What the room said about Kevin Love, verbatim: the highest-scoring comments in each class.
Exhibit 01Negative.MIL flair
Fuck Kevin love
Exhibit 02Negative.WAS flair
*Chauncey has been my OG since 2010 - we won a World Championship together and I love and respect him. T-Ro is my brother, he knows where I stand and I supported him through the struggles last year*
Not only is Love soft, but he's a punk by his own standards then too.
Love is a clown. Rozier is a clown. Billups is a clown. THAT's the fraternity. All idiots.
Exhibit 03Negative.no flair
Again it's still asshole behavior. How does meming them on Twitter benefit Kevin Love at all other than to farm likes? He has every right to do what he wants to on Twitter, but it's 100% asshole behavior when these guy's family and kids rely on them as their sole income. If a former friend dies committing a crime, is it okay to make fun of them on social media too? Is that still not asshole behaviour even if they forfeited their friendship by being a criminal? Braindead take
Method
A receipt is a top-scoring comment about Kevin Love 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 Kevin Love, his own Jazz fans are 31% negative, rival fans 35%, unflaired commenters 38%. Fewer than two fanbases have 200 comments about him, so no fanbase stands out.
31.4%Own fansUTA flair · 35 comments
34.6%Rival fansevery other flair · 581 comments
38.2%Unflairedno flair · 422 comments
Method
A fanbase is the flair its commenters wear. Flairs with fewer than 200 comments about Kevin Love are left out of the lists;
the tick is his rate across every flaired comment, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.
Rooms
Kevin Love was talked about most on the front page: 537 of his 1,038 comments, −17 net sentiment against −16 across his season. His harshest room was the front page; his warmest highlights, −14 on 23% of his comments.
% neg% posn
Front page52% of his commentsHarshest36.719.7537
Highlights23% of his commentsWarmest36.622.1235
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 Kevin Love; left out here: News (145), Game threads (67), Post-game threads (31), Injury posts (10), Lowlights (9), 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 Kevin Love ran between 18% and 49%. His worst week was the week of Oct 20, 52% negative of 115 comments; his best the week of Dec 8, 43% positive. 32 of 40 weeks had fewer than 30 comments and are left off the line.
PreseasonRegular seasonPlayoffsOff-season
Negative 33%Positive 27%
Sep 29 · 3 comments, under the floorNo games
Oct 6 · 19 comments, under the floor
L @ HOU 127–140
L @ SAS 130–134
Oct 13 · 5 comments, under the floor
L vs DAL 101–114
Oct 20 · 52% negative · 20% positive · 115 commentsNo games
May 4 · 36% negative · 14% positive · 36 commentsNo games
May 11 · 22 comments, under the floorNo games
May 18 · 26 comments, under the floorNo games
May 25 · 27 comments, under the floorNo games
Jun 1 · 11 comments, under the floorNo games
Jun 8 · 24 comments, under the floorNo games
Jun 15 · 41% negative · 31% positive · 112 commentsNo games
Jun 22 · 17% negative · 17% positive · 52 commentsNo games
Jun 29 · 2 comments, under the floorNo games
OctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun
worst week best week · hover or tap a week for its games.
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 Kevin Love in 0 of his 40 games, at least 20 comments each. Too few graded games on one side to split wins from losses.
—In winstoo few graded wins
—In lossestoo few graded losses
−16His season36% neg · 20% pos · 1,038 comments
The room never reached 20 comments about Kevin Love in one of his games.