[Vorkunov] Victor Wembanyama is embracing being New York’s newest villain. With a caveat. “I guess,” he said. “I’m nowhere near Trae Young’s level.”
If he wins this series he will surpass both Trae and Bin Laden
I didn’t know Osama had a jumper
Bro was 6’4 he shoulda been crashing the boards instead of the planes
“He tall as hell!” - Terry Rozier on Bin Laden
“Will Terry Rozier mention Bin Laden +500”
The good timeline - instead of getting radicalized to terrorism bin laden’s rage against other middle eastern govts inspires him to ball out and play in the NBA
could you imagine Binsanity
Osama been ballin
Dr J(ihaad)
Damn brothers, this comment chain is sending me 🤣
Hezballas
So he was born in 1957. That means he would have been drafted in the late 70s, around the same time as Larry Bird.
Could have saved us all a lot of trouble if he’d strapped on a pair of Converse instead of a Kalashnikov.
Osama popping up in the last dance to be like, “What Michael did on the court… that was not halal.”
The OG splash brothers revolutionising the three point line - Larry and Ladi.
OMG he’s waving Anthony off, pull up J! BANG
Bro was messing with the wrong rockets smh
In rec league maybe. Bro needed to work on his handles.
He was a sharpshooter though. Made a long career out of it.
This reminds me of one of my favorite memes about a guy being told by the gym staff to stop yelling active shooter in the building after he makes 3’s. 🤣
This subreddit would have called him a terrorist regardless
Osama shouldve hooped instead of tryna kill ppl cause he tall as hell!
They call him THE PACER
A second free throw has been hit
He was unironically pretty decent at beach volleyball
Did not expect to think about Bin Laden in a speedo today but here I am.
His hesi on tower 2. 🥶
You didn’t know? Osama had an efficient 9⁄11 81 TS% game in New York.
He does. Its pretty bomb.
BANG!!! BANG!!!
you wrong for this 😂
😂 you started it homie lol
Still a ways to go to get to Trump level
Easy there, he wouldn’t reach Woody Johnson level hated even if we won
Osama Binyama
Wembansama
Wembanladen
WemBinLaden
💀
Don’t forget the Haliban.
Donald’s curse will have been the reason
Any context on what he meant by Trae Young’s level?
I live in ny and I hear f trae young at random Sporting events even now
Mamdani blamed Trae for game 1 loss to the Hawks and he don’t even work there no more
Most New York thing a New York mayor has said in decades
9⁄11 times a billion
It’s like fifteen 9/11s
As an NYC villain, ever since he won G5 in the Garden in 2021 to close out 4-1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRZFjFOKtkk doesn’t explicitly explain it but it shows all the times where Trae Young fucked over the Knicks
Since then it’s been a New York religion to hate on Trae Young
The Haliban
Damn bro said Bin Laden…
Dead.
Osama Banyama
I feel like even if the Spurs win this series, Knicks fans will still be chanting “F Trae Young” more than anything like and I know this was 27 years ago, but I rarely hear any Knicks fans chanting “F Tim Duncan” or “F David Robinson” after the Spurs beat them in the 1999 Finals.
The NY Rangers have a chant where someone whistles and the whole crowd chants “Potvin sucks” after NY Islanders legend, Denis Potvin.
Denis Potvin retired in 1988.
I saw this with my dad in the early 2000s before smartphones could tell us why you hated potvin lol. Took us two periods to get the courage to ask our neighbors.
I know literally nothing about Denis Potvin other than he had a ridiculous season in 1978-79. My first experience of him is seeing him on that new 82-0 game craze and all it’s various spinoffs. He got me a perfect score for putting up a All-Star forward numbers for a defenseman.
Craziest thing is that it’s over a hit that wasn’t even that bad, in a series the Rangers won anyway.
The hit broke the Rangers players ankle. He was one of their top scorers and losing him was a reason they didnt win the cup that year.
NEVERFORGET
That’s some crazy NY lore. Y’all are wild lol
Don’t forget petty!
Doesn’t even happen during isles games lmao it’s just a regular occurrence you can hear it on the broadcast sometimes
The Bucks still yell “F Mike Dunleavy” even though it’s been over a decade, and he was just a role player when he fouled Giannis.
Milwaukees 9⁄11. Never forget
It’s great, makes me feel like my team is just a bit less lil’ bro if the rags fans are chanting about an isles players
Seeing the Isles being talked about in any way brings joy to my heart
99 was the most respectful best down ever. Scores all look closer than they were and Knicks just got out talented.
Would be like Cleveland fans still hating SA for 2007
Well Ewing was also injured. So their best player was spreewell.
Spreewell rims everywhere
This reads like such a narcissistic fan comment, only pulling out other past Spurs titles as comps lol
We just have a good sample size I suppose
Also Mike brown literally coached the Cavs in 2007 haha, so not even a random pull
We only had 1 title with real hate for the opponent really so it just works for comps lol
Who was that?
2014 redemption run
Ah. TBF, everyone hated the Heatles.
Not like the Spurs did after Ray Allen game 6. Came back for revenge with the fury of a thousand suns and extinguished the Heat for good.
That spurs team was so much fun to watch
2007 was LeBron and the jabroni crew lol that team had no business playing for a championship. It was really more about Bron vs the Spurs than the Cavs vs Spurs, and the 2013 Heat are the only team to get the better of Pop and Timmy in a Finals so he got his revenge in the end
The way game 6 ended ended in 2013 is maybe my most painful sports memory. But bittersweet because it’s the catalyst to the beauty that was the 2014 Spurs.
F Trae Young is so CATCHY
It helps that Fuck Trae Young just rolls off the tongue easy.
Right. Too many syllables to say fuck victor wembanyama. Whole ass haiku at that point
Yeah Trae Young played heavily into the role and put on a show while doing so it’s gonna leave a lasting memory. Wemby is much more boring and not a showman, he’ll be hated til the new season starts then it’ll just fizzle out.
It’s the combination of him bowing to the crowd and the complete shock Knicks fans had to losing. It was supposed to be an easy series for them, everyone was expecting the Knicks to roll through easy, then they get fucked by a lollipop headed short fucker
You thought you was Trae?
They don’t hate you like that
Knicks and Trae Young is my favorite rivalry because there’s no real malice
Wembanyama has too many syllables, hard to chant lmao
“fuck you wemby” would work just fine
They chanted it tonight
I can’t speak for New Yorkers and Knicks fans but Tim Duncan and the Admiral are saints in my eyes.
Trae Young will return in Avengers Doomsday.
Wemby would have to take a bow in the middle of the game on the Knicks logo, start yelling at the crowd etc. Wemby isn’t playing into it like Trae did
I just think fuck Trae Young rolls off the tongue better, it doesn’t have to make sense if it sounds cool in NY. Like when everyone was running around yelling Bing Bong.
Let’s be real how many modern Knicks fans were alive in 99?
Trae leaned into the villain role so well.
First he took a bow on the Knicks logo when he hit the dagger vs them.
In the Play-In tournament he pretending to roll the dice on the Knicks logo when the Hawks beat them to head to Vegas.
Knicks & Trae got a special relationship. Fuck Trae Young will live on for years.
It’s like when you piss off a crow.
It’ll tell it’s friends and pass down the grudge to its children.
Sit down here and let grandpa tell you about the man who stole my shiny piece of garbage. He ruined my life that day. Now let’s discuss about 250 other wrongdoings I need you to remember so take notes!
Trae Young vs. the Knicks was the most fun I ever had as a Hawks fan.
Trae Young embraced being the villain against New York so much that he was part of a heel segment for WWE when they were in MSG😂
Shit was peak
Atlanta got “fuck Trae Young” chants this playoffs…even when he’s no longer on the team.
Listen, if the spurs win this series I think it’s safe to say Wemby hate will know no bounds. The city will burn for days
I can’t wait to see it now that he’s in DC. 50 wins + a regional rivalry & the Wizards are gonna open some eyes
Very similar to when Reggie Miller terrorized them too
New York will never forget Trae Young. He belted them for five games straight
The bowing and shooting dice at the logo prob helped with the hate too
Exactly. It’s not that he did it. It’s how he did it.
Respect 🫡
knicks fans will forget the belting
they will NEVER forget the ragebaiting Trae did while doing it
I watched one of the games from a hospital. I’ve forgotten why I was there but have never forgotten the ragebaiting.
You forgot why you were at the hospital? What kind of life are you living?
He works at a grade school in Oklahoma.
He got beat up for trying to teach kids in Oklahoma how to read.
Username says coach. They must’ve gotten pissed off at him for teaching too many letters when he brought out the X’s and the O’s.
That series was a nightmare for the Knicks. Their leading scorer was literally Derrick Rose. Julius Randle, who was their 1st option, shot below 30% that series.
Ah, Randle staying consistent.
Julius Randle, who was their 1st option, shot below 30% that series
Timberwolves FO will see this and think “this man will push us over the edge to the finals”
Yet somehow they got KAT for Randle.. still boggles my mind.
How long before Wemby shooting dice on Knicks logo? Lol
Wednesday
Wembysday
It would be more on brand for him to play chess on it.
Watch him bust out a chair and start sketching or reading lol
He’s going to pick up Brunson and throw him like dice.
And it will be called a foul on Brunson.
Trae Young is a curse word in New York.
Trae Young Bowing after hitting that 3 lives rent free in my mind
During the Knicks fans giving their team a standing ovation too.
One of the best heel moves in wrestling was Sami Zayn bringing out Trae in New York.
Love those heel moves.
The best one is “It just doesn’t make sense. Like basketball in Seattle”. They had to start yelling into the mics.
Trae’s still not allowed in Dyckman
I’m kinda new to all this. Why are we on the fuck Trae young train?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zpZ2tiB0xg
“Ive never seen my dads dick” is incredible out of context
Pretty sure that guy was in Marty Supreme
One midrange jumper away from being up 2-1. Gotta win game 4, will probably be the hardest game of the series.
They probably win game 2 if Wemby and Castle didn’t fuck up that turnover.
It’s Wembys major fuck up, but Castle is also one of the ball handlers of the Spurs, he should have paid attention.
its mitch johnsons fuck up tbh.
90% of coaches call timeout in that situation there. its a final possession situation with scores tied
I can see Mitch’s reasoning in that there was plenty of time and not calling a timeout denies the Knicks ability to sub in their defensive unit. But he ultimately put too much trust in his 22 year old alien playing in his first ever finals.
Attacking a Knicks defense in transition with Brunson still on the floor and 10s on the clock in a tie game is far preferable to attacking a set defense with their best personnel subbed in. You simply don’t expect your players to make the dumbest TO imaginable, but we got a bottom 0.1% outcome from that play as a result.
Brother we have new discourse to overanalyze now
Castle had a defender coming right at him and Fox was open across the court, just a blind reflex by Wemby instead of making the correct pass, if Castle had been looking he’d have been swamped right away and maybe turn it over anyway.
Until its game 7
Game 4 I’m fucking scared . Max stress for both teams
Trae Young went belt to ass on NY for 5 straight games then was pretty much mocking the logo
It wa funny by game 2 of the series , NY fans had enough of Trae
That sidemen episode of NY just hating and roasting Young is a classic
“Trae Young looks like my dad’s dick”
Sidetalk* not sidemen
If Haliburton and Trae didn’t play the same position, I would’ve love to see a team with both of them at MSG….
Might cause riots
Have Reggie Miller call the game
Nah make Reggie the coach of the team.
Have Hali as point and turn Trae into a shooting guard🤔
Chet and Trae bout to form a support group
I dont think its a dig, Knicks fans will bring Trae young in a totally unrelated discussion about weather Yeahh its mostly jokes but for now he is the defacto New York super vilain. Also “F Trae Young” Just sound better for a chant bjectively.
Fuck Trae Young has transcended hate and is more of a cultural thing at this point
Knicks fans want to get daddy dommed by Trae Young at this point🥰🥰
In fairness his name isn’t as chantable
Today they were saying, “Fuck you Wem-by!”
Clap clap clap clap clap
Fuck wem by
Easily is
it’ll probably be
fuck you, wem-by
clap clap clap clap clap
I wish American sports had better chants
Fuck you cheez-ude Clap clap clapclapclap
“Trae is balding” was pretty funny
man how do you guys even suck at shit talking too? a year of being the villains and you’ve not gotten any better at this
I hate how NY is touted as a historic franchise. Like who cares if their fans have a villian lol. They haven’t been to the finals in 20+ years and have 2 rings from the early 70s lol.
The only reason anyone hates the Knicks is because of their fans
Brunson and KAT are pretty likable dudes
The only annoying Knicks players are hart and Alvarado
their owner is much worse than their fans
The front row of people paying six figures for seats is pretty hateable. No problem with the rest of the Knicks fan base though.
Im sure Brunson the man is a fine guy but I think I speak for all Pacers fans when I say we all fucking hate Jalen Brunson the basketball player. SGA-tier flopper in both of our last two series
Will never forget the play when he hit himself with Nesmith’s arm 😭
Hart is funny af
The 80 year old franchise in a 50 year drought in one of the biggest markets in the history of the civilized world is historic whether they win or not lol
Respect to Trae Young, but if Wemby ends their title hopes, Fuck Wemby will be the new chant
Should be fuck Harper. Really because he seems like the real x factor
If they beat the Knicks, there will be plenty of fucks to go around
Yeah it will never be let down lmao, Wemby would no longer be able to go to NYC without being assassinated
3rd tower has hit New York
Well now I wonder how much more fun this would be if the Spurs traded for Trae instead of Fox
Do you think Spurs would be better? Wemby + that perimeter defense the only thing that can make up for Trae’s defense and they would gain an amazing playmaker
idk if they would be better but that duo would be so fun to watch and this series would be even crazier i wish it happened so bad now
Remember when Knicks fans passed out fliers at MSG that said to chant “Trae is balding” during the game? That was pretty mean, they hated Trae Young 😭
Now that the Spurs have defeated the Knicks one time they are officially half as good as the Hawks
They need to stop this villain bullshit.
They tried it with CJ McCollum with Atlanta.
You aren’t a villain just cause you play well against the Knicks. You have to have one more thing, usually talking shit or some sort of gesture.
The NBA wants to replicate Knicks vs Reggie so badly.
Would be hilarious to see Trae Young be a Knick one day
How many playoff games has Trae won since 2021?
More than the pelicans
I live in New York, nobody truly hates Wemby, it’s all just performative lol. It’s hard to hate the savior of the nba
Doesn’t feel like they hate Trae Young either tbf
I don’t think so either, it’s some sort of crowd performance thing where they feel they need to hate a player because they’re New Yorkers lol.
Trae young that most wanted in NY? 😂😂
They probably mob anyone seen in NY wearing a Trae Young jersey
Holy shit are you candy asses completely unaware of Shaq?
https://youtube.com/shorts/dGJunYTAdns?si=SaMwcVy5qnzVWzeE
Cry me a fucking river. Jesus.
MJ, Kobe, Larry Bird, Kareem… have you ever seen basketball before covid? Maybe they should go back to the bubble where everything and everyone was safe.
Victor’s mean. Boo fucking hoo.
Tbf he is French
Wemby is a true basketball historian. XD
Trae rolling dice on the Knicks logo is one for the books.
Wemby played chess with New Yorkers in the pouring rain. Any animosity is purely confined to basketball. Hatred for Trae is part of NYC culture now.
I cackled, how do you hate this guy
The villain tonight was sleppy Donald.
Wemby got the best post game conferences
Damn. I hate him, but I especially hate having to respect him now.
-Knicks fans probably.