Bulls fans are the most unhappy fanbase in the NBA

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My viewpoint: the two best fan experiences are good winning performance by the team, or, hope for the future. Competing in the playoffs, or watching young players develop and being excited about the journey and what they might become. The Bulls seem to have steadfastly denied us either and chosen (or ended up with) another option - not being terrible enough to get blue-chip players, and being just good enough every year to give their fans a place to spend their money and keep the bus rolling. The cultural memory of the Jordan years, and the brief Rose prime, gave the Bulls an aura that kept people showing up for minimal reward. But you keep showing up wanting to reinforce that feeling and getting disappointed. What hope we had in our young players mostly got crushed. Injuries and play-in losses mounted. The design of the team didn't work. Rosters that looked ok on paper didn't succeed. And it wasn't getting any better - or, worse. It became tedious. Even now, our young hopefuls are 11th and 12th picks. But luckily those two are promising so far, and even without real top-of-the draft thoroughbreds on the roster, it's better than our malaise over the past few years, because we're so hungry that ground beef is tasting pretty great. Malaise = unhappy.

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I think most of us are around the same age, because the only people who really use online sports forums are Millennials, who are between 29 and 44 years old, because that became a thing around the millennium.

Oh, we Boomers also figured out how to use this Internet thing.

Maybe I am more sanguine about the Bulls because I was fortunate enough to be an adult through the entire Jordan era, watching every game that he played unless I was out of the house at that time. That era alone puts my lifetime franchise experience ahead of those from fans of almost every other team.

Yeah, but most boomers don’t post on online sports forums on a regular basis. I don’t know any boomers in real life who do.

For us millennials, we weren’t really old enough to fully experience the Jordan era and have felt frustration the past 25 years.