Originally posted by TheGore49er:
If I had any gripe with GS, it's some of their fans. Those who forgot what a bad franchise it's been for all those years, and then so many new bandwagon fans now. I mean go look at the GS thread 10+ years ago, and most those people who root for them now were no where to be found back before Curry/Klay/Green lol, and they posted a lot here.
IMO, the toxicity that people find with the Warriors fanbase has been brought out by the fans and media. The fanbase wasnt always like this. Like you said, we were a bad franchise. We were the Detroit Lions of the NBA. The ownership and bad front office did everything in their power to alienate our fans and drive us away. But we didnt. We were widely regarded as one of the best and most loyal fanbases in the NBA. We were desperate for a winner. We were desperate for a superstar player we could call our own. Most of us waited decades for this to happen (minus a year or two of success sprinkled in there).
And when we finally got our superstar and when we finally got our championships what happened? The media and legions of NBA fans tried to discredit it at every turn. Tons of us have been waiting our whole lives for a superstar leading a great team that we could all be proud of. If you want a good read about what we had to suffer through, check this article from 2012 out:
https://grantland.com/features/how-annoy-fan-base-60-easy-steps/ . I personally have only been a fan from #10 onwards, but a lot of people were fans before then and had to deal with this crap.
2014 came around, and we finally got what we have wanted. And our team has received nothing but hate ever since. Curry's MVPs are discredited by the masses. We have heard our first title didnt count because we had some injury luck. Then we did the unthinkable and won 73 games during the next season. But a series of unfortunate events, matched with some subpar play at the end, cost us a repeat. What happened after that? More hate discrediting our team. Didnt matter that we had the best regular season of all time. Kyries shot meant none of that mattered, and our 73 win season was ridiculed and not celebrated. Then we did what EVERY single team in the NBA that could afford it tried to do...lure one of the best players in the league to join our team, which is what we did. The next two years we had arguably the greatest team in NBA history, and won 2 titles. Then what happened? Those same people (media and fans), discredit those two titles because we created this unbeatable team. Those titles were known as phony titles and we still couldnt get any respect. Then WE had a bunch of injuries the next year which cost us a 3 peat and what happened? The masses celebrated our injuries and called them karma for facing a few injured squads in the previous 4 years.
And now we have arrived in 2022, and the same garbage is happening. The media and the masses of NBA fans are once again discrediting what we are doing. Ja going out means we were the luckiest team in the playoffs. The Suns sh**ting the bed, means we are told we now had to play a team in the WCF that doesnt deserve to be there, in spite of hearing a week ago that the Mavs should be able to beat us. Curry does his job and at times extends leads to put games out of reach...and he is called a stat padding frontrunner. It just never stops man.
We are the most disrespected dynasty in the history of sports, and honestly, its not even close. You wonder why our fanbase is toxic, sensitive, combative, etc. We finally have everything we have waited decades for, and still cant get any respect. Never seen anything like it before.
Sorry for the rant.
[ Edited by SteveWallacesHelmet on May 24, 2022 at 9:59 AM ]
