Who is your second nba team?

[Ohio]

My "2nd team" always depends on the players on it, so it changes as time goes on. For awhile now it has been the Thunder, because Westbrook has been my favorite non-Cavalier in the league for a long time. Even when it was cool to hate him, I liked him (funny it used to be cool to love KD and to hate Russ, lol). And now I like the Thunder/Westbrook even more based on what has happened this Summer.

I hope they can sign or trade for another star in the near future and take down the Warriors, that would be amazing. Paul George will be a Free Agent along with Westbrook in 2018...

 

[Randolphkeys]

(Although I will admit to cheering Baron Davis when they upset the Mavs who were the #1 seed.)

Mine was the Thunder before Durant left. Now I will root for them even more. I really like how intense their crowd is, small market, tough son of a bitch star that plays angry...

I figured I'd catch a lot of hate for saying Warriors. Just remember I get to hear this kind of hate all the time from people around me for being a Cavaliers fan. If I were to rank this shit talking on a scale of one to ten - 10 being really scathing like a Sleepy Floyd 50 point playoff game and 1 being Zarko Caberkapa drafted in the first round... I'd give this post an Adonal Foyle contract.

Can you be a good mod & ban yourself for a like a week?

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JK please don't ban me all mighty one

Meh. Nikoloz Tskitishvili dance recital.

 

[Cavatt]

I figured I'd catch a lot of hate for saying Warriors. Just remember I get to hear this kind of hate all the time from people around me for being a Cavaliers fan. If I were to rank this shit talking on a scale of one to ten - 10 being really scathing like a Sleepy Floyd 50 point playoff game and 1 being Zarko Caberkapa drafted in the first round... I'd give this post an Adonal Foyle contract.



Meh. Nikoloz Tskitishvili dance recital.

I think it makes sense. One of my favorite series ever was that first round one where Baron Davis and Al Harrington beat the Dirk led Mavs with up and coming superstar Josh Howard.

The 3's they hit in that series presaged the current team. It was amazing and so fun. I was in Texas for that one, and everybody was pissed! Lol it was great

 

[BimboColesHair]

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[macbdog]

Born in AZ so for a long time my 2nd team was the Suns. Been hard to follow them tho in the Sarver era. If I had to pick one it would be the Spurs or possibly the Timberwolves.

 

[Scholar]

I would have to say the Spurs. Such a professional and disciplined team. Two decades of such pretty team style basketball. I would also say that I tend to also pull for the underdogs in match ups. That, and opponents of the teams I absolutely detest in the NBA. Lifetime hatred of the Lakers, Celtics, and Bulls. Less then a decade of hatred for the Heat and Warriors.

There are few things that were so totally against my fandom then the couple of months I had to pull for LA to make the playoffs so we could get to flop picks with them.

 

[The Wizard of Moz]

Probably the Clippers. I feel bad for them. Never even making a WCF playing in the same arena that the most storied franchise in basketball plays.

DeAndre Jordan is also one of my favorite players. And they are one of the few teams that can dethrone the WORRIERS in the West so I root for them because of that.

Would probably be the Thunder, but I can't root for the Thunder. As a Browns fan I can never root for a team that has moved. Except the Colts because fuck Baltimore.

 

[Jscc]

NBA and NCAA are two team sports I don't have an favorite away/opposing conference team. It's all Cleveland Cavaliers and Ohio State for me.

NFL is Cleveland/NYF Giants. MLB is Cleveland/LA Dodgers.

 

[Cratylus]

Back in the day it was the Warriors. But I'm talking during the "Run TMC" Era (circa 1989-1991 with Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond, Chris Mullin for all you young bucks). Then in '92 they drafted Latrell Sprewell. For about five or six years he had actual basketball skills. And then he went to New York and then Minnesota and the rest is psychotically hostile history.

In the late '90s I started watching the Spurs and have followed them as my second team since then. It's hard not to like and appreciate how special Pop and Duncan are.

Despite moving to Atlanta in late '99 and trying to force myself to get interested in the Hawks, it's just not happening.

 

[Cavatt]

Spurs...fiancee is a Spurs fan, I went to college in San Marcos which is like 45 minutes from San Antonio so a lot of my college friends were Spurs fans, Dallas fans are insufferable, Houston fans are uncaring...so I landed on the Spurs when I moved to Texas.

My GF is a Rockets fan, and i just can't root for them. If Hakeem was there, hell yeah, but as it is now. I do like Beverly and Dimo.

 

[Stark]

I loved the Nash/STAT/Marion-era Suns and the CP3 Hornets.

Nowadays it's definitely the T'Wolves. Love Wiggins, Towns, LaVine, Rubio, Dieng, non-Boston KG, and now Kris Dunn. Team could be a factor as soon as next season out West.

 

[davoor]

Timberwolves. They're young and just have so much potential. Should be a really interesting and entertaining team to watch for the next few years. I hope they somehow make the playoffs this season.

 

[BimboColesHair]

My GF is a Rockets fan, and i just can't root for them. If Hakeem was there, hell yeah, but as it is now. I do like Beverly and Dimo.

I went to my first Rockets game this winter (was finally at my parents when the Cavs came to town)...more Cavs fans than Rockets fans...hard to find a concentrated group that loves all things Houston sports...too many transplants, too many Dallas or San Antonio fans...but then you drive 30 minutes west and its nothing but die hard Spurs fans, or 30 minutes north past the Woodlands and its nothing but die hard Dallas sports fans...weird place for sports, which I think is why you never hear Houston mentioned as a "big market", even though it is the 4th largest city by population.

 

[Simon]

OKC. OKC was the team I rooted for back when LeBron left and because I was a huge KD fan (obviously not now).

Westbrook is my favorite non-Cavs player right now.

 

[rabman_gold]

I started following basketball (seriously) halfway through the '97-'98 season. Since the Cavs had another early exit, I needed to follow a team going through the playoff grind...to understand as a fan the type of basketball necessary to win it all.

So I followed the Bulls in their last championship year.

Then the lockout came, which killed me a little on the inside, so I got stuck with an unsatisfying (short) season.

Then watched most of the Lakers' championship team in 2000.

At that point (after Shaq's best year), I stopped having a second team to watch (and stopped caring about other teams). Fortunately, my suffering from watching dysfunctional basketball (like Wrong Rim Ricky) was short. But not having a championship-caliber team hurt. I saw a team that could compete seriously ('09 and '10), which gave me false hope.

But I did move to Florida in 2006 (Miami Heat title). And I was in Upstate New York in 2007 (Giants title). And moved back to Florida in 2012 (Heat titles). I could've had a second team locally, but f#ck that sh!t... Don't need one. I'll stick to Cleveland.