This is Giannis' heel turn moment, zero respect for this money grubbing move
2025-26
Giannis Antetokounmpo
MIL · F · #34
r/NBA's 6th most discussed player.
- PPG
- 27.6
- RPG
- 9.8
- APG
- 5.4
- GP
- 36
- Height
- 6′11″
- Weight
- 243 lb
- Age
- 31
- Born
- Dec 6, 1994
- Experience
- 12 yrs
- From
- Filathlitikos
Verdict
33.0%48.7%18.4%
33.0%Negative16,502 comments
48.7%Neutral24,362 comments
18.4%Positive9,190 comments
−15Net sentimentpositive minus negative
n=50,054 comments about Giannis Antetokounmpo
Receipts
What the room said about Giannis Antetokounmpo, verbatim: the highest-scoring comments in each class.
Exhibit 01Negative.no flair Exhibit 02Negative.LAC flair Giannis is such a POS fake nice guy
Exhibit 03Negative.no flair fuck Giannis and every other motherfucker who takes money from these gambling pieces of shit. fuck kalshi, fanduel, MGM, fuck all of them.
Method
A receipt is a top-scoring comment about Giannis Antetokounmpo 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 Giannis Antetokounmpo, his own Bucks fans are 29% negative, rival fans 32%, unflaired commenters 35%. Among the 28 fanbases with at least 200 comments, Nets fans are hardest on him at 42% negative and Bucks fans kindest at 22% positive.
29.5%Own fansMIL flair · 5,340 comments
32.0%Rival fansevery other flair · 24,795 comments
35.1%Unflairedno flair · 19,919 comments
Method
A fanbase is the flair its commenters wear. Flairs with fewer than 200 comments about Giannis Antetokounmpo are left out of the lists;
the tick is his rate across every flaired comment, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.
Rooms
Giannis Antetokounmpo was talked about most on the front page: 22,268 of his 50,054 comments, −12 net sentiment against −15 across his season. His harshest room was news posts, −20 on 42% of his comments; his warmest highlights, −2 on 6% of his comments.
Game threads4% of his comments36.824.32,064
Post-game threads3% of his comments36.822.51,400
Front page44% of his comments31.720.122,268
Highlights6% of his commentsWarmest31.329.63,042
News42% of his commentsHarshest33.914.020,784
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 Giannis Antetokounmpo; left out here: Lowlights (156), Injury posts (151), Discussion posts (114), Daily chat thread (49). 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 Giannis Antetokounmpo ran between 21% and 44%. His worst week was the week of Mar 30, 53% negative of 1,230 comments; his best the week of Sep 29, 42% positive.
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 Giannis Antetokounmpo in 23 of his 38 games, at least 20 comments each. It was harsher after losses: net sentiment −33 in losses (51% negative, 18% positive) against +13 in wins (30% negative, 43% positive), on a season net sentiment of −15.
+13In wins30% neg · 43% pos · 466 comments
−33In losses51% neg · 18% pos · 965 comments
−15His season33% neg · 18% pos · 50,054 comments
| Date | Phase | Opp | Result | Min | Pts | Reb | Ast | FG | 3P | TOV | +/− | P/R/A | Comments | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2 | vs BOSL 81–108 | L 81–108 | 25 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 7-18 | 0-2 | 3 | -16 | 19/11/2 | 472 | 30 points harsher than his season, from 51 comments. | |
| Jan 23 | vs DENL 100–102 | L 100–102 | 32 | 22 | 13 | 7 | 4-8 | 0-0 | 4 | +6 | 22/13/7 | 985 | 39 points harsher than his season, from 137 comments. | |
| Jan 21 | vs OKCL 102–122 | L 102–122 | 31 | 19 | 14 | 7 | 8-11 | 0-0 | 3 | -11 | 19/14/7 | 869 | 27 points harsher than his season, from 96 comments. | |
| Jan 15 | @ SASL 101–119 | L 101–119 | 22 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 7-12 | 1-1 | 3 | -31 | 21/5/1 | 389 | 31 points harsher than his season, from 57 comments. | |
| Jan 13 | vs MINL 106–139 | L 106–139 | 31 | 25 | 8 | 5 | 9-13 | 0-1 | 7 | -11 | 25/8/5 | 346 | 15 points harsher than his season, from 37 comments. | |
| Jan 11 | @ DENL 104–108 | L 104–108 | 33 | 31 | 8 | 11 | 10-17 | 1-3 | 2 | +16 | 31/8/11 | 582 | 9 points harsher than his season, from 59 comments. | |
| Jan 9 | @ LALW 105–101 | W 105–101 | 31 | 21 | 6 | 5 | 9-11 | 0-0 | 4 | +6 | 21/6/5 | 1,058 | 55 points warmer than his season, from 95 comments. | |
| Jan 7 | @ GSWL 113–120 | L 113–120 | 31 | 34 | 10 | 5 | 15-22 | 2-4 | 2 | +3 | 34/10/5 | 197 | 7 points harsher than his season, from 23 comments. | |
| Dec 31 | vs WASL 113–114 | L 113–114 | 28 | 33 | 15 | 3 | 12-21 | 0-1 | 6 | -4 | 33/15/3 | 189 | 37 points harsher than his season, from 29 comments. | |
| Dec 3 | vs DETW 113–109 | W 113–109 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | -6 | 2/1/1 | 329 | 21 points harsher than his season, from 53 comments. |
Bad nights get punished: across 23 games the room talked about, net sentiment rises with Giannis Antetokounmpo's Game Score.