Victor Wembanyama on the Timberwolves matchup hoping Anthony Edwards returns
I think Wemby respects Ant, especially after All-Star game.
They respect each other. Ant praises him a lot, called him face of the league a few times
I’m so sad we couldn’t get a healthy Ant vs Wemby series. I hope Ant comes back Game 4 at least
The Spurs Wolves games and Wemby vs Ant clutch battles were cinema
Fortunately, we’ve got a long future of Spurs Wolves matchups down the road. Sucks we couldn’t get it this year but everyone is talking about Spurs/OKC running the west in the future, but McDaniels, Rudy, and Ant are right there like clockwork ready to spoil the party.
We goin east buddy
I was just about to say that lol
Maybe we’ll meet in the Finals one day
I honestly hope y’all do go east. Makes no sense y’all being west. Go beat up on the damn Bucks and Bulls.
I hope we do too lol. But the east does not
Bro you’ll be top 3 team there for the next decade lmao
What’s the injury update on Ant?
Charania said “multiple weeks”, minimum 2 weeks.
Wolves said “week-to-week”
Finch said he might come back middle of 2nd round
That Jan game ant scored 55 and wemby 39 was my favourite reg season game this year, both sides are being robbed of a legendary series with ant out
He’s coming back. Have faith
Most ethical baller there is
Jaden help me I can’t find anything to hate in this man
We can’t even meme hate him for being French.
Maybe you can’t
We must hate the hairy French and embrace the bald French
This French speaks better English than most NBA players.
He gives “Alexis de Tocqueville, which I’m sure most Americans have read” vibes
Might be the second person in history to transcend being fr*nch for me
Who’s the first one?
Sir, please correctly censor the word Fr*nch; there are minors on this sub
Gotta sensor that word bro. Cant be out here saying Fr*nch uncensored like that.
Trust me you’ll at least figure it out for 2 weeks. Still having nightmares about that game 4 3rd quarter where the blazers were just choosing not to shoot…
Jaden will just need to make up Wemby saying, “Nice game, Jaden” after the first Wolves loss.
“Gotchu”
“Almost”
“Nice try”
Just give in to the love, man.
I’m a certified Fox hater but I love Wemby so much that I don’t even care if Fox gets a ring with him.
He flops a little but that’s it unfortunately.
Wait for the series to start. I generally like the Timberwolves but know that I will straight up hate just the sight of their player’s faces by halftime of game 1.
Vic is hard to hate so go over his head(lol). Spurs being as lucky as they have been and acting all high and mighty about their “class organization”. Its a hedgefund baby born on 3rd boasting about his success.
Jaden Shammjaden, streetball legend
Just gotta roll over and try again next year
I heard Wemby say Jaden is a bad defender
Vic fears no man but God
And Jaden McDaniels thinks God is a weak perimeter defender, probably
this is gonna be a fun series, can’t wait to hear what funny shit your sith lord is gonna talk on our defense
I doubt he will
He just says what he thinks and answers questions frankly. He truly does not respect Denver’s defense. But if he likes someone’s defense and respects them, he’s not gonna say they’re bad.
He’s probs going to say positive stuff about the Spurs defense
It’s not like he’s a liar, he’s got no reason to say the Spurs are a bad defense
Jaden doesn’t actually talk that much, he got carried away answering a standard postgame and decided to stand by what he said which made it way funnier
And he was right
Yeah I don’t think he coud back that one up
“They’re all small, except that one guy”
“I just go over them”
I pray it’s Lakers vs Minnesota and he can say the Lakers don’t have any defenders either.
What a dream that would be
Wemby is quite the Perimeter defender compared to God.
He kinda is, he lets every christian into his paint
Love Wemby, hes so good for the league. Feel like he and some of the wolves guys have that old school mentality
A humble man fears what he is capable of becoming
And Mao Ze Dong
He really carries you along with his conversations.
About halfway, it always sounds like he is about to shit hard on something, but he always is positive instead.
It is nice.
His only true hatred is reserved for Chet, which will never not be hilarious
“I don’t have any ill will towards anyone, we’re all God’s creatures. Except for Chet, fuck that guy.”
Watch them become friends after retirement
That would be boring
We need them to go Jordan/Isiah route
Does he even hate him ? He never talked shit about him , he just likes playing against a guy his size it seems. Feels like the so called rivalry is just made up or at least heavily exagerated at that point
don’t interfere with my agenda
Shit my bad man
I think at most he’s annoyed that he’s constantly compared to the thunders 3rd best player. It’d be like if Shai was getting compared to Stephon castle or Dylan Harper constantly it’s slight disrespect and I understand lol
100%
If your an MJ level competitive psycho like Wemby seems to be, such a comparison is going to personally offend you to no end and drive you mad.
Well, Chet is pretty good - when not going against Victor
A Chrysler looks like a Phantom until a Phantom pulls up
I remember those Chrysler commercials where the people would mistake a Chrysler for their Mercedes LOL
In my opinion, I think Wemby is more just personally offended by how the media was constantly comparing them as if Chet was near or even on his level. I think because he’s a psycho competitor, it annoys the fuck out of him, and so every time he’s on the court, he’s looking to make an example out of him.
Nah, there’s history with Chet winning the U19 mvp where Wemby fouled out in a close loss, and Wemby really didn’t look happy: https://www.reddit.com/r/NBAGossips/comments/1r9hqdu/17_year_old_wemby_fouling_out_during_the_fiba_u19/
And later on, Chet allegedly went bragging about it in front of Wemby mother.
It always feels like the Mad Men “I feel bad for you” - “I don’t think about you at all” meme to me
and deni
Reporters ask the stupidest fucking questions. What do you think he is gonna say?
“No as a competitor i dont want to see other competitors out there”
“No fuck him and your question.”
villain brooks would say that
Yes. Trevor Lawrence for example a few years ago when asked does he hope he gets to face more QB competition in his division, he straight up said “No I want my division to be as bad as possible” lmao
Lol thats a real ass answer
Nadal also had a great exchange like this with a journalist during one of Djokovic’s insane years.
Journo: “Rafa, you’ve said you like challenges. Are you glad Novak exists?”
Rafa: “No. I like challenges but I’m not stupid.”
That’s hilarious
It’s like jeopardy where they have an answer in mind so they try to twist their questions lol
Sometimes being a interviewer/reporter is about giving your interviewee a chance to say something they might want to say, and sometimes you can get an unexpected answer
“ice up son”
Yeah man, they do that on purpose to get interesting quotes like these. If they didn’t ask, then we wouldn’t hear thoughts like this. Also, they’re probably writing a story about the matchup and the wolves being injured, and fans are interested to hear players’ voices in the story rather than just what the writer thinks for 800+ straight words.
“What is your favorite patisserie?”
Sometimes they ask these questions because they want specific quotes that they can include in stories. Former sports reporter here
Ant x Wemby should be the premiere matchup for the next 8 years. Hopefully Ant can heal up for a proper series.
They are probably two of the most fun players to watch in the league as well. Going to be a great decade for basketball fans.
Wemby vs Ant one on one at the All Star game who says no?
Hopefully they go back to the old style so they can play together
I’m thinking more of a separate event, maybe in place of the skills challenge or something.
Oh yeah for sure, that would be dope, I just wish to see them have fun together at the ASG, throw some alley oops to each other
Damn did I miss Shai pulling an MJ and switching to baseball?
Shai is 3 years older than Ant
Ant is closer in age to Wemby than he is to Shai
Also ant is more fun to watch than Shai. The hate is way overdone on this sub, and I’m not tryna knock Shai too hard by saying that. Watching ant tho is like watching prime Westbrook, not because of how he plays, but because of how he’ll do something and you’re like… Wait thats possible? Legit he’s my favorite guy to watch not on my team
Those Ant vs Wemby clutch duels in our regular season this year were CINEMA 🍿🍿
The back and forth especially if you see what I mean. One of my favourite memories of the regular season
Bro don’t bring us into this both these fanbases already hate us enough lmao
Shai is also going to have premiere matchups with both, it’s going to be okay
“You go in there and MAKE it about Shai”
And and Wemby are fun to watch, unlike Shai
That stance says “get healthy so I can give you an ass whooping”
Wemby is such a competitor I bet that he’s going to give us a couple games before ANT comes back so it’s a more fair series.
Keep dreaming on that one brother. This man will never give half effort.
That’s why you can’t hate on Wemby
Wemby and Ant are like buddy cop movie characters
Those two games against them in January were real bangers
Look at Wemby man, so inspirational.
Wemby, the ethical hater
Should be a fun series either way. At least I’ll have no problem rooting for the Spurs the rest of the way if we lose
We’re incredibly lucky to have him, we give thanks daily.
Same! We both hate the Thunder as well, so that makes it even easier lol
Spurs 🤝 Wolves
I love Wemby man
I’m so sad we can’t get a healthy series
I’ve grown into an Ant fan, he’s pretty incredible
In a world of social media and milquetoast PR answers I just love someone who is unabashedly themselves.
Tbh I expect to see you guys again next year. Hopefully in the finals
Same, and same with nuggets, I hope if it’s okc vs spurs jdub is back and at least close to full strength. Injuries deciding a series is pretty lame.
But this definitely should hurt Jokics legacy, even if you hate ant you would have to be high to put Aaron Gordon over him.
Hope twolves just run it back, maybe adding a piece but this squad deserves another shot. Ayo looks like a great bench piece for yall and ant is the youngest of the current stars outside wemby, gobert is older than i thought but he’s looked as good ever so id be shocked if hes healthy and just falls off a cliff.
I root for okc (and the bulls but they’re irrelevant in any playoff conversations) but Ant is a beast and idk how anyone wouldn’t enjoy watching him play, and the twolves got dawgs that play defense.
Most of the 90s- early 10s championships and playoffs it just doesn’t seem like there were this many teams decimated by injuries during or right before the playoffs.
Spurs really about to go to Finals.. I do believe they beat OKC in a best of 7 series.
Another western conference finals that should be the final series.
Everytime this is said, the true finals becomes the true banger. Which is always nice
I’m down for wemby to win a chip. Wemby vs embid.
Spurs fan here but stop that shi.. Wolves just beat the healthy nuggets anything can happen. This wolves team, healthy or not, isn’t going to go without a fight.
“I want him back so he can beat his ass too!”
I think he really likes Donte, not surprising, wouldn’t be surprised if we poach him either hihi
such a likable dude
When a couple of men are hard against ya…
lol why does Wemby always sound so world-weary?
I don’t think he sounds world weary, it just sounds like he’s being thoughtful about his answers.
Old soul
Probably hates the media.
Because of all the wine and ciggies
Funny, I expected him to sound more… French.
As a competitor, you always wanna play against the best.
I hate when teams aren’t full strength, on either side of the ball. You never know who foreal should have won, and those what-if’s haunt me forever personally lol.
I hate that Houston has injuries. I wanted them at full strength. I’m just a fan of the game itself and wanna see good basketball first and foremost. And then my Lakers to kick ass is second😂🤷🏾♂️
Yup only a coward would want to beat a team that isn’t at full strength. You still go out there and do it regardless unless you’re The Denver Nuggets 🤣
I love Wemby but I love my wolves more wolves in 6
Wolves have no shot against healthy wemby
A healthy Wolves would. But we really don’t have enough outside shooting this time around. Even if ANT plays, he’s playing at 70%.
If they have Ant and Donte, they absolutely have a fair shot; the Wolves have beaten us two out of the three times we’ve played them this season.
Like, yeah, on paper we should be able to run them over, given their situation, but I’m not going to underestimate the Timberwolves — that’s a good team with a decent amount of postseason experience. I’m expecting a fight.
I still am amazed how they beat the Nuggets, so absolutely anything is possible with them.
You don’t really win if you don’t beat the best doing their best.
I love that they enjoy each other, mutual respect, that’s the best.
Fucking wolves’ guards will be so confused with those long arms when they drive to the ring now.
They won’t be used to dealing with actual rim protection
ANT comeback, we might not win the series but I just need a poster dunk on Wemby
Goddamit give me something to let me hate you Wemby.
“Brina ya Antz”
Face of the league
Honestly, as a casual fan, I don’t want to REALLY like Wembanyama simply based off the fact that he has such a physical gift that is almost unfair. But his competitive spirit and his work to make the league more competitive on a nightly basis is so great, that I just might have to like him a lot.
Fuck you Wenby for being so likable.
The Wolves injuries are very bad for the Spurs. They’re going to go into the WCF having faced 0 adversity. The Denver series last year was so important for OKC to grow, without that adversity they wouldn’t have been able to close out the Pacers or make quick work of the Wolves.
I can see the Spurs getting a brutal reality check against the Thunder
Okc will be the diversity to grow
I think the Spurs are going to face plenty of adversity. They already saw some against Portland. A team That new going in. They were brutally outmatched talent wise and tried to make it not a game of basketball as much as possible. And at times it worked. San Antonio coming back double digits on the road off the backs of a 21 and 20-year-old player, and then having to do so again the very next night when the shot simply weren’t falling and the refs were letting things be physical. Definitely took some heart and helped them learn how to fight through nights where things are just not going their way
I think Minnesota, even without Edwards are going to have a similar approach. They’re going to muck it up and be as physical and brutal as possible, and San Antonio is going to have to again learn how to win games when they’re not able to play a free-flowing brand of basketball, which will be a great preparation for a team like OKC
Wemby going down early in game 2? Spurs winning without Wemby in game 3? Wemby coming back and dominating game 4. There was adversity last series.
Lol. You can’t face adversity until you play a real contender. The blazers are not that. A healthy Wolves would’ve been that
https://www.merriam-webster.com/simple/adversity