So I have a little insomnia and can't sleep so I thought I would just list how many reasons I could write down before I get too tired to continue and go back to bed to get some sleep:
1.) The uniforms - they're loud, they're shiny and they scream "Look at me, pay attention to me, I'm pretty". Is there any better symbolism as to the shallowness of Hollywood and what Hollywood is all about than the Laker unis? Yeah, I didn't think so.
2.) The colors - let's face it, unless you play football and are big enough to be nicknamed a "People Eater", purple should just never be worn if you're a guy. It's just a tad to feminine for me.
3.) Pat Riley's back in the day slicked out hair do - Riley's hair was so oiled up he could have registered it as an OPEC nation back in the day. It gave him that Gordon Gekko, pompous, elitist, has to be hated look and Riley pulled it off to perfection.
4.) Laker media love - this is not something that is new and exclusive to this decade or Kobe. Believe me little ones it started with Jerry West and Wilt Chamberlain and only continues on until this day. I mean why should the NBA logo feature a Laker when the greatest winner and pure example of winning basketball back when they designed the logo would have been Bill Russell? Makes no sense to me other than Laker media love. Whenever the Celtics and Lakers meet, it is almost always the Lakers that got the hype and this goes back to the CBS days of the 80's when they literally wet themselves trying to talk about how great the Laker fast break was during the middle of a Pistons-Knicks game.
5.) Magic - he was so good and so young and so not Larry Bird. You respected Magic and you loved Magic, but you hated him.
6.) Jack Nicholson - Jack is a pretty smug, conceited guy and there really isn't a more perfect fit symbolically for a Hollywood star than Jack is as a Laker fan. He's just so easy not to like, just like the Lakers.
7.) Kobe - I'll always believe that we never got to know the whole truth of what really happened in Denver with that girl and because of that I am going to assume that the married, millionaire, father that was the media darling bought his way out of serious jail time. That type of person playing for a team is reason enough for me to hate a team he plays for.
8.) The Lakers' Cheerleaders - Sorry I grew up in an era where you went to a basketball game to watch basketball and not be entertained. Music, cheerleaders, fluff and pageantry is about as opposite of what Red Auerbach built into Celtic Pride as you can get. I hated them when they first came out and hate them even now.
9.) Kurt Rambis' glasses - those were the geekiest set of spectacles ever worn and before long he had his own fan club that wore those glasses to games.
10) Kurt Rambis - as long as we are on the subject never could stand the guy and always secretly hoped that McHale beheaded him during that famous take down.
11.) The Laker name - [dang] they haven't played a home game anywhere within 1000 miles of the Great Lakes in 4 decades. Do you think they could have changed the name? The Coasters or the Pacifists would probably more aptly describe them for a lot of reasons.
12.) The Euros - the Lakers set of European players are the softest set of European weenie basketball players I have ever seen and give a bad name to just how good and tough some of the European players can be. Don't believe me? Just look at Drazen Petrovic, Dirk Nowitski, Arvidis Sabonis, Tony Parker or the anti-Pau, his brother Marc. That Euro is tough! Pau, Radmanovic and Vujacic, as Borat would say, "Not so much!!!".
13.) Kareem's goggles - see #9
14.) Kareem's hook shot - absolutely unstoppable shot that belonged to a guy that for the final 5 years of his career you felt like, if he didn't have that perfect hook shot and was 7'2" he wouldn't be in the league anymore.
15.) The balloons in the rafters story - any franchise with the gumption to stick thousands of purple and gold balloons in the rafters getting ready to drop them onto the floor after a game in celebration of winning a game 7 versus Bill Russell in his last ever game, deserves to be hated for all time. For ever and ever and ever and ever.
16.) Shaq-Kobe era - was there ever a more unlikeable basketball era in the history of the sport? Watching these two egomaniacs win the title, sometimes after being handed the title by refs and the league offices, was nauseating and became even more so when they starting their little girlish fight over who was the bigger diva in their last couple of years together.
17.) The whole east coast/west coast thing - you know east coast is fast paced, hard working, gritty and west coast is all materialistic, laisse faire, laid back and plastic. There's just so little about Hollywood that a inner city Boston kid can relate to or like.
18.) Phil Jackson - he wants to beat Red's records for championships as a Laker and he's obnoxious and all "zenny". Just too easy to not hate.
19.) Their home court advantage - ever since the Clippers took up residence in the Forum the Lakers have had the fortune of playing more home games than any other team in the league. Like it or not when LA plays LA in LA it is a Laker crowd and not a Clipper crowd, I could care less who the ticket says is the home team. Getting to play 43-44 games at home when everyone else in the league only plays 41 is inherently unfair.
20.) They are our biggest all-time rivals after all - that should be reason enough.
21.) Closet Laker bandwagoners - I hate, that because the Celtics stunk for an entire generation, that so many kids of that generation became Laker bandwagon fans and suddenly jumped off their wagon and onto the C's last year and yet probably have an entire closet still filled with Kobe and Shaq jerseys. Hey this is Lakers/Celtics. It's Ohio State/Michigan. It's Yankees/Red Sox. It's Coke/Pepsi. It Jessica Biel/Jessica Alba. You pick one and only one. It's one side or the other. Not both and/or only the side at the moment that that side is better.
Well, it turns out I got to 21 reasons. I'm sure in my sleep deprived state my mind isn't working so well and that I am missing quite a few.
Be a bunch of great Celtic fans and just help me finish my list. I'm sure there's a few thousand reasons I've left out. I'll change the number at the top of the thread as we go along.
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