So true. I wasn't sure if I wanted Cuban to get the Cubs or not. It would give me more fuel to hate the Cubs that much more.
If I was voting for all-time, it'd be the Jazz. However, I hate no team more than I hate the Mavs right now. My top 3 of the moment is as follows: 1. Mavs 2. Spurs 3. Jazz
talking about today and the current era - Mav's hands down. Their fans are so smug, their owner is a jerk, and aside from Dirk they've got a bunch of thugs on their team. Utah comes in second place. If you talk about all time, going back to the Stockton and Malone days....Utah is number 1. But in the end, Stockton and Malone got what they were due - nothing...no rings...not championships...nothing. I guess that's karma for all their flops...
Dirk may not be a thug but he is a whiny *ss baby. And Josh Howard still has not received payback for that terrible foul he made on Yao in the playoffs.
Mavs don't bother me that much because they SUCKED FOR SO LONG, and choke the big one constantly now. The jazz have always been jerks.
1)Celtics, they were punks 2)seattle, i hated, i mean hated payton and shawn kemp, add in perkins, cage, schrempf, they were the toughest team for the rockets and then a real distant 3 mavs and even more distant 4 jazz, i actually liked watching stockton and malone
for me to actually pick the jazz that would mean that they are a great team. the jazz have been good but during hakeem's best years, the rockets usually were the ones to take them out, I don't hate them because they're really not a great team. even this jazz team isn't great. to really hate a team is one that gives the rockets all kinds of problems and really are the wall that the team has to break through, something like chicago with detroit, or celtics and lakers. the mavs or the spurs have the potential... we'll see though
1. The Dishonorable Jazz - They are definitely our rivals going back to the days of Hakeem. No one in the history of the game had a wider assortment of dirty plays than the Mailman, including jabbing people in the gut while defending in the post, jabbing them while HE was posting up himself, putting his whole body into his elbow while on defense then completely backing off and making his guy fall down, flopping while doing this, flopping while posting up on offense, flopping in the paint during a rebound, flopping while walking across halfcourt, flopping while shooting a free throw, and flopping when brushing his teeth. And now that we find Boozer to be the same type of player, we know that is was Sloan that taught him these moves. You can probably thank Jerry Sloan for all these bad actors coming out of Europe and ruining the NBA: I bet Anderson Varejao's house is stuffed full of old Jazz tapes from the mid-90's. And we put them in their place. Feels great don't it? This world may be cruel and unforgiving, but sometimes justice does exist, and that justice happened in basketball when Malone and Stockton both retired without a ring. Malone in particular, since he took his greased-up butt down to the West coast for a year with probably the most high-profile hall-of-fame starting lineup ever assembled and still couldn't pull it out. 2. There is no 2. If the Jazz are on this list, then another list must be constructed at an entire plane of existence apart from this list to demonstrate how grave the situation is with Utah. Just like Luke Wilson said in that Super Ex-Girlfriend movie, "Don't go to Utah. Utah sucks."
actually the rockets were their rivals, rockets consistently beat them in the playoffs, the rockets real rivals were seattle. not the jazz, and only once were they able to break through, every other year they were the rockets whipping boy in the playoffs
Umm, a rivalry is not one-sided. If one team consistently beats the other, it's not a rivalry. I agree that Seattle was also an annoying gnat bc of Karl's illegal zone-D that never got called back when they had illegal D calls, but they only ever knocked us out in the years where we weren't very good to begin with. During our championship years, Utah was our real rival, and in our third-best year (96-97 with Barkley and Drexler) where we had a chance to win it all, they knocked us out with a heartbreaking three from Stockton in Game 6. And they FREAKING INJURED BARKLEY, THAT M***** MAILMAN.
