hsb wrote:You must have had some high expectation for the expansion years.
Taking away the Raptors' expansion years wouldn't make my point less relevant.
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hsb wrote:You must have had some high expectation for the expansion years.
Mustard_Tiger wrote:hsb wrote:You must have had some high expectation for the expansion years.
Taking away the Raptors' expansion years wouldn't make my point less relevant.
"I definitely knew he traveled, but I didn't know they were going to call it. That was one of them situations in which a great player made a move...and they called the call. And I was like, 'Oh, man, there is a God.'
Zona Zoo wrote:spudwebb wrote:OKC has one black guy in the crowd
Russell Westbrook?
hsb wrote:I'm a big fan of both teams, but that is one of the funniest things I've seen on here. Well done sir.
CZAR85 wrote:I really hope the fans who love this also do not whine when hockey fans bash basketball.
I will never understand this hate that basketball fans have for hockey. Hockey fans may dismiss basketball but they don't have an irrational hatred for the sport or Raptors like so many of you sadly do.
Mustard_Tiger wrote:This would actually make some sense if the Raptors were a winning franchise.
i-lion wrote:How can you guys compare the recent success of a franchise that has been running for 90 years with a franchise that just began in 1995 ofcourse the new franchise is going to struggle in its first 10 years. I mean c'mon do you guys seriously expect the leafs to have all those playoff victories if their franchise began in 1995 too.
CZAR85 wrote:I really hope the fans who love this also do not whine when hockey fans bash basketball.
I will never understand this hate that basketball fans have for hockey. Hockey fans may dismiss basketball but they don't have an irrational hatred for the sport or Raptors like so many of you sadly do.
Huskies1947 wrote:CZAR85 wrote:I really hope the fans who love this also do not whine when hockey fans bash basketball.
I will never understand this hate that basketball fans have for hockey. Hockey fans may dismiss basketball but they don't have an irrational hatred for the sport or Raptors like so many of you sadly do.
LOL, hockey fans dismiss Basketball? If anything a lot of Hockey fans want the NBA to fold. Why? Because once they find out that the NBA is kicking the NHL's butt in the States and that's where 26 of the 30 NHL franchises are they get all defensive. Just for a kick tell a Hockey fan, that's a Canadian preferably, that the NHL is a niche sport outside of Canada with lackluster fan support. That's if you're not offended by that statement yourself.
Al Strachan and the rest of the basketball bashing media were geniunely threatened by the NBA when it expanded here, go look at the archives. They have been running with the whole Patriotic Canadian propaganda, while dismissing Basketball was invented by a Canadian.
I don't think the passionate basketball fans really like being told that their NBA team is probably going to relocate dating all the way back since its inception. Like that Steve Nash interview with Peter Mansbridge I remember Mansbridge saying "The raptors franchise depending on who you ask say might relocate" or something along those lines.
The funniest thing is how Canadians pick on American teams in the southern US, when collectively all of the US couldn't give a crap. I gotta hear it on the Fan590 everyday jim balsallie goes after a struggling team.
The Andy Griffith show beat out the NHL All star game in ratings one year. Don't believe me? Check it out link
Mustard_Tiger wrote:Huskies1947 wrote:[
The playoffs...
#1. When?
#2. Making the playoffs isn't any kind of an accomplishment in basketball.
UssjTrunks wrote:Huskies1947 wrote:CZAR85 wrote:I really hope the fans who love this also do not whine when hockey fans bash basketball.
I will never understand this hate that basketball fans have for hockey. Hockey fans may dismiss basketball but they don't have an irrational hatred for the sport or Raptors like so many of you sadly do.
LOL, hockey fans dismiss Basketball? If anything a lot of Hockey fans want the NBA to fold. Why? Because once they find out that the NBA is kicking the NHL's butt in the States and that's where 26 of the 30 NHL franchises are they get all defensive. Just for a kick tell a Hockey fan, that's a Canadian preferably, that the NHL is a niche sport outside of Canada with lackluster fan support. That's if you're not offended by that statement yourself.
Al Strachan and the rest of the basketball bashing media were geniunely threatened by the NBA when it expanded here, go look at the archives. They have been running with the whole Patriotic Canadian propaganda, while dismissing Basketball was invented by a Canadian.
I don't think the passionate basketball fans really like being told that their NBA team is probably going to relocate dating all the way back since its inception. Like that Steve Nash interview with Peter Mansbridge I remember Mansbridge saying "The raptors franchise depending on who you ask say might relocate" or something along those lines.
The funniest thing is how Canadians pick on American teams in the southern US, when collectively all of the US couldn't give a crap. I gotta hear it on the Fan590 everyday jim balsallie goes after a struggling team.
The Andy Griffith show beat out the NHL All star game in ratings one year. Don't believe me? Check it out link
There should be a mass move of U.S. NHL teams into Canada. Half the cities down there don't even care about the sport, yet a hockey team in any obscure Canadian town would draw sellout crowds daily. It would be so much better for the league that way.
hsb wrote:I'm a big fan of both teams, but that is one of the funniest things I've seen on here. Well done sir.