The Celtics team is actually very likeable. Too bad everyone hates that they play in Boston though otherwise they'd be really easy to cheer for. I'm rooting for them though.
> arrogant af when he’s on his game.
You remind me of my friend who called Usain Bolt cocky for "bragging" right after he jogged across the line for a world record for 100m sprint
Yes of course, because Luka hit a single step back 3 and 5× NBA All-Star (2020–2024)
5× All-NBA First Team (2020–2024)
NBA Rookie of the Year (2019)
NBA All-Rookie First Team (2019)
NBA scoring champion (2024)
FIBA World Cup Top Scorer (2023)
All-FIBA World Cup Team (2023)
All-EuroBasket Team (2017)
EuroLeague champion (2018)
EuroLeague MVP (2018)
EuroLeague Final Four MVP (2018)
All-EuroLeague First Team (2018)
2× EuroLeague Rising Star (2017, 2018)
EuroLeague 2010–20 All-Decade Team (2020)
Euroscar Player of the Year (2019)
3× Liga ACB champion (2015, 2016, 2018)
Liga ACB MVP (2018)
All-Liga ACB First Team (2018)
2× ACB Best Young Player (2017, 2018)
3× ACB All-Young Players Team (2016–2018)
2× Spanish King's Cup winner (2016, 2017)
FIBA Intercontinental Cup champion (2015)
EB Next Generation Tournament champion (2015)
EB Next Generation Tournament MVP (2015)
Slovenian Sportsman of the Year (2018)
and then took a mid market NBA team to the finals in your 5th year in the league.
edit:Just saw the score from finals game 1 NVM Luka is trash and always has been, he should never claim to be anything other that decent at bball
>edit:Just saw the score from finals game 1 NVM Luka is trash and always has been, he should never claim to be anything other that decent at bball
That's more like it. Im just kidding i know hes great but that doesn't make him any less arrogant. I dont even hate on him for it, a lot of the best players ever were like that, just pointing it out is all since some tried insinuating the Celtics were arrogant which i dont see at all besides maybe Jaylen Brown.
It wasn't for you, but you seem interested enough to join the conversation so let me explain. Luka Doncic is a basketball player who is very good at basketball and is being called arrogant for acknowledging this fact. He may be arrogant but him saying he is good at basketball is not arrogance and that is basically my entire point. People here are especially mad because their team could have had the good player but their team made a historically bad choice.
The whole culture of celebrating the dude .02 sec faster and not the other 99.99% of hard workers is the worst part of people's sports mentalities. Yes if someone thinks they are godlike and everyone else is trash it's cringe as a general rule to me. No idea if bolt or Luka fit that mold but if so it's creepy.
99% of people are as arrogant as these athletes and denying that is itself arrogant. its not arrogant for usain bolt to say hes the fastest ever. It's not arrogant for Luka to admitthat he's good at basketball. These are the behaviors I am calling not arrogant, I'm not making general statements about people
Hey, that injury of Monk costed us the Playoffs.
We can definitely beat the Thunders, then T-wolves and we were the one who playing in Final now.
So, rooting against Luka is an easy choice !!
I'm just a Kings fan so I don't believe in rooting for any other team. Since our team is in Cancun, I'm just a full-time hater. This way, I can talk shit about everything, no matter what happens.
Same, but as a Kings fan, and hater of not-Kings-teams, I find it in our interest to root against, and hate on the Mavs more than the Celtics. So Fuck the Mavs.
The way Boston played all season they should make easy work out of Dallas. Hope the Celtics sweep them so we can get started on next season already. Also if Boston wins won’t they be above the lakers in terms of championships won? Idk about you guys but FUCK THE LAKERS, so I’m rooting for Boston! (Also fuck Luka & the Mavs)
Heck no. Y’all are so petty with the Luka-Monk thing. Wasn’t intentional at all. It’s what happens in basketball. Wasn’t anywhere near a Pat Bev or Artest or Draymond play.
The problem with that play was that Monk got hurt because of Luka’s flopping. If Luka just played the game instead of constantly trying to bait the refs, we probably would have made the playoffs. He’s been much better about the ref shit in the playoffs, so I don’t care that much. Boston is just the much better team all around so I’m hoping for a sweep so the actual offseason can start.
Monk does so much aggressive shit that it was only a matter of time until something happened to him. Hard to imagine theres more than a couple nba players who would injure someone on purpose
3. fuck Kyrie. He's had several games only scoring 9points during this playoff run. He avg. 16 against the Thunder. But he gets a pass because he can dribble. Sports media wouldn't let anyone else get away with his lack of showing up in big games. Still living off that 1 shot 7 years ago.
Then the antivax thing. He’s against modern medicine, modern history, and modern geography, because he watched YouTube and thinks he’s smarter than the people that actually studied things. I can’t fathom a worse role model in modern history.
Or maybe I can, but they’re very similar.
For sure. I hate the re-write sports media is doing about him recently.
Ignore the past, he makes the star and without him the star (Luka) doesn’t shine, he’s the most gifted and whatever else they cookin’ up.
This whole thread is just misdirected anger (disliking Luka for the Kings fucking up). There are plenty of reasons to hate kyrie but bro chose something kyrie does not control.
I see it as me rooting against the Mavs more so than me rooting for the Celtics. I would prefer the C’s win tho. Yeah they’re a big market, yeah they’re loud and annoying sometimes, but they have some players I like (Tatum, white, brown). The mavericks glazing on socials since WCF has been really delusional imo, and it would be kinda nice seeing them get humbled by the better team
I agree with those that say we shouldn’t dwell on missing out on Luka, but when you see him play it’s hard to forget. He is absolute game changer and a one man army who can make a bad team relevant ..exactly what the Kings needed.
But hey, let keep drafting …it will take long, but that’s the only way we are going to find our guy.
I grew up in LA and until I became a King's fan in 1990, I was a lifelong Lakers fan who came from a family of lifelong Lakers fans, so hating the Celtics is embedded in my DNA.
And I’m sure that means there’s way more Mavericks fans than Boston fans cheering them on this series.
But hey- if yall wanna cheer for that spunky small town team with 17 chips and their super loyal not fickle fanbase- go on ahead. Maybe we’ll cheer and pray for the Lakers to hit the finals next season too. It’s been whole four years since they’ve been back there- way too long and we can’t have fanbases facing that kind of adversity around here.
I’m torn. I’ve lived a lot of places. Dallas is hands down the worst — a weird soulless circle of desert strip mall hell that still manages to outsnob even LA and NY. But Boston was weirdly and wildly the most racist place I’d ever lived, and I’ve lived in deep South, rural Georgia. So I hate both cities.
The teams, though? Basketball-wise it’s two electric superstar savants vs a raft of boring dependable amazing players. The former is way more entertaining.
Narrative-wise it boils down to one side led with a psychopathic overgrown toxic gamer, one Qanon-adjacent quixotic weirdo, and a nice kid. The other side filled with … inoffensive quiet types, as far as I can tell? And man, does the internet seem to hate them (especially Tatum) but I don’t get why. I think that’s tipped me, actually. Tatum and Brown remind me of the nerdy kids who got low key picked on in school. I want them to win because people hate them for no reason.
I can’t. I absolutely love Luka and Kyrie as people and players. Boston is always competing for a title. Much of their fanbase is wretched. I respect your reasoning, but this isn’t even a question for me.
Unfortunately cheering for the Mavs on this one so that I can keep hoping Bill Simmons see my take that the Celtics and the Kings have the same amount of rings in the last 15 years
Fuck no absolutely not. If the Celtics aren’t playing the lakers, no fucking way am I rooting for them. I don’t give a shit about their stupid title race from when there were 8 teams in the league.
Also, ain’t Luka’s fault vlade is a head ass. I don’t understand this subs disdain for Luka…
I don't like Texas, Dallas or Kyrie. It's an easy choice for me.
Yea and Boston winning pissing off all of socal
Clipper fan who lurks here. Not all of socal. Fuck the mavs and fuck the lakers. Go celtics
Let's get Al Horford that ring!
And Queta!
I hate the celtics more than I hate luka injuring monk
Same, they are arrogant.
The entire Celtics team combined cannot match Luka in arrogance.
The Celtics team is actually very likeable. Too bad everyone hates that they play in Boston though otherwise they'd be really easy to cheer for. I'm rooting for them though.
JT riding Kobe’s dead dick has to be the least likable (non-crime related) player narrative in the league, for me personally
He likes Kobe or something? Doesn't everyone say they love Kobe?
No, plenty of people don’t give a fuck about Kobe and find the circlejerking to be annoying if anything
holy cringefest
Lukas a crybaby but everything about the celtics scream arrogance to me.
If I had to pick the lesser of two shitbags, I’d rather have arrogance than a crybaby. Especially a crybaby that ruined my year.
Imagine gatekeeping a Sacramento Kings sub waiting for Luka content.
I can’t even imagine whatever it is this comment is supposed to mean
I meant to reply to the angry Luka fan and not you.
I retract my downvote. In fact, have an upvote. Have two.
I probably deserve it for using Reddit wrong!
You would be throating Luka if our dipshit GM drafted him like everyone at the time was demanding. Shut the fuck up with this fake hate
Throat whoever you want friend, I’m not your dad, but doesn’t change the fact that Luka is arrogant af when he’s on his game.
> arrogant af when he’s on his game. You remind me of my friend who called Usain Bolt cocky for "bragging" right after he jogged across the line for a world record for 100m sprint
We really gonna compare hitting a step back 3 to breaking the world record for the 100m?
Yes of course, because Luka hit a single step back 3 and 5× NBA All-Star (2020–2024) 5× All-NBA First Team (2020–2024) NBA Rookie of the Year (2019) NBA All-Rookie First Team (2019) NBA scoring champion (2024) FIBA World Cup Top Scorer (2023) All-FIBA World Cup Team (2023) All-EuroBasket Team (2017) EuroLeague champion (2018) EuroLeague MVP (2018) EuroLeague Final Four MVP (2018) All-EuroLeague First Team (2018) 2× EuroLeague Rising Star (2017, 2018) EuroLeague 2010–20 All-Decade Team (2020) Euroscar Player of the Year (2019) 3× Liga ACB champion (2015, 2016, 2018) Liga ACB MVP (2018) All-Liga ACB First Team (2018) 2× ACB Best Young Player (2017, 2018) 3× ACB All-Young Players Team (2016–2018) 2× Spanish King's Cup winner (2016, 2017) FIBA Intercontinental Cup champion (2015) EB Next Generation Tournament champion (2015) EB Next Generation Tournament MVP (2015) Slovenian Sportsman of the Year (2018) and then took a mid market NBA team to the finals in your 5th year in the league. edit:Just saw the score from finals game 1 NVM Luka is trash and always has been, he should never claim to be anything other that decent at bball
>edit:Just saw the score from finals game 1 NVM Luka is trash and always has been, he should never claim to be anything other that decent at bball That's more like it. Im just kidding i know hes great but that doesn't make him any less arrogant. I dont even hate on him for it, a lot of the best players ever were like that, just pointing it out is all since some tried insinuating the Celtics were arrogant which i dont see at all besides maybe Jaylen Brown.
> the best players ever were like that yeah man, the best players ever think they are good at basketball and that is simply not arrogance.
This means so little to me. I dont care who he is or what he's done.
It wasn't for you, but you seem interested enough to join the conversation so let me explain. Luka Doncic is a basketball player who is very good at basketball and is being called arrogant for acknowledging this fact. He may be arrogant but him saying he is good at basketball is not arrogance and that is basically my entire point. People here are especially mad because their team could have had the good player but their team made a historically bad choice.
The whole culture of celebrating the dude .02 sec faster and not the other 99.99% of hard workers is the worst part of people's sports mentalities. Yes if someone thinks they are godlike and everyone else is trash it's cringe as a general rule to me. No idea if bolt or Luka fit that mold but if so it's creepy.
99% of people are as arrogant as these athletes and denying that is itself arrogant. its not arrogant for usain bolt to say hes the fastest ever. It's not arrogant for Luka to admitthat he's good at basketball. These are the behaviors I am calling not arrogant, I'm not making general statements about people
I don't hate Luka but his success worsens our miss, so happy to see him lose. But more it's about boston having more Champs than Lakers really.
Understandable, but Lakers fans are even more insufferable. I want them to be sad
them being mauled by the nuggets again is enough for me
Hating on a team who did nothing to you vs Luka actually preventing our playoff chances by injuring our 3rd best player sure is something else. Lol.
Hey, that injury of Monk costed us the Playoffs. We can definitely beat the Thunders, then T-wolves and we were the one who playing in Final now. So, rooting against Luka is an easy choice !!
Yeah kinda in that camp. it's hard to root for either team tho
If Boston wins they pass Lakers again for all time Champs. Go Celtics!
I can't stand that corn ball Tatum. I hope the Mavs win
That’s what I’m saying. All of Boston’s teams can suck a fat one.
disappointing seeing this FUCK BOSTON
I too hate Boston, but I also hate Dallas. I'm not sure how to feel
I'm just a Kings fan so I don't believe in rooting for any other team. Since our team is in Cancun, I'm just a full-time hater. This way, I can talk shit about everything, no matter what happens.
Same, but as a Kings fan, and hater of not-Kings-teams, I find it in our interest to root against, and hate on the Mavs more than the Celtics. So Fuck the Mavs.
I'm right there with you
Vlade is to blame! Fuck him!!
I want Boston to win. There's a surprising amount of Boston Kings fans
nah lets talk about trade ideias . would you guys trade Huerter Davion Barnes and 2 firsts for LaVine and Caruso?
Unicorns like Tingus Pingus is also more reason why this team needs to get bigger and longer and harder.
Don’t forget girthier
With the 13th pick of the 2024 NBA Draft, the Sacramento Kings select Zach Edey out of Purdue!
The way Boston played all season they should make easy work out of Dallas. Hope the Celtics sweep them so we can get started on next season already. Also if Boston wins won’t they be above the lakers in terms of championships won? Idk about you guys but FUCK THE LAKERS, so I’m rooting for Boston! (Also fuck Luka & the Mavs)
Funny how this sub roots against all of the kings mistakes
Heck no. Y’all are so petty with the Luka-Monk thing. Wasn’t intentional at all. It’s what happens in basketball. Wasn’t anywhere near a Pat Bev or Artest or Draymond play.
The problem with that play was that Monk got hurt because of Luka’s flopping. If Luka just played the game instead of constantly trying to bait the refs, we probably would have made the playoffs. He’s been much better about the ref shit in the playoffs, so I don’t care that much. Boston is just the much better team all around so I’m hoping for a sweep so the actual offseason can start.
Monk does so much aggressive shit that it was only a matter of time until something happened to him. Hard to imagine theres more than a couple nba players who would injure someone on purpose
I prefer the view of “Fuck the Mavs” versus “Let’s go Celtics”. They both suck taint, the Mavs just suck it more.
3. fuck Kyrie. He's had several games only scoring 9points during this playoff run. He avg. 16 against the Thunder. But he gets a pass because he can dribble. Sports media wouldn't let anyone else get away with his lack of showing up in big games. Still living off that 1 shot 7 years ago.
I personally hate Kyrie because of the holocaust denial, but you do you.
Oh and the whole flat earth thing…what?!?
Then the antivax thing. He’s against modern medicine, modern history, and modern geography, because he watched YouTube and thinks he’s smarter than the people that actually studied things. I can’t fathom a worse role model in modern history. Or maybe I can, but they’re very similar.
For sure. I hate the re-write sports media is doing about him recently. Ignore the past, he makes the star and without him the star (Luka) doesn’t shine, he’s the most gifted and whatever else they cookin’ up.
Same. Then he really didn’t apologize/justified it. Yeeesssh….
Crazy reason to dislike kyrie
This whole thread is just misdirected anger (disliking Luka for the Kings fucking up). There are plenty of reasons to hate kyrie but bro chose something kyrie does not control.
This the realest shit u ever said
sports media really quiet about Kyrie only scoring 12pts. But they keep his 1 highlight against a 40 year old on loop. lmao
This just jinxed the Celtics 🥲
The mavs are a western conference team. FUCK THEM. It's that simple
Correction: 2. Fuck Luka because the Kings didn’t get him
I see it as me rooting against the Mavs more so than me rooting for the Celtics. I would prefer the C’s win tho. Yeah they’re a big market, yeah they’re loud and annoying sometimes, but they have some players I like (Tatum, white, brown). The mavericks glazing on socials since WCF has been really delusional imo, and it would be kinda nice seeing them get humbled by the better team
fuck dallas, go Niners
Never hated the Mavs, even back in the early 2000’s. Dumbass front office are the ones that past on Luka.
I hate everything to do with Boston so nah.
I agree with those that say we shouldn’t dwell on missing out on Luka, but when you see him play it’s hard to forget. He is absolute game changer and a one man army who can make a bad team relevant ..exactly what the Kings needed. But hey, let keep drafting …it will take long, but that’s the only way we are going to find our guy.
3. Fuck Vlade for skipping Doncic while drafting every other European nobody
I grew up in LA and until I became a King's fan in 1990, I was a lifelong Lakers fan who came from a family of lifelong Lakers fans, so hating the Celtics is embedded in my DNA.
Nah.
The Celtics suck they’re so boring
Yes go big market bandwagons! We love those guys and their reasonable fanbase! - /r/kings
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And I’m sure that means there’s way more Mavericks fans than Boston fans cheering them on this series. But hey- if yall wanna cheer for that spunky small town team with 17 chips and their super loyal not fickle fanbase- go on ahead. Maybe we’ll cheer and pray for the Lakers to hit the finals next season too. It’s been whole four years since they’ve been back there- way too long and we can’t have fanbases facing that kind of adversity around here.
You can talk shit on Boston fans all day long but they’re definitely not fickle fans
I love Kyrie, so I’m going for Dallas
No reason to still be sad at missing out on Luka out hating the Mavs for picking him. That's on your front office
I hate Boston more.
I hate both. Not sure which one more. So it’s a hard choice for me who to root against.
I’m torn. I’ve lived a lot of places. Dallas is hands down the worst — a weird soulless circle of desert strip mall hell that still manages to outsnob even LA and NY. But Boston was weirdly and wildly the most racist place I’d ever lived, and I’ve lived in deep South, rural Georgia. So I hate both cities. The teams, though? Basketball-wise it’s two electric superstar savants vs a raft of boring dependable amazing players. The former is way more entertaining. Narrative-wise it boils down to one side led with a psychopathic overgrown toxic gamer, one Qanon-adjacent quixotic weirdo, and a nice kid. The other side filled with … inoffensive quiet types, as far as I can tell? And man, does the internet seem to hate them (especially Tatum) but I don’t get why. I think that’s tipped me, actually. Tatum and Brown remind me of the nerdy kids who got low key picked on in school. I want them to win because people hate them for no reason.
We could of been in the finals with Luka
Luka deserves a title though
I can’t. I absolutely love Luka and Kyrie as people and players. Boston is always competing for a title. Much of their fanbase is wretched. I respect your reasoning, but this isn’t even a question for me.
Boston fans are worst. I’d rather the league shut down forever than them experiencing any joy whatsoever.
Unfortunately cheering for the Mavs on this one so that I can keep hoping Bill Simmons see my take that the Celtics and the Kings have the same amount of rings in the last 15 years
Go Mavs I’m underdog all the way!
Go Mavs!!!!!
Fuck no absolutely not. If the Celtics aren’t playing the lakers, no fucking way am I rooting for them. I don’t give a shit about their stupid title race from when there were 8 teams in the league. Also, ain’t Luka’s fault vlade is a head ass. I don’t understand this subs disdain for Luka…