Bronny’s dad plays in the NBA?!

The hate threads are wild but I think a lot of the bronny jokes are just for dumb fun rather than scrutiny. Someone put it well they he’s the only player who gets cheered in every single city. It’s pretty cool to see his improvement and being an actual nba player. He’s better than a lot in his draft class already. Still a lot to improve though

Wonder why

NBA Players tend to highly value bag and iso scoring, it’s why they tend to love Kyrie/Kobe/PG/Iverson more than NBA fans.

This is one of their rationale for voting SGA

“He’s the best player on the best team,” another player said. “What more do you have to say?”

Yet Wemby comes in 6th, behind not only SGA/Joker/Luka but also JB and Cade… so the best player on the second best team doesn’t get the same consideration? It truly is OPOY lol.

I think they value their egos and can’t handle a year 3 player that swats their shit into the 5th row every time they go in the paint being on top this soon. A French player at that.

Was it really begging tho ? I personally don’t have Wemby in my top 3 MVP this year but to me it was just a “reporter ask and I reply” type of response.

Wasn’t begging btw

Or it’s because players don’t agree with his take that defense is half the game. There’s a reason Dame is treated like a legend while Gobert is just an annoying coworker

A guy who’s never even finished runner up doesn’t have voter fatigue

Or, he’s just not viewed as valuably as the other players lol. He has a great team that plays great with or without him. He doesn’t play that many minutes, and talks a lot of shit for having 0 playoff minutes and brought out the water works when the Knicks taxed his ass.

60 win season in his 3rd year, highest on/off net rating in the league, better stats against top 5 defenses, destroyed okc 4-1, 25 11 and 3 blocks per game while being the best defending peak in a long time.

- me when player agrees with me

Actually player votes historically are the worst for most awards because what they actually do is vote for their friends

Not always, if you ask NBA players they will tell you Kyrie is better than CP3

The same players called Tyrese Haliburton the most overrated player in the NBA last season.

Both OKC and Denver won games without their respective candidates on the floor.

This is so stupid. It’s not the “best guy on a bad team” award like people are trying to make it.

Wemby only plays 25-30 minutes because the spurs don’t need him to play anything more to win games. That’s just how impactful he is in those 25-30 minutes.

Watch the games kid.

Some of that is just team voting though. Like the 159 players is a little over ~5 per team. Giannis got two votes, and Kawhi got five.

Like I don’t think it’s unreasonable for guys on the Clippers to feel like “imo he’s the MVP”. Like they were heading for an absolute disaster season and he’s been incredible and they completely turned the season around. If you just hold up the resumes from the season SGA has been better for sure but the gap isn’t massively huge and I can see how that gap can be made up by being a teammate and seeing Kawhi and watching him fo his thing every night.

but let me guess, you know what your talking about.

Yeah it doesn’t really surprise me they feel that way, there’s always a pushback when someone has a lot of hype and no playoff success yet

Which is such a stupid thing. Wemby would kill it in the playoffs.

Late February to April, but I bet a lot of it happened during ASB.

I still just think players see MVP as 75% offense because there is a DPOY. But if Wemby can do what he’s been doing last couple months on offense for a whole season, he’ll definitely be up there next season.

Tentative disagreement:

A whole lot of people in the know expect Wemby to be truly great. For the truly great (assuming Wemby earns that status) being high in the MVP ranking by their 3rd year isn’t that unusual.

#In their 3rd year, MVP Ranking:

• Bill Russell 1st

• Kareem 1st

• Jordan 2nd

• Lebron 2nd

• Wilt 2nd

• Bird 2nd

• Shaq 2nd

• Duncan 5th

• Hakeem 7th
  …and of course

• Paul Pierce 13th

Also, through the 70s the MVP was a player voted award, so in those years it’s a perfect correlation between MVP voting and players respect.

SGA beat the Wilt record and hasn’t slouched himself(including a clutch win against the Nuggets).

I mean Luka got injured and is ineligible currently (subject to appeal) with Lakers going 6-4 in their last 10 including 2 huge losses to OKC. So I suspect at least those votes are probably going somewhere.

Jokic has been balling, probably picks up more also.

OK homer

I just wanna read these comments bro

Not that deep.

Its every player who played a minute this season so still like %20-25. And we dont know if its mostly end of bench guys or stars. These are the same guys who said Tyrese Haliburton was the most overrated, before he won like 3 games on buzzerbeaters and took Indy to game 7 of the finals

Why are thunder fans so pressed about wemby

No doubt.

Great point.

Wemby literally beat SGA 4 times

Jokic lost to the tanking Grizzlies in March lol

So did Brice Sensebaugu give him the mvp

I’ll post what I had from a different comment:

Jokic might be the greatest offensive player of this generation and Wemby might be the greatest defensive player of this generation. Wemby is much better offensively than Jokic is defensively. However, offense tends to be more important.

In the end they have been a similar tier of player this year. The tie breaker for me comes down to winning.

For that reason Wemby is ahead of Jokic for me for the purposes of awards this year, but Jokic easily remains the player I’d rather have on my team.

Okay Jalen Williams played like 28 games this season. Thunder had injuries as well. SGA had a better year on a better team because he willed them to that point. Joker could’ve shown up in Nuggets clutch games like Shai did and they would’ve been a 58-60 win team. Injuries aside just like OKC. 

I realize you’re a Thunder fan now lmao. Preaching to the choir.