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FlashDwyaneWade3
10-21-2015, 03:50 PM
Would you guys be mad that if your favorite player or a player on your favorite team still cheers for his favorite team? Especially if it's the team you really hate?
Goro
10-21-2015, 03:52 PM
Yeah, so it better be out of the public eye. Out of sight, out of mind.
Fallen Angel
10-21-2015, 03:53 PM
Successful players learn to put aside their feelings for franchises and historic players, unlike Brandon Jennings.
FlashDwyaneWade3
10-21-2015, 03:55 PM
Yeah, so it better be out of the public eye. Out of sight, out of mind.
I wonder how Kings fans and Celtics fans feel about Isaiah Thomas. While he was with the Kings he said "I hope Kings fans won't be mad at me. But I'm a Laker fan and would love to be a Laker". This was when he became a free agent.
FlashDwyaneWade3
10-21-2015, 04:00 PM
Successful players learn to put aside their feelings for franchises and historic players, unlike Brandon Jennings.
What if it's the offseason for them and is cheering for them. Or his favorite team or favorite player is playing in the playoffs. He cheers on until they meet in the playoffs?
MP.Trey
10-21-2015, 04:05 PM
It's fine to root for a team or player in the playoffs after you get knocked out or don't make it. But you sure as hell shouldn't be rooting for your competition if you're still in it.
NBAplayoffs2001
10-21-2015, 04:06 PM
Not sure if Strickland grew up a Knick fan but he got himself off our team. Wish we kept him back in the day. I've heard from older Knicks fan that he was a South Bronx legend and turned out to want to get off the Knicks due to the cluster of guards at the time.
GrapeApe
10-21-2015, 04:15 PM
It's all about being a professional. When you are being payed handsomely by an organization to do a job and represent that organization, personal feelings become secondary. Look at officials. I'm sure most of them have been basketball fans their entire life and probably grew up being a fan of a particular team. Once you become a professional, all that stuff goes out the window.
tmacattack33
10-21-2015, 08:47 PM
I doubt many players end up holding on to their childhood favorite team or whatever.

When you are in the league, you would probably only care about your own team.

And if you have any feelings about other teams, its probably based off of personally knowing and being friends or enemies with people on that team...i doubt you would care about what jersey that player is wearing and whether or not you liked that team as a kid.