NBA keeping an eye on Garnett

[monosylab1k]

In other words, you're a resident of Southern California, correct? As long as you stuck with them in the Cedric Ceballos/Nick Van Exel/Del Harris and Kobe/Smush Parker partial-birth abortion eras, you're a true fan...unlike 21 Deuces, who only roots for them when they're good.

Oh the "tough" years where they made the playoffs almost every season?

[IronMexican]

Don't shoot the messenger. You're a bandwagoner, and even worse, a mindless one who only roots for teams because his daddy tells him to.

Sorry for cheering for teams i've watched since I was 7. It always makes me chuckle when you call someone a bandwagon fan.

[monosylab1k]

Sorry for cheering for teams i've watched since I was 7. It always makes me chuckle when you call someone a bandwagon fan.

Justify it all you want, anybody who started rooting for the Lakers from 1984 on is a bandwagoner. If they weren't, they would have picked the Clippers. Stop projecting and just admit it.

[balli]

Actually, I think that's the epitome of bandwagoning.

Why? I am a Cubs fan. I've been to Wrigley at least ten times, starting as a toddler. Andre Dawson and Ryne Sandberg were my heroes for a few years in the 80's. I have never rooted for or consistently watched another team.

I don't watch them all that much though anymore; I'm sorry I live in a state without the MLB and I'm sorry I don't follow them all that rigorously, but I'm not going to feel bad about putting on a Cub hat when the playoffs roll around. And in doing so I'm not jumping on a bandwagon of any sort. I'm upping my interest in the team I root and always have rooted for.

A bandwagon fan IMO, is a fan who has never supported a team and who has no reason to, all of a sudden joining up with some random club only because the team is good and they want to feel a part of it. I don't think many Cub fans (including myself), or many Boston Celtics fan, are of that type.

[Findog]

Oh the "tough" years where they made the playoffs almost every season?

By their standards. It must be nice when Stern bails you out by orchestrating Kwame Brown for Pau Gasol.

[monosylab1k]

By their standards. It must be nice when Stern bails you out by orchestrating Kwame Brown for Pau Gasol.

True, which is why I'm saying you can't know for sure if any post-1984 Laker fans are true Laker fans. They've never experienced rough times. Those "down years" in the 90's for the Lakers would have been a wet dream for any Mavs fan back then.

[sook]

"I'm so happy KG finally got his ring."

I don't know how many times i've heard that phrase, if anything I'm pissed that he did.

I don't know how long it took for the rest of you to see past this bag.

[Brandon Bass]

I could whip Garnett's ass.

[LnGrrrR]

I'm a Celtics fan, and while I don't hate Garnett, I will say that he will back down when he's most needed. Thankfully we had Pierce and others who were willing to take big shots. For a big man, KG will back down and pull off that weird turn around jumper. I'm glad when he makes it, but I'm always puzzled why he never just goes to the hole.

[LnGrrrR]

Been a Celts fan during both Antoine Walker eras.

lol... I always had a soft spot for Antonie Walker. Maybe it's because our talent sucked SO bad those years. Maybe it was the Batman and Robin act that he and Pierce played. I don't know, I just couldn't hate him, no matter how many horrible 3's he jacked up.

[Allanon]

I'm probably the biggest bandwagoner any of y'all will meet and I'll freely admit it.

I change teams whenever I move to another city. Right now I live in LA and I root for the Lakers and Clips. If I move to Orlando, I'll be a Magic fan. I've learned that it just too hard to see your favorite team when you're so far away.

I'll never be a Celtics fan, no matter what though.

[LnGrrrR]

In other words, you're a resident of Southern California, correct? As long as you stuck with them in the Cedric Ceballos/Nick Van Exel/Del Harris and Kobe/Smush Parker partial-birth abortion eras, you're a true fan...unlike 21 Deuces, who only roots for them when they're good.

Any Boston fan who knows about Vin Baker should not be considered a bandwagoner.

[LnGrrrR]

I'm probably the biggest bandwagoner any of y'all will meet and I'll freely admit it.

I change teams whenever I move to another city. Right now I live in LA and I root for the Lakers and Clips. If I move to Orlando, I'll be a Magic fan. I've learned that it just too hard to see your favorite team when you're so far away.

I'll never be a Celtics fan, no matter what though.

I'm stationed in Biloxi, so I cheer for the Hornets. (It helps that they're in the other conference.) But I'll never root for them against my home team.

[Obstructed_View]

The only reason I became a Spurs fan is because I moved to San Antonio from Dallas in 1991. I still follow the Mavs and rooted for the Lakers, the Sixers and the Celtics in the 80s because the only games you could get on TV were the conference and league finals on tape-delay.

Isn't "bandwagon sports fan" kind of redundant?

[YellowFever]

True to an extent, because I didn't follow basketball until 1991 or so. Our family had moved to Dallas then so it made sense to root for the Mavs.

But every Lakers fan who started rooting for the Lakers from 1984 or later had the choice of the Lakers or the Clippers. If they picked the Lakers, they obviously picked the more popular and successful team. Which means they jumped on the bandwagon.

What kind of convaluted idiot thinking is that?

So every Yankee fan from the 50's on is a bandwagon fan since they chose the more succesful Yankees rather than the Mets?

[DrHouse]

Allanon you ever heard of League Pass? You can watch any game you freaking want.

[Matt Bonner]

KG is a
i would have killed him if I didn't get ejected