Jaden McDaniels on whether he was trying to get in Denver’s head during the series:
“I just didn’t care. I said what I said. I just don’t care. It’s just how I am”
Genuinely think he’s just answering questions honestly and everyone thinks he’s talking shit lol
People struggle to deal with an athlete that is 100% real.
Ant as well
The whole squad. They speak their truth. Baiters getting jingled
Uh oh
jingles moment
real homophobe
He has apologized and put in the work around the city to rectify those comments. A gay man also wrote a book about him somewhat recently and has nothing but nice things to say about him, and has forgiven him for those comments. Probably easier to stay on your high horse about it though.
Who was a homophobe?
Everyone says they want athletes to be honest, and then all the pearl clutchers come out when they are.
McDaniels is getting so much love for this what are you talking about lol
Lol you are right this is an awful example.
Most of the time the athlete being honest (about their beliefs) is something that the fans don’t agree with - like Jabari saying the Rockets are better than the Lakers.
Who is struggling with this? Everyone loves it
Dude people were furious. A section of Wolves fans were pissed, denver dudes were calling for his head.
Damn that’s soft
No, just real people in general. Most people just want to hear the politically correct answer and not what someone actually thinks. People name a top 5 and pick the same 5 as everyone else. Instead of naming THEIR top five.
Naaa, he was too quick to answer man. If he didn’t care he’d just shrug the question off. He acting tough.
Acting tough? The man made real statements and backed em up.
The kid, yapped. Fake tough guys shit.
Shut up and play.
The dude did play and showed out tonight. Just take the L and move on goofy.
You’re clearly a teenager, you think yapping is tough.
He backed it up. 32 and 10 tonight won the series. He’s right. It’s not yapping if it’s the truth.
Yapping is yapping.
I don’t care how good you play, shutting up and getting the job done is always the way.
Yapping is what kids do.
Ironically you’re the one yapping here rn
Being honest is what men do and that’s what Jaden did. It’s probably hard for you to understand because you haven’t been honest with yourself your entire life and try to use your insecurity to pass judgement on others. Confidence and honesty looks like yapping to men who are insecure and are dishonest to themselves.
hes been like this for a while. hes kawhi but actually talks
Dead on comparison. Mine was KG as an introvert.
Hahaha that’s a perfect comparison
Introvert Big Ticket is hysterical
The best thing is he trains with Kawhi in the offseason.
This. He was asked “what got you guys back into an offensive rhythm?”
“Attack Jokic, attack Jamal. All the bad defenders….none of them can defend the rim”
He just answered the question based on what he believed lol
… and then Enver reporters lost their mind cause they couldn’t understand that’s all there was to say lmao
100%. Hes giving like straight serial killer vibes with how much he does not give a fuck.
Compare to how he phrased his statement to how someone like Dillon Brooks’ does. Jaden was for sure just answering the question in a straightforward manner, it just so happens that the truth ruffled a lot of feathers lmao.
He has always been this way. he really is just a nice, shy, honest guy lol. Despite all the shit talking of course
I wouldn’t say those are mutually exclusive lol but I agree with what I think you’re getting at, that he isn’t going out of his way or being intentional. This is just him
Also, how is he talking shit when he is just stating the facts? Denver got lots of players that are strong offensively and bad defensively. With AG out they got even more exposed. Defense travels well and defensive teams are more consistant. Main reason why the Wolves were able to win even when they lost 3 players including their best player and leading scorer.
Jade McDaniels and Rudy Gobert legit just had their lives changed from this series lol
Especially Rudy. This series win and his defense on Jokic is gonna be more meaningful to lots of the dumb former players than his 4 DPOYs are
Shaq still won’t accept it
Shaq is a dingus.
imagine thinking poop pranks ain’t gonna roll back on you someday. now you’re the poop guy, congrats
Shaq couldn’t lose this series. Wolves win he gets to tryn deminish joker. Nugs win it’s all Rudy’s fault.
Weirdly, Shaq has usually been more willing to praise jokic over other big men, I think he doesn’t feel as threatened by his legacy since they dominate in completely different ways. Rudy on the other hand has some of the same issues Shaq did, can’t shoot free throws or 3s etc, but is a much better defender. Harder for him to say nice things about him
Barclay tried so hard to make him acknowledge Rudy’s defense. Shaq is just jealous and bitter.
I caught that too lmao Barkley called out Shaq to explain why they won and he just said cause Jokic play terrible lol
Who even cares what that crew thinks anymore, they add 0 value to basketball discussion
It was painful to listen to their analysis. They don’t watch any games I swear
feels really bad to say but they should have let it go when TNT lost out.
I know it prints money and there was no way they were ever going to turn it down, but they were past their prime already. would’ve been a fine enough sunset. it’s just sad now
I turned my TV off after the Jaden interview lol, thought I’d save a couple of braincells (sorry Ernie). Even the little analysis they actually do isn’t very good.
I’ve been enjoying the nba on prime crew, dirk udonis and nash all have great insights and good chemistry together and blake is hilarious. And I’m always happy to see Taylor rooks.
we don’t watch for the analysis. we watch for the shenanigans.
Big man, little dignity
People said that after we clowned the lakers and Rudy locked luka last season
Next regular season everyone will meme him again, it’s how it goes
He gotta keep it up. If Wemby wrecks him, this series would mean nothing and everyone who changed from hate to love will change back to hate. That’s how low his PR is.
you should know by now NBA discourse is literally what have you done lately. If SAS plays Rudy off the floor next series he’ll get killed in again
If there was ever even a .0001% doubt in peoples heads that rudy wasnt an auto hof bid this series hopefully made it a 100% for literally everyone
Only to get crushed by Wemby 😞
Gobert redemption tour this playoffs
I wish so much
About to get yammed on by Area 51
I love this guy. Talked mad shit and backed it up. Apologies in advance for all of the terrible things that I’m going to say about him in the next week or two.
He ain’t finna say “wemby is a bad defender” will he?
I don’t think that is his opinion, so I don’t think he will say it. I think he is literally just being honest, he thought the Nuggets are bad at defense, so he said it. Dude only says things he thinks are true, and I doubt he believes that Wemby is a bad defender.
Nah I’m just kidding. I love Jaden man. He walked the talk and he spit an absolute fact. Nuggets are a terrible defensive team.
I disagree with you, I don’t think he legitimately thinks AG is a bad defender lol
I do think he started answering fully honestly about the offensive gameplan which was to “Go at the bad defenders” and then as he started naming the Nuggets’ actual bad defenders, he realized what he was doing and leaned into it and just said everybody he could think of.
In the original clip you can see the little glint appear in his eye as he goes, come on now
Nah , I don’t think he will , he probably believes that Wemby is the best defender in the league
He’ll probably say something to the line of “ Besides Wenby , who on the Spurs is even good”
Nah Jaden won’t do it as it can backfire. All spurs players are playing well. You don’t want castle, fox, harper, vassell, keldon, and champagnie all to ball out. Just hoop.
McDaniels is 100% going after Fox and Devin in that series
Get one to bite and see where it goes
He’s a good defender and he has success locking down murray. Sure he could lock down whoever spurs guard he set his eye into, but the spurs just have too many arsenals. Blazers actually did that shit. Game 3 they shut down Fox, but castle and harper combined for 60. Games 4 and 5 they focused on castle/harper only for Fox (and champagnie) to kick their asses.
Randle will be saying Victor is a twig
Fair’s fair. Fox has been one of my favorite non-Wolves for years. Not for the next month, tho. See you on the other side 🫡
Fr. Sucks I have to totally hate these guys if it’s anything but 4-0
He’s gonna clash with Castle and /or Harper at some stage for sure.
Playoff legend
he really deserves all the credits
the hate fuels him a lot
Minnesota loves Jaden
I think everyone outside of denver loves him
Deep down (in Bill’s voice), Denver also loves their daddy
Jamal Murray’s father
I don’t have a problem with him. I mean I kinda hope him telling the world that Denver has no good defenders can help be a wake up call to the coaching/front office. Ya know, in case they couldn’t see what was happening on the court lol
He aura gambled and won
Bro’s face always looks like he hates everyone (but can back it up)
no gamble that shit was a guarantee
he’s funny without trying to be. he’s dead ass serious but something about him is also hilarious
Glimpses of Kawhi
Legendary display of contempt. Jaden “Neurodivergent” Daniels.
Jaden McDaniels absolutely owned the Jokić and the Nuggets in the series. He got in Jokić‘s head all series, and he laid down the hammer tonight
he talked a lot of smack and really put himself out there. and yet he played well all series and honestly one of the best game 7 performances ever with 32-10-3-2-1 and 0 TO.
edit: close out game 😂 I said what I said.
Game 6
Funnily enough he actually was great in game 7 against the Nuggets in 2024
And he had that incredible game 7 performance in game 6!
Jaden “Denver’s Father” McDaniels
Their hates puts him on them winning streaks
Their hate makes him more hungry to WIN
Jaden doesn’t talk trash. He just keep it real.
demon
Theres no mind games here lol, he just straight up thinks they were bad and was trying to prove it
McDaniels before the Spurs/Wolves game 1:
“Just attack them. Wemby is a bad defender. Castle, Harper, Vassell, they are all bad defenders.”
He’s not a liar
Shannon Jr looks like mini Giannis
A lot of guys really don’t have that much going on in their head and truly don’t care about the stuff most people do
REAL DEMON
He said what he said.
I am a bit autistic I think(or been said by my viewers) but I just think he isnt really talking shit hes just saying whats in his head and whats said is said.
I am also autistic and have thought for a while that Jaden is, too. it’s cracking me up watching people say he reminds them of kawhi 😅
Dude backed it up.
We tried to tell everyone who thought he was bothered by the reaction in game 5, the man does not operate in that way.
I 100% believe this man, and 100% believe he shook David Adelman in a real way. Both can be true.
Jaden McDaniels deserves to be considered for the next Olympic team. This guy is genuinely a hooper and absolutely elite at both ends of the floor.
“Chat I don’t care. I literally don’t care.” - Jaden “Hikaru Nakamura” McDaniels
Jaden “scottie barnes” mcdaniels
Jaden now has ownership in the Nuggets franchise.
We got jaden McDaniels
Jaden with the weaponised autism
love you demon
I saw him play. I genuinely don’t think he is an instigator. I didn’t see him mouth off or do anything. That end of the game basket on game#4, I think was muscle memory trigger.
I’ve seen every nba game Jaden has played in the past 4 years, I promise you he’s talking all game and he intentionally layed that up at the end of game 4 to pour salt in the wound
Best of luck down the line
He really just like that for real
Man he should have pressed more. But he suddenly changed demeanor
This is why this is my favorite team ever. Just a bunch of genuine personalities.
This man really broke a team that won a championship three years ago
The Thunder will fuck them so hard if they make it to the wcf
This is why Ant fw him so much
Haha, yeah, fair. Nugs didn’t deserve to win, wolves played well. But when the wolves get absolutely gobsmacked in the next series… I’m hoping he’s ready to hear about it
Jaden “Nene” McDaniels
real ‘we did not care’ mike macdonald of the seahawks energy lol
Sooooo scaaaaaary