[NBARecapPod] The Most Liked and Most Hated Teams by NBA Fanbases
“There were two responses, one from the Grizzlies and one from the Mavericks, in which a respondant said ‘No’ to the question: ‘Do you like your own team?’”
😭
Yeah that’s not an accident
Mavericks 🤝 Grizzlies
Misery
Where are the Kings fans? They should be in on this
The Kings are a franchise that let their 7 footer smoke cigarettes at the urinal. I think they got coping mastered.
lt’s complicated…
For Mavs fans it isn’t so complicated
Not my place to tell.
From afar looks even more complicated.
Think of it this way. The mavs had a beloved franchise player who loved being there. The guy in charge gets rid of him, and when the fan base is sad and enraged, insults them and goes “you’ll see i’m right, I know how to win” and the team promptly becomes one of the worst in the sport. It then takes a year for the owner to go “actually yeah that was a bad move” and fire the guy who did that. For all intents and purposes, the decision makers are the people who define what the team is. If they act like they hate you, and you hate them, for alot of people, that’s gonna feel the exact same as hating the team. They may like what the team was, or the idea of the team, but not what it actually is in the moment.
its crazy because i was a pretty big mavs fan since back in the dirk and michael finley days. the trade has really fucked me up and pretty much feel like im all pistons now..getting rid of nico has not made anything better..im not sure what would get me back to caring about the team outside of somehow getting luka back.
Exactly. It’s like putting a murderer in jail doesn’t make the dead person come back to life.
I understand some may not like that I’m comparing Nico to a murderer, but I want you all to know that I understand that he is in fact way worse than a murderer, and this was just an easy analogy.
murder is a most heinous crime, but it affects a relatively small amount of people, unless it’s a famous person or a person important for their community.
trading a generational star like luka is 50 levels below murder on heinous scale, it’s a rather benign thing compared to depths of human depravity, but it affects tens if not hundreds of thousands of people. sports are great because we invest emotions in them even though we have no control over them, and these things hurt. so your analogy is not that bad, this is a sports equivalent of murder.
I hate everyone right now including myself. Fuck you all and fuck everything
r/fuckyou welcomes you
We hate everything right now
Until “it” happened, I would have assumed the mavs would have been fairly overall positive fans. Not really any super hated rivals, not a lot of trade drama over the years, no teams we constantly get into it with in the playoffs, etc.
I’m surprised the Mavs only had one person respond that way
My only solace is that the Cowboys beat the Eagles. Otherwise I would have turned off all sports for the rest of the year.
Nuggets have the 4th most liked team and the 7th lowest friendliest fanbase towards other teams. Everyone loves the Nuggets and they hate everybody.
The Balkan way.
More like the Serbian way. The fall of Yugoslavia was followed by Serbian hatred and crimes against humanity against all former Yugoslav nations, including Albania, Kosovo, Croatia, etc.
Luckily us Croatians never did anything bad last century.
And on the other side of that, OKC is the 5th least liked while being the 3rd friendliest. Everybody hates OKC and they are completely unbothered
We live in Oklahoma, we are simple folk.
Yeah imma need two free throws from all the other teams that hate us.
That’s just resenting the reigning champs, IMO. If you did this poll even a year ago, I’d bet OKC would be much better liked.
OKC wasn’t exactly well like last season either
SGA to the line for two shots.
One of the worst sports subs on all of Reddit.
100%
I hate that this is true.
Yep Nuggets and Bucks are wastelands lol
Wasteland? We’ve got the most active NBA community on the site lol
Wew buddy. You haven’t seen the wolves.
They hate their own team more than anyone.
36 years. 36 years of endless misery, peppered with hope every 20 years or so quickly dashed by more misery.
That’s definitly accurate based on this sub they push the most narratives its crazy and same with OK being hated while being nice to everyone and this would’ve been true before they won so y’all can’t use that excuse its so weird how some agendas get accepted.
Definitely true pre-championship for OKC. Impressive how generally positive their sub was all through playoffs. And good on them for that.
they push the most narratives its crazy
Which ever presents their god in the best light
You need to learn punctuation
Lived in Denver for eight years as a fan of other teams, this is accurate
What’s your read into why? I wouldn’t have assumed that Denver was a curmudgeony place.
Denver fans love feeling like they’re the niche, smart fan base with the least annoying fans even though they’re just as annoying as any other
Their fans get offended so easily and talk down to & laugh at other fans for being excited about their teams (having “moral victories”)
People like the Jokic and the players, but not the fans
Shoutout to my comrades in the bottom ten. And also fuck you, I guess
Fuck everybody
Now let me say Im the biggest hater
“We hate the players you sign, cuz they confuse theyselves with real ballers
And notice I said we it’s not just me, I’m what Heat Culture feelin”
Fuck all y’all
Fuck you very much!
All of you might hate us, but we’re fine with all of you ☺️
cackles in palpatine
Kind of funny we’re down there considering we haven’t won shit in ages
y’all got a big, passionate fanbase and a lot of media run regardless of team quality because of your market. us on the other hand… we just have assholes on the team
No I get it but it also feels kinda bad lmao
Oh as a Heat fan I be saying, y’all absolutely cannot be allowed to win another one. If y’all win another chip, the league will be ruined. We won’t stop hearing about that chip until at least 2225
Nice to see you again Boston, old buddy
I’m disappointed that we don’t hate them more than they hate us apparently
You guys have more rivals in the west than we do in the east
Idk I feel like Bos-Mia last few years is pretty intense even more than you guys and the Sixers, your old eastern conference nemesis. Lakers have the Spurs and Suns but it doesn’t hit the same.
But that’s not taken into account in the survey, right? So they can hate the Clippers, Kings, etc. and still choose yes on the Y/N option for us.
So apparently we do in fact hate the Lakers more than they hate us. Suck it Lakers fans, we’re the superior haters 😎
We really like your players
You guys really hate LeBron
I like LeBron. And Luka. And plenty of other past and current players. Much like COINTELPRO, the Catholic Church, and Arby’s, it’s the institution that I take issue with.
Hahaha as a Lakers fan I respect that take, since that’s exactly how I feel about the Celtics.
Eat shit!!
Except for you, Marcus
Just immediately like 4 comment replies removed for threatening physical violence.
Glad to see we’ve still got the spark even after all these years..
Fuck Boston
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Well well well. Didn’t take that long for you drop the N there Boston.
It’s like man I was born in Boston and am a lifelong Celtics fan but like god why can’t we just not be racist, like I have so much fun hating the lakers and hating the Yankees and whatever other Boston sports rivalries and yet there is always someone to ruin the fun like that
Lakers the most hated team and the 2nd most hated team on the list hates us the most out of all teams that hate other teams. Fuck you too Celtics
Also Pelicans fans massively hating the Lakers checks out. They genuinely do despise the Lakers (and AD when he was a Laker) on Reddit lol
Totally forgot about that trade until this infographic
If it weren’t for AD and when the Lakers tried to fleece the Hornets for Chris Paul, the Lakers might be more well-liked just due to having LSU colors
Most friendly fanbase. Let’s go!
I played pickup a few years back in Stinson Beach, California with some random guys from Sacramento. They were super nice! Just some real ball lovers
just some real ball lovers
and the game was fun too!
Honestly, the least surprising part of the survey.
Y’all are cool as hell. The only Cali team fanbase I like lol
Because they’ve been historically bad. I used to like the Warriors before the Steph years now I rate them about the same as I do ISIS
Probably because they’re in a bad mood because you say words like Cali
Lol, I didn’t know that was a bad thing. You might be onto something
I grew up in California. Cali seems normal to me, but maybe it’s fallen out of favor over the years. Can’t imagine why some would take umbrage over it though, even mock umbrage. But San Franciscans don’t like Frisco, even though that’s an indubitably awesome name. So maybe people from Cali just suck.
Southern and Northern California are like two different states most of the time.
All my friends from San Francisco say Cali lol.
I’m actually confused why we’re that high up in the hated fanbases list, we don’t do anything.
People hate us because we make dumb decisions. Spoiler: We also hate it when our team makes dumb decisions.
hey that’s my drunk uncle running the team go get your own
I am an international fan and I picked the Kings because I visited every single team subreddit and found the Kings fanbase to be the nicest…. and the second funniest overall
lol that is a truly fascinating way to pick a team
I respect it
Who is the funniest?
Timberwolves haha. Genuinely hilarious fanbase.
Are we sure the King’s fan base isn’t just a group of avid basketball fans that really just want to like a good team? That is, any other team comparatively.
We haven’t been good enough to have a real rivalry in over 20 years. So that helps dampen any animosity lol.
Bro half y’all’s player’s played for every other team. Harder to dislike a team when you see your guy from way back on there.
lmao, OKC fans liked the Pacers and the Pacers fans hated OKC… that’s fair
When you win the “hate” is kinda muted, I think that’s part of it. The Lakers are pretty high on the friendliness scale despite here being very hated, and that’s probably because we have don’t carry hate from rivalries we’ve won (or at least drawn even) for the most part.
You are right considering okc most hated is golden state. I guess a good number of us are still a little bitter about that season lmao
I remember one time someone asked each team sub what their most hated team is and like half of them responded with the lakers. Which is funny bc yall don’t think of any of those teams at all lol
Definitely this energy lol
Bottom 5 liked team with the top 3 friendliest fans feels hilariously on brand for OKC - both the city and the team.
It’ll be funny to watch the “liked” ranking creep up year over year (assuming they keep this up) as people continue to watch us more and realize the “FTA” stuff is entirely losers whining on the internet.
Except if we keep winning. Opposing fans hate dynasties, so we’ll continue to be hated as long as we win.
Join the party lol. We were so much more liked before 2015. I’d rather be hated and win than be loved and go to the playoffs once in 19 years (1995-2013).
That’s so true. One of my friends was a Warriors fan before you started winning and we mostly pitied him haha
The Thunder will be progressively more disliked if they continue winning
No. Thats wishful thinking
I think the opinion on SGA might change, but there’s no way people like the team itself more if they keep winning
We’re processing some shit right now, tbf
Lakers and Celtics at the bottom. I have never been more vindicated, feels good💪 Hate from Finland.
I’m a bit surprised Warriors weren’t 3rd most hated
Agreed, you’d think the KD move and Draymond carried them to the bottom, but I guess people like Steph too much.
I’m confident Steph is the most loved player in the league, most influential player in decades, top 10 all time, first person to challenge Magic for the GOAT PG, exciting play style, great guy, historic numbers, individual success, team success, stayed with the team he was drafted with, quasi underdog story as be was doubted before the draft and even a few years into his career.
You underestimate how much of a hate boner people have for Philadelphia sports in general and Embiid specifically.
I’ll still never forgive ya’ll for murdering HitchBOT, lol.
To those not in the know, there was a Canadian international hitchhiking robot in the mid 2010’s. Traveled through various parts of the world and the US before it was stripped of its parts and decapitated in Philly.
Steph is so damn charismatic though, Klay had a boat and dog and Kerr is a talker.
Draymond, well, let’s just say if this was about individual players he’d be number one, right? Brooks a close second.
The Mavs hating the Mavs is not a mistake. Ask literally anybody in Dallas if they fuck with the Mavs rn and at least 85% of them are saying “fuck no”. The other 15% is probably just saying “no”
The other 15% is probably just saying “fuck no but in yellow”
Top 5? We’re actually back.
Leftover stank from Beal and KD
I just assumed it’s a leftover stank from that Post game workout video.
Naw people really hated their 2021-2022 squad that won a bunch of games and got BTA by Luka. Like it was a party in here when they lost and locked their sub down
Boston winning for hating the Lakers the most, I wouldn’t want it any other way.
After WWII the boomer generation started in 1946 and would have been 13 years old when the Celtics and Lakers first played in the finals. Then during their formative teenage and early adult years, the rivalry escalated.
If they had kids when they were about 25, that would be 1971, meaning they would be 13 years old when they faced off in 1984 and during their teenage years the height of Bird vs Magic, literally recreating the experience their parents went through.
Then those people grow up and have kids around 25 which would be 1996, which the grandkids here would have been 12-14 during the Celtics vs Lakers in 2008 and 2010. They would be around 29 today.
This is a 60+ year rivalry. We literally have generational haters because our parents and grandparents were Celtics fans during the best time to be Celtics fans and are nostalgic about those times during their formative years where they’re most impressionable.
Every kid growing up in Boston learns to hate the Lakers because their entire bloodline hates the Lakers
Shit this is actually accurate. My grandpa is 85 and still has beef with Bob Cousy of all people because he wouldn’t sign an autograph
My mom still calls Larry Bird a redneck
I was 13 when I had a nightmare about KG and, to this day, can’t take PP seriously.
PP pooped himself in front of literally everyone. Never forget.
Just a cycle of hatred
The best cycle of hatred.
Heat fans being the most negative tracks to my experiences on Reddit with them.
Adopting Heat culture a little too literally
Hardest working. Best conditioned. Most professional. Unselfish. Toughest. Meanest. Nastiest fanbase in the NBA.
Been good in the East for a long time so just naturally come to hate most teams out here if you’ve been good enough to make the playoffs (Celtics/Knicks/76ers/Bucks)
Then out West we have random petty BS whether it be the T-Wolves over the Jimmy era or the Blazers with Cronin or the Mavs over hating Wade from ‘06.
Honestly it tracks.
Funny that the Spurs are one of our least hated teams, considering they ended our dynasty. I know it was a decade ago at this point but still it is not like ancient history.
We played them in one of the greatest NBA Finals ever and the following year they kicked our ass so thoroughly and perfectly I couldn’t even be mad. It was genuinely a tip your cap, y’all are by far the best team, enjoy your deserved Championship.
this sub was virtually founded during the big 3 heat villain era. it’s us against the world baby i wouldn’t have it any other way
This is exactly it. Don’t get me wrong were a toxic bunch, but that didnt help when all the people in their 30s were molded by the toxicity of the big 3 era
I mean that’s a lot of contested rivalries that we have
also heat fans are neutral on portland 0.00, but yall at -.22 on the heat so that’s on you guys
Why the fuck is this a video instead of an image. Am I a boomer now?
Just let me look at the chart. You don’t need to zoom and pan all over it! I don’t need you to talk over it! I don’t give a shit about your podcast!!
And it’s a stupid mobile aspect ratio to boot, so you can’t get a good look at it when it’s zoomed out.
Zoomers don’t have the attention span to even look at a chart. That’s where we’re at.
There’s a lot more context that they’re adding in the video no?
it’s from nbarecappod on instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQudIdPkXlZ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
he says at the end of this video “i’ll post this image separately if you want to look at it more closely” but i don’t see it posted anywhere, maybe on another platform of his
I did a bit of digging and they posted it on their patreon
Right? I just want to view it myself without it being a video
Wonderful chart but having to watch the video and try to zoom in instead of being able to just read the chart normally is driving me insane
I was looking at the comments to see if anyone posted it… 10 years ago the top comment would have been an imgur jpg of the chart
10 years ago the post itself would just have been the chart.
This is from nbarecappod on tiktok, he posts a ton of videos with sick data visualizations, and then has the full graphics up for free on his patreon.
But here’s this specific graphic: https://imgur.com/a/1AJPGNw
I don’t care who it is or what platform they’re on. A chart doesn’t belong in a video like this. Just make the fucking chart and post it in a website as an image.
But he does both, like I said in my first comment? I think as the person who made the visualization, he’s allowed to share specific things that he found interesting…
Mavs fans just extra salty for some reason. Don’t know why…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Tzg0tTJ1Y
Pelicans below average lmao I’m dead wtf have we done to get disliked
“wasted stars careers”
That’s literally it.
Well, stop doing that.
I’m trying Jennifer
CJ is a legend for that one.
This says Sixers fans like the Sixers. Clearly flawed.
Forever and always, fuck the Lakers.
well damn 😭
Fuck you too man ❤️
Feelings mutual for sure
Definitely wasn’t a mistake
As always shout out to jazz east
Pop really is the goat. Help build a dynasty that didn’t lead to the spurs being widely hated unlike most other dynasties in sports
It helps that Duncan was a very non problematic star and not as much on screen. There is very little reason to hate him compared to some other famous stars.
Nobody talks about Bruce Bowen intentionally injuring star players.
That’s true if they only started watching NBA from 2011.
Here is a link to the full image for those who were asking for it
Thanks for sharing this op, and also thanks to all of the subreddits who contributed to the responses, it was really helpful!
*oh and also shout out to this post which was the inspiration for this
Celtics got smoke with everybody checks out.
Rather be the most hated than the most indifferent
Yeah hate is not the opposite of love, its indifference
Surprised Chicago was positive about us. I also thought Indiana would be more negative about us.
I’m a dedicated Pacers & Bulls hater though so I might be projecting lmao
For me, the beef is done. Beef stew has beef with everyone, so I’m not fussed about him. When we’re not playing each other, I root for Detroit. I like cade and ivey.
Idk I’m 27 and a bulls fan and I’m kinda happy yall are good lol it’s not like there has ever been a time in my life where we were rivals. That was from a decade before I was born
I feel the same way about the bulls and I’m 39. I didn’t give a shit about Jordan when I was a kid other than Space Jam was cool I guess.
I didn’t awaken as a Pistons fan until 2004 when they won the championship.
The only time I felt even a remote hatred for the Bulls was when they “stole” Ben Wallace from us. But I guess I was more mad that it was an end of an era.
I got no issues with the Bulls. We’ve just never been on at the same time in recent years.
Not sure what I expected but crazy to see OKC that low after 1 win. People really hated that damn commercial huh
My theory is that a huge percentage of people really intently watched us for the first time in g1 of the WCF - and that game was ugly as shit. That was enough to validate the (almost wholly) internet “FTA” narrative and the rest is history.
If we get lucky and rattle off another chip or two it’ll change quickly, IMO.
Well it’s that and that Shai is often competing (both in games and for awards) with Jokic and Luka who are two of the most popular players in the world
Not a Denfan playing dumb when y’all pushed most of the negative narratives that got them hated lmbo.
Can we add the Sonics just so I can just be more of a hater? Those guys always pop up on reddit threads like “oh buddy you think YOU have it bad?” or “haha, yeah we ALL hate the Lakers right?”. Get outta here dude! It sucks what happened to your team but now’s not the time.
Wait you are telling me the thunder are bottom 3 to hate on other teams. But also top 5 to be hated. Yeah that actually makes sense. I’m assuming the nuggets are really the only team thunder fans will say they don’t like
cough mavericks cough
Not surprised by the bottom teams, oddly enough NY is not as low as I thought, I thought everyone hated us (albeit not to Boston or LA level!)
We are very hated when compared to our level of success the past 25 years though. I feel like most the time people hate teams cause they have caused them pain. The Knicks have been a laughing stock for the majority of this century and people still hate us.
Vibes are too good in newyork to be much of a hater honestly
Bro Heat are way more disliked then I thought lol feel that’s like most Miami teams.
Nobody hates the dolphins more than miami fans tho
Very interesting. The Lakers fans are nowhere near close to the Celtics, 76ers and Knicks fans in terms of being negative towards the others team.
Celtics not being in the top 3 of how annoyingly rude them mfs are is crazy to me
Ironic coming from a Knicks fan, lol. I’ve seen Knicks fan start fist fights in the Spurs guest section.
YOU cant say that.
Wow so all the MKE & NYK fans were being totally delusional when they said it was the IND fanbase thats so terrible and unlikeable?
Shocking…..
Isn’t this survey saying that the Pacers are most liked as a team but they are less friendly as a fanbase than the Bucks?
Ayy, bring it in Boston fans (ignore the knife in my hand, it’s just cosmetic).
so we all agree then? fuck the lakers?
I don’t dislike any team it’s the cry baby fans that most people don’t like
Wow, what a scorching hot take
Hmm yes a video is a great way to present a table of data.
76ers the only team in the bottom 5 with zero title appearances in the last 20 years lol
This is awesome. Good stuff.
I love that the Lakers are top 10 in fan base friendliness despite being the most hated. We have a lot of one-sided rivalries.