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2025-26

Dalton Knecht

LAL · F · #4

Unofficial: 1,649 comments, 3,351 short of the official minimum of 5,000. Among all 223 tracked players he would rank 69th most hated.

PPG
4.2
RPG
1.4
APG
0.4
GP
54
Height
6′6″
Weight
215 lb
Age
25
Born
Apr 19, 2001
Experience
1 yr
From
Tennessee

Verdict

40.1%Negative662 comments
47.6%Neutral785 comments
12.2%Positive202 comments
−28Net sentimentpositive minus negative

n=1,649 comments about Dalton KnechtUnofficial

  1. 69 (unofficial)most hated
  2. 213 (unofficial)most loved
  3. 134 (unofficial)most discussed
  4. 193 (unofficial)most argued about

Receipts

What the room said about Dalton Knecht, verbatim: the highest-scoring comments in each class.

  1. Exhibit 01Negative.no flair
    Knecht has been ass even when paired with starters
    Post-game thread · LAL 103 @ GSW 111 · Oct 5▲ 211Oct 6, 2025Source ↗
  2. Exhibit 02Negative.MIA flair
    Knecht might be Judas with how he’s sabotaging the Lakers. Herro can be one of the Johns
    Post · Cooper Flagg's 49-point game mentioned on SNL "Not a great start to black history month" 😭▲ 171Feb 1, 2026Source ↗
  3. Exhibit 03Negative.no flair
    If the Lakers defense is a turd sundae, Knecht is the melted diarrhea that’s drizzled on top.
    Post · [Woike] Dalton Knecht has zero trade value around the NBA. The Lakers are unlikely to trade their 2032 first-round pick for an upgrade at the deadline.▲ 129Jan 12, 2026Source ↗
Method
A receipt is a top-scoring comment about Dalton Knecht 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 Dalton Knecht, his own Lakers fans are 39% negative, rival fans 37%, unflaired commenters 43%. Fewer than two fanbases have 200 comments about him, so no fanbase stands out.

39.3%Own fansLAL flair · 499 comments
37.2%Rival fansevery other flair · 481 comments
42.9%Unflairedno flair · 669 comments
Method
A fanbase is the flair its commenters wear. Flairs with fewer than 200 comments about Dalton Knecht are left out of the lists; the tick is his rate across every flaired comment, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.

Rooms

Dalton Knecht was talked about most on the front page: 540 of his 1,649 comments, −26 net sentiment against −28 across his season. His harshest room was the game threads, −30 on 19% of his comments; his warmest the front page.

Game threadsHarshest46.816.9308
Front pageWarmest37.411.7540
News38.810.7495
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 Dalton Knecht; left out here: Highlights (155), Post-game threads (126), Lowlights (13), Injury posts (6), Daily chat thread (3), Discussion posts (3). 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 Dalton Knecht ran between 27% and 52%. His worst week was the week of Jan 5, 57% negative of 72 comments; his best the week of Feb 9, 23% positive. 15 of 40 weeks had fewer than 30 comments and are left off the line.

4-week rolling rates from summed counts; weeks under 30 comments are left off the lines.
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 Dalton Knecht in 1 of his 65 games, at least 20 comments each. Too few graded games on one side to split wins from losses.

—In winstoo few graded wins
−30In losses55% neg · 25% pos · 20 comments
−28His season40% neg · 12% pos · 1,649 comments
Games the room talked about Dalton Knecht in, at least 20 comments each, newest first.
DatePhaseOppResultMinPtsRebAstFG3PTOV+/−P/R/ACommentsVerdict
Dec 30vs DETL 106–128L 106–128410204-42-20+410/2/02,4962 points harsher than his season, from 20 comments.