2025-26

Domantas Sabonis

SAC · F-C · #11

Unofficial: 3,156 comments, 1,844 short of the official minimum of 5,000. Among all 223 tracked players he would rank 76th most hated.

PPG: 15.8
RPG: 11.4
APG: 4.1
GP: 19

Height: 6′10″
Weight: 240 lb
Age: 30
Born: May 3, 1996
Experience: 9 yrs
From: Gonzaga

Verdict

38.9%43.9%17.2%

38.9%Negative1,227 comments

43.9%Neutral1,386 comments

17.2%Positive543 comments

−22Net sentimentpositive minus negative

n=3,156 comments about Domantas SabonisUnofficial

Receipts

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

Exhibit 01Negative.MIA flair
"Sabonis is a fraud and DeMar is a low-efficiency chucker. It's time to give the keys to a proven playmaker."
Post · [Charania] BREAKING: Nine-time NBA All-Star Russell Westbrook has agreed on a deal to sign with the Sacramento Kings, Jeff Schwartz of Excel Sports Management tells ESPN. The 2017 league MVP enters his 18th NBA season.▲ 475Oct 15, 2025Source ↗
Exhibit 02Negative.SAC flair
Sabonis is completely useless I don’t know how is offense regressed every season
Post · 4-time DPOY Rudolph Gobert checks out against the Kings with 18/12 and 5 blocks on 9/10 from the field▲ 281Nov 10, 2025Source ↗
Exhibit 03Negative.no flair
Sabonis is easily the worst starting defensive center in the NBA
Post · Top 5 players that give up the highest/lowest percentage at the rim, minimum 75 shots contested. Best: 1. Kornet (44.0%), 2. Gobert (45.6%), 3. Clingan (49.1%) 4. Sarr (51.1%) 5. Ayton (51.5%). Worse: 1. Doncic (73.2%), 2. Clowney (72.8%), 3. Sabonis (69.9%), 4. Camara (67.9%), 5. Vucevic (66.9%).▲ 58Dec 4, 2025Source ↗

Method

A receipt is a top-scoring comment about Domantas Sabonis 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 Domantas Sabonis, his own Kings fans are 30% negative, rival fans 41%, unflaired commenters 41%. Among the 2 fanbases with at least 200 comments, Raptors fans are hardest on him at 46% negative and Kings fans kindest at 26% positive.

29.5%Own fansSAC flair · 511 comments

40.8%Rival fansevery other flair · 1,513 comments

40.5%Unflairedno flair · 1,132 comments

Who hates him most

Who defends him

Method

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

Rooms

Domantas Sabonis was talked about most on the front page: 1,426 of his 3,156 comments, −18 net sentiment against −22 across his season. His harshest room was news posts, −22 on 38% of his comments; his warmest the front page.

Front page45% of his commentsWarmest37.419.11,426

Highlights7% of his comments36.818.4212

News38% of his commentsHarshest37.715.81,199

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 Domantas Sabonis; left out here: Post-game threads (141), Game threads (134), Injury posts (12), Lowlights (12), Discussion posts (3), Daily chat thread (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 Domantas Sabonis ran between 23% and 46%. His worst week was the week of Apr 20, 53% negative of 73 comments; his best the week of Oct 20, 31% positive. 8 of 40 weeks had fewer than 30 comments and are left off the line.

Oct 6 · 25 comments, under the floor
- L vs TOR 122–130
- L @ POR 123–124
Oct 13 · 40% negative · 22% positive · 55 comments
- L vs LAC 91–109
Oct 20 · 38% negative · 31% positive · 65 comments
- W vs UTA 105–104
- L vs LAL 120–127
Oct 27 · 50% negative · 16% positive · 221 comments
- L @ OKC 101–107
- L @ CHI 113–126
- W @ MIL 135–133
Nov 3 · 45% negative · 19% positive · 96 comments
- L @ DEN 124–130
- L vs MIN 117–144
Nov 10 · 40% negative · 17% positive · 223 comments
- L vs DEN 108–122
- L vs ATL 100–133
- L @ MIN 110–124
- L @ SAS 110–123
Jan 12 · 43% negative · 9% positive · 35 comments
- W vs WAS 128–115
- L vs POR 110–117
Jan 19 · 33% negative · 22% positive · 78 comments
- L vs MIA 117–130
- L @ CLE 118–123
- L @ DET 116–139
Jan 26 · 44% negative · 20% positive · 133 comments
- L @ NYK 87–103
- L @ PHI 111–113
Feb 2 · 42% negative · 14% positive · 350 comments
- L vs MEM 125–129

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 Domantas Sabonis in 3 of his 22 games, at least 20 comments each. Too few graded games on one side to split wins from losses.

—In winstoo few graded wins

−59In losses67% neg · 8% pos · 76 comments

−22His season39% neg · 17% pos · 3,156 comments

Games the room talked about Domantas Sabonis in, at least 20 comments each, newest first.
Date	Opp	Result	Min	Pts	Reb	Ast	FG	3P	TOV	+/−	P/R/A	Comments	Verdict
Nov 11	vs DENL 108–122	L 108–122	26	19	8	4	8-12	1-3	0	-18	19/8/4	743	24 points harsher than his season, from 26 comments.
Oct 28	@ OKCL 101–107	L 101–107	35	10	18	3	5-15	0-2	5	-15	10/18/3	534	45 points harsher than his season, from 27 comments.
Oct 26	vs LALL 120–127	L 120–127	31	10	14	3	4-8	1-2	2	0	10/14/3	1,280	44 points harsher than his season, from 23 comments.