This is a dumb and flawed chart. Since it correlates win-loss to attendance, good teams are penalized. For example, the Cavs are a great team that sell out every game yet they're towards the bottom because they win a lot. I'll admit that we don't have the best fans but we definitely aren't third to last in terms of fan loyalty. All of the teams in dark green have bad records. It certainly doesn't take a Harvard grad to tell you the Rockets have better fans than the Pelicans.
Yeah and they unfairly treated super bowl winning black qbs Carr, Schaub and Osweiller because...oh wait those were crappy clean cut white dudes who sucked and or choked. Never mind.
That's actually a good idea. After a certain time in the first quarter, anyone can take any empty seat. That'd bring in more rabid fans who couldn't afford good seats.
The study is flawed as already stated. The Warriors have the best fans and it's not even debatable. For years they sucked and still would sell out. They don't have a state of the art arena and it is a hazard to your health to walk more than two blocks away from the place and yet they still came every night. I might put Portland and Utah up there as well.
1. Texans avg attendance: 71,868 2. Astros avg attendance: 28,143 3. Dynamos avg attendance: 20,392 4. Dash avg attendance 11,435 5. Rockets 16,973 Shows how bad rockets fans are. If Knicks had rockets type team just imagine their attendance. There already sold out with a trash team. This city gotta step it up.
I'd say the Kings fans were the best. The team has been sucking for decades except for the few years when Adelman was there and they got robbed by the refs. And they were cursed with bad ownership and front office decade after decade. Still, they support the team and are one of the loudest arenas in the league.
Flawed study I think but I wouldn't argue that as a whole the Houston NBA fanbase isn't very passionate about their team. It's contrasts starkly to when I mingle with San Antonio-folk; they all love the Spurs, whether they know anything about basketball or not. As for Dallas on top of the list... that doesn't feel right based off my one year living in DFW area (Arlington). Better fanbase than Houston? Ok. #1? No way.
I immediately said, it's not Houston, most likely last." This is your typical down south bigot market, bunch of pseudo fans.
Warriors fans did not show up when their team sucked. Go look at their attendance for 2001-now. The two best sports cities I have been to are Chicago and New York. Every other city is pretty band wagon.
The study might be flawed, but u still can't deny that Rockets fans probably deserve to be near the bottom of this list. The city just doesn't support the team as much as it should. I still can't get over how embarrassing game 6 was. We had Mike Breen live on air pointing out how nobody was there. I can't imagine how the players felt. Your season is on the line, and 30 minutes before tip off the place is empty. 20 minutes before tip off, it's still empty. 10 minutes before tip off, there's still not a soul in sight. The game finally starts, and there's still barely anyone there. The place should be electric and getting our guys energized and hype to start the game, but instead, the Rockets might as well have been warming up at their practice court. No other playoff team had this issue. The team that came closest was Washington, but their crowds have always been notoriously weak, and they don't get a lot of support in DC.
I was at Harvard this past week for my brother's graduation. I can tell you that this survey is BS....
The Bay Area had a really bad recession from 00-04 and honestly those teams were hot garbage so that explains why those years were off but I get what you are saying. New York has a lot of tourists going to MSG, but Chicago has legit fans.
its not racist, its correct with harden we have never missed the playoffs, while the astros and texans have stunk. will intresting to see the ticket sales for the texans now that we have an african-american qb
After last season if there are any season ticket holders in here you need to come off them, you embarrassed yourself and this city it was so sad seeing Travis Scott rap to an empty building BEFORE A ****ING PLAYOFF GAME. The season ticket holders are the problem for the attendance because every game I go to 400 is packed. Second qt raffle amongst the fans in 400 imo should be held for the empty seats and ppl outside should be let in to fill up the 400. There should be no excuse to have that building as empty as it was at times last season when we have a team that was playing that well
It won't matter. The Texans will be the Texans and still have mounds of people on a waiting list just to get an opportunity at season tickets. Besides in the 90s when we had the Dream and Co. this has not been a basketball city. We've always had people clamoring to get a football team back and now this city lives and dies by their Texans. It's just the way it is.
I could never see this being said about the Rockets' fanbase and the completely empty at tip off/silent throughout the game Toyota Center... I wish we had the atmosphere that the Celtics do at home, but that would take a miracle... “I only get to play there once a year, but you can feel it,” the free agent told Smith. “The fans are crazy. Even when they were bad, those fans were there. When we were bad, our building was silent. And we all saw the way they sent off Paul. It was amazing. Cheering an opposing player like that doesn’t happen anywhere else.” Another veteran free agent told Smith he had “tears in (his) eyes” while watching the Pierce tribute. But can a team’s fan base really impact where a free agent decides to sign? A “prominent Eastern Conference free agent” believes so. “Absolutely,” the free agent told Smith. “No one wants to play in a place where the fans don’t care. We all know Boston fans can be critical, but that is cool. They expect to win. As a player, you want that pressure. And (Kevin Garnett), Paul, all those guys, they tell you that if you win in Boston, you become a legend. Everyone wants to be a legend.”
I think people who take this as a bad thing need their heads examined. The Rockets are exactly in the right place on this chart. If the Rockets want people to show up and give them money, they must win games. So they'll try very hard to win games. That's accountability. Cuban, I think, really wants to win and he'll try whether or not the fans come. But, apart from his own competitiveness, there's not a lot of motivation in the short term for him to try to win. He'll earn the same. I think there is also something about trust and credibility here. Everyone knows, for example, that the Spurs run a great organization. So, even when they're having a bad year, there has always been some anticipation that they could outperform in the playoffs and anyway they'll be up again the next season. The Clippers under Sterling had a reputation for not caring about winning, about trading away budding superstars before their rookie contracts run out, for being cheap. So maybe if you live in LA and Sam Cassell is playing some entertaining ball and winning games you'll go out and watch, but you don't want to emotionally invest because you knew Sterling was going to destroy it in the offseason. On this latter point, I can see how especially a Morey-run franchise dissuades fan loyalty. We know he's always optimizing his roster. If you like the sophomore undersized power forward, you don't necessarily want to go all in because he's probably getting traded. If things are going sour in a season, you expect Morey is going to make big changes. So, why be loyal to a roster when they're having a bad season when you know they're going to get swapped out.
