I’ve definitely seen Bron openly frustrated with Russ lmao. I’ve also definitely heard Wizards teammates complain.

You ask any old teammates about Demar and everyone loves him lmao. PG hasn’t even played with him and sings songs of praise whenever he gets brought up.

From a player’s perspective, you’ve got a guy who’s been in the league forever, is all about respecting yourself (and others around you), has a stupidly high work ethic, and is very outspoken about mental health issues associated with being in the spotlight like these guys are. Shit, dude had young players on Chicago LIVING WITH HIM in the off-season so they could work out and practice with him even.

Then from an organization standpoint, the dude is a model professional. Didn’t fuck around requesting a trade after being moved to the Spurs, openly talks about how San Antonio was bad for his mental, but but then immediately goes on to say how much he appreciated the support he had from the organization and Pop. He even bought into Pop’s system in San Antonio because he was aware the goal wasn’t winning games, it was helping the young guys get their feet under them. Dude is a scorer and put up 7 assists per game on a tanking team full of young players.

No media shitshows, buys into what coaches say, does his best to support young players, doesn’t request trades, etc… I don’t know how anyone can look at him and see “self centered” lmao

I’ve never seen an organization, coach, teammate, or ex-teammate say a negative thing about him.