 🧠💀
“Your” 🥀
Embiid erasure
It was the coaches job back in the day to do this. The front offices would also send “packages” to voters to appease them some of the lesser awards and selections.
Larry Brown and the Pistons were notorious for campaigning for their players for awards especially with Big Bens DPOYs which in retrospect he shouldn’t have won 3⁄4 of the ones he won BUT he also deserved the DPOY he didn’t win in ‘04. So that was a funny thing.
Now like the “new media” the players are just straight up doing that job hahaha but less “here’s a free golf club pass from one of the owners clubs” like they used to.
edit: fixed context.
Joel Embiid the pathfinder
Clearly you weren’t around for Embiid, who did have an mvp season but showed the way
The only reason he won was voter fatigue over Jokic. I think there’s a case for him being the worst player to win an MVP award.
Crazy take. Embiid generationally great numbers for all three seasons that he finished top 2 in MVP voting. It’s reasonable to say that Jokic should have won the MVP but it’s not because Embiid wasn’t MVP caliber. I think it’s even hard to argue that it’s the worst MVP “robbery”
good shit kj
Fuck it close enough, welcome back manu ginobili
That’s dylan harper
Well deserved for big body tbh
Timothy Duane Hardaway Jr.
Got in lock buddy, KJ can try and battle it out for second place though.
Two words
My (biased) dark horse is Mitchell Robinson, IK he won’t get it but man his offensive rebounding is quite literally game changing and he’s been scoring more recently
Thiccccccc
Too much hate on spurs. Used to pray for times like these
Taylor wearing the hell out of that dress
Who is this reporter?
No other candidate is the heart of the locker room culture like KJ is
He’s been excellent this year. I hope he wins it. He’s played every game this year and leaned into his role.
If Wembyana doesn’t win MVP then KJ should win 6MOY
ewwww entire fucking team begs on national television lmaoooo
Look what happened when KD and the Spurs faced off against the other sixth man of the year candidate in Miami a few games ago… that dude finally scored his first field goal when he chucked a three at the end of the third quarter.
Spurs PR training should win the award for best in the league
This spurs team begging for awards
Next they will begging for a championship ffs
Must be weird for you to see a team with good chemistry
You already made your case on the court you don’t need to say all that.
10 seed vs 2 seed still matters though even for 6MOY
they would be the two seed without without Keldon. We would be even more of a lottery team without JJJ this year.
edit: had to delete the original comment as it was getting brigade downvoted.
Eh we’re not bad but KJ definitely wouldn’t be able to do what Jaime does night in and night out.
Lose?
If you have to make your own case you ain’t get the award
I legit hate the Spurs
Make your case but please stop acting like there aren’t other players out there that are also legitimately worthy of the award as well. All these pro athletes look for any reason to feel slighted.
I want you to point exactly where KJ made you so upset
Keldon Johnson, although I love you, You are NOT the 6th Man
he’s been the favorite to win the award ever since the Heat game lol
So who is - Barnes?
I was actually being sarcastic, I wouldn’t mind Johnson as the 6th man, but players are just stating their case for their awards so I was just joking by challenging it
I do not like when players beg for awards, maybe you’re right maybe you do have a case but let your stats speak.
Oh yeah, the 6 man of the year award exists. Forgot about it.
Casual
whole team begging
Are they just gonna try beg their way to every award over in San Antonio
oklahoma should beg for some books
Man you really got him there
Not really the guy can’t read it
Why, is the fireplace running low?
He was asked to make his case like tf you want him to say lol
make it make sense. how are some of you people this stupid? What the fuck do you want him to say?
“no ma’am, I actually don’t want the award and don’t think I deserve it. I actually don’t think I’m a good player at all. Instead let me tell you about how good I think OKC is!”
This is why PR training exists. You can answer a question without it looking like he’s begging. But instead you’re letting OKC live rent free in your head.
And if he played for OKC you’d say this was a great answer from your guy advocating for himself. What are we doing here? You really want these dudes giving cookie cutter PR answers to reporters instead of having any personality whatsoever. My eyes are rolling out of my fucking head. Go outside.
I cannot believe I live in a world where another fanbase got more unfathomably annoying than the Lakers fans were but truly you guys won one title and have become so mind numbing to interact with that I almost don’t believe some of you are real people.
rent free
Brother I WISH it was free- the mental fucking toll it takes every time I have to read a comment made by an OKC flair on here is starting to drain my sanity. Half of your fanbase has to be teenagers, there’s no other way.
Don’t you remember what they did to Shai when he was asked if he wanted to pass the Warriors record? Lol these ppl just hate its not rooted in logic or sense and you’ll discover soon enough it has nothing to do with the team they’re rooting for.
From the sound of this comment, top 1% commentator, maybe you should go outside 😂
How is keldon begging? He was asked a question dumbass
They did the same thing to Shai “do you want to beat the warriors regular season record?”….“Sure, I want to win”. r/NBA: “DUMB ASS HOW COULD EVER ANSWER A QUESTION YOU WERE ASKED”
The draymond dpoy playbook
hes also a human toilet
I know OKC fans ain’t talking lmao your players and coach cry about refs while yall have the best whistle in the league
This is insane. Please give me examples of Mark complaining about the officials. I fucking wish he would.
I know you all will just move the goal posts and say, “what’s to complain about?” Still, we have a pretty tame squad when it comes to talking about the officials.
He doesn’t need to complain he already getting what others complain about not getting
We’re constantly middle of the pack in FTAs, and anytime a coach bitches about OKC, they got a monster officiating night. Take Finch’s crash out where Minny then shot 50 fts or Brown’s flopping comments that saw him average 12 FTs a game against us despite him flopping significantly worse
Did you still have the Okc flair before 2024? 🤔
I went to a handful of Hornets games after Katrina and my family had season tickets starting in 09-10.
If we had more bandwagon fans, we’d actually be able to combat the bullshit narratives here.
Edit: also, because you seem like you’re a casual, Nick Collison, who is in my flair and has been for the past 10 years, is no longer an active NBA player. Thought I’d let you know.
Show a single clip from an OKC player complaining about the refs. I’ll wait.
Here is Caruso and iHart complaining post game about some no-calls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI9gqJaj8tk
Talking out loud =/= complaining to the media about the refs.
Sure, Jan. Keep moving those goal posts.
here you go
Thanks for giving me a clip of Jokic pushing SGA and Shai reacting to only him getting T’d up. Not a clip of him complaining about the refs though.
seriously? the replay showed Jokic not doing any act of pushing him lmfao, are you blind?
but either way you said simply “show me clip of an OKC player complaining about the refs”. SGA is doing it directly to a ref
SGA is telling the ref Jokic pushed him, which if you have eyes, you could see Jokic clearly shoved SGA’s side with his left arm. If you knew this play, you’d also know that it was 3 seconds after the whistle was blown for a foul at the top of the key on IHart. So Jokic continued after the whistle. You don’t watch games though so it’s fine you don’t understand.
“show a single thunder clip from any game in approximately the last three years”
Yes that’s exactly what I’m asking for - thank you for reiterating.
reddit pls show me any thunder game where they shoot free throws pls/thx
literally post any clip of any current okc organization member complaining about refs
here you go https://youtube.com/shorts/-cusXdooXkA?si=GQf0j5t5jtN7RUzv
exhibit A: not a clip of SGA complaining about the refs
lmao
Did you even watch the video you clipped? He literally says “Our free throw differential is the worst in the league but I tell my guys to keep being relentless and attacking the rim.” I’m sure you didn’t know that though because you just saw the clickbait title and ran with it.
incredible example of the importance of watching the video and not just reading the title when you want to make a point
If it was Kobe sayid he was the mvp you all would b jumping up and down about his “mamba mentality”
No I’d be more shocked that he can still speak from the afterlife
He’s smiling up at Wemby from hell
He’d just text Jayson
You’ll be the ones begging in the WCF
Terrifying I’m sure
4-1
First playoff heartbreak with your shiny new core will hurt but you’re gonna get over it
It’s gonna be genuinely hilarious when we punk your bum asses in the playoffs this year
That’s right. We did beat Minnesota 4-1 on our way to a championship last year.
Spurs beat you 4-1 in games played this year and will punk your bum asses 4-1 in the playoffs
I’m not too concerned about the Timberwolves tbh
I hear the education is bad over there in the Midwest. Thanks for the confirmation.
All you Americans are thick as fuck
yes our cocks are huge
Don’t tell me you have OK brain and UK teeth😭
Have to agree with you there. As an Australian they are the laughing stock of the world
Don’t you worry nobody is gonna ask Aj that question cause it’s not even freaking close 😂
this shit embarrassing