What made you become a fan of your favorite team?

[Im so nba'd out]

I started rooting for the sixers because someone in my family worked for them so we got free tickets to all the home games + it was the only team games i got outside of national tv games before i started working and got league pass.

[Fiddlesticks]

Josh Smith and Brandon Jennings.

[outbreak]

When I was a kid Orlando had shaq and penny and were one of the few teams that would be talked about on the NBA recap show we got each week in Australia. The team I went for in the NBL was also called magic too.

[TheReal Kendall]

Barkley then Nash and Amare

[atljonesbro]

Living in Georgia.

[Legends66NBA7]

Moving to Toronto. I never lived in a city where there was a pro sports team playing near my area.

[BlackVVaves]

Ronnie Lott and Steve Young :rockon:

[SouBeachTalents]

They had the best players and won the most championships

[Smook A.]

Im from Houston, so that would automatically make me wanna become a Houston Rockets fan. Also, I was a huge fan of Hakeem Olajuwon and still am.

Another team I liked, and still like, are the Chicago Bulls. I became kind of a Bulls fan because of Michael Jordan. His team was dominating around the time I just started watching basketball. I was about 6 or 7. I was a huge huge MJ fan and I still admire him today.

[SCdac]

growing up watching david robinson, sean elliott, avery johnson, terry cummings, willie anderson, sleepy floyd, vinny del negro, etc. went to a wilie anderson basketball camp when I was like 9 years old and my pops was a huge fan of the spurs since before they were even the spurs (migrated with the team from dallas to san antonio, coincidently).

[BlkMambaGOAT]

Shaq, Kobe, dominance.

[Im so nba'd out]

Not trying to start a E-War but if your a lakers fan outside of cali please dont post in here i dont want to hear from you.97% chance your a frontrunning fakkit who prolly just happens to be a fan of all popular teams in other sports exp yankee and cowboys fan too.

[SouBeachTalents]

Not trying to start a E-War but if your a lakers fan outside of cali please dont post in here i dont want to hear from you.97% chance your a frontrunning fakkit who prolly just happens to be a fan of all popular teams in other sports exp yankee and cowboys fan too.

Well I was a big Lakers fan from 00-02, then became one again in 09-10. I've been a die hard Heat fan since the 2011 season. And I actually don't like the Cowboys and Yankees, I'm a huge Seahawks and Red Sox fan

[crisoner]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QbJe5Y_gHAU/TV1dLGdCzkI/AAAAAAAAAIA/zJe5yIrfo6M/s1600/showtime+lakers.jpg

These guys...

[Duggrr]

From Portland + best fanbase.

[smoovegittar]

Clyde Frazier's style, Earl Monroe's smoothness, Oakley's fists and one of my best friends growing up, Charlie Smith.

[Le Shaqtus]

Moved to Florida from England when I was 12, Magic fan ever since.

[GODbe]

http://por-img.cimcontent.net/api/assets/bin-201001/be60c4e235d18cf6ba86cf11d8faa537.jpg
:bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

[COnDEMnED]

Magic Johnson
Nick Van Exel

[NBAplayoffs2001]

I started rooting for the sixers because someone in my family worked for them so we got free tickets to all the home games + it was the only team games i got outside of national tv games before i started working and got league pass.

Grew up around hardcore Knicks fan. I gave in :cheers:

[RoundMoundOfReb]

-Growing up in Canada
-Vince Carter

[Laker4Lyfe]

Born and raised in Los Angeles. I love ALL things L.A. :pimp:

[Bodhi]

Spurs

Seeing them take a 3-1 lead over the Heat made me a life long fan

[scandisk_]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxd9pwjeoF1qay78vo1_500.jpg

:pimp:

[NBAplayoffs2001]

-Growing up in Canada
-Vince Carter

Not going to lie from 1999 to 2002. I loved the Knicks but I LOVED the Vince Carter/T mac/Oakley trio. I also liked the Lakers three peat team mostly because I used to cherry pick like crazy with Shaq in NBA inside 2000 :lol

[JT123]

Born and raised in Miami, and a lifelong Heat fan since the mid 70's. :pimp:

[NBAplayoffs2001]

Born and raised in Miami, and a lifelong Heat fan since the mid 70's. :pimp:

Team was founded in 1988. :facepalm

[AnaheimLakers24]

shaq kobe and rhe lakers

[Im so nba'd out]

Not trying to start a E-War but if your a lakers fan outside of cali please dont post in here i dont want to hear from you.97% chance your a frontrunning fakkit who prolly just happens to be a fan of all popular teams in other sports exp yankee and cowboys fan too.
This statement is only for people who live in america btw once again not trying to start a E-War :rolleyes:

[TheMan]

Simple, I'm from Chicago.

[MrC1991]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxd9pwjeoF1qay78vo1_500.jpg

:pimp:

This explains everything perfectly.

[COnDEMnED]

Born and raised in Miami, and a lifelong Heat fan since the mid 70's. :pimp:
Don't know if this was a precision gut shot to heat fans or you got caught, either way it's ****ing hilarious.

[red1]

I am naturally attracted to greatness so it was inevitable

[wakencdukest]

When Magic was drafted I became a die hard Laker fan. Up until then I just watched them occasionally because my dad was a fan.

[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

From LA, was a huge lakers and clippers fan in the early 90s...gravitated toward the clippers after the kobe/Shaq feud.

[Milbuck]

Living in Wisconsin and going to school at UW. Same reason the Bulls are my 2nd favorite team, lived in Hinsdale (suburb of Chicago) for a while and have a bunch of family still there.

[kamil]

I found a black and red Wilson basketball with Michael Jordans signature on it outside of the apartment building I was living in in 1990. Didn't know anything about basketball back then, but figured Michael Jordan was a good start.

[JohnFreeman]

http://trendbasket.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/kings_0.jpg

[kamil]

http://trendbasket.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/kings_0.jpg

The real 2002 NBA champions.

[Im so nba'd out]

The real 2002 NBA champions.
I'm afraid i've got some bad news


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[Fudge]

'05-10 - Houston (reason: McGrady)
'11-present - OKC (reason: Kevin Durant and Nazr Mohammed)

[JellyBean]

The real 2002 NBA champions.


:facepalm

Anyway. I am a Seattle Supersonics fan. What made me a fan of the Sonics was watching NBA Finals in 1978 between the Sonics and Bullets and how they (Sonics) lost in seven games, along with some of our Sonics legends. Names like "Downtown" Fred Brown, Gus "Wizard" Williams, Dennis "DJ" Johnson, and Jack Sikma..just to name a few. But the Sonics lost in 7 games in 1978 but won it all in 1979. As a 9 year old at the time, that was a special moment and I have been a fan of the Sonics since 1978. One day they will be back in the league.