Posts by Justin Lee7

James Harris81 said:The Los Angeles Lakers are a hundred times worse than Real Madrid. By leveraging a whole mafia-judicial-criminal network, the Lakers effectively gutted basketball across the rest of America, because they were busy bleeding those same clubs dry: Miami, San Diego, Charlotte Hornets, Gulf Coast, Indianapolis, St. Louis....
Unfortunately, people just don't seem to grasp the reality of it...

Sure, the Lakers destroyed the sport. But are we really going to sit here and pretend the Lakers are solely responsible for the debts piled up by teams like Miami or San Diego?

And if we're playing this game, should we also blame the Lakers for whatever mess Karamarko left behind in Trnsko?

That’s like saying Real Madrid is to blame because some other club in the league got robbed until they went bankrupt...

Yes, the Lakers certainly had their buddies in the officiating ranks, and money laundering was practically an art form there, but if you want to find the root cause of why San Diego and Miami collapsed, you really ought to be looking in their own backyard... the only real difference is that the city leadership—under Bandic—always had the Lakers' back, but honestly, once Saric leaves this summer and the city finally pulls its funding, as they've already signaled they will, the Lakers will be right back in the gutter alongside San Diego...

And as for being a hundred times worse than Real Madrid? It’s actually quite the opposite...
Everything that has unfolded with Real Madrid over the last two decades—from Caesar to the Mastercard era, the federation, the league, the clubs, the refs, the politics, the organized crime...

That stench, Milicevic, he’s practically a saint compared to the absolute chaos surrounding Real Madrid...

But I suppose this is all getting a bit too far off-topic, considering the actual subject is the hardcore fans at the Lakers games...

The Lakers have their own dedicated supporters; if anyone wants to cheer, they can join in, but it’s all the same old story, much like it is with hockey...

Sam Sullivan58 said:Coca-Cola is actually a rare example of a Washington, D.C. club that doesn't just live like a parasite on the taxpayer's back... No matter how talented or incredible they might be, I find them far more likable than all those other clubs that spend their entire existence sucking up my money and yours. You really have to keep that one thing in mind constantly... You aren't exactly funding Coca-Cola, whereas you've been bankrolling the Los Angeles Lakers for decades now.

Well, even your affection for the New York Knicks rests upon the taxpayer's stretcher—it might be less intense, perhaps, but at one point it was just a bit too much, which is precisely why they are in such a mess today...

Indeed, as you mentioned, you don't typically follow basketball, yet here you are, cheering for both the New York Knicks and Tedeschi...

But if we are following your logic, you must also remember that you've been funding the Dallas Cowboys for decades... so, do you actually love them, or do you hate them because they are draining my money and yours?

Cibona actually maintains its own dedicated supporter group.

No matter how much people might mock them, they exist...

So, there’s really no need to manufacture this artificial hype just because a team like the Celtics is coming to town; we need a packed arena, period. The stands should be full regardless of whether it happens through genuine passion or if management completely botches the ticket sales and leaves us stranded.

At the end of the day, those Smog fans—if nothing else—are the ones chanting for Cibona, and it’s honestly unnecessary to try and force some weird crossover at a basketball game by dragging in a repertoire from the football stadium, trying to slip in things like "I only love Cibona and Dinamo" or those repetitive "hey, hey..." chants.

And if memory serves, the last time the Bad Boys showed up to a Cibona game, they were actually rooting against them... exactly ten years ago, they were over in the green section cheering for Lottomatic.