I've casually watched the Grizzlies since they drafted Edey because I'm a Purdue fan. Clearly he's the missing piece and they might've only been down 86-57 with him
2025-26
Zach Edey
MEM · C · #14
Unofficial: 1,213 comments, 3,787 short of the official minimum of 5,000. Among all 223 tracked players he would rank 41st most loved.
- PPG
- 13.6
- RPG
- 11.1
- APG
- 1.1
- GP
- 11
- Height
- 7′3″
- Weight
- 305 lb
- Age
- 24
- Born
- May 14, 2002
- Experience
- 1 yr
- From
- Purdue
Verdict
18.8%48.1%33.1%
18.8%Negative228 comments
48.1%Neutral584 comments
33.1%Positive401 comments
+14Net sentimentpositive minus negative
n=1,213 comments about Zach EdeyUnofficial
Receipts
What the room said about Zach Edey, verbatim: the highest-scoring comments in each class.
Exhibit 01Negative.BOS flair Exhibit 02Negative.MEM flair "This is one of the worst picks I've seen in Draft history." @krystenpeek on the Grizzlies taking Zach Edey ninth overall 😬
Exhibit 03Negative.no flair Edey sold so fucking hard I legit got tilted as a neutral , how are you 7,4 and can’t hit one layup what a bum
Method
A receipt is a top-scoring comment about Zach Edey 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 Zach Edey, his own Grizzlies fans are 16% negative, rival fans 18%, unflaired commenters 22%. Fewer than two fanbases have 200 comments about him, so no fanbase stands out.
16.4%Own fansMEM flair · 286 comments
17.6%Rival fansevery other flair · 517 comments
22.0%Unflairedno flair · 410 comments
Method
A fanbase is the flair its commenters wear. Flairs with fewer than 200 comments about Zach Edey are left out of the lists;
the tick is his rate across every flaired comment, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.
Rooms
Zach Edey was talked about most on the front page: 598 of his 1,213 comments, +20 net sentiment against +14 across his season. His harshest room was news posts, −2 on 20% of his comments; his warmest the front page.
Front page49% of his commentsWarmest15.134.9598
News20% of his commentsHarshest26.224.1237
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 Zach Edey; left out here: Highlights (178), Post-game threads (112), Game threads (79), Lowlights (4), Discussion posts (3), Injury posts (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 Zach Edey ran between 12% and 33%. His worst week was the week of Dec 8, 26% negative of 125 comments; his best the week of Nov 24, 56% positive. 33 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 Zach Edey in 1 of his 11 games, at least 20 comments each. Too few graded games on one side to split wins from losses.
+73In wins8% neg · 81% pos · 26 comments
—In lossestoo few graded losses
+14His season19% neg · 33% pos · 1,213 comments
| Date | Phase | Opp | Result | Min | Pts | Reb | Ast | FG | 3P | TOV | +/− | P/R/A | Comments | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30 | @ SACW 115–107 | W 115–107 | 29 | 32 | 17 | 0 | 16-20 | 0-0 | 5 | +25 | 32/17/0 | 101 | 59 points warmer than his season, from 26 comments. |