Rod

[Coyote Corner @Corner_Coyote]

20 year old kid already moved onto better things and changing the lives of little kids

Meanwhile you got 30 year old men in New York chanting “Fuck him” after the series is over

He’s too cool man. We don’t deserve Victor Wembanyama🫶

There’s a reason he’s the face of the NBA👽

[Tokyo @Tokyo_pi1]

LeBron James on Victor Wembanyama’s MVP case to the interviewer

“If Wemby won MVP, I’d have no problem with it. The late push he’s making is absolutely warranted.”

Then he dropped this cold reality:

“I’m just thankful I’ll not be in the league by the time he reaches his full potential. I’d much rather be out on the golf course than facing that guy at his peak.”

[Rod @Rodd0y]

@EmoDoge100 @Fan_Prspective No he really does read, before every game actually. He started a book club too with his teammates.

[Rod @Rodd0y]

@Thetruth2727 @Fan_Prspective So why do they get a pass for literally slandering a 22 year old who’s 8 years on average younger than their team, but the 22 year old can’t just for not shaking hands. Double standard is wild! Y’all really that scared of him. Even when you win it’s all about him still

[Rod @Rodd0y]

@RunMets @Fan_Prspective He’s never gonna win “A ring”, he’s gonna win several! Hope you enjoy another 50+ years of being owned by Boston again

[Rod @Rodd0y]

@logiccaptainyes @Fan_Prspective @TLTBM Probably explains why yall assault people putting a minor in a coma and destroy your own city. You’ve been losers for 53 years.

[Rod @Rodd0y]

@gfed28 @Fan_Prspective You just have a daddy son duo who cries to the refs after every quarter like the big headed baby he is and who foul baits almost to the level of SGA.

Wemby is a class act who doesn’t need to hide his emotions just to make everyone else feel better. He doesn’t need to shake hands

[Fanatic Perspective @Fan_Prspective]

@midrangegrim Mad about a shove in a playoff game while you were fouling dude & a handshake.

The switch up on narratives that Wemby wouldn’t be handle playoff level physicality to well he’s mean & dirty is hilarious to me.

[Fanatic Perspective @Fan_Prspective]

I’m glad Victor didn’t shake their hands.

No need to appease performative social codes when you already know how dudes speak on your name behind closed doors.

[Ty @balldontTy]

can’t believe I’m forced to defend a fkn Spur but the narratives around Wemby rn are just flat out stupid. the truth should matter.

first, the run he just took the Spurs on was awesome.

35pt debut (franchise record), a 40/24 game. 3.5 stocks/gm. +21.6 on/off differential (hilarious)

led one of youngest teams ever to the Finals.

took down the defending champs.

led for 75% of the Finals & blew it - meaning more than anything they controlled their own destiny & capped themselves.

this narrative that he’s now a permanently scarred failure who’s legacy is cooked is hilarious.

22 yrs old. He, along w Castle & Harper, will only get better. They’ll absolutely be back.

Second & imo most important - in no world is Wemby a ‘dirty’ or immoral player. he had bad moments & lost composure, yeah. but if you think some shoves or elbows somehow makes him this unethical rotten thug of a player - *you* are soft (& delusional)

Nothing done by Wemby was anything different than moments we’ve seen from Jokic or Giannis. not even sniffing the depths of Draymond’s greatest hits.

the man is an 8ft 150lbs slinky being thrown around by earth’s greatest athletes. a body thrown at him every moment to counter his length (if you’ve played even JV level ball you’d understand).

Freedom of movement restricted. a man in your jock every step down the floor. that constant contact builds, frustration simmers, you go to make a basic play like set a screen, you flail, frustration pops, elbows thrown. it happens man it’s the nature of the sport. almost every Wemby flagrant was some run of the mill elbow or shove, called or not called - & fans act like he’s out there drop kicking knee caps or hammer fisting groins (wut). it’s a contact sport man tighten up.

I’d actually love for someone to clip together some Wemby footage showing how defenses are guarding him, the amount of contact he deals w on avg plays, how frequent & constant he’s fighting for position. at least give some context to what he’s battling against every time down the floor.

and last, his quotes & off court behavior. He’s a bit arrogant, likes to wax poetic & give genuine answers vs canned responses. I personally don’t mind it. I’ll take that vs chatgpt script responses all day. most of the stuff ppl crying about is heavily misquoted or out of context anyway. but what is it ppl want? we ask for confident, “real” Superstars & when we get it we cry that it’s all performative. listen to the full answer, stop letting the one sentence posted out of context in the caption form reality.

i’m gonna go throw up now for spending this much effort defending a Spur. but it had to be done. anyway you want to argue it, Wemby has been great for the league. he’s everything these ‘bring back the 90s’ advocates could dream for & if no one wants to defend him, I’ll take a minute to. what he just did these playoffs was genuinely incredible & he deserves the fair credit.

[Eric Salinas @EricSal_7]

I’ve never seen shooters land like this until this recent era.

This landing far from normal.

Yet you have dumb cancel culture and soft fans out in full force calling Vic a dirty player using this as evidence.

Manipulating rules by hunting feet when shooting should be banned from the league.

[Joey 🃏 @AssassinateHate]

Anakin Skywalker is a Spurs fan. This mogs every New York celebrity.

[Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, MD @MVGutierrezMD]

The @Spurs lost the NBA Finals last night.

But as a brain physician, I see something else.

The youngest starting five in conference finals history (average age 22 years, 346 days) just made a run in the NBA Finals.

At 22, the brain is still under construction.
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[Coyote Corner @Corner_Coyote]

What a season.

From the lottery to 60 wins.

From out of the playoffs to winning the West.

6 year playoff drought gone.
9 year WCF appearance drought over.
12 years not winning the West erased.

I love this team so much

Unforgettable year San Antonio Spurs. Thank you so much.

[Zach @ZachNBA_]

Negatives:

- Spurs lost the NBA Finals

Positives:

- Overachieved all year
- Everyone finished the season healthy
- The young core got four rounds of playoff experience
- Lots of assets to keep building
- This is the worse they will ever be

Hard not to have a positive outlook

[Wemby Alien Era @WembyAlienEra]

Danny Green reflects on the Spurs season and says the Finals loss is the best thing that could have happened for them:

“This was a hell of a season by the San Antonio Spurs..

This is the most proud I’ve been of any group and made me feel like I was a part of the group this year. Felt alive rooting for them, made me believe..

And honesty, I think this is the best thing that could have happened for them. And again in the same breath, probably the worst thing that’s going to happen for the league because now all you’ve done is awakened a monster in Victor Wembanyama.”

#GoSpursGo #PorVida

[Andy Cortez (didn't pay for the blue check) @TheAndyCortez]

Any Spurs fan that watched every game and knows ball can back this up:

The playoffs changed Wemby.

During the regular season, you never heard a peep about "dirty player" or flagrants because all of the arm hooking, jersey yanking, and thigh grabbing was a foul in the regular season. If players get called for a foul, theyre less encouraged to play that way. When the refs don't discourage rough play, a player will try to discourage it.

I think the refs and the league backed themselves into a corner by allowing too much roughness. If you suspend wemby then you get lots of calls and complaints from the spurs front office saying "here are all of the uncalled fouls that led up to the flagrant."

Was it a flagrant when Wemby pushed Brunson by the neck?
ABSOLUTELY lol

Would he have pushed him if Brunson wasn't pulling his jersey?
No.

But the most important question is, would Brunson have been pulling his jersey at all if the refs were consistently and correctly calling it a foul?
Probably not.

I was gonna post this on my substack but I don't have a substack.
Thank you for reading.
Congratulations, Knicks.
Go Spurs Go.
#porvida

[Kathleen Vale @SanAntoGuera]

What’s upsetting and pathetic is to see so many Knicks fans swarming our house in San Antonio. Even more upsetting is the realization generational poverty has so badly plagued our city for decades WE CANNOT EVEN AFFORD TO SUPPORT OUR HOME TEAM IN THE STADIUM. It’s a travesty…

[Rod @Rodd0y]

@ClanTheSpursFan He never followed them to begin with! Don’t start drama when there is none

[Rod @Rodd0y]

@LuGoatz6g4 @SpursLegion Evidently you don’t know ball! The Knicks are never going back bc Boston is gonna run them like they normally do! Sybau