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Fan might be a very loose definition. It's teens and preteens feeding the beast.
Nah. I'm just saying that it's two to ten percent of fans that are purists or true followers of the game. Their opinions are obviously the most valuable. I'm saying that a ground swell of en vogue opinions are pretty well worthless though.
Fan might be a very loose definition. It's teens and preteens feeding the beast.
I'm using nationally gathered stats, not gut feeling.
Most sites claim anywhere between 38 - 47 as the average age of the NBA fan. Teens and preteens don't have the money to feed the beast.
Valuable to whom other than themselves?
Obviously using their parents' money. They're the ones buying the jersey, watching most games, etc. perennially. Adults tend to grow out of it some. This has always been the lay of the landscape as I understand it; not merely a "gut feeling".
You say "as I understand it". Where do you get your information? I'd like to see the stats.
It's what I've seen over the years. I don't save tabs; and if you think I'm wrong, well maybe.
Big 3 era ended when Duncan retired
"The '14 Spurs would magically be worse if they didn't catch an unlucky break in '13."
That's the alternative position.
It wasn't Kawhi, the big 3 got old. Timmy retired, so there it goes.
It was bound to end at some point. You old school fans had them longer than most teams have their stars.
And came back for second time tonight, when they retire Manu jersey.
I am a man for the big occasions.
Kawhi definitely killed this era. Cast a giant dark cloud that sucked all the good vibes out of the organization.
Kawhi helped the Big 3 go off into the sunset with one more ring. It would have been nice to win back to back, but '13 was one of those crazy things that would take the heart our of a lot of teams. The fact that they came back the next year may be more of a tribut to the Big 3 than winning back to back would have been. Kawhi was a big part of that. He didn't do anything to kill the Big 3. He was supposed to be the future, and he put a big dent in that. But the Big 3 era had a good long run - longer than most people imagined. All the experts were saying the team was too old at least five years before that.
Y'all notice KL wasn't in any frame of that Manu video? Great call by somebody!
I'm just glad he's gone. Sure the Spurs are not le contenders but I could not imagine rooting for a team with grade A diva like him. The Spurs organization will get some closure when this clown goes to the Clippers. It will pretty much clear the Spurs rep and show the rest of the league and media that this clown really wanted to be in LA.
Neither was Stephen Jackson.
Agreed.
in A right. He was held out for load management.
Wonder if that came from Manu? Doubtful given Manu is a class act but I know Manu hated what Kawhi did to them last year. More likely, the video editing team had no s to give with reflecting his image on the same night they honored the truest epitome of what it means to be a Spur and chose not to tarnish that with the worst example of Spurdom.
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And Manu thanked them.
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