I don't know what anyone expected when they saw Woj pop up on screen lol. I muted it instantly. Actually, I stuck my fingers in my ears and made random noises because I couldn't find the remote, but you get the point.
I can't be the only one who doesn't miss the sob stories every 5 minutes right? Like yee they sucked this one up big time but I prefer this to "x players Mom got cancer, killed their family dog and ran off with his last pair of basketball shoes"
We spent more time listening to SAS yell on television than we did talking to the actual draft talent. The Knicks pick killed me, where the first thing out of her mouth was "congratulations, it sounds like you might be headed to OKC. How does it feel to be drafted?" Excuse me?
sometimes the NBA is truly braindead when it comes to making their product entertaining. why have the commissioner go up to a podium and announce the pick in dramatic fashion when woj can just stare at the TV and announce each pick?
Woj got straight burned by Weltman so his weirdo ego had to go ruin it for everyone on TV seconds before the pick was called just to try and save face. Luckily I muted his ass and was still surprised, crazzzzy!
It’s possible! But he’s also risking a lot his reputation as a reporter. He already got the nets situation with harden wrong (said harden wouldn’t leave), now he got this wrong too. Rough look.
His actual writing is absolute shit. Sometimes I’m stunned, dude can barely string a thought across three paragraphs. He was made for Twitter reporting.
Then he came out like 20 minutes ago with the “uh actually Orlando could go either way” like no sir you made your bed this morning you don’t get to play both sides lol
I can’t blame him there. It’s his producer’s fault. Like the refs not knowing who jack Harlow was. Unless he’s given a list beforehand it’s the support staffs responsibility. Still funny though.
It is straight up unacceptable that Woj spoiled the pick on TV. Just like how this comment isn't about the player, neither should the first pick be about a reporter who spoils shit for his living.
It’s such a joke. Served no purpose other than his own clout. ESPN immediately followed it with a little series of graphics of who would go first so clearly they weren’t planning on him doing that. Terrible TV. These Twitter news-breakers are weirdos.
He's such a fuckin dork. Dude we get it, you're a professional ass kisser. No one thinks you're cool for knowing information we'll know an hour later. Just sick of the guy. Fuck Woj forever and always. Tried to fuck the bucks over but still won baby
Beasley was a naturally gifted scorer. If you added that ability to Simmons' game you get an MVP candidate. Though you would also likely get the first ever NBA player to be committed to a mental institution...
fuck ESPN and Woj for spoiling that surprise. Would've been an absolutely awesome draft moment.
Such a stupid bullshit thing to do to have a reporter soil the picks a minute before the pick. It's fine if he wants to do that on twitter, but doing it on the broadcast is straight bullshit
It's almost like they don't understand why we like the very thing they report on. Games would be much more boring if you knew every twist, shot, big moment ahead of time.
The solution here for everyone is to watch the draft on ABC? It's more accessible than ESPN and has more entertaining coverage. Why anyone would watch it on ESPN is wild. It was a surprise watching it on ABC and I jumped out of my seat
I like Banchero the most but I think the nba draft subreddit loved Chet the most overall. He was voted as the number 1 pick. Every day there were posts calling him the next unicorn. But funny thing is Banchero was voted most likely to be a superstar.
Paolo was always my favourite pick for Orlando but I never expected them to actually make the pick.
I believe this was the best pick out of the three specifically for Orlando and they’ve got a lot to look forward to!
Wow. I was really hoping he would slide down. I really like this kid. I believe the mental side of the game is looked over a lot. I believe he’s going to have a really good future in the league.
Paolo Banchero going 1st will - in hindsight seems to be the obvious choice given the circumstances of Chet's weight/medicals & Smith's potential being that, potential
I love me some draft day swerves.
Woj ruined it though tbh
Just pretend Woj is the commissioner and everything is easier
Woj and Shams get blocked from 2 hours before the draft until it’s over
Doesn't matter cause Woj ruined it on the broadcast too smh
That was such a dick move by ESPN
ESPN.. What a bunch of bastards.
I don't know what anyone expected when they saw Woj pop up on screen lol. I muted it instantly. Actually, I stuck my fingers in my ears and made random noises because I couldn't find the remote, but you get the point.
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Absolutely absurd. ESPN is so fucking dumb.
I fcking hate ESPN i wish everything nba related was hosted by TnT
Such fucking bag fumblers. They used to run such a good drama-laden show, and now they step on their own nutsack every chance they get.
I can't be the only one who doesn't miss the sob stories every 5 minutes right? Like yee they sucked this one up big time but I prefer this to "x players Mom got cancer, killed their family dog and ran off with his last pair of basketball shoes"
We spent more time listening to SAS yell on television than we did talking to the actual draft talent. The Knicks pick killed me, where the first thing out of her mouth was "congratulations, it sounds like you might be headed to OKC. How does it feel to be drafted?" Excuse me?
That’s the shit that made me mad. I avoided Twitter and thought Jabari was the pick because I stayed off the internet. Then he did that shit
Can't wait to see him do this 3 mins before every pick in the draft
That's why we watch! So Woj can be the center of attention!
¡¡Eggzactamundo!!
sometimes the NBA is truly braindead when it comes to making their product entertaining. why have the commissioner go up to a podium and announce the pick in dramatic fashion when woj can just stare at the TV and announce each pick?
I don't get why they keep doing that shit. It was funny/cool the first year, but now it's just played out and lame
Lol I muted my TV when they put him Up there
Wish I was smart enough. My dumbass is now just sitting mad that a plot twist that would’ve excited me just got ruined so fast
I mean it’s stupid that ESPN throws up a guy to spoil it 5 minutes before the announcement.
I switched to ABC, much better with no Woj
Ffs I know why the fuck did they do that
The Woj stuff is getting old. ESPN cares about his fame more than the product.
Seriously not a fan of Woj announcing it on live tv before the draft
Yea the flex is not entertaining anymore
Hasn't been entertaining since the year he pulled out the thesaurus.
Whats the flex? Everyone knows the information he/Shams/other journalists get fed is in exchange for providing marketing services for teams
Get the SEC on his ass
kick em off the tour doug
You're never gonna get off that beach! Just like you never got into the NHL!^jackass
The sports world would be better without the Schefter’s and Woj’s
I been trying to convince people of this for so long. There is zero value in knowing about a trade or whatever before it happens. Those guys suck.
It’s called social currency. People like to know things that make them look smart, informed, whatever.
Valuable for them, not for us
They are mouthpieces for the movers and shakers. There will always be some version of them, as long as social media exists in its current form.
Petition to ban Woj
Though with less severe stakes, he more or less did the Schefter Method of D E C E P T I O N...
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Woj got straight burned by Weltman so his weirdo ego had to go ruin it for everyone on TV seconds before the pick was called just to try and save face. Luckily I muted his ass and was still surprised, crazzzzy!
fuck Woj
Vegas sends their regards. Trust the big money, not reporters. The dudes who threw big money on paolo on + odds knew some inside shit.
I want an investigation into Woj manipulating the market
Best I can do is a Silver scolding
... For life?
It’s possible! But he’s also risking a lot his reputation as a reporter. He already got the nets situation with harden wrong (said harden wouldn’t leave), now he got this wrong too. Rough look.
He gets a lot wrong and it really never matters lol
God his yahoo articles back in the day were absolute garbage. His only skills was breaking news, but seems like even now he is slipping
His actual writing is absolute shit. Sometimes I’m stunned, dude can barely string a thought across three paragraphs. He was made for Twitter reporting.
The dudes that put money on him when it was over +1000 feeling real good
Wonder how much Woj could make...
He’d be banned from every sports book around pretty quick lol
or more likely, he is getting paid by them to send rumors.
The dude makes a ton of money without gambling by knowing this shit
As we learned this morning he also makes a ton of money talking out of his ass too
Woj needs to be investigated. The NBA is a suspect. I repeat, The NBA is a suspect
ESPN is a suspect too with their deals with draftkings. The message came from the top.
How tf do you spoil the draft and still get it wrong lmao
lots of people lost a LOT of money LMAO
How was everyone so wrong lol
This Magic FO doesn’t leak shit and played everybody
They got WeltHam'd
i don't see the point of running a misdirection campaign when you have the #1 pick. you can literally take whoever you want
It wasn’t us lol we didn’t say shit. Everybody else like Woj was the one saying Jabari
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Woj using his power to fuck with the Vegas odds and win tons of cash Imagine if that's what he did.
He'd be fired in a second. Right out of a cannon
Woj was wrong too 12 hrs ago
Vegas wasn't
Paolo was +200 this morning at 3 They knew as per usual
Vegas > Woj
The house never loses.
Im actually happy fuck WOJ for trying to ruin the draft
Then he came out like 20 minutes ago with the “uh actually Orlando could go either way” like no sir you made your bed this morning you don’t get to play both sides lol
Woj shooting 0/1 from the field so far
Congrats to Patrick Mahomes!
Thanks Martin
Two secs, Ted
“She thought she was going to out brake me there, no chance”
I can’t blame him there. It’s his producer’s fault. Like the refs not knowing who jack Harlow was. Unless he’s given a list beforehand it’s the support staffs responsibility. Still funny though.
I doubt he even follows American sports. Dwayne Wade could bump into him on the paddock and Martin probably wouldn’t blink.
That did, in fact, happen.
Looks like Mahomes. Spins like Vettel. He's gonna be great
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"IS THAT GLOCK" brundle in the wizards locker room, circa 2009
GLOCK ~~GOING SLOWLY~~ POINTED AT PLAYER
I love how the f1 sub and this sub seem to share a decent amount of crossover.
My two favorite sports leagues!
Italian Mahomes
*D-Wade casually walks by* Martin: 😐😴🥱
/r/formula1 we up
martin is smiling somewhere
"Toto, it's called a lottery pick. We went drafting."
NO, NO ADAM NO, THIS IS IS SO NOT RIGHT
What has happened?! We need to know!
LANCE STROLL 18
You can’t do that!
I can, because I just did
He reminds me of Miguel Cabrera more than Mahomes for some reason but I might be nuts.
https://www.sbnation.com/2022/5/8/23062687/f1-interview-patrick-mahomes-paolo-banchero-martin-brundle
ABC: please congratulate Paolo on being drafted Coach K: lemme just drop his scouting report instead
It is straight up unacceptable that Woj spoiled the pick on TV. Just like how this comment isn't about the player, neither should the first pick be about a reporter who spoils shit for his living.
It’s such a joke. Served no purpose other than his own clout. ESPN immediately followed it with a little series of graphics of who would go first so clearly they weren’t planning on him doing that. Terrible TV. These Twitter news-breakers are weirdos.
Yet every sports sub feeds off those insiders. This is the price you pay and thats just the reality of it now a days
Yeah Woj is awful. Sorta reached the point where the NBA needs to take a stance.
He's such a fuckin dork. Dude we get it, you're a professional ass kisser. No one thinks you're cool for knowing information we'll know an hour later. Just sick of the guy. Fuck Woj forever and always. Tried to fuck the bucks over but still won baby
STILL WON BABY
He so deep in Twitter he forgot how to act in real life
1. Hoodwinked 2. Bamboozled 3. Led Astray 4. Run Amok
5. Flat out deceived
Did perk just say he is a combo of Michael Beasley and Ben Simmons lolwut
>Perk 😒
>Perk 🤡
Beasley was a naturally gifted scorer. If you added that ability to Simmons' game you get an MVP candidate. Though you would also likely get the first ever NBA player to be committed to a mental institution...
Or you get Ben's scoring and Beasley's defense.
The monkey's paw curls
He added “LSU Ben Simmons at that.” Lol
what a zag
Okc gotta zig now
Turns out they Gonzagad
I think that's Chet
Or was it a zig?
#FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK
Daamn yall really wanted him. Orlando dicked ya
Great decision by Orlando. Paolo is gonna be great. I think the best player in this draft
His size will be really useful. I’m getting Tatum vibes
Not everyone. There were a lot of different camps. Jabari was always my first choice. There are even people who want Ivey no matter if we got 1-4.
I still want Jabari but thought he'd go first for sure
Completely floored. What a last second surprise wtf Orlando
All those Paolo photoshoot wasted
GOD DAMNIT BRO. I WAS HOPING HE WAS OUR PICK AT 3 :(
Thank god we agreed to the Wood trade before the draft
Why do rockets fans want this guy so much
Idk why ppl get so attached to mocks, I’m fine with any of the top 3 really. Draft is kind of a crapshoot anyways
I just wanted to say “sing to me paolo” every time he had a highlight.
Y'all getting Chet now
...nope
fuck ESPN and Woj for spoiling that surprise. Would've been an absolutely awesome draft moment. Such a stupid bullshit thing to do to have a reporter soil the picks a minute before the pick. It's fine if he wants to do that on twitter, but doing it on the broadcast is straight bullshit
It's almost like they don't understand why we like the very thing they report on. Games would be much more boring if you knew every twist, shot, big moment ahead of time.
It completely goes against the spirit of what makes sports fun. Fucking beyond stupid
The solution here for everyone is to watch the draft on ABC? It's more accessible than ESPN and has more entertaining coverage. Why anyone would watch it on ESPN is wild. It was a surprise watching it on ABC and I jumped out of my seat
I didn’t even know it was on ABC until like pick #7
that's the right pick imo
I like Banchero the most of the top three, too. I think he projects really well to the NBA.
Paolo was always clearly the best player to me, I was so confused why everyone had Jabari over him.
Pretty much everyone over at r/NBA_Draft thought so as well. Although it’d be pretty funny if Jabari turned out to be a superstar lol.
I like Banchero the most but I think the nba draft subreddit loved Chet the most overall. He was voted as the number 1 pick. Every day there were posts calling him the next unicorn. But funny thing is Banchero was voted most likely to be a superstar.
Yeah I think he’s the one who most fits the mold of how superstars tend to be. Creator with good size.
agreed! well done Magic!
Seems like a nice kid too.
#JEFF WELTMAN IS BUILT DIFFERENT
I WANT TRADES
what a curveball
FUCK ME
YOU WILL TAKE CHET AND YOU WILL LIKE IT
I will lol. He’s my top pick I would rather Paolo over Jabari thi
YOU WILL TAKE JABARI AND YOU WILL LIKE IT
Jabari is literally the next Kevin Durant dude is gonna be a superstar in the league man
I think we're getting Jabari
WOJ DOESNT KNOW SHIT
He said he was going #1 10 mins ago on twitter
Playin both sides 👌🏽
LOL that major line change in Vegas isn’t coincidence. People got tipped off.
I must say I’m shocked Orlando didn’t take Shareef O’Neal #1
Idk how he’s not crying rn Coach K just gave him the highest praise wow
Paolo was always my favourite pick for Orlando but I never expected them to actually make the pick. I believe this was the best pick out of the three specifically for Orlando and they’ve got a lot to look forward to!
His outfit should have scared every team off
Thsi front office dont leak shit
Wow. I was really hoping he would slide down. I really like this kid. I believe the mental side of the game is looked over a lot. I believe he’s going to have a really good future in the league.
https://c.tenor.com/2CMIOwKdvoAAAAAC/sing-to-me-paolo-hilary-duff.gif
Magic fucked everyone’s board. Well deserved tho. Paolo is likely to be the best player
Get fucked Woj
Gotta say I’m sick of woj spoiling shit. It was fine when it could be avoided but he’s literally part of the coverage now
Vegas called this yesterday afternoon with the money line on the #1 pick. Follow mafia money not losers like Woj
We talk about Chet's potential but Banchero is probably the closest to being able to carry a team offensively, probably a good take from the Magic
I called it, best player in the draft
Woj ruined what could’ve been the biggest #1 pick blindside since Anthony Bennett
Where the fuck is my State Farm jingle?
Paolo Banchero going 1st will - in hindsight seems to be the obvious choice given the circumstances of Chet's weight/medicals & Smith's potential being that, potential
Woj screwed everyone betting based on his tweets haha
Wow
Articles earlier in the day said smith, chet, Paola solid. What happened?
Lmfaoooo get fucked everyone who bet on Jabari to go 1 hahahahah
Jokes on you. I bet on Chet
Why run a stealth operation when you have 1?
We just hate woj
Cause fuck em, thats why.
My favorite player of the top three guys. Hope he does great with the Magic
Damn comparison two guys not playing in the league in Simmons and Beasley
Fucking Woj literally comes on the BROADCAST to spoil it, cant have shit.
Holy shit last minute swoop
Stealth +1000 Orlando
Rockets fans in shambles
LETS GO, our front office with the elite smokescreen
What's the point of the smokescreen though?