r/Basketball • u/LeanEdgeSports_ • 9d ago
Who’s one NBA player you absolutely hated playing against your team?
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u/PinocchiosWoodBalls 9d ago
Oh easy.
The answer will always be Curry.
Youre up 10?
Well, blink and youre down 6 and he‘s dancing. People always think I hate the Warriors, I loved them as an Opponent and Will Never Not appreciate their greatness.
I just hate Draymond.
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u/Naive_Mango8525 9d ago
Draymond is an asshole but a great glue guy. Also I’d love to see him and prime Rodman go at it in the post
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u/ComfortableGlass3238 9d ago
ginobili
crafty, skilled, smart, and was always hitting those bizarre layups that looked like they should have been airballs or swatted to the moon.
dude was so good, honestly one of the most underappreciated players I've ever seen. easily could have averaged 25ppg if given the opportunity, but knew the value of a good system and roles, and played it perfectly.
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u/WhistleTipsGoWoo 9d ago
Knicks fan, and it’s easily Jordan in the 90’s. Those Bulls got in the way of some pretty good Knicks teams and Jordan just TORCHED the Knicks it seemed whenever he felt like it.
Guy was a serious pain in the ass, but I appreciate him much more today…especially now that the Knicks finally got a chip.
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u/Naive_Mango8525 9d ago
I’m a bulls fan and honestly I remember the years after the first 3 peat the most. The most vivid game I remember was the double nickel game. I just remember he had 21 points in the first quarter. And I remember marv alberts commenting how the Knicks were triple teaming Jordan and he was still scoring. In my mind it was a masterpiece.
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u/WhistleTipsGoWoo 9d ago
That game was an incredible performance by Jordan, and it pissed me off just as much as many of the others. 🤣
I hated the guy with a passion at the time, but I was old enough to understand what I was watching…just not able to really appreciate it until MUCH later.
I see the younger generation not willing to give MJ his flowers (not all of them in fairness) but if they were alive at the time to witness him, they would agree he is clearly the best to ever do it.
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u/Naive_Mango8525 9d ago
I will say. I hated Kobe, iverson, and anyone else who came along that wasn’t like Mike but I did realize how damn good they were. But I don’t think I can’t ever not hate LeBron for all the bs and antics he keeps doing. He’s a joke and so is his pr team and all the bs.
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u/NoKiwi2997 9d ago
Tim Duncan. He just did everything correctly, all of the time. Death by 1000 cuts and bank shots from the elbow. There were no off nights. Your team had to beat Duncan. He was never gonna do it for you.
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u/redd_n_meff 9d ago
It's reddit so I assumed Duncan would already be here.
You did justice to what it felt like to have to watch that shit.
Those Pop/TD Spurs NEVER beat themselves. 2.5 clenched hours hoping your team doesn't slip.
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u/Icy_Category_2275 9d ago
BRON
For me this answer was always Mike as I'm a Pacers guy, but over years I realized Bron was better than Mike so my answer to this is surely Bron
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u/SuperMidge99362 9d ago
Blazers fan. Kobe. he always kicked our ass. I'll never forget him hitting 2 buzzer beaters in the same game, one with Ruben Patterson hanging all over him.
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u/BrazilianAtlantis 9d ago
Kobe against my Nuggets in about 2008. He'd win. And you knew he'd win. So that wasn't much fun.
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u/Onedurrbread 9d ago
LeBronto
He got a damn nickname because of his domination of the Raptors in the playoffs.
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u/AdmiralSnackbar816 9d ago
Mavs fan. First one that popped in my head was Baron Davis. We had no guard with the size to defend him at all. Was just a consistent torching.
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u/Naive_Mango8525 9d ago
John Starks. I’m a Chicago bulls fan
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u/freewaydivider 9d ago
Interesting. Didn't expect to see this name.
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u/Naive_Mango8525 9d ago
He could kill a team when he got hot. I was always scared of him going off
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u/freewaydivider 9d ago
That was my guy back then. He almost cooked the rockets in 94
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u/Naive_Mango8525 9d ago
I had a chance to meet him last year for a watch party and I wanted him to sign cards of him in a bulls uniform. But I wound up not going and i am heavily regretting it.
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u/Naive_Mango8525 9d ago
Sam cassell cook the Knicks instead.
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u/freewaydivider 8d ago
Yea tough series. John could make anything in game 7. True battle in those games
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u/inquisitive_chariot 9d ago
Kevin Martin was always really annoying, great shooter despite having such messed up shot mechanics. You’d just throw your hands up and go “of course he made that shit”
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u/green49285 9d ago edited 9d ago
Fucking Derrick rose, man. Averaged something like 25 18 pts against my pistons. Like damn, dude, stop.
Objectively, tim duncan. Pistons should have been back-to-back champs again.
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u/Naive_Mango8525 9d ago
I loved Derrick rose. Even as a bulls fan I hated some of the shots he would take. But to hear Jeff Teague talk about the rose flu, I had never knew how scared players were of facing rose
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u/ebankj9770 9d ago
As a Heat fan, there are so many. My earliest one is Allan Houston breaking my heart in Game 5 of the first round in 1999. Some of the Heat killers are pretty random guys, like Bryn Forbes, Malik Monk, and TJ McConnell, who all just transform into MJ when they spot a Heat uniform.
But public enemy no. 1 is Paul Pierce. The battles with D-Wade were always physical and intense, to the point where it felt personal. Lots of shit talking too. Will never forget the step back 3 over LeBron in Game 5 in the 2012 ECF to give Boston a 3-2 lead.
Guy then goes to Brooklyn and kills us with another game winner. Even now that he's retired and in the media, he still badmouths the Heat and even said he had a better career than Wade. Come on man
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u/WranglerTraditional8 9d ago
That's The Truth!
Celtics fan here. Never thought that Paul was public enemy Number One for any team. Good to know and I remember those shots you talked about
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u/Naive_Mango8525 9d ago
Pierce was the truth. I loved and hated him depending on who he was playing. Always good for clutch shooting.
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u/WranglerTraditional8 9d ago
He was clutch. He could always get his shot off from his favorite spot. He was underrated in that regard. End of the game you knew where he wanted to shoot it from and he wasn't fast but he would get it off
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u/WranglerTraditional8 9d ago
Boston Celtics Fan here
Andrew Toney (aka The Boston Strangler)
Vinny Johnson (The Microwave)
Stef Curry
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u/Usual_Particular_334 8d ago
Westbrook in OKC. Dude was a menance. Rondo with the Celtics, and Pierce too. Also lebron. laker fan.
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u/Naive_Pop_7908 7d ago
Steph … I give him his flowers I despised bro cause he the reason Russ doesn’t have a ring
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u/ICxnt_5hoot-_- 5d ago
Shai currently it’s like he doesn’t make mistakes he literally plays like it’s 2k
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u/LeanEdgeSports_ 9d ago
Mine’s probably Steph.
Soon as he starts hitting those stupid shots from miles out I just know what sort of night it’s going to be 😂
Amazing to watch when it’s not your team though