Ways to cope with Lakers Fans

So you are going to have to be way more patient living around Laker fans. Gotta be more patient than not making the playoffs for 12 years.

You are living in their territory so you gotta respect that. Doesn’t mean you can’t flash your Warrior pride out there…so big ups to you man for being Dubz represent.

What is more annoying of an experience than yours is when the Lakers come into Oakland to play the Dubz and the Roaracle turns into Staples Center Bay Area.

It’s even worse when you are a fan who stays after every live game but losing by 30+ points and Laker fans walking passed your row talkin smack to you that “Warriors suck” when you don’t even say one word to them to begin with to escalate such treatment.

People love to talk smack about FAKER FANS but I do question where the hell were the Warrior fans that game?

I felt like I was one of the 10 people that night cheering for the Warriors.

Oh well whatever. Next season please.

this place has digressed to talking about the Lakers.
Here you go!

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/teams/LAL

Most LAL fans have no pride. Most are just posers

   Get a basketball education so you appreciate teams with a winning history?

I moved down to SoCal for college as well which was great but they only had Laker games on Comcast and then all my roomates were Laker Fans….it was a nightmare…but they were at least knowledgeable and respected the Warriors somewhat. What I can’t stand is the Laker fans that are Bay Area born and raised or the drunk Laker fans at the Warriors game talking trash and then acting like they are living Gods when the Lakers barely beat the Warriors…How do you cope with those guys???

And I’m a little older, so we don’t talk shit as much, but it still happens. And you know what my reaction is:

“I’m a warrior fan. What do you think you can say to me that I don’t already know?”

And if that doesn’t work,

“Wow, you must be pretty insecure if you feel the need to beat up on fans of a team which has only made the playoffs once in the last 15 years. Back when the Niners were a dynasty, I didn’t go around beating up on Detroit Lion fans.”

We’re Warrior fans. Our team sucks. We know this. That is your defense.

First, understand that the people you described are not fans of basketball. There’s no point even trying to discuss basketball with people who don’t know who is on the local team. Ignore them. They do not even count in the discussion of dealing with fans. Because they are not fans.

If someone is a real fan (such as me), which can be determined fairly shortly into a discussion about basketball, then feel free to debate. Most Laker FANS would probably readily admit that they don’t know much about the Warriors (I didn’t until I moved up to the Bay Area) but will still discuss the game with you. But you must understand that the actual Laker fans, such as myself, get real defensive when we hear statements like “there’s no such thing as a Laker fan” and “you just like them because they win” and things like that, because I for one have been a fan since the day I was born and it is really insulting to hear someone you don’t know anything about basketball just because you are a fan of the best team. Hell, most of us are Dodger fans too, and they are usually unmitigated crap (outside of the last couple years).

As a matter of fact, that’s the easy way to find the real fans. Ask them who they like in other sports. If a person that says they are a Laker and Yankee fan, end the discussion immediately. Most real fans, people like myself, would say Lakers, Dodgers. Football is kind of a toss-up. I personally am a Raiders fan (which means that after the playoffs sports get crappy again for me), since they were the local team growing up and my youth football coach told endless stories of Jack Tatum mutilating people.

Also, you complain that nobody wears Warriors jerseys in Southern Cal. I don’t know if you’ve gone into any sports stores down there, but they’re kinda hard to find, I’m not gonna lie. Maybe that’ll change when they get the new jerseys, assuming they’re not as hideous as the current ones which by all accounts they won’t be. Complaining about local people wearing the jersey of the local team, when they are barely even sold in stores there, is kind of silly.

LMAO I love this post. I’ve written a post here about my Laker hatred before too. Thanks man.

I know many Bay area Laker fans, some of which I will admit are bandwagoners. I am not however. Ive only supported one team. My first laker jersey was a Nick Van Excel. During that time there wasnt any championships. then they came and I was still a fan. Then Shaq was and I was still a fan even when we had Kwame Brown and Chucky Atkins. I see where warriors fans are coming from. Im an Oakland A’s fan and I want to throw my TV whenever the Yankees and Red Sox come to town and we get to see all these “fans”. That I believe is much much worse. Atleast the Lakers are another CA team. The yanks and sox are wayy across the country

I hope the warriors get it back together though. Oracle is a great place to watch the playoffs

we have a right to be bitter, our boy JasonRichardson is playin in the western conference finals but for another team!

That’s the best way to cope with Laker fans. If they only watch basketball, it’s evident that they can’t appreciate how hard it is to cheer for a consistently losing team. You can rest assured that they’re in deep despair over every single playoff defeat while we would be happy just to be there. Extremely high expectations isn’t a good thing. Plus, Laker fans that make fun of the Warriors have their own insecurity problems. Ignore them.

When I went to college in LA, I ended up making friends with a lot of SoCal folks who just grow up being Laker fans. While LA is full of airhead bandwagon types, there are also plenty of real deal fans who are knowledgeable about the game and stick with their team even through their lean years. Granted, their dry spells are nothing like ours, so take that last statement with a grain of salt. Back when I watched games at the Forum, their showtime squad was no more and they didn’t have Shaq and Kobe yet. They had hard working guys like Eddie Jones, Nick Van Exel, and Cedric Ceballos, which made it easier for me to relate with those Laker fans. It wasn’t until success came back to LA that you got to see more and more of the obnoxious types of fans that only like the team because it’s fashionable. Anyhow, just remember that same thing can happen to us too…since too much success tends to breed arrogance.

I will NEVER cope with Laker fans.