Most historically disliked franchise in NBA history?

[JRoy]

Yay superfriends

[ryan in Maine]

Great thread. Always nice to find out people think I'm a nasty biased racist.

Generalizing groups of unrelated people you've never met and assigning negative characteristics to them is kinda the same thing racists do, you guys.

I apologize for Current Affairsing the thread, but I think it's funny a poster suggested that attack on Landsmark could only occur in Boston. Nationwide bussing protests aside, the last commonly accepted lynching of a black man was in 1981 in Mobile, Alabama — five years after that photo was taken.

[Capn'O]

The way this thread is framed is a low key compliment on the best team ever.

There should be more options. The Knicks aren't a historically great franchise but a lot of people hate us fans. We deserve representation. Also, Sixers fans are the worst.

Spoiler:

Really, it's bandwagon fans

[durden_tyler]

Easily the Lakers, for obvious reasons (winning, dominant franchise). Heat was unlucky that LeBron did sign with them so modern era they are the most hated. LOL

[ArksNetsSince99]

Most arrogant and biased fans - Knicks

Second most arrogant- Celtics fans ( Bisme is an exception here )

Best friendly down to earth fans - Pacers , Nuggets, Suns

[JinKaz69]

Heat 2010-2014.

I never saw a team as disliked than that one. The hate was really strong.

[Lalouie]

in the following chronological order

1...cavs (the original but kept getting worse)

2...heat (but only for a short while)

3...lakers (a late comer but NOW not so the past 2yrs as the previous 6yrs)

[brackdan70]

Why make threads like this? Why stereotype fan bases based on your limited perception.

[jokeboy86]

It's probably the Celtics unfortunately because people have been told to hate the Celtics because of previous era(80s) and Boston's past that is no longer relevant. It doesn't help that the people who covered or even watched the NBA during that the era where it really intensified(80s/Bird) still feel to lean on that viewpoint because in their mind that's what helped the league's popularity. Same people are now trying to make it happen again with Clark/Indiana vs Reese/Chicago. What's interesting is that for years Duke probably had the same type of hatred but the one and done era changed all that imo.