How many years have you been a fan of your team?

[Im Still Ballin]

I've been a Lakers fan since 1985!

[Meticode]

My title has it. Since 1997. I started watching the NBA in 1996, started following the Cavaliers in 1997. I was 12.

[GODbe]

June 26, 1996

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


http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view1/4703663/peter-parker-crying-o.gif

[Im Still Ballin]

My title has it. Since 1997. I started watching the NBA in 1996, started following the Cavaliers in 1997. I was 12.
Impressive loyalty!

Who was your favorite player back then?

[Im Still Ballin]

June 26, 1996

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


http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view1/4703663/peter-parker-crying-o.gif
...I feel you man

An era of dominance.

We love you, Bean!

[leMVP]

since 4 years, may change soon though

[Im Still Ballin]

since 4 years, may change soon though
Fux out of here cHeater!

[Bless Mathews]

Call yourself a Lakers fan? Fucc outta here El hombre' salsa!

Negged.
If you don't know who's in my avatar, and then my screename is a play on that,and you call yourself a lakers fan? I'll spend all my free time mAking sure your negged as negged can be.

Look asshole

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=345581

Now, fucc you and fucc this thread.

[sammichoffate]

2006, Lakers. I also highly enjoy watching the Grizzlies, they've grown into a legitimate franchise and it's good to see :cheers:

[Meticode]

Impressive loyalty!

Who was your favorite player back then?
Even though we had Shawn Kemp towards the end of his prime, it was probably Derek Anderson. Between 97 and 2002, those were some rough years man.

[KyleKong]

Depends on what team Hibbert is on.

Then I know my 29 favorite teams.

[Im Still Ballin]

If you don't know who's in my avatar, and then my screename is a play on that,and you call yourself a lakers fan? I'll spend all my free time mAking sure your negged as negged can be.

Look asshole

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=345581

Now, fucc you and fucc this thread.
?
LOL
Neg me all you want. I ain't afraid, little man.

[Meticode]

Depends on what team Hibbert is on.

Then I know my 29 favorite teams.
http://www.ultra-gor.com/Suns_Gorilla2.jpg

[bdreason]

Since 1988.

[Im Still Ballin]

Since 1988.
:applause:
bdreason, you the real MVP.

[Myth]

Since 1990. My first memories of basketball are from the Blazers/Pistons Finals.

[Bless Mathews]

?
LOL
Neg me all you want. I ain't afraid, little man.
You are CLUELESS!!!!

Jesus.

Did you click on the link?

Anyone from Seattle?

I give detailed description of Seattle.

IDIOT. get it now that I spelled it out??

[Im Still Ballin]

You are CLUELESS!!!!

Jesus.

Did you click on the link?

Anyone from Seattle?

I give detailed description of Seattle.

IDIOT. get it now that I spelled it out??
You're no Lakers fan from what I can tell.

Move along, lil squirt.

[OmniStrife]

Since 1993 (21 years holy sh!t)

[Bless Mathews]

You're no Lakers fan from what I can tell.

Move along, lil squirt.
Jesus

You are the biggest idiot on here.

Ok. Read carefully.

I'm from Seattle.

We no longer have a team.

I would love to have a team.

Hence fucc you and fucc this thread.


You're a fuccing clueless idiot.

[Milbuck]

1981, when I was 9.

[G-Funk]

Been a Lakers fan since 96

[Im Still Ballin]

Jesus

You are the biggest idiot on here.

Ok. Read carefully.

I'm from Seattle.

We no longer have a team.

I would love to have a team.

Hence fucc you and fucc this thread.


You're a fuccing clueless idiot.
You looking for a fight homeboy?

I will drop you faster than a sack of shit

[T_L_P]

Even though we had Shawn Kemp towards the end of his prime, it was probably Derek Anderson. Between 97 and 2002, those were some rough years man.

I associate Derek Anderson with the Spurs' darkest days.

More power to you, man. :cheers:

[Bless Mathews]

You looking for a fight homeboy?

I will drop you faster than a sack of shit
You don't wanna step cuz.

You're dumber than a pile of shit.

This bless Mathews cuz. Don't you know who I am? I Rocked the low cut weapons. You don't want none loc.

[Im Still Ballin]

You don't wanna step cuz.

You're dumber than a pile of shit.

This bless Mathews cuz. Don't you know who I am? I Rocked the low cut weapons. You don't want none loc.
Bend over little guy. Let me make this quick.

[AnaheimLakers24]

jfc you're a fgt kid. you aren't funny whatsoever.

[Bless Mathews]

Bend over little guy. Let me make this quick.
Homo erotic threats?

You lost, Kobe lover

[Kvnzhangyay]

Used to be a bandwagon Chicago fan :rockon: in the 90's, then bandwagoned onto Lakers afterwards, and from 2004-> present Rocket fan

Part of this has to do with the fact that I went from living in SoCal to college in texas

[KNOW1EDGE]

Little fake G :oldlol:

I grew up on the Blazers.

But I'd say I really started paying attention around the start of the Damon Stoudamire era. Might Mouse & Shred :bowdown:

[ThePhantomCreep]

Laker fan since 1986-ish, when I was eight.

[Xiao Yao You]

1980

[sportjames23]

Been a Bulls fan since the 1987-1988 season. Started off as a Showtime Lakers fan in 1985, but got drawn to that dude in Chicago tearing up the league in 1987. Still like the Lakers doe.

[Lebron23]

Been a Bulls fan since the 1987-1988 season. Started off as a Showtime Lakers fan in 1985, but got drawn to that dude in Chicago tearing up the league in 1987. Still like the Lakers doe.


How old are you??

[Marchesk]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Charles_Hardnett_Zephyrs_Head_Shot.jpg

[sportjames23]

How old are you??


Old, my nikka.


41

[JohnFreeman]

Long time

[El Kabong]

Since 1992.

[Smook A.]

Became a fan of my home team, the Rockets, when I was 6 years old.

Soooo... 1995 was the year. First game of the Rockets I truly remember watching was Game 4 of the '95 Finals

[Lebron23]

Old, my nikka.


41


I repped you. Rep me later. Ok.

[sportjames23]

I repped you. Rep me later. Ok.


:cheers:

[Real14]

since 1993-94 at 8 years old. Since that was the year Jordan first retired I decided to root for another team. That season my favorite players were Ewing, Shaq, and Barkley. I picked the knicks because its my hometown team and it was my dad's favorite team too. Yes, 20 years rooting for the knicks.

[dr.hee]

Mavs since 2000.

[Finger Roll]

Spurs since 95. Loved D-Rob. My avatar is me rockin my favourite hat I had as a kid in December of 1995 at one of my brothers basketball tournaments in Bradenton Florida that we travelled to for his basketball team. Canadians whooped some American ass :)

I still remembering finding it so weird how serious the cheerleading was. They gave them there own set of cheerleaders to cheer us on from there own school, probably the juniour team or something lol.

[STATUTORY]

lebron fans conspicuous absent from this thread

[Andrei89]

Became a fan when Shaq joined Miami and fell in love with Dwyane Wade's game.

[atljonesbro]

Hawks fan since 03

[STATUTORY]

Became a fan when Shaq joined Miami and fell in love with Dwyane Wade's game.
got a thing for whistles?

[beastee]

Since I can remember watching my first game...1985. MJ made me love the NBA!

[Done_And_Done]

Been a Raps fan since their inception...

[CLTHornets4eva]

Charlotte Hornets 1992. I think we have been through more than any other franchise. Please find me one with a more difficult road to the present.

[red1]

Been a Raps fan since their inception...
this guy was the shit back in the day

http://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Basketball/2323/2323-80Bk.jpg

[LA Lakers]

When Inglewood reigned supreme.

[Lebronxrings]

Been a heat fan since 2003 when wade got drafted.

[Done_And_Done]

this guy was the shit back in the day

http://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Basketball/2323/2323-80Bk.jpg

I remember watching Mighty Mouse light it up in the bare ass Skydome. One of the worst venues to ever host an NBA game.

[red1]

Been a heat fan since 2003 when wade got drafted.

Lebron>>>>Mgay
:facepalm this should be an instant ban

[Derka]

I became a Celtics fan during the 1987 playoffs.

Magic hitting the Jr Jr Hook over McHale and Parish in Game 4 of the Finals that year still stands out in my memory. My old man was certain we had it after McHale came out on the bad ankle and made Worthy his bitch in Game 3. Then we lost Game 4 at the Garden and you knew we were done.

The 5% of me that is a Spurs fan signed on when they drafted Duncan. I was so sure the Celtics were getting him in that draft and so many of his Wake Forest games were on TV that year, I became a huge fan. Then ML Carr went to the lottery and cursed us with his stupid face and we picked 3rd and 6th :( Was still a huge Duncan fan and ended up checking Spurs scores in the paper every morning.

[Geriatric]

Bulls fan since 1986. Didn't even really know what basketball was till that year when we first got cable TV and I got to watch the Bulls on WGN. Of course MJ was already scoring at will but I was a huge Charles Oakley fan before they gave him to NY for Bill Cartwright's corpse. Had a brief span I rooted for the Blazers when Pippen went there late in his career but it didn't stick.

[Finger Roll]

Raptors fan since day one as well.

Loved the bulls, first nba game I ever saw was an exhibition game at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario when the Bulls played the Lakers. So weird now that I think of it.

[redhonda76]

Since 1983, with Bernard King on the Knicks.

[DaSeba5]

While I grew up with the Heat, I started to seriously get into it around 03/04.

[Laker4Lyfe]

Since 1979/80 when "Showtime" took over Los Angeles. :pimp:

[Laker4Lyfe]

When Inglewood reigned supreme.

City of Champions :rockon:

[Big#50]

Lakers since 88
Spurs since 89

[Clyde]

Since 1991

[RoundMoundOfReb]

1998ish

[Johnny Jones]

2010

Miami for life nikkas.

[Bird]

I'd say around like 93 or 94 as a Mavs fan.

I was 8/9 in that time. My grandpa was a Mavs fan so I naturally became a fan of them as well (dad wasn't a sports fan).

[alanLA92]

Lakers fan since I started watching fully in 97. Along with dodgers['98] and kings(saw some old VHS with the 93 team). As well as the Eagles since like '01.

[Fudge]

Thunder since 2011
Spurs since 2014
Rockets since 2005
Heat since 2010
Lakers since 2009

[L.A.Hawks]

hawks fan since 2001
lakers fan since 2003

[sodapop]

Celtics fan since 83. Memphis Grizzlies fan since 02.
My family have been hardcore Celtics fans since the 1920's, before the NBA.
I think one of my relatives played on the barnstorm Celtics team.

[YouGotServed]

Rockets since 2005


You were a T-Mac dick rider, not a Rockets fan.

Anyway, been a fan since the Steve Franchise era. I became a fan a year or two before Yao was drafted.

So...12 years give or take.

[EllEffEll]

50+ years.

The first NBA game I went to featured the LA Lakers vs. the Cincinnati Royals (Jerry West & Elgin Baylor vs. Oscar Robertson) at the Los Angeles Sports Arena (before the Forum was even built).

The Lakers were still wearing blue and white.

Jerry West was my boyhood hero.

And I truly miss hearing Chick Hearn call Laker games. I cried when he passed away (I've never done that over someone I never met).

[scandisk_]

Forever Red since 1992! :rockon:

[GimmeThat]

Lakers since about 2000

the NBA since about 2006/2007 when I joined insidehoops.

[jbryan1984]

Been watching the Cavs as long as I can remember as my dad watched them. I'd say probably 93 is when I started to actually sit and watch games and collecting cards and stuff.

[scott0326]

Wizards fan since 2002. I was 8 at the time and that was when I first remember watching the NBA. I remember watching Jordan's final season.

[tomtucker]

since July 8, 2010.


.
:oldlol::D

[S13M]

4 years, but I'm currently a free agent.

[Im Still Ballin]

4 years, but I'm currently a free agent.
I heard Cleveland's got cap space, bro.

[Flush]

Heat fan since 03 when Wade got drafted. I am still hoping that he stays with the team

[S13M]

I heard Cleveland's got cap space, bro.

Yeah, I guess carrying bunch of rookies and sophomores is better than carrying corpses.

[L.A. Jazz]

i support the Jazz (since 1996) and the Lakers (since 1999).

[kshutts1]

Bulls fan since '94. Pippen was my favorite player, Jordan (when he came back) my least. Jealous that the attention was on him instead of Pippen.

Favorite team has always been the Bulls, but I've been fans of other teams, bouncing around for players....
Rockets/Blazers because of Pippen.
Suns because of Marion.
Lakers, after Shaq left, because of Kobe.

For the most part, though, I enjoy nearly every team, but Bulls will always be the team I care about the most, even if I don't follow them the most.

[Jailblazers7]

Really got into basketball in '98 during Jordan's last Bulls championship. After that, I started watching AI and the Sixers during the lockout shortened season and I've been a fan ever since. So that would be around 15 years now as a Sixers fan which is pretty weird to consider.

[miles berg]

Mavs 1984

[Dagouch]

Knicks fan since 88.

[riseagainst]

my favorite team each year since i've started watching the NBA:

07: Cavs
08: Cavs
09: Cavs
10: Cavs
11: Heat
12: Heat
13: Heat
14: Heat
15: undecided, will update

[ZHAKIDD532]

Went to my first NJ Nets game in 1996 when I was 6 years old. Die hard ever since.

[Rameek]

I was born a Knick fan (goes for the Yankees, Jets, Rangers)

There was a time the NBA wasnt broadcasted on National TV regularly. My first real recollections were from 1982 with Bernard King.

[kidd2dwill]

Nets since 2004

[TylerOO]

Cavs 2003-2010
Heat 2010-2014
??? 2014- ?

[step_back]

1996

18 years as a Bulls fan. I'm getting old :(

[choppermagic]

1996

18 years as a Bulls fan. I'm getting old :(

That's nothing. ha ha

Lakers 83

I remember watching Kareem play basketball still WITH HAIR on his head!!!

[Done_And_Done]

That's nothing. ha ha

Lakers 83

I remember watching Kareem play basketball still WITH HAIR on his head!!!


Nice lol