No NBA player stirs social media conversations more than Steph Curry.
A study by Topratedcasinos.co.uk claims to have determined the most trolled players on the NBA’s Twitter, analyzing about 3,000 tweets from October 2020 to January 2021 targeted at players, and Steph had the highest percentage of negative messages at 27.9 (h / t Alex Kennedy / Basketball News).
Curry is a few percentage points above MVP guard Russel Westbrook (24.6 percent negative), with Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid (22.3 percent) and Warriors longtime enemy LeBron James (22.1 percent) percent) completing the first four.
Ironically, Steph and LeBron received a lot of hate, but also a lot of love in the analyzed tweets, since Curry got the highest total of positive messages addressed to him on Twitter (1,325) and ended with the second highest percentage of positive mentions (47.5 per percent), with James coming in third on that list (46.7 percent).
Cleveland Cavaliers striker Kevin Love had the highest percentage of positive tweets (53.3%).
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At the other end of the spectrum, Curry’s brother Splash, Klay Thompson, had only 14.6 percent of the tweets directed at him in a negative tone, one of the lowest of any player tracked in the study.
This is not a big surprise, as the demonstration of support for Klay after his hamstring injury to fans and NBA members was immense.
NBA Twitter can be a cruel place, and apparently Curry remains a dominant point of conversation, with tons of love and a little bit of hatred thrown in his path, even a few years away from the dominant dynasty he cultivated alongside Thompson. , Draymond Green, Andre Iguodala and Kevin Durant in the bay area.
It probably didn’t help Curry’s cause that he was playing one of the best basketballs of his NBA career in his 12th season, getting into the MVP conversation, despite the Warriors’ nearly 0.500 record.
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