So obviously Wembanyama played in MSG tonight. I made no special effort to look up info about the game, but I was bombarded by three negative stories out of nowhere. He said MSG “isn’t as big as I expected,” which was actually a cutoff quote, where he finished by saying the energy is still there. The Knicks fans chanted “overrated” at him. And even the House of Highlights video is titled "The MSG lights were too bright for Wemby "
When I saw that, I thought he must have had a terrible game. His stats?
14 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 block. In 30 minutes.
In other words, perfectly fine. His jump shot was off (28%), but guess what… the game before that he shot 25%. And had 13 points and 10 rebounds. And no one savaged him. Because it wasn’t in toxic town.
The NY media and fans also treat Julius Randle like garbage too. I hate Kyrie Irving, for example (I called him Kevin Snake & Flake), but Kyrie is an outright Anti-Semite. Is Randle that bad of a human being? They weren’t much easier on Ewing.
We had a thread a couple years ago where we looked at the stats and found that Ben Simmons actually took a nosedive in his free throw rate and percentage in front of Philly fans, apparently due to their heckling. So treating your players like crap on their homecourt can have a negative effect. And a lot of guys won’t want to sign with your team and walk into that environment. Especially not kids who are just starting in the NBA and who are likely superstars of the future, and who seem to be decent people, who are getting a bad taste in their mouth from the moment they get near your team for the first time.
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Nets fans make me embarrassed to be from New York.
Gonna cry?
Knicks fans cry when no superstar will sign there.
Nets fans cry because they’re the nets
Ironically they signed 3 stars and won literally nothing, this nets fan is a just mad.
Wow this was really interesting
I was at this game. He played like 🚮. I’m no Knicks fan, but dude the over rated chants were warranted.
His first made fg was in the late 3rd or something. The spurs played like shit, and he wasn’t involved at all after his first few airballs in the 1st quarter.
He saved his stat line in the last 15 mins to mediocre. Stat line doesn’t tell the whole story bro.
Saying Wemby didn’t play terribly is all I needed to read to know this post was invalid lol.
welcome to New York
funny how all these comments are toxic too. i guess that’s just how most sports fans are
Yeah lol nobody looking good in this thread rn
You’re soft and that’s ok.
When’s the last time a superstar signed with the Knicks? The word for you isn’t “tough,” it’s toxic.
Why would we care about signing superstars right now?
Y’all had three and couldn’t even make it out the East 😂
We made it out the East twice this millennium. And signed 3 superstars. Your numbers are 0 for both.
Lmaooo soft af
i agree but this is the reddit so people here are very toxic and supportive of toxic masculinity culture. bunch a neckberds.
People throw fits and downvote you, but they have no actual decent responses and if you keep telling them the truth eventually they get it. Happens with other stuff too.
What rooting for Ben Simmons does to a mf
Who gives a shit its the knicks everyone knows new york fans and teams suck ass already lol its part of the deal when you play them. Those same fans would chop there own dick off if it meant getting a player like wemby.
Average big ol women enjoyer
Average poverty franchise fan
The Spurs are the small market poverty franchise. The Knicks are a luxury basketball franchise and one of the highest worth in the world
Sign a top free agent to new york challenge (imposdible)
Good fucking lord where did u get the fact that we heckled Ben’s free throw shooting!? Youre just saying things bro
aw <3
This is soft. If you were talking about how they treat Trae then you’d have a point. If Trae can literally get spit on during Covid and be fine then I’m sure Wemby can withstand the horrible oppression of overrated chants that happen in every stadium. Not like it was an entire stadium calling him bald or screaming fuck you
He was not perfectly fine, he was bad. He was 1 for 9 from the field at one point and got his points in garbage time in the 4th.
The hate on Randle is warranted. He is a lazy player more often than not and crumbles mentally when things get tough. There is a multi-year sample size of this.