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Fan and media perception alongside movement context, tracked separately from performance percentiles.
Fan and media tone from game day and the day after, next to Bronny James's box score. A tone cell is blank, not neutral, when fewer than 3 posts or headlines mention him in that window. The count is in parentheses. On back-to-backs the two windows share a day.
Bars show points (right axis). Blue is fan tone and purple is media tone (left axis, 50% is neutral).
Fan tone vs points: needs 10 games with enough posts (3 so far)
Media tone vs points: needs 10 games with enough headlines (2 so far)
r runs from −1 to 1, and values near 0 mean tone and the stat moved independently. It measures correlation only. Small samples swing a lot.
| Date | Opp | MIN | PTS | REB | AST | TS% | Fan | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 2026PO | @ SAC | 22 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 51.5% | 56%(29) | —(1) |
| Oct 6, 2026PO | @ GSW | 21 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 40.0% | 41%(273) | 67%(16) |
| Oct 5, 2026PO | @ SAC | 16 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 30.0% | 48%(83) | 67%(11) |