Are we still the most loved and hated team in the NBA?
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 9:42 am    Post subject:

I think the Warriors are currently the most hated team in the NBA. I don't think we're the most loved either (for the time being).
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 10:58 am    Post subject:

I don't think we're the most hated team. Not sincerely anyway.

I do think we're among the most hated on. Look no further than many of these ESPN "reporters".
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 4:40 pm    Post subject:

fansincemagic wrote:
Absolutely, I don't remember the Celts getting even a taste of this hate all the years they were down between rings. Not only that, but you can actually see Wilbon types salivating over being able to jab them, or even just bring them up for no reason but to hate.


Yeah but the Celtics have not been great in the age of the internet and especially social media.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 7:47 pm    Post subject:

We're kind of irrelevant right now. But we'll get back to being hated soon enough and looking forward to it!
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 28, 2016 4:27 pm    Post subject:

We generate most clicks so we are both
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:28 pm    Post subject:

It's not even close. And it won't be close for a while. Kobe's departure will be the start of a slow decline in popularity, especially if we don't win a ring in the next 5 years. We've never gone long without a championship, so this might be the first time, other than the mid 90s, which was really only about 5 years before we got Shaq and Kobe. And we had a couple of years in Kobe's prime, but we were still playoffs in both cases. This is the first time where we are like the worst. (but we were tanking so we're really not as bad as the numbers).

Someone has that graphic showing how the Lakers are the most loved and hated team in all the states. This will remain for many years, but we don't want to end up like the yankees, winning a lot, best players, but not winning the rings. That to me is the realistic danger.

Think about it this way...look at these forums. No other team has a forum with this many people and this active. On other forums, you won't see so many people bashing kobe and unabashedly supporting duncan and lebron. so all that love/hate comes from the size of the fanbase. it's crickets most other places.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:32 pm    Post subject:

ringfinger wrote:
We're kind of irrelevant right now. But we'll get back to being hated soon enough and looking forward to it!


We're irrelevant in basketball speak. But in popularity, we haven't skipped a beat. Folks trash us when we're good, and trash us when we're bad. Same old same old.
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