Why can't everyone be a fan?

[KiddNPlay]

My roommate's father has season tickets every year to the games and gets great seats. For some reason my roommate actually doesn't like going but goes anyway as it's something he just does with his father. Anyway, his favorite players are Allen Iverson and Ray Allen. I agree that they're good players, but I don't get why he's always been a hater of the Mavericks.

I'm happy to say that he does in fact hate Kobe Bryant and the Lakers though. That we have in common.

We're also both from L.A. but both moved to Dallas back in 1984 when we were little.

It's just weird to me how a sports fan who has a home team can NOT be a fan of the team. I'm a fan of all my local teams. He's more of a fan of individual players. I get that, but I love rooting for the home team.

Also has anyone here ever converted any friends into Mavericks fans?

[MaVs 41 BaLler]

I live in Chicago for 15 years and I hate the bulls.
All you hear is the bulls and they suck.

Nothing wrong with not rooting for your home team....unless is the mavs =D

you cant really convert them, just have them watch the team till they start to like em.

[RareMilk]

Nah its just everyones opinion on the mavs are garbage which is fine with me because hopefully we can come up as the underdogs for the finals

I think everyone started hating on us since the playoffs with the heats

[GermanDunk]

That´s nothing special, i think. Me and nearly alle my friends still root for the same soccer club ( i actually wouldn´t accept other´s ), that once was 600 km away from our homes and no one converted. And i hate my hometeam from the bottom of my heart not least because the killed one of ours 25 years ago. In addition to this the hatred is traditional.
Nevertheless i sometimes visit this club just to watch a game.
I think you should stick to your club.

[Kidd Karma]

I'm in the Oakland area and am not a fan of the Warriors. To me it's more ownership at this point. I never went to GSW games when I was young, more of a Mavs fan growing up. Plus I followed the HS scene locally around the time of GP. Then a couple years later fell in love with Kidd's game and one of the strangest things, he became a Mav 6 years later.

I loved Aguirre and Harper. I always sent fan letters to the Mavs and got some great stuff back, looking back Carter is one of those once in a lifetime owners where he is very fan friendly in terms of his organization.

I'm a diehard Raider and A's fan, been to games when I was younger...but could not get into the Warriors. Same with the Sharks, it's like they're around, they get coverage, but sleeping, eating, drinking that stuff, I can't do it, not like the A's and Raiders.

Locally, there are a ton of transplants, people who grew up in NY or Boston, so you see a lot of those Red Sox, Yankees, Mets fans. And it's one of those things where it can be handed to the next generation.