Always that one media member

There’s plenty of trolls amongst the media looking for their viral 5 minutes of shame. There’s definitely going to be one.

It’s funny cuz Chet has had a terrific defensive year, but compared to wemby, it’s no contest

I want okc spurs western conference finals with every cell in my body. Both teams fully healthy.

If one person voted for Chet, Wemby will absolutely dominate him if they meet in the playoffs.

I’m also curious if someone’ll throw a vote/put a target on Scottie’s back

I got a feeling it will happen

Crap. Now I want that to happen

I think it’s basically guaranteed

A San Antonio beat writer should do it anonymously just to fire him up in the playoffs, 4d chess

I hope someone does and it fuels Wemby and they knock off OKC

Ausar would be a better option than Chet if Wemby were to slip on a banana peel.

Yup. You can dismiss his MVP case all you want but you can never ignore his DPOY case. It is more solid than your family’s bond.

There will be a major market voter vote for someone else out of spite and to keep him from being the youngest unanimous.

The Rim General! He is gonna be awesome for a long time, already a great shot blocker & starting to stretch the court in a real way on offense.

Cling Kong is hardddd lmao!

His improvement as a shooter is also a huge deal for him, really raises his ceiling.

Best offensive rebounder in the league too, dude’s nice.

Biased UConn fan but I’m so excited for his career I always felt like he had the highest floor of his draft class

I need to see the Cling Kong v Alien matchup

Imagine if Hawks had taken him instead of Risacher

Clingan Is a beast and is going to definitely make some all defensive teams throughout his career. He’s improved a ton this year. I was curious about a potential partnership with him and was very open to the idea of San Antonio taking him at 8 if he was available

Wemby: CLING KONG AINT GOT NOTHING ON ME!

I was a little doubtful of his game his rookie year but he’s a really made a big jump. He’s a Hoover on the boards, good defense and his three looks pretty solid, if he can get it up in the high 30’s percentage he’ll be a real inside-out threat.

Oh yeah, Clingan is definitely a monster.

Guarantee some dummy is gonna throw a first place vote at Chet or Rudy

I think it should be Ausar bc he plays for my team

Have you met Tim Bontemps? That dude is a massive hater, and it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if he votes for someone else.

You’d be surprised how many arguments there would be for a “0 argument for anyone else” scenario

I have Wemby as my runaway DPOY as well but Chet can somewhat make a case. 2nd best defender on the planet on arguably the best defense of all time

He’s French the hate will always be there thankfully.

We’ve always predicted once the accolades started coming in, there’d be part of NBA fans that turned on him lol

Not the choosy mom not choosing jif 😂

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Wow this logic is rock solid

Similar to LeBron in 2013(2012?) when he was 1 vote off unanimous MVP but some Boston guy voted for Carmelo Anthony lol.

He does come across as arrogant

He comes across as very arrogant 

He comes across as arrogant.

Why is that bad?

I also believe he comes off as arrogant. He’s not wrong about himself but others would get eviscerated for this.

Arrogance is defined by an exaggerated sense of your own importance. Wemby is just so ridiculously good at basketball that it’s near impossible for him to be actually arrogant.

He is absurdly confident but he is so skilled that he basically always backs it up

Once he wins a few playoff series I think this will be less endearing to non-Spurs/Wemby fans

Honestly, I think it’s a few things.

1. It’s the truth. He’s already the best defensive player most of us have seen in our lifetimes and almost assuredly the best ever.

2. He speaks more eloquently in his second language than most guys in the league do in his first. And he’s charming, charismatic, and funny. He might think he’s better than other NBA players on the court, but he doesn’t act like he’s any better than any other human beings.

3. He’s a good teammate and lives clean. He’s not out at the clerb or doing questionable shit. Everyone likes loves him.

4. He’s always playing his heart out. He just saved the all star game and everyone saw how much the rest of the best players in the league respect him, even as a young dude. The interview with Ant said it all. He showed a lot of leadership there.

5. He values the personal achievements, but they’re second to winning and team achievements. He never comes off as a paycheck guy who cares about money first. He’s not peeling out of the parking garage in a car worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and blinged out.

6. The elephant in the room is the racial component. The media and fans love black players when they’re more towards the David Robinson/Magic Johnson end of the spectrum. i.e. smiling, no AAVE, not blinged out, no grillz, etc…

So you’re saying Wemby doesn’t haven’t charisma?

English as a second language. In your second language you tend to speak like a little kid, that’s why it comes off as arrogant.

Yeah I don’t think in the current state of affairs more humility is going to hurt, but maybe I’m just reading a bigger room.

Have to look at the flairs of those posters first IMO

I just think the spurs have really good psychological support tho too. He’s grown to not be ashamed or embarrassed about wanting to be dominant. And wanting to care deeply about winning.

Don’t throw Scottie into this. He won’t get a vote, but someone might vote for Chet or Rudy, even though Scottie deserves it more than them.

To be honest, I think Wemby needs to be unanimous and the media likes to force narratives. So if that’s the case, there is no better narrative than how dominant defensively Wemby has been and should probably be the unanimous DPOY for the foreseeable future, as long as he qualifies with the games played.

There’s a difference between being full of yourself and confident in your abilities. Dude wasn’t saying he was best in the world from day 1, he started saying it when he started playing at a level that inserted him in that upper echelon of players. Every ‘cocky’ remark he’s made he’s backed up on the court.

If guys who are the best at what they do can’t at least be confident in themselves and not have to feign humbleness ²⁴⁄₇ then who can.

IMO, it just comes down to the race for 2nd place between Chet & Rudy

I give it about 2 years until everyone turns on him.