Most Embarassing Night to be a Bobcats Fan is Tonight...

[cltblkhscoach]

Let me say something about selling to opposing fans. Let's say you spend $100 a month in season tickets in the lower level. You have sat through one and a half seasons of horrible basketball for the most part, asked to allow the team to rebuild in a patient way, pay for parking, concessions, and team apparel. You have opposing fans offering you triple ($300) for a ticket to one game. And that was per ticket last night. If you have two tickets, that's $600.

You're asking a lot to turn down $600 for one night and go and support a team who hasn't given me much entertainment return on my investment, plus deal with obnoxious and annoying fans at the same time who only show up once or twice a year and don't support the Bobcats. In this economy that's asking the impossible for some of these people. And I'm not being a jerk, I just want to speak for my other season ticket holders who did this last night.

[Bobcat4Ever]

Unbelievable... Sitting here listening to our home arena chant "M-V-P" like a capacity crowd in Staples with us down. I am ashamed. This literally made me just drop my head.

Also, I realize more and more how justified I am in HATING Kobe. I HATE THAT MOTHERFUCKER WITH A PASSION. Fucking manipulative, crybaby, fake-tough acting bitch.

I also hate the fucking refs.

I also hope someone punches that faggot motherfucker wearing the yellow shirt opposite the Lakers bench that kept standing up and showing his ass crying for calls throughout the game. Someone punch the bitch in the face please. Thank you.

I was with you until you said you hated Kobe. Fuck you

[CatNation]

no one chanted MVP in Jordans time even home fans. it wasnt a thing that people did

even Brooklyn chants MVP for Kobe nowadays with their brand new team thats actually good. People will be chanting MVP for Carmelo, LeBron, Kobe whoever no matter what our team name is,forever. We aren't a small tight knit city like OKC (we were in the early 90s...not surprisingly OKC current metro area is almost exactly the size of Charlotte metro area pre BOA circa 1992). We are a big city of transplant bankers now.

[CableBoxCat]

I don't think the "transplant fan" argument is even applicable in this discussion. CLT has a ton of NY transplants, so we get a ridiculous amount of Knicks fans at games. That's just life. Even winning won't change that. You can't expect lifelong New Yorkers to abandon their team, even if the Bobcats are GOOD. NC State even had their home arena completely taken over by Syracuse fans last season, so it's not like it's limited to PRO hoops fans. You just hope they support the home team every other game. The only thing you can do is increase season ticket sales to such an absurd degree that singles are an impossible get.

Lakers fans aren't transplants though. The majority of these people have never even been to California, let alone L.A. These are just bandwagon fans. You don't want them taking over your arena? No worries, because you CAN convert them. Just have a team that wins AND has a superstar. The latter part is key, and if you took the season ticketholder survey you'd know half the questions were about that (SUPERSTAR, although Hornets questions got all the press).

[Proudiddy]

I was with you until you said you hated Kobe. Fuck you

So you claim to be a "Charlotte fan" and yet, you are a Kobe lover? LOL. That isn't possible. Change your username to Benedict Arnold.
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/06/29...erts.html?_r=0

Bryant foreshadowed his gall. In 1996, Bryant, a teenager exiting high school for the N.B.A., was not the first pick, but he exuded self-importance when he refused to play anywhere but Hollywood.

With the 13th selection, with a deal to trade Bryant to Los Angeles in pocket, Charlotte chose him. But there was a point where it looked as if the Lakers’ Vlade Divac would retire rather than take part in a trade that would send him to Charlotte for Bryant.

Couldn’t Bryant be a Hornet? Could he grow to love Southern sweet tea?

“That is an impossibility,” Bryant’s agent, Arn Tellem, said at the time. “There are no ifs. It would not happen. He is going to be a Laker, and that’s the only team he’s playing for.”

His fake ass shat all over Charlotte, our state, and our fan base. So, no... Fuck you.

I said I hate him in the immediate moments following a game... Truth is, I can't hate him as a person, but I don't like what I know of him. That doesn't mean I don't respect his game. He's just a fake, unlikeable, primadonna, wannabe-but-never-can-be-MJ. You taking up umbrage with my dislike for Kobe colors you in the same lines as those idiots cheering for him in our home arena.

And I have a parting gift for you Kobe lover...

He was too good for my team/my state, so I don't care what he does... He ain't getting any cheers from over here.

[TheBeagle]

Only reason I didn't go is because of the Friday game rule: traffic is shit on 85 South on Friday afternoon so I just don't fight it. And like every game I don't go to, I just sit on it and let it waste rather than have somebody cheering for the other team sitting i my seat. But that's just preference. Plus my seat is dirt cheap. Plus its just a seat, not two. But it was the same when I got two.

From the broadcast, I knew it was gonna be bad because that was the quietest I've ever heard that place with so many people in attendance during the first 3 quarters. I mean, it was almost eerie on the broadcast. Getting the lead up to 19 with Kemba's 3, Lakers calling timeout? Some polite applause is what came across my tv speakers. That's what's disappointing to me. I've gone to the 3 previous Lakers games and we always outnumbered the Lakers fans easily and gave them very little to cheer about since we were kicking their team's ass, but we were rowdy as all get out. Why was their no seeming rowdiness at that game? It was just so damn quiet. For those that were there, were there really just that many more Lakers fans than Bobcats fans over years past? Was there just not enough fans to get rowdy when your rising star PG drills a 3 over Nash to push the lead to 19 in the second half? That, to me, from a fan not in attendance, is the disgusting part of that game to me. Not the Lakers minions in attendance. Not the MVP chants. The not getting behind your team when they are punishing the visiting team.

That said, I'm proud of guys like proudiddy and JGib and ammo and the rest of y'all that went to the game and had to suffer through what was obviously a miserable experience. Each of you guys individually is worth more than a whole TWC arena full of Charlotte-area Faker fans.

[TheBeagle]

I was with you until you said you hated Kobe. Fuck you

Uncalled for. Mods?

[spectre]

Didn't we say (or someone...Bass maybe?) that taking Kobe for ourselves wasn't a consideration? We were all about getting a big.

[TheBeagle]

Didn't we say (or someone...Bass maybe?) that taking Kobe for ourselves wasn't a consideration? We were all about getting a big.

Definitely. It was Bass. Can't remember the player who we would've chosen at 13 if we didn't have a deal in the works with LAL but it was never Kobe.

[JGib23]

Re: Kobe in Charlotte... Kobe would have played here, he didn't have much of a choice. All the talk was his agent doing his job.

What was he going to do?
His options were to either play in Charlotte or sit out an entire year and re-enter the draft and again run the risk of another non LA team to draft him.

It was all posturing...

Also, that was the year after KG went straight from HS to the NBA... We had a decent team and 2 first round picks that year and I wanted us to build for the future by rafting the 2 high school kids... Kobe and Jermaine O'Neal.

We obviously took Kobe but, we passed on Jermaine for Tony Delk.