smackeddog wrote:Enjoy rooting for KG and Pierce! And Deron Williams too! I don't understand how that's possible...

If I'm rooting for an eastern team, I'd rather root for the Bulls.

smackeddog wrote:Enjoy rooting for KG and Pierce! And Deron Williams too! I don't understand how that's possible...

If I'm rooting for an eastern team, I'd rather root for the Bulls.

because you don't live in new york?

smackeddog wrote:

dk7th wrote:

smackeddog wrote:Enjoy rooting for KG and Pierce! And Deron Williams too! I don't understand how that's possible...

If I'm rooting for an eastern team, I'd rather root for the Bulls.

because you don't live in new york?

Do Laker fans now root for the Clippers? Madness!

dk7th wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

dk7th wrote:

smackeddog wrote:Enjoy rooting for KG and Pierce! And Deron Williams too! I don't understand how that's possible...

If I'm rooting for an eastern team, I'd rather root for the Bulls.

because you don't live in new york?

Do Laker fans now root for the Clippers? Madness!

i don't know any laker fans nor do i want to-- los angelenos come across as total douchebags to me.

you mean to tell me that it isn't possible to root for a crosstown team in your city? seems weird especially when no actual historical rivalry exists, ie playoff wars.

I think it's wrong- like the sports equivalent of incest

You root for who you want to, but I'm saying I couldn't root for a team with Pierce, KG and Deron Williams- I loath them all!

smackeddog wrote:

dk7th wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

dk7th wrote:

smackeddog wrote:Enjoy rooting for KG and Pierce! And Deron Williams too! I don't understand how that's possible...

If I'm rooting for an eastern team, I'd rather root for the Bulls.

because you don't live in new york?

Do Laker fans now root for the Clippers? Madness!

i don't know any laker fans nor do i want to-- los angelenos come across as total douchebags to me.

you mean to tell me that it isn't possible to root for a crosstown team in your city? seems weird especially when no actual historical rivalry exists, ie playoff wars.

I think it's wrong- like the sports equivalent of incest

You root for who you want to, but I'm saying I couldn't root for a team with Pierce, KG and Deron Williams- I loath them all!

geez i don't see it as incest. i see it as attending the siblings big events, like a wedding or funeral or confirmation or bar mitzvah or graduation. ultimately it isn't about you it's just bearing witness to their lives.

i just want to see a local team play good ball regardless of my personal feelings towards players. it's a team game.

Uptown wrote:

dk7th wrote:

smackeddog wrote:Enjoy rooting for KG and Pierce! And Deron Williams too! I don't understand how that's possible...

If I'm rooting for an eastern team, I'd rather root for the Bulls.

because you don't live in new york?

Jets fans don't root for the Giants and vice versa....Met fans hate the Yankees and vice versa....Fluck the Nyets!!!!!

I think that Giants fans are indifferent to the Jets and the Yankees are indifferent to the Mets

I don't think that it is the same the other way around. winning breeds jealousy

as far as knicks / nets, I don't think either side wants the other team to have bragging rights

jrodmc wrote:

mreinman wrote:

Uptown wrote:

dk7th wrote:

smackeddog wrote:Enjoy rooting for KG and Pierce! And Deron Williams too! I don't understand how that's possible...

If I'm rooting for an eastern team, I'd rather root for the Bulls.

because you don't live in new york?

Jets fans don't root for the Giants and vice versa....Met fans hate the Yankees and vice versa....Fluck the Nyets!!!!!

I think that Giants fans are indifferent to the Jets and the Yankees are indifferent to the Mets

I don't think that it is the same the other way around. winning breeds jealousy

as far as knicks / nets, I don't think either side wants the other team to have bragging rights

Who can really care about Jets and Mets? Those fans are a case study in sado-masochism. Listening to them on WFAN and ESPN radio, masochism will tend to make one bitter, apparently. No, I wouldn't know from experience, I'm a Gints/Yankees fan.

Knicks have chips and a stable history (Dolan and IT aside). The Nyets have the ABA, trading away Dr J, home games at the RAC and all the haute couture that comes with being a wandering third-rate hobo franchise that never really got over the hump. And even when they almost did (JKidd era), no one cared.

If the Nyets had stayed in Long Island this whole time, I could see some sort of rivalry, but they are alot more like a step-cousin three times removed than a member of the NYC family.

Mets fan here. Hard to argue about the masochism/little brother envy — nothing makes me madder than the stupid insecure "Yankees suck" chants from bored fans at games — but I made my bed as a grade schooler in the 80s, and I intend to lie in it, unlike many of my cohort who fled uptown in the 90s.

However crowing about 2 NBA championships that no one under 45 would really remember is kind of weak, as is any reference to the ABA. You might as well be talking about the New York Cosmos.

Nets aren't in NJ or Long Island anymore. They are in NYC's largest borough and arguably its new cultural capital, and yes: fans there aren't rooting for the Nets as much as they are rooting for Brooklyn itself. But it seems to me that the Knicks inspire a type of disgust from a segment of basketball-loving native New Yorkers that I don't see happen with other towns. If the Nets make some noise this postseason, it will be interesting to see if they gain some mindshare.