There was a moment last night Lavine got left on the floor as the game went to timeout. Literally not one person ran to pick him up. Edit- someone did actually finally pick him up but it was a bench warming white dude that I don’t even know his name and he’s on my team. Not important. Fuck Lavine.
2025-26
Zach LaVine
SAC · G · #8
Unofficial: 2,288 comments, 2,712 short of the official minimum of 5,000. Among all 223 tracked players he would rank 12th most hated.
- PPG
- 19.2
- RPG
- 2.8
- APG
- 2.3
- GP
- 39
- Height
- 6′5″
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Age
- 31
- Born
- Mar 10, 1995
- Experience
- 11 yrs
- From
- UCLA
Verdict
50.4%38.3%11.3%
50.4%Negative1,154 comments
38.3%Neutral876 comments
11.3%Positive258 comments
−39Net sentimentpositive minus negative
n=2,288 comments about Zach LaVineUnofficial
Receipts
What the room said about Zach LaVine, verbatim: the highest-scoring comments in each class.
Exhibit 01Negative.SAC flair Exhibit 02Negative.no flair All due to Zach Lavines legendary defense 😤
Exhibit 03Negative.GSW flair Fuck Lavine if that’s true, getting paid millions to play a game because fans like him want to see them play. Then he tells the fan to go home when he’s frustrated Lavine isn’t even trying?
Method
A receipt is a top-scoring comment about Zach LaVine 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 LaVine, his own Kings fans are 48% negative, rival fans 50%, unflaired commenters 53%. Among the 2 fanbases with at least 200 comments, Bulls fans are hardest on him at 48% negative and Kings fans kindest at 14% positive.
47.6%Own fansSAC flair · 433 comments
49.6%Rival fansevery other flair · 1,063 comments
53.2%Unflairedno flair · 792 comments
Who hates him most
Who defends him
Method
A fanbase is the flair its commenters wear. Flairs with fewer than 200 comments about Zach LaVine 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 LaVine was talked about most on the front page: 999 of his 2,288 comments, −42 net sentiment against −39 across his season. His harshest room was the front page; his warmest news posts, −37 on 37% of his comments.
Front page44% of his commentsHarshest52.210.3999
News37% of his commentsWarmest46.89.6850
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 LaVine; left out here: Post-game threads (168), Game threads (109), Highlights (83), Lowlights (67), Discussion posts (7), Injury posts (4). 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 LaVine ran between 38% and 59%. His worst week was the week of Nov 17, 62% negative of 79 comments; his best the week of Oct 27, 23% positive. 12 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 LaVine in 0 of his 43 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
−39His season50% neg · 11% pos · 2,288 comments
The room never reached 20 comments about Zach LaVine in one of his games.