I don't give a **** how anyone else picks their team as long as the maintain that team once they have picked them

Personally I wasn't old enough to appreciate the real Lakers/Celtics rivalry so growing up I never really felt it. '08 Was cool as a throwback but I don't have a searing hatred for the Lakers base on what has been really only 2 high profile matchups with them in my lifetime. Sure it's a "rivalry" I guess but I always kind of liked Kobe and it seems like wasted energy to hate a team we could easily not face again in a big spot for another 20 years. The Heat are just so hateable on every level to me.

I don't really give a **** if somebody picks a different team every week.

The truest fans get the best emotional payoffs when good **** happens. I could have just ignored the C's until 2007 and then cheered them on to see a title, but it surely was far sweeter after spending 15 years rooting for AIDS and being desperate for a contender 1 time.

Plus this commercial means something to me!

Lol. And these mburke rants are even better in person. Legit disappointed I won't be watching game 6 at the house.

There was a kid I knew who was a huge Deion Sanders fan. Of course, he kept switching teams over and over again. So this kid kept switching teams when Deion did. Falcons, 9ers, Cowboys, Redskins. It was really annoying.

U can wait till sat night n c how this thing works

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap...Game_5_Remarks
Awwww

Not 2. Not 3. Not 4. Not 5. Not 6. Not 7.

I knew what this was before I clicked. It is 100% accurate in its depiction of what it felt like to hear the news.

A++++ Troll. He would fit in quite well around here

I've been a big Jason Kidd fan every since his rookie year. Kind of by accident. I ended up with all of his rookie cards and I thought his cards were cool, and he wowed me in the few games I saw him play that year. I was 12-13 btw.

Literally the only non-Chicago player in any sport I've been a "fan" of. It's been like that since 1994, and it all came from some dumb childhood reverence for sports cards.

Note that Garnett uses the plural "rings" in that video. No one is giving him grief for that.

I love Garnett.

Always liked him, but this year he reached a new level of gushy emo feelings.

Dude is just a warrior.

well he does preface it by saying "probably my best opportunity to win [inaudible] rings"

I don't really think that's such a bad thing to say plus he was 100% right

That's why.

In my mind, there's a pretty real distinction between being a fan of a team and being a fan of a specific player.

Fan of team: can happen at various points in one's life and develop in a myriad of ways. I myself grew up a Knick fan (although I lived in Jersey, the Nets were sololbad, but it's not like the Knicks were that good either), moved to LA, and "adopted" the Clippers (largely cause for season tickets, much cheaper than Lakers obvi). The hallmark trait, imo, of being a "fan of a team" is that once you become a fan, you stay with them through thick-and-thin.

Fan of player: I think the most common scenario is when a player you really like on your team gets traded/leaves as FA under non-douchey circumstances. Good examples for me are Eric Gordon or David Lee. I want these guys to do well and continue to have great careers. If I catch a Hornets/Woyas game, I'll root for them to win and play great. But the hallmark trait in this scenario is I want Gordon/Lee to do well wherever their careers take them. I don't suddenly invest in their entire new team's fortunes4lyfe, mainly b/c it requires too large an investment of time/caring about something. And I doubt most people would.

So I guess this is a long way of saying there is a difference between these 2 statements, imo:

1) I am a huge Heat fan.
2) I am a huge fan of Labron so I am rooting for the Heat to take it down.

Well, this is just being a fan of the "NBA in general" or "appreciating basketball being played at the highest level".

There are plenty of people that are just ardent fans of their team and very narrow in their focus. I think that's fine, and actually how most people (understandably) operate.

ya i've always thought kg was kind of a prick, but there's simply no denying his grit and heart. much respect for that. he just has more wim than all of the heat combined.

In general I like the Mavs b/c of Dirk but watching them win a championship is a TOTALLY different feeling than watching the Bucks win one (well, I'll let you know when it happens)

picking fights with pg's and screaming a lot, what a hero

and telling charlie villanueva he looks like a cancer patient. he's a douche. with heart tho

and the awesome sack tap lololol

doesn't change the fact that he plays with a ton of heart + WIM

edit- now THAT is a haterish comment since the interaction can be boiled down to "KG has a positive quality" and you respond with "YEAH BUT HE ALSO HAS AN UNRELATED NEGATIVE QUALITY!" STFU bro, nobody cares.

It's like the intent of every single post you've made in this thread has been to rain on the C's parade. That doesn't add value, even if you occasionally do have a logically pertinent thing to say.

While I agree with you, why is your screen name JeremyLinFan, then? Shouldn't it be ClipperFan?

Jeremy Lin is obv more than just a player