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http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.c...st-in-the-nba/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) went looking for the worst fans in sports — 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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Chalk up another victory for the mighty Purp and Gold...
some Lakers fans are cool in my book, Kobe fans however...
FYI, CR is referring to me when he says "cool in my book".
I'm pretty cool in my own book, which, is the only book that matters to me.
Cool, are you going to lend ChrisRichards the $100 he owes cobbler?
Giuseppe, Gemini Method, Ashy Larry, KK81, Luva are also some of the few Lakers fans I also like in this site.
That would be a good FB status message.
Its been paid in full.
Nice article...Wonder which team the author roots for? Probably one that the Lakers routinely crush.
sky is blue
Lakers fans just being the fairweather fans they're supposed to be. Just texting some texts and eating some nachos. Nothing personal.
Good to see findog back bullying the s he's supposed to bully.
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.
This is top news.
One should never defend their fandom. It sullies the entire protocol.
Ugh.
Blatantly obvious to everyone but lakerfan.
Subitute nachos with sushi and you've got me to a T...ferrealz.
Great article.
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 en lement 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...
Real talk.
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.
Looks wet.
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…
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!
http://www.gq.com/sports/lists/20110...merica#slide=1
15. Los Angeles Lakers
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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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