{"id":77400,"date":"2024-05-14T15:23:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T19:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=77400"},"modified":"2024-05-14T15:23:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T19:23:37","slug":"bilal-coulibaly-continues-to-throw-shade-at-two-time-all-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/05\/14\/bilal-coulibaly-continues-to-throw-shade-at-two-time-all-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilal Coulibaly Continues to Throw Shade at Two-Time All-Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2023-24 NBA season was a miserable one for the Washington Wizards<\/a>. They finished 15-67, just one game better than the league-worst Detroit Pistons. In a season light on positives, at least they saw glimpses of what Bilal Coulibaly<\/a> could provide.<\/p>\n

The seventh overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft, Coulibaly played 63 games in his rookie season with 15 coming in the starting lineup. A right wrist fracture ended his season prematurely, as he last played on March 16.\u00a0The 19-year-old posted averages of 8.4 points, 4.1 rebounds, and 1.7 assists in his rookie season.<\/p>\n

While his Wizards didn\u2019t come close to the playoffs, Coulibaly has kept his name in the news during this year\u2019s postseason.<\/p>\n

Bilal Coulibaly Continues to Throw Shade at Two-Time All-Star<\/h2>\n

Coulibaly Not Overly Impressed With Siakam<\/h3>\n

A couple of weeks ago, Coulibaly gave an interview with the French language RMC Sport<\/a>. In that interview, he named Pascal Siakam<\/a> of the Indiana Pacers as an overrated player.<\/p>\n

Coulibaly decided to double down on throwing shade at Siakam while recently speaking with Fanduel TV.<\/p>\n

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Bilal Coulibaly stands by his comments calling Pascal Siakam \u2018overrated\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI watch the films, I know what he was about to do when he was going left, spinning around, going right. I was like, yeah, he was the easiest superstar to guard\u201d<\/p>\n

(@RunItBackFDTV<\/a>)<\/p>\n

pic.twitter.com\/otOqugrBcp<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) May 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While Coulibaly\u2019s remarks can be seen as disparaging, one could also see it as a compliment that he referred to Siakam as a \u2018superstar\u2019. It would depend on one\u2019s definition of superstar as to whether they agree in calling him that.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old Siakam made the All-NBA Second Team in 2019-20 and the Third Team in 2022-23 while with the Toronto Raptors. In both of those seasons, he was named an All-Star.<\/p>\n

Siakam\u2019s Raptors won the NBA Championship in 2019, a season where he was named the league\u2019s Most Improved Player. He was Toronto\u2019s second-leading scorer at 19 points per game in that postseason run, only behind Kawhi Leonard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While he has plenty of accolades to his name, most would agree that while he\u2019s a great player, but he isn\u2019t on the short list of league\u2019s best.<\/p>\n

Pacers Still Around in the Playoffs<\/h3>\n

Now in his eighth season, Siakam probably isn\u2019t paying much mind to Coulibaly\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n

He has the current postseason to still deal with. His Pacers are squared up with the New York Knicks<\/a> through four games of the Eastern Conference Semifinals. Game 5<\/a> will take place on Tuesday in Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n

Selected 27th overall in the 2016 NBA Draft, Siakam was acquired via trade by the Pacers in mid-January from the Raptors. It helped pair point guard Tyrese Haliburton<\/a> with another All-Star caliber player.<\/p>\n

In 41 regular season games after joining Indiana, Siakam averaged 21.8 points, 7.8 rebounds, and 3.7 assists. The 6’8″ forward shot 54.9% from the field, 38.6% from three-point range, and 69.9% from the foul line.\u00a0In his 10 playoff games thus far, Siakam has averaged 20.7 points, 7.9 rebounds, and 3.5 assists. His shooting splits are .546\/.276\/.512.<\/p>\n

With Siakam still in the playoff mix, he has the opportunity to make Coulibaly eat his words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2023-24 NBA season was a miserable one for the Washington Wizards. They finished 15-67, just one game better than the league-worst Detroit Pistons. In a season light on positives, at least they saw glimpses of what Bilal Coulibaly could provide. The seventh overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft, Coulibaly played 63 games in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5060,"featured_media":77457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1608,11,62,3,18],"tags":[4769,1754],"class_list":["post-77400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-pacers","category-nba","category-news","category-wizards","tag-bilal-coulibaly","tag-pascal-siakam"],"modified_by":"Jordan Pagkalinawan","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}