Which NBA team do you think has the biggest bandwagon

What does this thread have to do with Jeremy Lin?

 

I'd say the heat, nationally but maybe the thunder too. The only difference is that for being a heat bandwagoner you'll get ***** for it but the thunder less do if even at all

 

Easily the Heat. I always see ppl at bars rooting for them and when I ask if they're from Miami or have any connection to the city they never do. Frontrunners.

 

Heat and spurs.

 

yeah i would say the two LA teams

 

i honestly cant see anybody saying heat have more than bandwagon fans than the lakers. i just cant. really?

have you been to a heat game when they play the rockets at tc (2 seasons ago aka lebron's first season as a heat)? compare that to going to a game when the rockets play the lakers. there is your answer

 

Around here, I'd say the Thunder.

As for the Lakers, they got a lot of love in other cities, but I don't know if I'd say that was all bandwagon love. Just because they don't represent a fan's birthplace or hometown doesn't mean he can't be a genuine fan. Even when the Lakers were mediocre, they have fans in all parts of the country. They might not be as loud as when the Lakers are winning, but they are all over.

 

I follow teams that have players I like. So, I was a Cleveland fan when they had Lebron. Now I pull for the heat. Not because I really want the heat to win because I'm a Miami heat fan, but just because I like to watch Lebron play and if the heat win, then he'll get to play more games.

I actually used to love Shawn Kemp play back in the day, but I was never really a sonics fan. If the sonics weren't playing the Rockets I pulled for them. Liked watching Kemp.

 

Knicks=Asians

 

Definitely the Thunder around here. I went to school near OKC and I would ask all of the "Thunder" fans who their coach was before Scott Brooks... All I got were a bunch of umm's, huh's, what's. And that would be 12-18 months into Brooks' tenure. I cannot stand the Thunder bc I was around all of their bandwagon fans for a few years. I hope the spurs destroy them.

 

^^ new forum feature, on-line truth serum!

 

if you've ever been to a rockets home game vs. the lakers (esp. regular season), you know.

 

Isn't bandwagonning only liking the team when it wins? Laker fans (and Celtics fans) are about regardless of how the team's doing.

Nobody is a true fan of the Heat. They like Lebron, or Wade...for now...but not the team itself. Bandwagonners.

 

So, you are saying that a franchise that just moved to OKC had a lot of new fans in OKC a year after they moved?. Startling news, bro. Thanks for reporting on the ground of OKC back in 2009.

 

Yeah, and let's not forget that post Katrina they were all about being New Orleans Hornets fans then jumped bandwagons to being Thunder fans only a few years later.

 

i've always felt like okc fans will always have two options. maybe when the thunder aren't doing so well, they can go back to being hornets fans.

 

and maybe the thunder can go back to being the sonics.

(sorry...wrong thread).

 

I'm just saying that the newly acquainted OKC fans didn't know who the coach was not too long ago. If you are going to follow a team, at least know a little about the history of the team regardless of how long the team has been in the area. And, it's not like they'd be new basketball fans, so you'd think that if they even remotely followed the NBA, they'd know who the coach was when the team got to OKC.

It'd be like a Rockets "fan" not knowing who JVG is (a little bit of an extreme example, but I think it still fits).

 

How can you be bandwagon fans, if that's pretty much the only professional sports team you can latch onto? It's not as if OKC has any other sport to cheer for.

Back to the topic at hand though: Heat when the big 3 was formed, Clippers this year.

 

Meh. If a new team was moving to my city, the only thing I would care about is the players on the team, currently.

The history of that team in that city has nothing to do with the fans in the new city.