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2025-26

Jalen Williams

OKC · G-F · #8

r/NBA's 21st most loved player.

PPG
17.1
RPG
4.6
APG
5.5
GP
33
Height
6′5″
Weight
211 lb
Age
25
Born
Apr 14, 2001
Experience
3 yrs
From
Santa Clara

Verdict

27.9%Negative1,518 comments
45.5%Neutral2,475 comments
26.5%Positive1,443 comments
−1Net sentimentpositive minus negative

n=5,436 comments about Jalen Williams

  1. 60most hated
  2. 21most loved
  3. 64most discussed
  4. 63most argued about

Receipts

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

  1. Exhibit 01PHX flair
    Umm JDub cooked us tonight
    Post-game thread · OKC 105 @ PHX 108 · Jan 4▲ 167Jan 5, 2026Source ↗
  2. Exhibit 02OKC flair
    I’m convinced JDub’s wrist is cooked.
    Post-game thread · UTA 125 @ OKC 129 · Jan 7▲ 38Jan 8, 2026Source ↗
  3. Exhibit 03no flair
    They had 17 less free throws and should’ve still won. Disasterclass on offense by Jdub and Dort bricked shot after shot.
    Post · [Highlight] Timberwolves fans chanting "Free throw merchant" to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, during his free throw attempt▲ 11Dec 20, 2025Source ↗
Method
A receipt is a top-scoring comment about Jalen Williams 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 Jalen Williams, his own Thunder fans are 19% negative, rival fans 33%, unflaired commenters 32%. Among the 3 fanbases with at least 200 comments, Spurs fans are hardest on him at 37% negative and Thunder fans kindest at 34% positive.

19.4%Own fansOKC flair · 1,816 comments
32.7%Rival fansevery other flair · 1,901 comments
31.6%Unflairedno flair · 1,719 comments

Who hates him most

  1. 1SAS fans36.7%+10
  2. 2LAL fans34.6%+8
  3. 3OKC fansown fans19.4%-7

Who defends him

  1. 1OKC fansown fans34.3%+6
  2. 2SAS fans19.7%-8
  3. 3LAL fans18.4%-9
Method
A fanbase is the flair its commenters wear. Flairs with fewer than 200 comments about Jalen Williams are left out of the lists; the tick is his rate across every flaired comment, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.

Rooms

Jalen Williams was talked about most on the front page: 2,481 of his 5,436 comments, +3 net sentiment against −1 across his season. His harshest room was highlights, −10 on 6% of his comments; his warmest the post-game threads, +4 on 7% of his comments. The game threads ran 9 points harsher than the front page: his play was graded live.

Game threads33.126.81,575
Post-game threadsWarmest26.730.6405
Front page23.927.02,481
HighlightsHarshest35.725.8325
News26.421.8500
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 Jalen Williams; left out here: Daily chat thread (71), Injury posts (54), Lowlights (12), Discussion posts (11). 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 Jalen Williams ran between 11% and 43%. His worst week was the week of Dec 22, 48% negative of 194 comments; his best the week of Mar 30, 49% positive. 5 of 40 weeks had fewer than 30 comments and are left off the line.

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 Jalen Williams in 15 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 (26% negative, 40% positive), on a season net sentiment of −1.

+13In wins26% neg · 40% pos · 441 comments
−33In losses51% neg · 18% pos · 460 comments
−1His season28% neg · 27% pos · 5,436 comments
DatePhaseOppResultMinPtsRebAstFG3PTOV+/−P/R/ACommentsVerdict
May 28R3 G6R3 G6@ SASL 91–118L 91–118101010-10-12-181/0/121,522
May 20R3 G2R3 G2vs SASW 122–113W 122–11374102-40-00+24/1/035,453
May 18R3 G1R3 G1vs SASL 115–122L 115–12237267311-251-32-326/7/353,003
Apr 22R1 G2R1 G2vs PHXW 120–107W 120–1072319147-112-31+1719/1/46,598
Apr 19R1 G1R1 G1vs PHXW 119–84W 119–842922769-152-51+2222/7/66,255
Apr 2vs LALW 139–96W 139–962310984-100-12+3110/9/85,831
Mar 29vs NYKW 111–100W 111–1002922127-111-12-322/1/22,773
Mar 25@ BOSL 109–119L 109–119247332-90-30-57/3/33,073
Feb 9@ LALW 119–110W 119–1102423316-170-22-1023/3/11,857
Jan 9@ MEMW 117–116W 117–11636265109-180-32+226/5/10727

Bad nights get punished: across 15 games the room talked about, net sentiment rises with Jalen Williams's Game Score.

−100−75−50−250+25+50+75+100-100102030his season −1W vs PHX 138–89: Game Score 14.0, net sentiment +29 from 21 commentsL vs SAS 109–111: Game Score 13.9, net sentiment −32 from 44 commentsL @ MIN 107–112: Game Score 8.8, net sentiment −52 from 23 commentsL vs SAS 102–117: Game Score 8.7, net sentiment −62 from 66 commentsL vs CHA 97–124: Game Score 10.0, net sentiment −55 from 20 commentsW @ MEM 117–116: Game Score 22.8, net sentiment −29 from 21 commentsW @ LAL 119–110: Game Score 12.5, net sentiment −13 from 39 commentsL @ BOS 109–119: Game Score 4.1, net sentiment −33 from 24 commentsW vs NYK 111–100: Game Score 17.8, net sentiment +69 from 32 commentsW vs LAL 139–96: Game Score 13.3, net sentiment +91 from 33 commentsW vs PHX 119–84: Game Score 22.5, net sentiment +51 from 39 commentsW vs PHX 120–107: Game Score 16.0, net sentiment +33 from 122 commentsL vs SAS 115–122: Game Score 17.2, net sentiment −7 from 152 commentsW vs SAS 122–113: Game Score 4.3, net sentiment −36 from 134 commentsL @ SAS 91–118: Game Score -1.8, net sentiment −41 from 131 comments
r = 0.53 · 15 games · win loss