2025-26

D'Angelo Russell

WAS · G · #5

Unofficial: 1,298 comments, 3,702 short of the official minimum of 5,000. Among all 223 tracked players he would rank 17th most hated.

PPG: 10.2
RPG: 2.3
APG: 4.0
GP: 26

Height: 6′3″
Weight: 193 lb
Age: 30
Born: Feb 23, 1996
Experience: 10 yrs
From: Ohio State

Verdict

49.5%34.4%16.0%

49.5%Negative643 comments

34.4%Neutral447 comments

16.0%Positive208 comments

−34Net sentimentpositive minus negative

n=1,298 comments about D'Angelo RussellUnofficial

Receipts

What the room said about D'Angelo Russell, verbatim: the highest-scoring comments in each class.

Exhibit 01Negative.no flair
Was hoping the Mavs picked him up for cheap. We got fucking DLo instead and he just chills on the bench until it's time to come in and turn the ball over.
Post · If you didn't watch Kings-Wizards you missed some of the craziest tanking all year▲ 404Feb 2, 2026Source ↗
Exhibit 02Negative.DAL flair
Dlo's biggest contribution to the Dallas Mavericks will be leading us to top 5 lottery odds
Post · D’Angelo “They Need Me” Russell in his return to Minnesota: 8 Pts, 2 Reb, 4 Ast, 4 TOs, 4-11 shooting, 0-5 from 3▲ 348Nov 18, 2025Source ↗
Exhibit 03Negative.OKC flair
This one makes me cringe so hard knowing the context is he said this about that fucking bum DLo.
Post · Nico Harrison on the Mavs winning the NBA Draft lottery: "Fortune favors the bold."▲ 147Nov 11, 2025Source ↗

Method

A receipt is a top-scoring comment about D'Angelo Russell that cleared the classifier's confidence bar and a second pass confirming it is about him. No usernames: the site judges players, not commenters.

Fans

Of what r/NBA says about D'Angelo Russell, his own Wizards fans are 41% negative, rival fans 49%, unflaired commenters 51%. Fewer than two fanbases have 200 comments about him, so no fanbase stands out.

41.2%Own fansWAS flair · 17 comments

48.9%Rival fansevery other flair · 775 comments

50.8%Unflairedno flair · 506 comments

Method

A fanbase is the flair its commenters wear. Flairs with fewer than 200 comments about D'Angelo Russell are left out of the lists; the tick is his rate across every flaired comment, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.

Rooms

D'Angelo Russell was talked about most on the front page: 560 of his 1,298 comments, −30 net sentiment against −34 across his season. His harshest room was news posts, −37 on 18% of his comments; his warmest highlights, −28 on 17% of his comments.

Front page43% of his comments47.017.0560

Highlights17% of his commentsWarmest48.921.3221

News18% of his commentsHarshest49.112.0234

Method

A room is the kind of post a comment sat under: a game thread, the front page, a highlight. A room is drawn when it holds at least 200 comments about D'Angelo Russell; left out here: Game threads (180), Post-game threads (81), Lowlights (13), Discussion posts (2), Injury posts (2). The bar is the room's share of his comments, its split the room's sentiment. Harshest and warmest are by net sentiment, positive minus negative, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.

Timeline

Over 4-week windows, the negative share of comments about D'Angelo Russell ran between 41% and 56%. His worst week was the week of Nov 10, 60% negative of 115 comments; his best the week of Oct 6, 35% positive. 30 of 40 weeks had fewer than 30 comments and are left off the line.

Oct 6 · 37% negative · 35% positive · 52 comments
- W vs OKC 106–89
- L vs CHA 116–120
Oct 13 · 16 comments, under the floor
- W @ LAL 121–94
Oct 20 · 55% negative · 17% positive · 114 comments
- L vs SAS 92–125
- L vs WAS 107–117
- W vs TOR 139–129
Oct 27 · 45% negative · 22% positive · 93 comments
- L vs OKC 94–101
- W vs IND 107–105
- L vs DET 110–122
Nov 3 · 55% negative · 15% positive · 80 comments
- L @ HOU 102–110
- L vs NOP 99–101
- L @ MEM 104–118
- W @ WAS 111–105
Nov 10 · 60% negative · 17% positive · 115 comments
- L vs MIL 114–116
- L vs PHX 114–123
- L vs LAC 127–133
- W vs POR 138–133
Nov 17 · 50% negative · 17% positive · 151 comments
- L @ MIN 96–120
- L vs NYK 111–113
Nov 24 · 47% negative · 22% positive · 87 comments
- L @ MIA 102–106
Dec 1 · 47% negative · 17% positive · 53 comments
- W @ DEN 131–121
- W vs MIA 118–108
- L @ OKC 111–132
- W vs HOU 122–109
Dec 15 · 18 comments, under the floor
- W vs DET 116–114
- L @ PHI 114–121
Dec 22 · 12 comments, under the floor
- W vs DEN 131–130
- L @ SAC 107–113
Jan 5 · 12 comments, under the floor
- L @ CHI 107–125

Method

Lines are 4-week rolling rates from summed counts (Σ negative ÷ Σ comments), drawn only where the window holds at least 30 comments. Dots are single weeks, sized by n. Bands follow the season calendar.

Games

The room talked about D'Angelo Russell in 3 of his 29 games, at least 20 comments each. Too few graded games on one side to split wins from losses.

—In winstoo few graded wins

−51In losses61% neg · 11% pos · 95 comments

−34His season50% neg · 16% pos · 1,298 comments

Games the room talked about D'Angelo Russell in, at least 20 comments each, newest first.
Date	Opp	Result	Min	Pts	Reb	Ast	FG	3P	TOV	+/−	P/R/A	Comments	Verdict
Nov 14	vs LACL 127–133	L 127–133	39	28	6	5	11-24	0-6	7	+24	28/6/5	455	14 points harsher than his season, from 50 comments.
Nov 3	@ HOUL 102–110	L 102–110	29	10	4	12	2-10	1-6	2	-4	10/4/12	305	11 points harsher than his season, from 20 comments.
Oct 22	vs SASL 92–125	L 92–125	15	6	2	3	1-6	0-1	1	-4	6/2/3	5,266	26 points harsher than his season, from 25 comments.