Trae Young: “This is the most slept on I’ve been in my whole life…I understand there’s a lot of recency bias going on in the media. Imagine the Wizards as the No. 1 team in the East next year. What people gonna be saying?”
Need to see a Wizards Knicks series in round 1 next season.
I don’t see the Knicks dropping all the way to #8. Trae is calling his shot so they are obviously going to be the 1 seed. Guess we have to settle for the East Finals.
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Yeah it would be sick to see them as the one seed, I would support that for sure. Wizards franchise has suffered for quite a while, they really have potential though with this young core+trae/AD+first pick. Will be an interesting season
“Early pick” doesn’t quite give the credit of it being the first pick
Honestly, I couldn’t remember which pick they had. Thought it was third, good I didn’t specify lol
Edited in now, thanks
Yeah it does feel uncharacteristic of the NBA to let the wizards have first pick haha
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Knicks a 10 seed and win a play in game?
Him knocking out the Knicks in the 1/2nd round after a finals trip would solidify him as the most hated man in Knicks history.
Idk who NYC has as football/baseball villains, but he could have a case for most hated man in the city across all American sports.
Do it.
Nephews too young to understand how hated Reggie Miller was, it was 10x the Trae young hate and that was without social media
Go watch the 30 for 30 “Winning Time”
Trae Young did the shiver celly and all that but Reggie was shit-talking fans and made the choke signal at Spike Lee while grabbing his balls
Reggie was choking while grabbing Spike Lee’s balls?
That part didn’t make it into the history books 👀
Not a lot of people know this, but Reggie Miller has no gag reflex. None.
Did everything but the ol reach around
Cosmo Kramer ran out on to the court and threw a hot dog at Reggie, never forget.
They went out for drinks afterwards though
OMFG they absolutely hated him and he ate it up. Delivered on the biggest stage and reveled in being the villain. Did it repeatedly. Trae has one event.
I dunno. I think they respected Reggie Miller, at least.
Reggie deserved that tho cus he was actually winnimg after doing what he did in the garden, never seen a fanbase hate a basement dweller this badly, to the point they’re still yelling fuck Trae young at the end of games
Right! He’ll be in the mount rushmore with reggie
Your name is HATED by Yankees fans.
At times, they chant “F Altuve.”
Honestly fuck the astros , they were so smug when they were doing it and denied it until they couldn’t.
It is so satisfying as a Nats fan that they beat those guys even while they were cheating.
Fuck the Astros forever.
Strasburg went out like a real one for sure. I was rootin for him hard that series
Even now some of the players justify it as “well other teams were doing it too” which is probably true, but they were so blatant and systematic about. It’s one thing if it’s say a runner at second catching a sign or reading the pitchers grip; that’s just good gamesmanship. Having a full on system with the coaches involved to tip every single pitch, fuck all that and fuck the Astros for trying to normalize it.
They were gaslighting everyone who accused them at the press conferences and their team celebration was staring directly at the tv cameras from the dugout. Aroldis Chapman’s incredulous smile after giving up a series eliminating bomb to Altuve is forever etched in my mind especially when Altuve holds onto his jersey to prevent his teammates from ripping off his jersey. And Beltran demonstratively implied that 2017 WS game 7 starter was tipping pitches after his retired contemporaries asked how they were on every pitch from the start to knock out the starter so quickly.
Fuck that entire organization and everyone associated with that group. Trae Young ain’t got shit on the Trashtros
Astros cheated
Honestly I’m not even an Astros fan just went for a funny username. I must have picked well because sometimes I get absolute vitriol from the most random subreddits
And in return, he hits a dinger
Big Papi, Pedro Martinez
NFL harder cuz it’s probably Brady, but they beat him twice. Right now I’d guess Hurts.
Jets fans despise Brady.
Nah. NFL it would be DJax for a while and Dak up until the final game of the season (Dak/Cowboys had obliterated the Giants like 13 games in a row)
He’s not really hated by Knicks fans right now. More of a meme
Will that put him next to Big Papi tho ?
I need to see more generational New York rage baiting by Trae again
Knicks gonna get 8th seed? Those contracts are gonna destroy the team so makes sense
Jeb Bush 538 electoral votes.
Please clap
Stop the count!
TRAE!
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I will always love this meme and upvote it any time i see it
Jeb!
Key word is imagine
If your imagination has the Wizards as the #1 seed, people are going to say “you need to seek help”
I don’t know, people would have said the same thing for Pistons a year ago and I think this Wizards team might have more talent on paper.
preach brudda preach.
I thought being a Twolves and Tottenham fan was bad, I’m sorry brother
nah for the first time in my life, being a wizards fan is exciting. tottenham though…. yeah…..
it ain’t looking good bruv.
Just one more wake up call bro pls this time it’s different
(I do like rdz and think it will be a lot better next season)
we need to get rid of lange first.
Imagining the 6th seed Pistons becoming the #1 seed the following year in an East projected to be extremely weak due to key injuries is very different than imagining the worst team in the league record wise jumping up to the #1 seed the following year.
Yea even though I do believe in the talent, we’re going to face figuring it out periods that’ll make it essentially impossible to reach 1 seed. My hope beyond hope is 6 seed, my expectation is that the floor is play in, and I think it would be really great to see a series of games, like 10+ l, where we look unstoppable.
My hope beyond hope is 6 seed
Trae and AD seem like a match made in heaven if they can stay fit.
1 seed sounds ridiculous but top 4 seems realistic enough if you get lucky with injuries.
Problem with 4 seed is that even if you assume we are more talented than the top 4 (which we shouldn’t just assume), we’ll catch Ls just from lack of experience. Even just being in that range in like November/December would be amazing let alone by April.
Their record this season is irrelevant to next season. They were a young team, had injuries, made two big midseason trades who barely played, tanked and they got a #1 in a stacked draft class. It’s not going to be the same. I don’t think they’ll be first seed good but I don’t think it is an insane shout.
I mean I’d say it is some how a possibility. But requires ad snd trey to stay healthy and the rookie to immediately contribute
The 1 seed is dumb, pie-in-the-sky stuff.
Trae, just aim at getting the Wizards into the playoffs. Even better if you do it as a non-play-in team.
Just doing that would be a huge accomplishment.
If the stars align (mostly with AD and if he managed to stay healthy), it’s not just pre Ant Wolves “spooky” scary, they would be a legitimate playoff threat.
Yeah, that’s all I want. Even being 6th seed and not in the play-in would be a huge win to me, and I think it’s possible. We don’t need to be instantly good, I just want to see progress. Our guys are super young. We’ll have AJ or DP, Sarr, Champagnie, Riley, and Coulibaly, who all look promising. And with Trae and AD to guide the ship, I think the Wizards will be pretty good. Obviously you gotta factor in injury, but I’m hoping we can load manage AD because we have Sarr. Give him the Embiid treatment basically.
I mean, they have a ridiculous team.
AD Trae AJ
Seesh
Sarr as well. I keep telling people, Sarr and AD is gonna be a nasty defensive front court the 20-30 games they play together
They’ll be electric for 5 games a year 🔥🔥
Such an original joke! I can see why you’re a top 1% commenter!
Yea man. Sometimes imagination is all we have 🥺
More likely than the bulls lol
ball knower
bar is in hell
Let us mourn we just lost Stacey King
If the Wizards are the #1 seed at ANY point after the first month of the season, I’ll buy a Trae Young Wizards jersey. A knock off one though because I don’t like fanatics.
Trae showing early signs of Schizophrenia with this take.
If the Washington Wizards are the No. 1 seed in the east at the end of the 2026-27 season, going into the 2027 NBA Playoffs, I’ll eat my hat
i don’t think you really want to stand on this.
If the wizards end the season with the #1 seed, I’ll buy a Trae Young jersey and eat it
i don’t think you want to stand on this either big man.
If the wizards are the no 1 seed at the end of the season I’ll wait for both of them to digest the hat and shirt and I’ll eat their shit
Don’t think you wanna be ten toes down on this one lil homie.
I think your name suggests that you do want this to happen big fella
If the Wizards are the #1 seed in the east for the 2026-27 season, I will enjoy /u/CalmMinimum1179 and /u/ImThatVigga eating various clothing.
can you pretend to do that and just send me the jersey?
If the Wizards finish with a better record than us I will eat a actual Piston on camera.
again you don’t want to do stand on this.
If the wizards are the one seed next year, I will eat a nugget on camera
you guys are doing this to yourselves lmao. no reason to guarantee this.
He didn’t say what kind of nugget 😏
If the wizards are the #1 seed going into the playoffs next year I’ll put on my robe and wizard hat
For real, I’m screenshot this 😂
No risk take.
There’s a big gulf between ‘Wizards will be good next year’ and ‘Wizards will be better than the Knicks, Pistons, Pacers, Celtics, and everyone else.’
I can buy the former. I can not buy the latter.
Don’t worry, it’s a reddit comment. No chance they’d deliver.
we’ll just make him delete his account which also stinks for him lol.
If the Wizards go into the playoffs next year as the #1 seed I will walk to your house, wherever you live, and jerk you off while showing you Trae young highlights on my phone
RemindMe! 10 months
Get trae the mvp if this happens
Post hat.
RemindMe! 9 months
How do you set reminders on Reddit?
You just have to get that floater back Trae
Please
From watching him as a freshman in college OU, I sincerely hope he gets his game back on track. He’s done wonderful things for the city of Norman and Oklahoma generally.
He was still really good when he was healthy the season before last. Calling him healthy then is even being generous, he was playing on a bad Achilles all year and still firmly an all star level player
He was so cold at Norman North. Steph Curry was in his prime and here is this undersized high school kid doing similar things. It was exciting. North was a different team during his tenure. Young has only stays proved his doubters wrong. I wouldn’t bet against it. Still glad he flipped his signing from the Jayhawks. Would have been weird seeing him in that blue jersey, he’s as Norman as they come.
Moving to Norman in 2 weeks how is OU basketball currently
That shit is ice cold
People are gonna clown him but this is a good attitude to have.
Trae is great to have on the court as well as off of it. Told our young guys at the end of the season “Don’t get used to this[losing], this isn’t going to happen anymore moving forward.”
He absolutely has brought in the right mindset to help jumpstart the competitive part of this rebuild.
Also he got ejected off the bench for standing up for one of our young guys before he had even played a game for us. Trae has been saying and doing all of the right things from day 1, and I’m really glad he’s on our team.
Yeah I’m a big Trae Young supporter, I never understood all the hate he gets. Seems like a super chill dude who just likes hooping
For me, I don’t think he can be a #1 option, he’s not talented enough. He doesn’t *want* to be a #2 option, he wants to have the ball in his hands and be controlling the entire offense, so you can’t pair him with a true #1 easily. He’s a defensive sieve, to say the least. Just not that valuable of a player, and it showed when the Hawks traded him.
Seems like a good guy, but I don’t want him on my team at his price, only in the mid-high 20m off the bench, tbh.
Sounds perfect for AD who shoild be a 1 but wants to be a second option
Also people are really sleeping on the Wizards because, it’s the wizards. But they have a real chance to be a good team next year. Not a 1 seed, but definitely a playoff team
If AD actually plays for the Wizards and stays reasonably healthy (even by his standards) for the whole year, they’ll be a top-5 team in the East.
It’s the east. Every team is a contender
It’s refreshing to see some optimism and genuine discussion about a team’s potential, especially the Wizards. It’s like pulling teeth to have any discourse these days with the “elite ball knowledge” community.
I will say, all 5 of the Wizards fans appreciate those of you that actually follow the plan we’ve been executing over the last few years.
Will it work? Who knows.
But the plan has been executed exactly how Dawkins drew it up and it is so nice to have a clear plan compared to the fucking decades of Ernie Grunfeld.
I hope it goes well for the Wizards. Even if it’s five fans, fans of smaller market teams deserve to see their team be competitive and successful.
I 100% agree with you. I’ve been working wizards games since 2022 so I’ve watched some BAD basketball but this past year was legit fun for me and it made me a genuine fan rather than just a person that shoots the games
“We’re fine in the East”
I look at the East, which I’ve watched for four decades, and I say this now with the Wizards, ‘Hey Knicks, we are good, bro. You can go. You don’t have to. You can hang around. Still great, but you can go. We’re all good here.’
Straight chills down my spine
you think the magic gonna beat the wizards when they play?
It will be the mid-off of the century
you not excited by a game of quidditch between magicians and wizards?
He’s not entirely wrong, but if (massive if) they’re #1 in the East next year it’ll be because AD plays 65+ games and he & Sarr are a dominating front court.
People don’t really understand how good and deep this team will be.
Jazz and Wizards executed the final tank before the new rules as well as you can imagine
It was a masterclass in tanking, truly inspirational the suffering both franchises went through
Honestly late this season they didn’t even do half bad, and they were trying to lose the entire time. Next year, they have an actual reason to try and win games for once. It will be different, if anything. Maybe not #1 but certainly in the playoff discussion.
They won’t be that good lol
Not just that. But Kyshawn and Bilal are menaces on defense too. Trae is the only negative defender in the starting lineup. Either Sarr or AD as the weak side shot blocker is going to be insane.
I made a comment on this a while back. I’m not gonna say a high seed. But I’d be surprised if they are not in the play ins.
AD/Sarr front court with KG/BC on the wings is scary defense. Trae and Tre to boost their offense. Champagnie as the glue guy. Vuk, Riley, Cam, Bub as competent backups. Wizards will surprise a lot of people next year.
Am I the only one that could actually see the potential for this team? They have 2 veteran all stars that IF they stay relatively healthy could work together well not to mention all the young talent that waiting for their skills to develop. Health and changing the losing culture are the two biggest obstacles imo
I think it’s super unlikely. But for people to not see a possibility where they’re even in the mix in the east is surprising.
Trae, Tre, Dybantsa, Sarr, AD has real upside.
Bub, Ky, Champagnie, Riley, Bilal on the bench. And they have a good FO with flexibility to keep making moves.
This sub has hated and underrated Trae his entire career. If you are down on Trae and fairly assume AD will either not be on the team or miss major time from injuries, I can see the pessimistic angle. But I am not down on Trae at all and they are very easily a playoff team in the East imo.
This is a Wendy’s Reddit, only hate is allowed.
People have the inability to project forward based on the information they have available to them. It’s actually a true gift that, sports fans, see teams come from seemingly nowhere into relevance EVERY YEAR… and they’ll still tell you why shit like this(Trae’s clip) is “check yourself into a facility” material.
Show me a single team who went from being the worst team in the league to the #1 seed in their conference in one season.
Why couldn’t it happen? He’s just setting a high goal, but the Wizards absolutely could be a playoff team next season if everything goes well enough. We sucked last season and here we are in the finals.
That probably won’t happen… but more than half of the comments on this post are acting like this team has the inability to be competitive next year.
“Imagine if the wizards are competitive next year, what are people gonna say?” just doesn’t have the same ring to it. He’s an active player on the team, a little bit of arrogance & delusion when you’re trying to be competitive is needed.
Show me a bottom 5 team that added 2 20⁄10 all stars + the number 1 overall pick in the same year
Tbh even before the AD trade the wizards were kinda in that bubbling spot (especially since they secured 1) a lot of good young players + 1oa + Trae as still good distributer
If AD is healthy and playing well the sky is the limit but I do think that assuming AJ is atleast solid and the young guys continue to improve a bit, this would be a team on the come up. Next year is a bit ambitious but if AJ enters the league “ready” Who knwos
They have good players! If things bounce right they can be really good
Uhh probably “wake up, Trae, breakfast is on the table”
I’m saving this one ☝️ for a good remindme
They’ll be saying “oops I had the standings upside down”
This thread will be fun to revisit in a year !remindme 11 months
As a wizards fan, this shit is delusional. I’ll be happy if we make the playoffs.
I imagined it, laughed out loud, and moved on with my day
Tbh people are sleeping on the Wizards.
They should be solid but it’ll depend on health for Trae and AD (lol). No way they go #1 unless Dybantsa has an insane rookie year and Sarr takes a massive leap.
They really are. I think people are just stuck in the mindset of “lol wizards” and don’t realize the team thats been built. Are they gonna be a favorite? Probably not, but I could see them being a playoff team next year
Honestly not even far fetched to think the wizards could be very good out the gate with Trae and AD and the number one pick.
Especially in the east a healthy version (ya I know) of this team could be contending in the east quicker than people think.
Being a good regular season team and a legit contender are very different things.
Sure, but I don’t particularly rate anybody in the east very highly.
Yeah even this Knicks team doesn’t look unstoppable they just look like they’ve gotten a ton of favorable matchups and have taken full advantage of them
Knicks got the easy road this year without having to face Trae
We wouldn’t even face the Knicks if trae was still on the hawks
LeBron should go to the Wizards.
One last trip to the NBA Finals.
Trae, Anthony Davis, Dybantsa, and LBJ.
He could even do that better than MJ. Lol
Yes please
They’ll ask how strong the shrooms they just got were
What would we be saying?
“The world looks on in horror as a natural disaster takes out 13 entire NBA teams all coincidentally from the eastern conference leaving only the Nets and Wizards alive”
probably.
Nets in 6
MPJ averages 35/15/5 on 50/40/90 splits
This is ridiculous bullshit.
Natural disaster only needs to take out 10 teams. Twelve at the most.
That would be awesome….imagine telling fans 3 years ago (before the Wemby draft) the Pistons, Wizards and Spurs are all contenders.
😤
I mean if by number one team he means top seed in the play in, maybe.
Y u shitting on your own future specially with the numbah one pick
Them teeth ain’t natural
Trae will bring us to the promised land
Imagine me, Negative-Mixture7430, as the number 1 player in the East next year
I can see them as a potential up to 4 seed if one or two things break their way. There’s a lot of talent on that team already and now about to add to it with the #1 pick
If there was hope of getting 50-60 games out of AD, but that just feels like such a long shot.
We got Porzingis to play 60+ games (his most healthy season in years), so maybe the training staff can work some magic, plus AD basically having a year off could be somewhat beneficial.
I’m just hoping he played 40-50 at least.
Lisan Al-Gaib, Insha Allah Mahdi will show us the way
It would be great but why were the Hawks always .500 with Trae and the minute they trade him away they become one of the best teams in the east.
Corey kispert handsome aura raised team chemistry
Gotta be the most lopsided hair trade in NBA history.
Trae took them to the conference finals
Ben Simmons took them to the conference finals.
People are gonna say “Wow look at the newest most fraudulent 1 seed OAT!”
After we take that spot from the 25-26 Pistons… I’ll allow it
I will happily pass that torch to ya
24-25 Cavs and I’m a Cavs fan.
they would, but we’d still take it.
I wouldn’t be mad if the wizards were good again
If the Wizards are #1 seed at any point after 10 games have been played I’ll cum in my own mouth
im not sure u really want to stand on business like this.
also major pause.
I think a lot of people are gonna be surprised at the standings and records next year where there won’t be any teams actively trying to lose.
I miss Trae
I like how glaringly obvious it is when dudes get veneers.
If AD has this same attitude and the squad can stay healthy then a top 6 should absolutely be realistic. Top seed a lil much but still love to hear this.
to be fair hes hasnt had a really good season since the beat the knicks in the playoffs. he peaked and slowly declined every year.
His potential aint a question though
That’s not true. The best season of his career was his 2022 season, the year after that series.
right that was the season. my bad
I dont think trae young is a guy that can be played heavy minutes in the playoffs. They may very well secure a top 4 seed, but id have them losing against the first good team they play regardless of what the regular season looks like.
Love AD, but can he stay healthy enough for a full season and playoffs??
I guess people would be saying things like “man, where did all these flying pigs come from?!” or “damn, when did it get so freezing cold down here in hell!?”
I feel like he’s trying to convince himself lol
Wizards (barring injuries) will be a top 6 seed in the Eastern Conference easily
Make it happen, Trae. Can’t be mad at him for thinking this.
1st seed probably not but they will be a lot better especially with the 1st pick.