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I think people are just a little tired of the whistles.
I probably didnt word it correctly. His style of play is more so what people dont like.
He is very likable but he gets the superstar whistle. So any marginal call goes his way. He leverages that by flailing and flopping and generating even more free throws. He is very good without doing all the extra so it gets frustrating to watch him game the rules. Similar to Harden in his flopping prime.
I think he's a good enough guy. But the foul-baiting makes it unwatchable, and it's not just him.
And NBC had a story about the pervasiveness of gambling within the clubhouse, including team flights. One team member said the biggest fights among teammates occur while gambling on the team flights.
He manages to dominate games without a lot of fun highlights. He’s really nice as a person but his game is super boring compared to his best comps like Wade, Kobe and MJ.
Is that unlikable? Kind of, it’s not fun and exciting compared to Joker, Doncic and Wemby. Tyrese had 20x as many exciting highlights in the playoffs last year as the mvp who won it all.
I get it now...I thought I missed something about him off the court...my bad! FWIW...I still believe Joker was the MVP of last season...but voters get fatigued when they vote for the same person year after year.
Jokic has been on teams that literally would hold a top-5 draft pick if he wasn’t there. OKC for sure would still be a playoff team without SGA
And Jokic has led those teams to a championship and last year took OKC to 7 games. Shoot they blew double digit leads heading into the 4th in both games 4 and 5 of that series with basically a 6-man rotation and the 6th man was Russell freakin Westbrook. Pretty amazing what he did with that squad last year.
Yeah he’s so dang tall he can basically just hold the ball up high with arms and extended and a defender can’t reach it without fouling him on the body. He also barely has to get off the floor to get off his shots. I don’t have anything to back this up but I feel like injury risk increases exponentially higher up a player goes in the air. Seems like if he can play smart he has all the tools to completely dominate.
For taller players I feel like foot injuries are common and of course we’ve seen a bunch of Achilles tears recently. I hope him and his team figure out a way to keep him healthy.
The fact he had to sit the last month of the season due to blood clots would be very concerning to me as a Spurs fan. The blood flow of those huge guys just isn’t very good.
I'm 99.9999999999% convinced the Kings/Lakers series was totally fixed in the early 00s.
Nothing since then has had me that convinced, just more typical subtle favoritism or teams/players that are hard for even the best officials to officiate. Regular season NBA games present countless chances for gambling manipulation that don't really even effect the season that much, I'm more talking about gifting a team a title.
Pablo Torre links Kevin Garnett to NBA poker scandal
Well-known sports journalist Pablo Torre links former NBA superstar Kevin Garnett to the poker scandal in his latest reporting.
