Ethan Strauss

I'm looking at some of these YouTube channels, some of this non-sports, usually content, and how they talk about this guy, and I don't think we've reckoned with how hated he made himself in a brief period of time.

I'm not saying it's bad or good.

Is that right?

I'm just saying it is.

I'm just saying if you look at, I don't know, Joe Budden or just somebody outside the standard sports ecosystem, because what happened is that he goes in with this really high approval rating and the NBA has their most watched finals in years.

where his team is going up against the biggest market team, and they're weirdly likable, which almost never happens.

There's just almost nothing to hate about them.

So suddenly you have an introduction of Wemby to 20 or 30 million people, and he's throwing asses.

elbows and stepping under guys feet and shoving guys and being arrogant after the games and saying that he's going to win when he doesn't but not in a fully confident heel way but more in some sort of I don't know a mix of arrogance and insecurity that's perhaps understandable for a 22 year old who's 7 foot 5 but

I am just making the observation that I don't think we've seen anything like this.

It's like we speed ran the LeBron James decision backlash all in a week.

I've never seen anything like it in sports.

Yeah.

No, we've got a good noble lie going there where it's all about the quarterback and we pretend it's all about the quarterback even though we have enough evidence to know it's not all about the quarterback.

Yeah.

We just saw Sam Darnold win it

And he eventually righted the ship over that course of the Super Bowl.

But I didn't think he was particularly good.

And I don't know if he ends up having a good game.

But for all the bites at the apple you get when your defense is dominant, I felt similarly about Jalen Hurts with the Eagles.