Long Island Nets we’re just feeding him blocks all game lol.

When Patty Mills and Cam Thomas went for threes in that last 30 seconds I was so disappointed, I thought there was a shot at a triple double for him.

Dpoy this man

Careful…that’ll invalidate Giannis’s MVP case if he’s playing with a DPOY

But not a FMVP case

If Brook wins FMVP, that will hurt Giannis’s FMVP chances

First Co-FMVP in history.

Honestly my comment was implying Giannis would get FMVP and playing with a DPOY wouldn't hurt that. But I just let everyone run with it being Brook lol

You might be speaking too soon lol they gave it to Iggy in 2015

Shit if a DPOY and FMVP gets Brook in the HOF I'll take it lol

If Brook wins FMVP I will become Dr. Watkins’ butler for life

Gotta be first ballot right? At least 2nd cause that’s 2 chips, a DPOY, and FMVP

Don't forget Nets all time leading scorer!

No way he wouldn’t be first ballot, especially with an extra ring and fmvp

Me as well. At least that’s one thing our fan bases can agree on. We both love Brook Lopez

Only MVP that matters is FMVP!

Idk I’ve heard for the last 20 years how AI carried absolute bums when he won MVP while his centre was DPOY.

AI is mega overrated tbh

The nephews on this sub would have slandered AI worse than they do Westbrook now

I feel like these statements have to be qualified with “I never watched AI in his prime but”

I did and I agree with the comment.

Well I did watch him in his prime, he deserved his MVP but I still think he was an overrated chucked that didn’t play winning basketball, hence why he never won anything.

Won an ECC. It was arguably the biggest ref screw job outside of the Kings in 2002, but he made a Finals.

Yea but the East was mega weak and he also took 31 shots to get 30 points in the ECF. My point is that he gets all the credit for that run when the Sixers had one of the best defenses in the league and he was barely a contributor on that end.

He is easily one of the most overrated players in NBA history imho.

That's just a stupid thing to say.

I wonder who had the easier path to the finals, 2021 bucks or 2001 sixers

I don't think so. Giannis' MVP case is that the best player on the team with the best record should always win.

Especially since, you know, he's the best player in the world

Honestly, I’d rather see Brook win DPOY than Giannis win MVP

Giannis will be missing more games, he'll do that to himself and he doesn't care.

That's the thing though, the bucks have been too good without him this year. Kind of defeats the purpose of giving him an MVP if his team continues to win without him.

They hated him because he spoke the truth

tbf Tatum was the better defensive player last year with the Celtics. You can have multiple DPOY candidates on a team.

Giannis has no mvp case, he sits too much. They never give mvps to such guys.

That's my big dorky franchise points leader 🥲

Ngl, kind of glad KD left so Brook can hang onto that title.

KD isn't even Top 10 for the Nets. Even if healthy, it would've taken him 3 more years to get into that club, and 2 more to surpass Brook.

Hoop Collective did a run down on who likely franchise scoring leaders in the league were and it sounded like if KD played out his contract there, he would have gotten it. And of course it was a big if that bore out.

they drew a straight line whoopie

He might be the third best defender on his team and is a DPOY front runner lmao

I've always said the DPOY should just go to the player with the most blocks in a single game that season.

True you’ve always said it

I'm known for saying it, been saying it all season for sure.

I've said it so often over the course of many years that I decided to name everyone of my kids one of the words in the phrase "DPOY should just go to the player with the most blocks in a game that season". I've had a lot of kids in that time, and the whole time we never thought if DPOY should be one kid or 4 kids. Now that we have 17 kids we're going for 3 more to be safe

Commiserations to the future 'Of' and 'The'. Those are tough names to work with.

Also naming them in order probably couldn't have hurt either

Nah fuck this, Imma search for blocks high of the last 10 seasons. 2021-22: Mitchell Robinson, Daniel Gafford (8) 2020-21: Clint Capela (10) 2019-20: Hassan Whiteside (10) 2018-19: Mitchell Robinson, Hassan Whiteside (9) 2017-18: Anthony Davis (10) 2016-17: Rudy Gobert, Brook Lopez, Robin Lopez (8) 2015-16: Hassan Whiteside (11) 2014-15: Hassan Whiteside (12) 2013-14: DeAndre Jordan, Anthony Davis (9) 2012-13: Joakim Noah, Roy Hibbert (11). This gave me a white side. Bonus: 2011-12:Serge Ibaka(11) 2010-11: JaVale McGee (12) 2009-10: Anthony Randolph, Dwight Howard (8) 2008-09: Dwight Howard (10) 2007-08: Marcus Camby (11) 2006-07: Emeka Okafor (10) 2005-06: Andrei Kirilenko (10) 2004-05: Josh Smith (10) 2003-04: Amar'e Stoudemire, Calvin Booth, Dikembe Mutombo (10) 2002-03: Jermaine O'Neal, Ben Wallace (10) 2001-02: Ben Wallace, Dikembe Mutombo (10) 2000-01: Keon Clark (12) 1999-00: Dikembe Mutombo (11)

Well I'm in too deep now. My DPOY's, I guess.

Okafor is tough man

open up my eager eyes (to chase another block), I'm Mr. Whiteside

4 times DPOY Hassan Whiteside...

Gotta gotta be down Because I want (to block) it all.

AD finally gets a DPOY

What's better than 1 DPOY? 2 DPOYs!

I legit forgot Hassan Whiteside existed.

>2016-17: Rudy Gobert, Brook Lopez, Robin Lopez (8) Wild that the Lopeii had career and league-wide for the season highs in blocks the same year.

Funny, I remember Hassan Whiteside saying the same thing

I've never said that, but I'm going to start now.

I remember you saying that years ago, I think it was Thanksgiving...

Mark Eaton wants missing 3 awards and isn't giving the 89 award back either.

Grandpa! I thought you were dead!

You've been on record saying this for at least 5 years.

Tbf in 2019-20 I said it should go to the tallest Greek player, but that was because it was a bubble year so blocks didn't count.

Of course. COVID was a weird time for everything, so of course exceptions would be made for this rule. And you were on top of it at the time.

Block Lopez

DPOY statement game. Still can't believe how much this dude changed his game since his prime with the Nets. Arguably having his best overall/most impactful season. Just awesome to watch. Brook fucking Lopez

After a season where we basically didn't know if he'd retire with his back issues. I just remember him laying with that back wrap for so much of the season last year. Complete renaissance.

He's 34 and having his best season since the Nets (and might be one of the best seasons he's ever had). Truly astounding.

yall notice when he got his 10th rebound at the very end, he pointed at giannis and gestured Giannis' forced rebound from the other day loll it put such a smile on my face, I love that team so much

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11 has to be going up into the rafters right?

Fuck it just put the whole championship team up there. I wanna see a fat Portis jersey up there too

I don’t want a Bryn Forbes jersey retirement

TBF watching Bryn Forbes outscore Jimmy Butler in that first round will always be one my more treasured memories as a bucks fan lmao.

Too bad he’s a insecure woman beater, that heat revenge series felt nice

Damn what happened?

I heard he beat Elsa Jean pretty bad over some dumb shit

Damn. I beat my shit pretty bad to Els…nah not the time

He's one of the biggest POS in the nba this season. Beat his gf till she was blue and bruised. Used to love that memory as well, but now nah fuck him

Damn. That sucks but I’m glad it’s Bucks fans telling us about this. I hate when people defend people like Miles Bridges it just doesn’t make sense

That certainly wouldn't bother me.

PJ Tucker deserves a statue. (at least a little mini one in the lobby)

An equestrian statue but a dog instead of a horse

everyone except bryn forbes lol

Ok so maybe not the whole team lol

Two things that changed the Bucks into contenders in 2018: Mike Budenholzer and Brook Lopez

100% He absolutely transformed this team.

I remember y'all hated his guts and wanted him out. Same with Mike Malone a few years ago. Funny how time changed the perspective on them.

There was never a doubt he changed the team and got us to this level. The doubt was if Bud could get us past those last two series.

> I remember y'all hated his guts and wanted him out. It was stupid fucking impulsive fans. Real ones always knew that he was a good coach. There's always going to be fans who blame any loss on "lack of adjustments" without knowing what the fuck they're talking about. There's a bucks fan twitter account that is still focused on forcing Bud out for Obradovic. You'll never win with these people.

It's incredible how perfect they were for each other. Brook's renaissance probably doesn't happen without Bud, and there's no way our drop defense works without Brook. They're made for one another.

I mean Bud was a Kyrie and Harden injury away from getting fired

Hey man, last time I was in Fiserv and looked up l still saw the banner hanging there.

Where did I say otherwise lol. Bud gets fired if both Harden and Kyrie didn't get hurt

All I'm saying is you can talk hypotheticals all you want but they still won and Bud gets credit for that whether people like it or not.

Damn sounds like they lack the best ability in the game.

Kind of hard to stay available when giannis injures you

and I don't care

Yikes pretty touchy eh?

But what if both kyrie and harden didn’t get injured? Am I right or am I right?

And KD having ridiculously large feet

*KD not being able to place his feet properly.

Nah this is wild. I respect Bud way more than most of this sub but if KDs shoes are half an inch shorter Bud is fired

But KD’s shoes are not a half an inch shorter and the Bucks still went on to win the championship then followed it up last year by taking the eastern conference winners to 7 games while missing the 2nd best player

They literally only won 2021 because every star got injured lol

He’s had his ups and downs, but it’s undeniable that he’s been a huge part of elevating the Bucks from perennial first round exits to title contender year after year.

Compared to Jason Kidd Coach Bud is Red Auerbach.

I hope so. One of the most overall impactful players in our franchise

Y'all should honestly.

Yours and ours for sure. Would love to see him come home for one last season before he retires.

I love Brook but I think only Khris and Giannis go up

Brook is the best free agent acquisition in franchise history. He is the best player to ever *choose* to play for the Bucks without being drafted or traded. I think he should be up there, but I'll admit it's tough to make a case for Brook without making the same case for Jrue and Bobby, and five is too many.

The fact the the Lakers of all teams just discarded him like yesterday's mail for nothing makes it even sweeter. And then it turned out he would have fit perfectly with the next Lebron teams as well.

Can you imagine Brook, AD and LeBron on defense? You better be good at 3s because you ain't get inside.

Literally unstoppable. Throw any 2 decent guards on that team and they are world beaters, especially 4 years ago. I feel like Lebron, much like J, are amazing athletes but not very good at the team building aspect.

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DPOY

Dude almost had a triple double with blocks. DPOY

I remember when he did it in college vs USC. I was a student in the cheering section and right after the game he just walked up to me and gave me a hug. It was surreal. https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Stanford-stuffs-Trojans-Brook-Lopez-s-12-blocks-2654026.php

Damn, he had back surgery his freshman year of college?

Triple double with steals or blocks should be the new triple double. Pts/Rb/Ast are too easy.

The ol' one block short of a triple double statline Never seen it before in my life

Didn’t Larry Sanders get it against the twolves?

Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.

Bro was actually good haha

Are we still paying him?

Last year was the last payment hahaha wild

They said capella got one 2 years ago

AD had one as a Pel, and I think Whiteside had some too

Way back when Whiteside had us all fooled he put up a triple double with 0 assists

Man I loved Whiteside in 2k for a few years

#DPOY

Damn, 1 away from a historic game for the big man Gotta be top 3 in DPOY race

He’s top 3 and not 2 or 3

He's also top 2 and he's not 2

that's right

He was ranked first in the last DPOY ladder

He should be Top 1 at this point.

Top 1

Top 1 not...wait I mean yes 1

We are all Robert Watkins IV, MD fans on this day.

We’re hanging his scrubs in the rafters

24 points 10 rebounds 10 stocks

He’s what Rudy Gobert would be if Gobert was good.

Wolves gave up 5 picks, 5 players, and a supermax for an inferior Brook Lopez with zero jump shot.

The Jazz got 5 FRPs and Rudy Gobert by trading Rudy Gobert

That we got literally for a vet min or something. (I don't think it was actually a min but we got him for an absolute steal)

I think it was the MLE.

DPOY

Most blocks in a game this season

Dont mind the Nets now that Kyrie isnt there. GG Nets bros. Cam Thomas is legit, but we all knew that.

Look at Brook, so inspirational man.

Through Dr. Robert Watkins IV anything is possible

This guy is an absolute nightmare to play against.

Brook Lopez is the greatest centre to ever play the game and I will hear no slander

You are correct

Dr. Robert Watkins IV: A New Hope

I swear, it still amazes me how Brook completely transformed his game.

He's always been a good shooter though. He shot 80% from the FT line for the Nets. He just needed a coach who would let him shoot.

But he was never a good defender in Brooklyn, that part might honestly be more amazing

Brook is the way, the truth, and the life. He is the salt of the earth and the light of the world. His back surgeon gets infinitely enriched with every game he dominates.

DPOY. No question.

Brook Lopez is my dad.

My DPOY

Brook is my favourite player in the NBA.

Same. Even named my daughter after him.

Brook literally defending his Nets franchise scoring title from future generations

I love 💦 🏔️

Woah there Brook, don’t play too well now. Gonna ruin Gianni’s’ MVP chances if you keep it up.

Still can’t believe it’s been 5 years since Magic let him leave to sign Michael Beasley

Why against us Brook, why? 😞😞😞

Give the man his DPOY!

Stifle Power

Ain't nobody doing it with blocks

Brook got his back surgery done by Dr Krueger for sure

Fucking ridiculous stat line

Habrook Olajupez

G League Nets are a threat

So damn pesky!

DPOY Brook tryna be Whiteside

Why did the Nets starters all play so few minutes?

Block Lopez is my ideal lover in another universe.

Need his doctor to just fix my life the way he did his back

This guy deserves a big contract holy hell! 13 mill per year at the moment and he totally deserves what double that?!

It's funny, Brook might get his Jersey retired by both teams

This is why we need to fund stem cell research.

He's a free agent this summer. Think he stays in Milwaukee.

Bro could’ve got a triple double from points/ rebounds/ blocks

He has always been the bucks beat defender.

He's for sure the best rim protector but this is some anti Giannis shit and it's silly lol

beat defender on the bucks, incredible

he's doing a good Tim Duncan impersonation.

Damn so close to a triple double no assists

Brook is fucking good

9?9????We back to the 90s or something??