Darius Garland · Court Sentiment

Verdict

41.2%42.0%16.8%

41.2%Negative1,382 comments

42.0%Neutral1,411 comments

16.8%Positive565 comments

−24Net sentimentpositive minus negative

n=3,358 comments about Darius GarlandUnofficial

Receipts

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

Exhibit 01Negative.POR flair
Garland is poopoo. Straight stinky
Post · Looks like Donovan Mitchell is actually having a career year despite team struggles▲ 128Dec 18, 2025Source ↗
Exhibit 02Negative.MIN flair
Garlands foot must be cooked.
Post · [Vorkunov] There are miracles, and there are acts of God, and then there is the Cleveland Cavaliers, a second apron team who can't combine contracts in a trade and can't add salary, finding a player to trade for who made just $263,397 less this season than Darius Garland.▲ 113Feb 4, 2026Source ↗
Exhibit 03Negative.no flair
Garland is cooked man sad to say. Seems like he’s barely gonna play the rest of the season
Post · [Charania] BREAKING: The Los Angeles Clippers are trading James Harden to the Cleveland Cavaliers for Darius Garland and a second-round pick, sources tell ESPN. Prolific swap of the star point guards.▲ 71Feb 4, 2026Source ↗

Method

A receipt is a top-scoring comment about Darius Garland 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 Darius Garland, his own Clippers fans are 29% negative, rival fans 39%, unflaired commenters 46%. Fewer than two fanbases have 200 comments about him, so no fanbase stands out.

28.8%Own fansLAC flair · 184 comments

38.8%Rival fansevery other flair · 1,882 comments

46.4%Unflairedno flair · 1,292 comments

Method

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

Rooms

Darius Garland was talked about most under news posts: 1,212 of his 3,358 comments, −34 net sentiment against −24 across his season. His harshest room was news posts; his warmest the post-game threads, −6 on 8% of his comments. The front page ran 14 points harsher than the game threads, the reverse of the usual order: his season was a story off the court.

Game threads15% of his comments38.426.5490

Post-game threads8% of his commentsWarmest32.626.4276

Front page33% of his comments39.713.61,107

Highlights7% of his comments38.920.6247

News36% of his commentsHarshest46.512.51,212

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 Darius Garland; left out here: Daily chat thread (11), Discussion posts (5), Lowlights (5), Injury posts (4). 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 Darius Garland ran between 20% and 55%. His worst week was the week of Jun 1, 68% negative of 50 comments; his best the week of Mar 9, 55% positive. 8 of 40 weeks had fewer than 30 comments and are left off the line.

Nov 3 · 26% negative · 33% positive · 95 comments
- W vs PHI 132–121
- W @ WAS 148–115
Nov 10 · 31% negative · 23% positive · 35 comments
- L @ MIA 138–140
Nov 17 · 31% negative · 19% positive · 54 comments
- W vs IND 120–109
- W vs LAC 120–105
Nov 24 · 40% negative · 16% positive · 57 comments
- L @ ATL 123–130
- L vs BOS 115–117
Dec 1 · 45% negative · 13% positive · 117 comments
- L vs POR 110–122
- L vs GSW 94–99
Dec 8 · 49% negative · 7% positive · 61 comments
- W @ WAS 130–126
- L vs CHA 111–119
Dec 15 · 61% negative · 8% positive · 127 comments
- L @ CHI 111–127
- L vs CHI 125–136
Dec 22 · 36% negative · 19% positive · 196 comments
- W vs CHA 139–132
- W vs NOP 141–118
- L @ NYK 124–126
- L @ HOU 100–117
Dec 29 · 33% negative · 27% positive · 67 comments
- W @ SAS 113–101
- W vs PHX 129–113
- W vs DEN 113–108
- L vs DET 110–114
Jan 5 · 28% negative · 23% positive · 64 comments
- W @ IND 120–116
- L @ MIN 122–131
- W vs MIN 146–134
Jan 12 · 32% negative · 19% positive · 72 comments
- L vs UTA 112–123
- W @ PHI 133–107
Mar 2 · 30% negative · 27% positive · 37 comments
- W @ GSW 114–101
- W vs IND 130–107
- W @ MEM 123–120
Mar 9 · 20% negative · 55% positive · 65 comments
- W vs NYK 126–118
- W vs MIN 153–128
- L vs SAC 109–118
Mar 16 · 18% negative · 37% positive · 76 comments
- L vs SAS 115–119
- L @ NOP 109–124
- W @ DAL 138–131
Mar 23 · 13% negative · 52% positive · 52 comments
- W vs MIL 129–96
- W vs TOR 119–94
- W @ IND 114–113
- W @ MIL 127–113
Mar 30 · 40% negative · 6% positive · 47 comments
- L vs POR 104–114
- L vs SAS 99–118
- W @ SAC 138–109
Apr 6 · 29 comments, under the floor
- W vs DAL 116–103
- L @ POR 97–116
- W vs GSW 115–110
Apr 13 · 33% negative · 34% positive · 137 comments
- L vs GSW 121–126

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 Darius Garland in 3 of his 46 games, at least 20 comments each. Too few graded games on one side to split wins from losses.

—In winstoo few graded wins

−7In losses39% neg · 31% pos · 176 comments

−24His season41% neg · 17% pos · 3,358 comments

Games the room talked about Darius Garland in, at least 20 comments each, newest first.
Date	Phase	Opp	Result	Min	Pts	Reb	Ast	FG	3P	TOV	+/−	P/R/A	Comments	Verdict
Apr 15Play-in	Play-in	vs GSWL 121–126	L 121–126	31	21	5	8	8-15	2-4	2	-9	21/5/8	6,468	39 points warmer than his season, from 84 comments.
Dec 25		@ NYKL 124–126	L 124–126	36	20	1	10	7-14	3-4	4	0	20/1/10	4,301	7 points warmer than his season, from 63 comments.
Dec 6		vs GSWL 94–99	L 94–99	32	17	5	4	6-15	1-6	3	-14	17/5/4	2	24 points harsher than his season, from 29 comments.