GQ calls Lakers fans worst in the NBA

[duncan228]

GQ calls Lakers fans worst in the NBA (http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/17/gq-calls-lakers-fans-worst-in-the-nba/)
Kurt Helin

In case you missed it while checking out the Armani ads, GQ (via The Basketball Jones (http://blogs.thescore.com/tbj/2011/03/17/lakers-fans-named-worst-in-nba/)) went looking for the worst fans in sports (http://www.gq.com/sports/lists/201104/worst-sports-fans-in-america#slide=1) — congratulations Philadelphia! — and wouldn’t you know it only one NBA team was able to make this storied list:

The Los Angeles Lakers.


Congratulations, Angelenos! You are the fairest of America’s fair-weather fans! The Lakers unfaithful abandoned their team en masse when Magic retired in 1991, then reconfirmed their fickleness by sending local TV ratings plummeting 30 percent after Shaq departed in 2004. Meanwhile, in these championship days, the Staples Center is more bar scene than sports complex, where fans can’t be bothered to clap—their hands are too busy texting. “The focus is sometimes not on the court,” coach Phil Jackson has said. “It’s on the people in the crowd.” Which explains why eight box suites were recently combined into an offshoot of an abominable nightclub, the Hyde Lounge. After VIPs pass a clipboard gauntlet—at a sports stadium—they can eat $21 nachos at a crocodile-skin bar while waiting for the space to transform into a postbuzzer dance club. When it’s time to leave, a valet will even bring around their bandwagon.

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[TheMACHINE]

woopty doo

[The Gemini Method]

Chalk up another victory for the mighty Purp and Gold...

[ChrisRichards]

some Lakers fans are cool in my book, Kobe fans however...

[TheMACHINE]

FYI, CR is referring to me when he says "cool in my book".

[The Gemini Method]

I'm pretty cool in my own book, which, is the only book that matters to me.

[redzero]

FYI, CR is referring to me when he says "cool in my book".

Cool, are you going to lend ChrisRichards the $100 he owes cobbler?

[ChrisRichards]

FYI, CR is referring to me when he says "cool in my book".
Giuseppe, Gemini Method, Ashy Larry, KK81, Luva are also some of the few Lakers fans I also like in this site.

I'm pretty cool in my own book, which, is the only book that matters to me.
That would be a good FB status message.

Cool, are you going to lend ChrisRichards the $100 he owes cobbler?
Its been paid in full.

[KillerMamba]

Nice article...Wonder which team the author roots for? Probably one that the Lakers routinely crush.

[hater]

sky is blue

[Findog]

Lakers fans just being the fairweather fans they're supposed to be. Just texting some texts and eating some nachos. Nothing personal.

[Kyle Orton]

Good to see findog back bullying the niggas he's supposed to bully.

[Ace]

Lakers currently have more fans than any other team so obviously in turn that will lead to have the most fair weather fans. However, doesn't mean they don't have their thick and thin fans.

[Frenzy]

This is top news.

[Giuseppe]

One should never defend their fandom. It sullies the entire protocol.

Ugh.

[z0sa]

Blatantly obvious to everyone but lakerfan.

[The Gemini Method]

Lakers fans just being the fairweather fans they're supposed to be. Just texting some texts and eating some nachos. Nothing personal.

Subitute nachos with sushi and you've got me to a T...ferrealz.

[midnightpulp]

Great article.

[The Gemini Method]

Quote: "Lakers games are the same way — you see the texting stars courtside and hear about the Hyde lounge. But up above the luxury boxes in the 300 section are the real Lakers fans. People who do stick with the team when Shaq leaves town, where the Thai chefs who save their money to go to a couple games a year sit. There are plenty of real Lakers fans, you just don’t see them.

Now, many of those real Lakers fans have an unreal sense of entitlement and arrogance about their team, but that’s another issue all together."

Pretty much sums up the fanbase, but there is no other group I'd rather be. I'm a Thai chef by the way...

[ginobili's bald spot]

Lakers currently have more fans than any other team so obviously in turn that will lead to have the most fair weather fans. However, doesn't mean they don't have their thick and thin fans.

Real talk.

[Kyle Orton]

tbh the 300 level Lakers fans are plenty bandwagon on their own. The Messicans in Phoenix certainly qualify as 300 level ones and they were Suns fans from 2005-2007.

[Beau]

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR6puAcYE2ENkQClJPRbKZzdbYIYTUYI nOy6EY_ccdETkEb0VFE

Looks wet.

[Sportcamper]

It almost saddens me that most of you will never know the joy of being associated with greatness…Lakers fans are the most loyal and spirited of all sports fans…We bar be que together after championships, party, get free sneakers & TV’s…WINNING…:tu
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRzVJJAwfW6pxlkslOKIiWk-9MPSQ5zXXeByFDlukhV7euZTO8J http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTsrS0sCo6UhX316FGeSVpe2egmW_jgf h-ZG-51RpivShB-Sxua

[The Gemini Method]

We don't need no wussy boat ride to demonstrate how amazing we are! Like Camper said, we have bonfires and share in taking the wealth! No one can top us!

[tlongII]

http://www.gq.com/sports/lists/201104/worst-sports-fans-in-america#slide=1

:lmao


15. Los Angeles Lakers
Starfuckers

Congratulations, Angelenos! You are the fairest of America's fair-weather fans! The Lakers unfaithful abandoned their team en masse when Magic retired in 1991, then reconfirmed their fickleness by sending local TV ratings plummeting 30 percent after Shaq departed in 2004. Meanwhile, in these championship days, the Staples Center is more bar scene than sports complex, where fans can't be bothered to clap—their hands are too busy texting. "The focus is sometimes not on the court," coach Phil Jackson has said. "It's on the people in the crowd." Which explains why eight box suites were recently combined into an offshoot of an abominable nightclub, the Hyde Lounge. After VIPs pass a clipboard gauntlet—at a sports stadium—they can eat $21 nachos at a crocodile-skin bar while waiting for the space to transform into a postbuzzer dance club. When it's time to leave, a valet will even bring around their bandwagon.

[redzero]

Somebody please pink this asshole.

There's already a thread about this, you fucking imbecile.

[Budkin]

Is that why the cheering is never loud there?

[Greg Oden]

GQ is an Uncle Tom magazine that promotes grown men to wear skinny girl jeans, and same sex cologne. Nothing to see here, tlong.

I'm really proud of you for learning what an Uncle Tom is today.

[midnightpulp]

GQ is an Uncle Tom magazine that promotes grown men to wear skinny girl jeans, and same sex cologne. Nothing to see here, tlong.

About 90% of the men in LA, aside from the beaners of course.

[The Gemini Method]

About 90% of the men in LA, aside from the beaners of course.

So are the Beaners constituting the 10% or are they part of the 10% of the non-skinny jeans wearing crowd? Because, to be honest, alot of the skinny jeans wearin' crowd have been filled by them. Moreso than any other race cept the whiteys.

[crc21209]

Blatantly obvious to everyone but lakerfan.

This.

[midnightpulp]

So are the Beaners constituting the 10% or are they part of the 10% of the non-skinny jeans wearing crowd? Because, to be honest, alot of the skinny jeans wearin' crowd have been filled by them. Moreso than any other race cept the whiteys.

To quality, Beaners are a different breed than your assimilated Mexican-Americans, who are basically white.

[The Gemini Method]

To quality, Beaners are a different breed than your assimilated Mexican-Americans, who are basically white.

Oh okay, thanks for the clarification. However, I still don't think it would matter here in SoCal, because the trend is--Skinny Jeans across the board. Which, is not something I condone nor subscribe to...

[Muser]

About 90% of the men in LA, aside from the beaners of course.

So only about 5% of the population then.

[Kyle Orton]

^:lmao

[ginobili's bald spot]

About 90% of the men in LA, aside from the beaners of course.

So...you wear skinny jeans?

[ohmwrecker]

I'm really proud of you for learning what an Uncle Tom is today.

I still don't feel like he's got a firm understanding of the phrase.

[midnightpulp]

So...you wear skinny jeans?

Kind of. Don't like baggy, but they're not tight enough for someone to consider me an emo faggot.

[midnightpulp]

So only about 5% of the population then.

:lol

[The Gemini Method]

That skinny jean Miller Lite commercial sums up about 100% of the Silver Lake population...cept, more hipster-y.

[HarlemHeat37]

I get a GQ every month, tbh..I like it even more now, very accurate..

It would be pretty awesome if the last theatre scene from Inglorious Bastards was reenacted(sp?) at Staples..

[picc84]

I agree. 95% of the time the crowd at Staples is vomit-inducing. Half are trophy wives who can't wait to leave, and the rest are the assholes texting from under their feathered fedoras. The only people who really give a shit are Jack and the taco-eating fucks in the nose-bleeds, so far from the game they can hear their own refried bean farts. The only cheers audible through the gamecast are from their nutty professor hands coming together like tectonic plates. The fuckfaces in the lower levels can go rape their mothers.

Except for game 7. They showed up, and we rang. Once a year they're good for, and thats usually all we need.

[Cessation]

lol nutty professor hand coming together like tectonic plates

[ohmwrecker]

Why don't you enlighten us without googling it, you Sknny Jean, Unisex cologne wearing faggot.

I would rather see you explain how GQ is an "Uncle Tom" magazine. That sounds far more entertaining tbh you pajama wearing, curry and BO stinking, calculus failing camel jock.

[ohmwrecker]

Of course it's an Uncle Tom Magazine. You won't see no brotha's in the hood buying or even reading GQ, but the Grant Hill types, the Tony Parker's, Battier's, the Kobe's, and so on have that magazine front and center in their restroom. You do too most likely. Now tell us what your meaning of Uncle Tom is?

I see . . . So, it's published for black men who might want to read something other than Jet, King or Slam? Tell me, what kind of magazines do black men who are interested in spas and white water rafting read?

[ohmwrecker]

You define it first.

Why? I didn't bring it up and I already know what it means.

[Muser]

Basically he's asking what would a gay black man read?

[Muser]

Great responses. Really answered the questions that we asked tbh.

[ohmwrecker]

Move on, asshole. Next jackass...

Ah, the pitfalls of pretending to be a black man on the internet . . .

[ezau]

Laker fans:lol:lol:lol