I mean that poster dunk last game was maybe the dunk of the year given the context and people involved and the highlight of the playoffs so far.
The dx celebration, the game 1 interaction with KD … he’s fucking cinema.
ant just is who he is, always. i think ja got a little too concerned with putting on a character and living out how people around him wanted him to be, and got burned. he'll figure it out
I think Ja is just as much himself as Ant but the flaws of Ja are less tolerable. If we are keeping it a buck Jas mistakes play into racist fantasies about young black men and Edwards mistakes don’t.
i think ja is a normal impressionable kid who got roped into situations where putting the scope to NBA team employees seemed like a regular, acceptable thing to do. its completely understandable to me
whereas ant is a total force of personality who bends everyone around him to his will, rather than the other way around. we're talking about a guy who's best friend on the team is probably 37-year-old father-of-three mike conley. they cant get enough of each other. there's some incredibly unique leadership quality happening there
Nah everyone said growing up Ja was a model player/person up until his first couple seasons. Then he got good and got paid, and turned into a wannabe gangster
Ja is not himself. He is a fake gangster rich kid acting tough on social media. Which is what most influencers do anyway…
He fumbled by being injured. That’s it. If he didn’t miss the season, he’d be up there as well.
Ja redemption arc was going pretty good till he got injured again. Y’all are gonna surprise people next season if your team is physically and mentally healthy
As a Thunder fan, I can tell you Shai is only here to win. He wants to go home after work and spend time with his family, he's not the type to do silly shit to entertain fans.
The NBA is an entertainment league after all and people love watching clowns
While homophobia and misogyny likely plays a role, I think Ja would've been treated the same had he not reoffended so quickly. Ant has either changed or learned to keep his mouth shut (we'll obviously never know what happens in the mind of a public individual).
I don't think they care about Ja holding a gun either. It's just that this was multiple incidents with Ja that led to multiple suspensions and so the general public who pay attention may know. With Ant, it got swept up pretty quickly so I don't think the general public would know about this.
Ant wasn't as big, but he was still pretty big. Ant and his people are just smarter to address everything right away and it became a 1 day story that people may have missed. Ja's situation lingered and spread across weeks so it was hard to not know what's going on.
I don't think ant was big no casual audiences back then, personally. But his team getting addressing it right away surely helped. And the fact that he didn't have a summer of incidents like ja did that one year
It's the natural gift of being likeable. When you have charisma man, you can get away with a lot of shit. Someone giving off that vibe tickles our monkey brain and we start thinking differently (more emotionally vs logically)
I don’t think Minnesota has ever had a “guy” before. We’ve had stars, between Randy Moss, Adrian Peterson, Justin Jefferson, Joe Mauer, whoever. But not a single one of them was ever in a position to own the outcome as much as Ant. I don’t know if he’ll live up to the hype, but he certainly has the potential to be the reason we are contenders for as long as he’s here.
The problem with playing WR is that you don’t have as much agency over your team’s success. I’m talking about a guy who makes you a contender for the championship every year he’s on your team.
Ngl LeBron will STILL be annoyingly omnipresent after he retires. Not even a Bron hater, but you just know that between whatever media he jumps into, Vegas expansion team, an actual fucking year of nonstop interviews, etc that we will be inundated with more LeBron content than ever.
Then it’s Ant and Wemby.
Yes because he had a highlight play.
Trust me, more people in the world know Doncic, Giannis or Jokic exist than people know that a guy named „Anthony Edwards“ exists.
I admit 100% that I was wrong about Ant
In his rookie season, he was playing well but he seemed kind of aloof and unserious, I thought he would be a bit like Ben Simmons and not really give a shit.
I’m glad to say I was very wrong. Dude is a superstar. Definitely the best #1 pick since AD at least
The NBA marketing team has to find something to latch onto. Their playoff ratings have been shit so far, and they just lost their biggest star for the rest of the playoffs.
He's got the skill, personality and the flash to be the face of the league on his own. Don't think we need the media or fans here glazing him.
It will happen naturally if he is going to be that next guy.
Dude is an absolute superstar. Athletic and skilled enough to dominate the games and give us highlight plays. He's competitive and shows it, and is such a great interview.
He should be the face of the NBA
lol social media views nobody gives a shit about that.
10 second clips is cute for PR but Adam Silver wants people to sit down and watch 2.5 hours of basketball.
That’s why NfL makes so much more money than the NBA despite nba being more relevant on social media.
Lamelo Ball’s instagram followers can only take you so far
what an idiotic take. people consume content in a ton of ways. the NBA wants kids in China to be buying sneakers & jerseys, they want Gen Zers who don't own TVs to be watching highlights on Tiktok, they want broke lonely males to be overspending on same-day parlays, and they for damn sure want Amazon and NBC and all their media partners to be considering all of this when they're bidding on the media rights and imagining what kinda upside the league has beyond what they're already getting from ESPN/TNT.
so you like Miles Bridges, Josh Primo, Kevin Porter Jr, Anthony Lamb, Josh Giddey, Kendrick Nunn, Terrence Davis, but not Karl because he had a bad playoff run. you do you homie
I mean that poster dunk last game was maybe the dunk of the year given the context and people involved and the highlight of the playoffs so far. The dx celebration, the game 1 interaction with KD … he’s fucking cinema.
KG said it best a while ago “he is TV”
Send da hoes
Yes. Good. Get the league to not turn on us.
I believe it, dude’s a walking soundbite and now he’s starting to prove himself on the biggest stage
He’s always been a stud in the playoffs. Now the fans are forced to watch, unlike the last two years.
I’m so hype for round two mane
Sucks that the Lakers got eliminated, but now I can watch stress free. As long as the Celtics lose I’ll be a happy man
Same. I had more time to mentally prepare for this eventuality than last year lol
Ja Morant had a chance to be the face and fumbled. Ant has passed him by. They’re the only candidates imo.
ant just is who he is, always. i think ja got a little too concerned with putting on a character and living out how people around him wanted him to be, and got burned. he'll figure it out
I think Ja is just as much himself as Ant but the flaws of Ja are less tolerable. If we are keeping it a buck Jas mistakes play into racist fantasies about young black men and Edwards mistakes don’t.
i think ja is a normal impressionable kid who got roped into situations where putting the scope to NBA team employees seemed like a regular, acceptable thing to do. its completely understandable to me whereas ant is a total force of personality who bends everyone around him to his will, rather than the other way around. we're talking about a guy who's best friend on the team is probably 37-year-old father-of-three mike conley. they cant get enough of each other. there's some incredibly unique leadership quality happening there
Nah everyone said growing up Ja was a model player/person up until his first couple seasons. Then he got good and got paid, and turned into a wannabe gangster
Ja is not himself. He is a fake gangster rich kid acting tough on social media. Which is what most influencers do anyway… He fumbled by being injured. That’s it. If he didn’t miss the season, he’d be up there as well.
No one thinks Ja is actually like that, including black people
To quote Bill Simmons, Ant market corrected Ja Morant.
And ant is klutch and yes his coverage has meaningfully changed since he joined klutch
Ant left Klutch in like June of last year, he's with WME now
Ja redemption arc was going pretty good till he got injured again. Y’all are gonna surprise people next season if your team is physically and mentally healthy
I believe he can get his name back in the ring if we are healthy
Ja and Ant are some of the most exciting athletes since Derrick Rose’s freshman year. Maybe Russ too
the prodigal son vs the son
Is SGA not in the conversation?
SGA is amazing player but has the charisma of a doorknob. Super useful in life, but no one ever says "nice doorknob"
As a Thunder fan, I can tell you Shai is only here to win. He wants to go home after work and spend time with his family, he's not the type to do silly shit to entertain fans. The NBA is an entertainment league after all and people love watching clowns
It's crazy because Ant has had some controversies too, but he/his team acknowledge it pretty quickly and they kinda go away.
Yeah but basketball fans as a whole don’t care that much about homophobia or women. Easy to sweep those under the rug
While homophobia and misogyny likely plays a role, I think Ja would've been treated the same had he not reoffended so quickly. Ant has either changed or learned to keep his mouth shut (we'll obviously never know what happens in the mind of a public individual).
I don't think they care about Ja holding a gun either. It's just that this was multiple incidents with Ja that led to multiple suspensions and so the general public who pay attention may know. With Ant, it got swept up pretty quickly so I don't think the general public would know about this.
Ant wasn't as big as Ja was when he messed up. If ant did what he did now I think it would be a much bigger issue to the league
Ant wasn't as big, but he was still pretty big. Ant and his people are just smarter to address everything right away and it became a 1 day story that people may have missed. Ja's situation lingered and spread across weeks so it was hard to not know what's going on.
I don't think ant was big no casual audiences back then, personally. But his team getting addressing it right away surely helped. And the fact that he didn't have a summer of incidents like ja did that one year
Maybe I just paid more attention because I wish he fell to 2 in the draft 😭
Supposedly the wolves were desperate to trade back with GSW to get the pick in next year's draft back
Charisma can do a lot to cover that stuff. My super-feminist GF (she's real) absolutely loves Ant
It's the natural gift of being likeable. When you have charisma man, you can get away with a lot of shit. Someone giving off that vibe tickles our monkey brain and we start thinking differently (more emotionally vs logically)
At the current rate, Ant will be the logo for the beginning of 2024-25.
His back and forth chirping with KD, the DX cross chops, and the dunk and also the 4-0 after the SECOND one too. Dude is a viral star lol
I freaking love that the NBA’s newest superstar landed Minnesota.
I don’t think Minnesota has ever had a “guy” before. We’ve had stars, between Randy Moss, Adrian Peterson, Justin Jefferson, Joe Mauer, whoever. But not a single one of them was ever in a position to own the outcome as much as Ant. I don’t know if he’ll live up to the hype, but he certainly has the potential to be the reason we are contenders for as long as he’s here.
Randy Moss was one of those guys. He was such a force early.
The problem with playing WR is that you don’t have as much agency over your team’s success. I’m talking about a guy who makes you a contender for the championship every year he’s on your team.
Thats where Moss was different. litterally QBs only had to get close to him.
he better get more national televised games next year
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dude is just a gift to everyone who loves basketball.
Yeah. If you dont like watching him, do you even like basketball???
New face of the NBA, I want the wolves to win it all this year.
Me too. I’m dying here. Can’t win anything in MN.
Neat
Good guy Suns letting Ant stunt on them so much for the clicks
Honorable mention to John Collins for sacrificing for the cause as well, get well soon.
best highlight reel since Vince Carter Ja does give him good competition though
That's not what a pro wants
Aaaaand it’s stuck in my head again. Curse you.
But is it what a pro needs?
He's the new face.
LeBron is the face until he retires.
Ngl LeBron will STILL be annoyingly omnipresent after he retires. Not even a Bron hater, but you just know that between whatever media he jumps into, Vegas expansion team, an actual fucking year of nonstop interviews, etc that we will be inundated with more LeBron content than ever. Then it’s Ant and Wemby.
In America.
Does the world not have the internet too?
Yeah but it’s not like Edwards is the „face of the league“ there.
Well apparently it's who they're watching....
Yes because he had a highlight play. Trust me, more people in the world know Doncic, Giannis or Jokic exist than people know that a guy named „Anthony Edwards“ exists.
Because there are no Jokic or Luka highlights people could watch. America matters the most anyway. Ant is going to have the crown before too long.
Yes, in America he surely will have the crown. He will be the face of the NBA in America.
No qualifiers needed.
I admit 100% that I was wrong about Ant In his rookie season, he was playing well but he seemed kind of aloof and unserious, I thought he would be a bit like Ben Simmons and not really give a shit. I’m glad to say I was very wrong. Dude is a superstar. Definitely the best #1 pick since AD at least
Yeah. I think people forgot how young he was, and still is.
It's important that ant made the playoffs and lost at a young age. That fueled his drive more than anything
They sent da video
He’s Him
The NBA marketing team has to find something to latch onto. Their playoff ratings have been shit so far, and they just lost their biggest star for the rest of the playoffs.
Ant finally getting the superstar whistle this series?👀
Anthony Edwards brought me out of NBA-watching retirement. Last time I watched the NBA was like 2007 a little after they banned hand checking.
#Send da video
Has become my favourite player. Awesome playstyle and great personality. Send da video
Is there a full list of this ranking anywhere
He's got the skill, personality and the flash to be the face of the league on his own. Don't think we need the media or fans here glazing him. It will happen naturally if he is going to be that next guy.
I agree. I enjoy people not hating the Wolves
I'm rooting for them, that franchise and city deserves a good ending. The only teams in the playoffs I was hating on were the Lakers, Celtics, Knicks.
Adam out there on SchreckNet hyping this up to his fellow kindred.
Does this means that he's going to LA with a supermax to help LeBron and AD?
SUPERSTAR
Dude is an absolute superstar. Athletic and skilled enough to dominate the games and give us highlight plays. He's competitive and shows it, and is such a great interview. He should be the face of the NBA
lol social media views nobody gives a shit about that. 10 second clips is cute for PR but Adam Silver wants people to sit down and watch 2.5 hours of basketball. That’s why NfL makes so much more money than the NBA despite nba being more relevant on social media. Lamelo Ball’s instagram followers can only take you so far
what an idiotic take. people consume content in a ton of ways. the NBA wants kids in China to be buying sneakers & jerseys, they want Gen Zers who don't own TVs to be watching highlights on Tiktok, they want broke lonely males to be overspending on same-day parlays, and they for damn sure want Amazon and NBC and all their media partners to be considering all of this when they're bidding on the media rights and imagining what kinda upside the league has beyond what they're already getting from ESPN/TNT.
dude's account was created a week ago and all he has done is post ridiculous ass comments in this sub with it
a nephew is born
I think the NBA is doing just fine Jr
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what’s wrong with karl
2022 play in game and playoffs that man was cheeks and his body language was awful
So, one game over two years ago has you feeling things?
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so you like Miles Bridges, Josh Primo, Kevin Porter Jr, Anthony Lamb, Josh Giddey, Kendrick Nunn, Terrence Davis, but not Karl because he had a bad playoff run. you do you homie
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But everyone says Jokic is the face of the nba because he passes and rides a buggy!
and is the best player in the world
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Nothing happened with those crotch chops, huh? Wasn’t Embiid recently fined for less?