To be fair Trae is an elite rim protector
2025-26
Trae Young
WAS · G · #3
r/NBA's 17th most hated player.
- PPG
- 17.9
- RPG
- 2.0
- APG
- 8.0
- GP
- 15
- Height
- 6′2″
- Weight
- 164 lb
- Age
- 28
- Born
- Sep 19, 1998
- Experience
- 7 yrs
- From
- Oklahoma
Verdict
44.2%38.8%16.9%
44.2%Negative5,546 comments
38.8%Neutral4,869 comments
16.9%Positive2,119 comments
−27Net sentimentpositive minus negative
n=12,534 comments about Trae Young
Receipts
What the room said about Trae Young, verbatim: the highest-scoring comments in each class.
Exhibit 01Negative.ATL flair Exhibit 02Negative.DAL flair Their grandkids are gonna be chanting fuck Trae Young decades from now lol
Exhibit 03Negative.WAS flair Trae and tre might be the worst defensive backcourt on nba history
Method
A receipt is a top-scoring comment about Trae Young 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 Trae Young, his own Wizards fans are 32% negative, rival fans 44%, unflaired commenters 46%. Among the 12 fanbases with at least 200 comments, Knicks fans are hardest on him at 56% negative and Raptors fans kindest at 24% positive.
32.4%Own fansWAS flair · 361 comments
43.7%Rival fansevery other flair · 7,477 comments
46.1%Unflairedno flair · 4,696 comments
Who hates him most
Method
A fanbase is the flair its commenters wear. Flairs with fewer than 200 comments about Trae Young are left out of the lists;
the tick is his rate across every flaired comment, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.
Rooms
Trae Young was talked about most on the front page: 5,503 of his 12,534 comments, −27 net sentiment against −27 across his season. His harshest room was the game threads, −37 on 5% of his comments; his warmest highlights, −12 on 7% of his comments. The game threads ran 10 points harsher than the front page: his play was graded live.
Game threads5% of his commentsHarshest51.815.0647
Post-game threads6% of his comments46.017.0770
Front page44% of his comments44.017.35,503
Highlights7% of his commentsWarmest37.625.6921
News36% of his comments44.215.04,549
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 Trae Young; left out here: Lowlights (80), Discussion posts (23), Daily chat thread (18), Injury posts (15). 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 Trae Young ran between 24% and 51%. His worst week was the week of May 18, 59% negative of 74 comments; his best the week of Oct 6, 48% positive. 1 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 Trae Young in 2 of his 18 games, at least 20 comments each. Too few graded games on one side to split wins from losses.
—In winstoo few graded wins
−51In losses61% neg · 10% pos · 80 comments
−27His season44% neg · 17% pos · 12,534 comments
| Date | Phase | Opp | Result | Min | Pts | Reb | Ast | FG | 3P | TOV | +/− | P/R/A | Comments | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 27 | vs NYKL 125–128 | L 125–128 | 31 | 9 | 0 | 10 | 2-9 | 0-4 | 6 | -13 | 9/0/10 | 191 | 29 points harsher than his season, from 34 comments. | |
| Dec 21 | vs CHIL 150–152 | L 150–152 | 26 | 35 | 1 | 9 | 10-16 | 7-9 | 2 | +2 | 35/1/9 | 325 | 20 points harsher than his season, from 46 comments. |