DaFranchise

Fair enough. I loved Simmons 5-16 shooting last night. Just messing with you. Dont take it personally

Dynasty Raider

You know DaFranchise, I questioned that of him also. After reading his posts, he is for real about the Clippers. Thing is ... I don't understand it and still question HOW he has this much loyalty for the Clippers while LOVING THE LAKERS, but he seems to have it. Atleast, I don't believe his comments to be condescending.

Still ... I wonder, if forced to chose which is his #1 team, whether he would chose the Clippers.

But ... read him here and other forums and he seems to be for real.

EDIT: Yeah he badmouthed me, a Clipper fan (in the Clipper forum), but that is because I'm a LAKER/KOBE HATER. And, we know he LOVES THE LAKERS. But, I can take it ...

DaFranchise

Good point. Who is he going to root for next Friday when we play the Lakers. I personally hate the Lakers and cant understand someone liking both teams. Its like saying a Yankee fan who also is a Met fan. That just doesnt happen. By the way I hate Kobe and the Lakers more than any other team or player in the NBA.

qross1fan

someone that claims there a laker/clipper fan . . . is just someone whos trying to hop onto the BrAND WAGON early

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CDRacingZX6R

lol, if your 15 the sad thing is I was a Clippers fan before you were born.

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CDRacingZX6R

I'll say this much for the record and let the topic return back to what it was ment to be. You can decide for yourselfs if I'm a read fan or a bandwagoner, or any other labels. In the last four years I've only gone to probably 20 or so regular season games. Perhaps two or three of them were the Lakers games, the rest were Clippers games. Durning the preseason I've gone to 3 preseason games, and they were all Clippers. Is it because its cheaper? Well price doesnt hurt, but Im not exactly hurting for cash either. Its because I've always found watching the Clippers live to be more exciting than watching the Lakers live. Why? Not sure, perhaps is the whole underdog mentallity. Or perhaps its because they put in their best efforts game in and game out, were over the years the Lakers.. Even with Championship years seemed to just cruise to the playoffs and then start working. Clippers gave entire seasons of effort, and though I'm hard on the Clippers probably more so than now its mainly because after 10 years of being a fan, being a top 5 team is actually possible and on the horizon. I mean even durning the last playoff runs, the team was barely good enough to get to the playoffs let alone win. Now this season its something magical. Different. They have the players. They have the coaching. They have the owner and GM. They have it all going in the right direction. I love the Cassell trade, even though Im iffy on his shooting lately. Bobby simmons being traded last season hurt me because as much of a Kobe lover as I am, I think I enjoyed watching Simmons break out season far more than I enjoyed Kobe having the worest season of his career. So when I got his autograph, saw him in interviews, he had heart and passion and I hoped he'd remain a Clipper. When he left and Mobley moved in I probably put unfair expectations up. Not because I hate him, but because the person to me he is replacing had so much heart and talent, I wanted at least that or way better.

I don't bash the signings because I am pissed about Simmons or Mobley and how it worked as much as I fear that messing with something that looks like it is finally starting to work is scary. After close to two decades of ups and downs and huge disipointments, and building up excitement of something like the Clippers being on top, perhaps in the majority of the west, any change is scary.

That is just my opinion though. As the changes sure seemed to help so far.

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