When did you really start following the NBA ?

Always been a casual fan, but the 2004-05 Houston Rockets team is what really got me hooked. Sura, Barry, Padgett, Bowen, good Mike James, good Tmac. I just loved watching them every night.

I was 12.

 

'91-'92 roockets was when i got hooked

 

Same here.

Its when I really started following ALL sports. Astros, Rockets, Oilers. Its when I discovered the stat sheet in the newspapers.

 

in the playoffs of 05. Steve Francis Vs Kobe Bryant.

 

Started religiously following the nba in 06, never paid any attention to sports prior other then all of my bball fantasy teams.

 

For me it was when the Rockets went to the Finals in '81. I was 13 at the time. I grew up about one mile from the Summit but my Dad wasn't a big basketball fan and was too cheap to take us to the games (Astros games were much cheaper). I went to one game when I was 9 or 10 with my uncle and didn't go to another game until I was in high school when the Chronicle used to have buy-one-ticket-get-one-free coupons.

 

Since 1975 when Kareem became a Laker.

 

when i turned 13. that was when i really paid attention to sports. rockets caught my mind since living in houston. Ironically first game I watched yao injures himself. Die hard rox fan.

 

1995 when i was 8. it was during the rockets/jazz playoffs series. i was so stupid that when the next season started (95-96), i thought the rockets were eliminated from the regular season when they lost their fourth game. i didn't know there was a regular season and then the playoffs. i also wondered why we weren't playing the same team a bunch of times in a row like we did when i started watching lol

 

When I was 10; about when the Spurs won their championship in '99.

 

78 or so.

 

Late 80's. Celtics fan (just like my dad).

Moved to Houston in 89 and became a Rocket fan almost instantly.

 

2005 or 2006 all star game it was...yep im a t-mac fan
but know my heart belongs to my rox

 

I remember watching the championship years with my cousins, but I didn't follow NBA closely because I was like 4 or 5. I started to become an NBA freak around 11 when the Lakers dynasty started. And yeah, I was Lakers fan then.

 

I watched basketball casually (the championship Rockets teams) but I didn't start following the NBA until the 1997 season and I was a huge MJ fan.

 

me too

 

well i was flipping to the channels and the only good thing i saw was the rockets game .well it was San Antonio vs rockets where tracy does 13 points in 35 sec...thats were it started... :grin:

 

Probably junior and senior year of high school. Senior year was right around the time I joined this BBS for the first time and ever since I've expanded my sports passion to baseball, basketball, and football.

 

Started with the championship years. It really grew from there.

 

Was like 12, there was a Rockets game on TV and Steve Francis dunked quite nastily on somebody and everyone in the room went crazy. Been hooked ever since.