Here’s the answer to whether or not Miami is a basketball town
Is Miami a basketball town or not?
Surprise. It’s like any other NBA city.
You have some diehard fans, the casual fans and a lot of people who just wind up with a ticket somehow. Some cities have more of one of those categories, some have less, most have a bit of a balance between all three. But here’s a constant in pretty much all of these cities: If the team doesn’t put out a good product the people, whether they’re “true” fans or bandwagon fans, stay away from the games. Yes, even in such cities where fans are held in higher regard because their teams have more history like Boston or Philadelphia. Imagine that.
Let’s take a glance at attendance figures in tandem with a team’s wins and losses. (Yes I know teams aren’t the most accurate when it comes to this, but since all teams do it then it’s fair game.)
This past season the NBA’s #1 team in home attendance was the Chicago Bulls followed by the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Miami Heat came in right in the middle at #15, appropriate for an average team but ahead of Phoenix and Orlando who had better records yet don’t have this undeserved reputation of lacking true fans (whatever that means).
What a shock, most bad teams have lower attendance than teams that have better records. Should it surprise you that the Nets had the worst attendance numbers this year?
How about Cleveland in the second spot this year, the city with such die-hard fans that you would think have stood by their team through good and bad every year?
Last in attendance in 2003 when they only won 17 games, the only team that year with less than 500,000 total and a paltry 11,496 average per game.
The next year after you-know-who joined the team? All the way up to #9 spot along with an improvement of 35 wins.
As the wins piled up in subsequent years so did their increase in attendance. Coincidentally the same thing happened for the Miami Heat, the NBA team that may or not may have true fans like Cleveland apparently does. In fact, even though the Cavs went up to the #6 spot in 2005, the Heat were at #4. The next year in 2006 the Cavs were at #5 and the Heat were still better at #4.
Ah, but those years the Heat were an elite NBA team headed by Shaquille O’Neal and Dwyane Wade. Of course fans showed up when the team was winning plenty of games, you say.
OK, so how about 2008 when the Heat won only 15 games, two less than Cleveland did in 2003 when nobody showed up? The Heat were still in the top 10 at #8 with almost 800,000 total for a respectable average of 19,463 per game (8,000 more Heat fans per game than Cavs fans in 2003).
No question that Boston is a great sports town but the Celtics only averaged 439 more people a game than Miami did this year. In 2005 they were #24 in the league in attendance only ahead of Milwaukee, New Jersey, Orlando, Charlotte, Atlanta and New Orleans. In 2006 they were #18, 2007 they were down to #20. But somehow in 2008 they went up to #12, isn’t that curious? I wonder what could have caused the spike in attendance.
What happened to all those Wizards fans that put Washington second in league attendance in 2003 when Michael Jordan was playing his last season? That’s about 4,000 missing fans now in 2010. That’s a lot of milk cartons that need to be printed up.
It may sound like it, but I’m not knocking these teams. It’s great if you have diehard fans like in Chicago who consistently put the Bulls in the top ten but I think it’s even better motivation for the owners and the franchises to field a competitive squad and sign or trade the best players possible in order to get fans, or whoever, to get in those seats. Why should someone in Miami be compelled to go watch the Heat if Chris Quinn is your starting point guard? Regardless, since the Heat has drafted Wade, the only time the Heat has been in the bottom half of the league in attendance was his first season.
For that matter, does it truly matter if you’re a more knowledgeable fan of basketball than someone else in another town? I know I don’t get a ticket discount for knowing who Vladimir Stepania is. What difference does it make to the team whether a ticket is sold to a diehard fan or to an old lady or a child who’s never been to a game?
Although it’s great that you’re reading this blog so it’s apparent you have an interest in the Heat and the NBA in general but this isn’t an elitist sporting event. Everyone has the right to attend a game, enjoy it (or not) and perhaps even a newbie to the sport who has never been to a game becomes a lifelong fan. In fact, I’d rather sit next to a quiet person who’s taking in a game and trying to figure out what’s going on than a loudmouth fan who thinks he should coach the team from the 300 level. It makes no difference to my enjoyment of the game if I’m seated with diehard fans or not and it’s even more irrelevant if I’m watching the game at home.
I’m well aware that most of the good seats are taken up by corporate accounts and those tickets are likely used to butter up clients than for diehard fans to enjoy. All I care is that the revenue from all those Heat tickets helped sign some pretty good players this summer. The Heat have always been good to their season ticket holders and consistently enjoy solid TV ratings. Before you dismiss Miami as not having true fans than feel free to join me for a game up in the 400 level and you’ll see how just about every demographic in South Florida is represented up there in the nosebleed sections that are full of people who may not be able to afford the seats that you see in the background on TV but are just as passionate about the game than any other basketball fan in this country.
Matthew thinks Miami is an event town. That’s true to a certain degree but this isn’t particularly unique for a large city. This is fairly obvious yet it’s still annoying that Miami is singled out as if it’s the only town that has bandwagon fans. Bill Simmons, in trashing Miami after signing LeBron James, seems to believe only old franchises have a right to be elite teams because they have “history”. Conveniently like his Celtics, whose fans only this year put them in the top ten in attendance at #9 even during this latest surge up the standings thanks to two All-Stars from other teams that couldn’t win a ring so they had to join another All-Star’s “team” to win it all.
(To be fair the Celtics do have a smaller arena, about a thousand seats smaller than AAA and they filled it up last year. But that’s the downside of using average percentages versus simply counting attendance, the numbers can be misleading. Regardless, attendance fluctuates along with the team’s success using either method and the main point is that Miami isn’t especially unique in that regard.)
Above all, I think it’s a generational thing, no matter what town we’re looking at. The only team in Miami that’s been around long enough to have generations of fans are the Dolphins and they’re known to have great fans. How is it Miami’s fault their other 3 professional franchises were expansion teams? Regardless, all of the teams have tons of great fans and that’s not even getting into the numerous college teams in South Florida. And I don’t want to hear the argument that fans here show up late at Heat games unless you’ve tried to make it to downtown Miami right after rush hour and could find parking easily that’s close to the arena and make it through security before the national anthem is starting up. Don’t knock it unless you’ve tried it.
These aren’t excuses to defend Miami as a town that “deserves” to have three great players and have an elite team, it’s to prove that it’s all a matter of perception. The Heat have fans around the world and will have plenty more as the years go by with Wade, LeBron and Chris Bosh dominating the NBA headlines. If you have a problem with that then you have probably forgotten just how many Chicago Bulls “fans” there were everywhere when Jordan was ruling the NBA. I was a little kid back then but I doubt they were fans because of Bill Wennington.
Yes, there are plenty of other things to do in Miami than watch a bad team lose games. But the same goes for any other city, no matter how long they’ve been in the league.
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Regardless of the rest of your argument, it’s unfair to say it took the Celtics this long to be #9. You’re looking at average attendance, not average percent filled, which is really what matters. In 2008 and 2009, the Celtics filled the Garden 100% for the entire seasons. Even in 2007, an abysmal year of tanking, a no name lineup and a historic losing streak, the Celts still filled the arena 90.4% throughout the year. They simply have a smaller venue. The Heat, on the other hand, have dropped into the 70′s numerous times in the last 10 years.
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Matthew Bunch Reply:
July 27th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
To frame your argument correctly, the Heat had high 70′s in the years before the championship, before a real identity for the team had been found. Since then, even in the team’s doldrumiest of doldrums, they haven’t dipped below 90. I think the point to be made isn’t that one fanbase rocks and the other blows, it’s that we all have similar tendencies, and citing one city as a poor example only opens up the door for another city to get nit-picked.
Considering you and I are older than this team, and hasn’t had a real chance to grow roots like the “prestige” franchises in the league, I would say that’s not too shabby.
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Surya Fernandez Reply:
July 27th, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Boston was used an example but it applied to any NBA team. The article was long enough so I didn’t think I needed to do some deep statistical insight into attendance. It wasn’t really the point of the article anyway, as Matthew has already said. Regardless, Boston is a great sports town that also has an edge over Miami in that it has generations of Celtics fans whereas the Heat doesn’t. Citing other team’s attendance figures was not meant to be a direct comparison between them vs the Heat in that one team is “better” than the other because of it.
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Manny Reply:
July 31st, 2010 at 2:33 pm
What a load of crap. So you think Boston should be lauded for filling a smaller arena? So if the Heat built a new arena that only held that 70%, now we are great fans. Get over yourself, the point of total attendance vs % is a fair one.
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Peter Reply:
August 2nd, 2010 at 12:57 am
Wasn’t trying to put down Miami or disagree with the points here. Was really just saying that besides the argument in this article, I just didn’t think it was fair to throw a team under the bus with a slightly misrepresented stat. It’s certainly a true stat, but I just wanted to briefly point out the other side, and reserve my overall reaction to the article to a separate post below.
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I had this exact same conversation over at ESPN. I’m confused as to when and how fans got convinced that they work for a sports team and not the other way around. What sense does it make to reward a team with your hard earned money when they are not doing good? Some people have fun watching their team whether they’re good or bad and some people don’t. Live and let live.
And how does being a fan for a longer period of time make you a better fan? I would die laughing if I bought a Jay-Z album and my friend turned to me and said I wasn’t a real Jay-Z fan because I didn’t buy his last album. Who cares?
It appears to me that people trying to make the argument that Miami fans are bandwagon fans are bitter that their team might not be that great this year. And it adds insult to injury to them because Miami is a place that has so many more entertainment options while other teams are in places like Cleveland where there’s not much else to do.
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I’m with you all the way, Surya. People often forget Occam’s Razor when they’re rushing to create compelling or disparaging news; Miami suddenly becomes the center of the NBA, so everybody has to race each other to get the best angle on everything, including this weird “Miami isn’t a basketball town, how dare they get great players?!” thing.
I think the real truth of what’s going on here is even simpler. We can make the mistake of seeing all this anti-Heat folderol and think that the rest of the world is against us, but the truth is, most of it (with the semi-justified exception of Cleveland) comes from those few entrenched giants of the NBA. The Lakers. The Celtics. The Bulls. Michael Jordan. Bill Simmons. It all ties back to these rarefied few franchises who’ve been blessed enough to win absurdly lopsided amounts of championships compared to the rest of the league. So much of the vitriol can be boiled down to “that’s not how they did it in the old days!” which, of course, translates to “that’s not how the Bulls/Celtics/Lakers did it.” Isn’t it human nature to revel in that kind of superiority, and hope to deny it to others for fear of diluting its aura?
The Heat can be a dynasty now. Everybody knows it. I’ve spoken to a ton of my friends all around the world, from basketball aficionados down to people who barely comprehend the sport, and they’re all stoked to watch Miami next year. To borrow a phrase from Tricky Dick himself, I do think the silent majority will prove to be on Miami’s side. Unfortunately for us, the majority of people generating news and opinions on the NBA have grown up in a generation that watched, played for, worked for, and covered the dynasty teams. Whether they admit it or not, it’s human nature for them to instinctively rebel against Miami forcing its way in amongst the elite, becoming not just a 1-time NBA champion but a true dynasty and a team that has to be mentioned when discussing the history and shaping of the NBA.
Oh well. Too bad for them. Time for us to have our fun.
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Surya Fernandez Reply:
July 28th, 2010 at 12:02 am
Really well put. It’s definitely time to start putting all of this silliness behind us and look forward to the possibilities. That’s why we love the game. To actually watch it be played and let all of this debate be settled on the court. One way or another. Anybody who truly appreciates the sport has to be curious with how it will unfold. The Heat will sell out every other arena for sure. There will be a lot of Heat jerseys in those road games too.
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Matthew Bunch Reply:
July 28th, 2010 at 12:27 am
Jim, unless you’re a total political nerd like me, you absolutely dated yourself dropping a “Silent Majority” reference. Keep it up!
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Surya I just wanted to say that it was a pleasure, and a breath of fresh air, reading this blog post.
To be honest, the past few weeks, as a Heat fan, I’ve felt like I myself have become a villain just for being what I am…a Heat fan.
And its good to know that you’ve got our backs over at ESPN. I think you need to e-mail this blog to Bill Simmons. He’s a great writer, and I love reading his stuff, but when he lambasted my city…I definately took it personally. Keep up the great work man.
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@Surya
I like this phrase, “If the team doesn’t put out a good product the people, whether they’re “true” fans or bandwagon fans, stay away from the games”.
At the end of the day, we’re all just fans. And we want to enjoy the games, that’s the reason why we watch it.
I’ve been wanting to ask this question before and I feel like this article is related to it.
How is a true fan differentiated from a bandwagon fan? Isn’t it that a bandwagon appeal is a belief that something should be done because the majority of people do it? For me, a bandwagon fan is a fan who just follows a team without any basis. A true fan could be someone who will stick to their teams whether they win or lose.
When I decided to change teams from Celtics to Heat because I’m not happy with the way Celtics play anymore, does it make me a bandwagon fan? I’m not rooting for the Heat now because the majority of people do it so i don’t consider myself just jumping into the bandwagon. I did it because I saw how wade, lebron, and bosh played before. I did it because I know the players are great and will give joy to the fans like me who love watching basketball so much.
It just so happen that the 3 joined during the time when I got so disappointed with my former team. Had the 3 didn’t join together in Miami, I might still be stuck now in rooting for the Celtics and hoping that all the stars will go their way next year despite the many negative things that happened to the team this year.
With this, I think not all fans who changed teams shouldn’t be tagged as bandwagon fans. But how do you call them? Simply, fans. There’s no need to differentiate.
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Ryan Reply:
July 28th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Yes, all of that makes you a bandwagon fan. You got frustrated with your team and decided to go cheer for the team with the best odds of winning. There’s nothing that could make you more bandwagon than that.
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big3 of southbeach fan whether you admit it or not you are the very definition of a bandwagon fan.
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shawn Reply:
July 28th, 2010 at 5:41 am
even though big3 started like the heat now really doesnt matter to me because on this site he defends the heat no matter what if you @rocamandour look at the other post you would know what i am talking about
on another note
being a heat fan since 1995 i have gone through a whole lot and i mean a lot
as a heat fan and a basketball fan we are going to be witness to some great games a great season playoffs and finals
and its hard being a heat fan if u live in Los Angles
if you wanna see true bandwagon jumpers come here
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Big3 of Southbeach Fan Reply:
July 28th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
@shawn
and thanks again for welcoming me in the previous posts.
thanks.
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shawn Reply:
July 28th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
Big3 let’s just say the phones are off the hook u should understanding the meaning of that
miami has taken the “most hated” title away from the lakers, and as a heat fan since 1998, i love it. i love that my team is the most hated, when we win it will feel twice as good. people love to call ANY heat fan a bandwagon, but before the cavs had lebron, in 2002, can anyone name 3 players on their starting lineup ? how about name the coach ?…still waiting, go google it nobody knows. so how come the cavs fans that filled the arena up when lebron arrived werent called “bandwagon fans” how come they are called “real fans” now cuz they reacted like little brats when a FREE- agent did whats best for his career.
how come nobody is accusing zydrunas ilgaskus for coming to miami after 14 years with the cavs, how come no hateful letter from the immature owner, il tell u why, cuz he could care less about the team winning rings, he knows as long as lebron is there, fans will fill up the arena, which means MONEY.. big z left and he could care less cuz bigz doesnt bring him MONEY…
im preety sure if your purchasing a ticket to a game, that they ask u “how long have u been a fan?” .. if your spending YOUR MONEY, then you are a fan. stop the nonsense
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Big3 of Southbeach Fan Reply:
July 28th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
@mitch
great points.
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Great article! Keep them coming =D
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“People often forget Occam’s Razor”
People can forget a phone number or a birthday, but cmon man, how many people are really familiar with Occam’s Razor? That made me chuckle a bit, just on the light side. Not meaning to be critical.
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@shawn
i definitely understand ya. we’re doing a good job at that agreement. let’s keep it up!
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shawn Reply:
July 29th, 2010 at 1:18 am
lets just say something we dont have 2 worry about no more
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Big3 of Southbeach Fan Reply:
July 29th, 2010 at 1:56 am
Exactly, shawn. I wasn’t able to answer your question in that article about lebron, how many wins will heat get next season. I would agree with the 65-70 you predicted. The cavs won 60+ games last season before entering the playoffs so that could be a good benchmark.
What do you think shawn? Who will be our strongest competitor in the east? Will it be magic, bulls, or celtics?
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shawn Reply:
July 29th, 2010 at 2:03 am
i say the Celtics and maybe the magic but all they have is Dwight Howard , the bulls wont even matter
i would love it if they break the 72-10 record just to stick it to the bulls fans but i say 68-69
Big3 of Southbeach Fan Reply:
July 29th, 2010 at 2:06 am
and boston won 66games in ’08 when they won the finals. i would like to see the heat get to the first seed to have homecourt advantage in the 2-3-2 format. boston got hurt in that format in 2010 even if they went on a 3-2 lead.
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shawn Reply:
July 29th, 2010 at 2:10 am
Perkins went down and the refs gave the game to the lakers in the 4th, in the 1st quater they were letting everything go and all of a sudden you touched them its a foul
lakers took like 5 foul shots in a row
big3 did u make that twitter account
im easy 2 find under wades follow the numbers
first of all, when your actual team is doing bad you can support it but not go to their games. why should you pay your hard earned money watching them stink up the floor? attendance sales are gonna match your teams performance. that doesn’t mean fans arent bandwagoners to winning. but here is the thing. it was shown on tnt of who is your favorite NBA team? it went 1) Lakers, 2) Celtics, 3) Bulls, 4) 76ers, 5) Heat. now a franchise who has proven themselves will most likely have more fans attracted to them. but you are telling me a team that was founded in 1988 is 5th overall now in popularity? bandwagoners. as is all of florida state sports. florida marlins, miami hurricanes, florida seminoles, florida gators, Tampa bay buccaneers, South Florida(NCAAF), Miami Dolphins…. they have true fans. but majority of their fans are fans of winning. they wouldnt claim their team if they were losing and that signifies them as bandwagoners
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How come in this whole debate nobody mentions the knicks?
Aren’t they the definition of the die-hard fan?
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Surya Fernandez Reply:
July 29th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Good point. New York should have been mentioned along with Chicago.
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@shawn
the thread ran out above. follow me at twitter – @lebroshademiami. i can’t find your account – wades.
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shawn Reply:
July 29th, 2010 at 2:22 am
i cant find u
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Big3 of Southbeach Fan Reply:
July 29th, 2010 at 2:30 am
yeah, that’s weird. and i can’t find you either.
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shawn Reply:
July 29th, 2010 at 2:34 am
i tried it u didnt come up weird
are u sure that u gave me the right
im easy 2 find
its my name and certain numbers behind it
Big3 of Southbeach Fan Reply:
July 29th, 2010 at 2:40 am
yeah, gave you the right one. i followed you. check it out.
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shawn Reply:
July 29th, 2010 at 2:42 am
umm i dont see u
big3 go the hothoops twitter and ull see me cant miss it
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Big3 of Southbeach Fan Reply:
July 29th, 2010 at 4:14 am
i followed you. check if it works.
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@shawn
probably i followed the wrong wades, it say it’s from ukraine.
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shawn Reply:
July 29th, 2010 at 2:53 am
just go 2 the hothoops twitter read down cant miss it
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Look, the rest of the NBA world doesn’t hate the Heat. Before LeBron signed, we loved the Heat. I was excited that Wade and Bosh were teaming up, and I bet you if they landed Carmelo next year it wouldn’t have hindered that popularity. It’s all LeBron. We hate what he did, we hate his reasoning and we hate his execution. Now we hate the Heat.
But don’t be scared or disappointed by this new found animosity, it’s part of being in the elite. Now you’re the team to beat, you’re the team that Vegas has chosen to win a title before you even stepped on the court…everyone is going to want you to lose, they’re going to hate you for being cocky (even when you’re just stating the truth), and they’re going to disappear when/if you win. That’s the nature of being on top, so embrace it and it’ll make it a lot more enjoyable…much like LeBron should really embrace that villain role, he’s got to take it and run.
As far as Miami not being a basketball city, the truth is it’s not one of the elite (yet), but this isn’t just a matter of who’s going to the games and who’s watching the team on TV, it’s just a question of what drives the respective city, what people are truly caring about and rallying behind and hoping for. It’s what people contemplate on the way to work and yell about aimlessly in local bars. I lived in Boston for 18 years, Miami for 5 and I currently live in Los Angeles. In Boston, even when that team was terrible and putting all our faith in Gerald Green and Kedrick Brown, they were still the talk of the town. Everyone is whispering on the trains about who we’ll get to draft next year and when we’ll get to fire Rick Pitino…the city never stopped breathing Celtic Green.
In Miami, I never got that feeling. When the Heat weren’t good, most people seemed to stop paying attention, stop caring, and refrain from being hopelessly optimistic. Obviously there are exceptions with a very strong group of faithful followers, but it seemed to me that this was the minority.
Now you make a good point that this is because the Celtics, Lakers and Bulls have had their glory days, and from those days spawned generations of fans who eat, sleep and breathe their team’s colors. And that’s absolutely right, it generally takes a city some success before gathering a following of the sort (minus the Knicks, who really haven’t had much success but still support their share of semi passionate followers). So maybe this is the start of the new Heat Revolution in Miami. Maybe in twenty, fifteen or even ten years Miami will be one of the most distinguished cities in all of basketball. But they’re not there yet, which is why “not a top basketball city” currently has some truth to it.
Does that mean LeBron should’ve gone to New York or Chicago? Absolutely not. I don’t think those cities are more “deserving” of LeBron necessarily, but I do think the immediate impact in those places would’ve been greater…but perhaps he’s got a master plan for the long run. Instead of instant fame in these established basketball towns, maybe instead he wants to turn Miami into the greatest most dedicated sports city in the world.
Only time will tell, but for now I think it’s time to reserve any judgement until we see how Miami handles this. Now’s the time Miami, let’s see you turn into a major basketball city…now’s your chance to show the world why you are deserving of these superstars.
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This message took the words right out my mouth. The bottom line is disgruntled NBA fans are just mad at the Heat just like MLB fans are at the Yankees. They’re bitter because their team didn’t get LeBron, I knew that was gonna happen as soon as the words south beach came out his mouth
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I have been heat fan since 1999 and they were not good but I was still a diehard heat fan, now we have a roster that can compete on a high level all tickets are sold out.
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Bandwagoners will come from everywhere which will certainly annoy me.
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Very well put Peter
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Pete, totally agree…. point is Miami is an event town, of course, which the same can be said of NY, great nightlife (minus beaches)….but NY has always had Steinbrenner’s wallet in baseball, now we have Riley’s in basketball….Ha! Let the sports balance sway Miami’s way! Hey if the Heat made the biggest sports coup ever, so be it! It’s natural to hate, be jealous, isn’t that what sports is all about?? Love your team, hate every other, that’s the nature of the game until the next team does something we all hate.
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As a fan of all Florida Sports teams, In Miami, football weighs heavy over everything, even events. Dolphins, Canes, Heat gators/noles, Marlins, Magic…etc actually there are many people here that are fans of teams that rivial miami, I dont understand it but they do. Iv’e been a heat fan as long as i can remember although i remember as a little boy liking larry bird and the celtics, bo jackson and the braves, hen as i got older and understood the sports i began rooting for my home teams with my da cheering on glenn rice and steve smith and when they were traded and pat riley came to town the heat were second to he phins because he the canes were on probation. the magic gained some ground because of penny and shaq, but i was hardcore heat then. ZO got sick when we were supposed to make our title push in 2000, and the city shifted its focus on the team that was winning: UM football. the dolphins can have 5 straight losing seasons and the Heat can win 5 straight titles, but this will always be the dolphins town! Does that make us crappy fans for NBA, no Football is our first love. I’m one of the only few people i know that root for the marlins, they are hard to watch, they’ll have a game sewn up and choke in the end…. who wants to see that, its gotten so bad that i cant watch them play for 9 innings anymore it’s disgusting. Ive become a fan of the Magic because i had to see their games on sunshine network when i was in college and they also have our old coach. I know my post is of the scatter brain type, my point is to show that their is more to being a fan than just going to the games. Im a bit superstitious when i watch anyway, i turn the tv off and hope they come back when i peek late in the game, and the games ive attended my teams usually lost like the first miami fsu game ive attended since i went to school in tallahassee, miami lost on a botched fg attempt and i was in the stadium in the fsu section in onge and green. Not hiding my fanhood, it just hurts even mre to get let down that way, i felt that i was the bad luck that caused miami to lose the way fsu has in the series over the past years.- one exception to the rule were the 97 marlins i went to the game when livan had a 15k performance and game 7 of the 97 series when we won in 11, other than that i usually leave a venue dissapointed so i watch at home to hide my pain. We take losing hard in miami, those of us who truly care, there are some that show up for the party ,but thats everywhere, so you shouldnt label the whole region bandwagon when there are so many other hings to do when one team is losing. Dolphins, Heat, UM, HS, FSU/UF/USF/UCF, Marlins, Panthers, clubs, hardrock casino, beach, fau/fiu etc
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