I've been a fan ever since I was in the 4th grade and I developed my love for the game. I've been following the NBA ever since then.
I started liking basketball when i was in 4th grade but I really started to like the NBA in 6th grade...i was a big Iverson fan back then....how old was I....I think I was 10. I'm 16 now.
well i always liked basketball. but only keep track of bulls no one else..... I started caring about EVERYBODY and TEAM about 5-6 years ago
Started falling in love with it at age 9-10.. by 11-12 I was following the Celtics like crazy... by 12-13 I was following the entire league like a hawk and I never looked back.
I was a NBA fan, I had like an equal liking to every team, until my brithday when I developed my love for Kobe Bryant, in the form of an Authentic Lakers Alternate Jersey...Been obsessed ever since.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (S_Guard @ Sep 5 2006, 11:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>1988 and used to be a hard knicks fan till some unwanted changes</div>Okay, so since you were born. That makes sense..
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PiN0Y Ba11a @ Sep 5 2006, 11:04 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I went to a KNick-Pistons game in 2003 and fell in lovve with the game. Houston's play inspired me alot. Now i have been fans of the Lakers and Knicks. The Lakers becuase come on im in 2nd grade of course im gunna root for the championship teams!</div> :thumbdn1: About 6 years ago I became a fan of the NBA. My favorite team was the Celtics because my older cousin always brought video tapes for me of Celtic games and I became a huge fan of the game. Then I started following the Wizards because of MJ and because they're the hometown team. I dont like the Celts anymore, but I do admire them as a team and Pierce is one of my favorite players.
um for a long timemy parents had been huge celtics fans during the larry bird era and I was born just as that was ending but i really got into basketball around the time Dee Brown won the dunk contesthe was my favorite player lolsince i was a little kid i didnt know sh*t about basketball but then as i got a little older where i could add and subtract i started to really follow iti still have this little sports book from the late 90s with all these stats of the best players in sports lolhad like MJ and Tiger Woodsbasically my whole life
Since I was born. Really the only sport my dad was interested in. He liked football too but the Cardinals sucked so bad that really didn't matter. I had a basketball hoop in my room when I was 3 and had basketball shoved down my throat since I first came out. And I loved it.
I've always watched basketball, my parents always had it on so I always watched, NBA or NCAA. Didnt become a Mavs fan untill 2000-2001ish
Since I started watching the great Bulls team. It was 1992 when I saw the Blazers/Bulls series which was the finals. My brother got me to watch it. I've been a fan since.
I have always liked basketball, but I became a real fan of the NBA when the Suns had Marbury on the team, the same year they traded for Marion.
The reason I started liking basketball really wasn't so much from watching it as a child, but from always playing it. Started playing with my friends when i was little, didnt seriously start watching basketball until around 1996 when the Jazz went to the Finals against the Bulls. My mom was a big John Stockton/Karl Malone fan so I started watching them. Became a Mavs fan the year they drafted Dirk and after I went to a game his rookie season. I remember after seeing that game, i wanted to play like he did. Shooting 3's and shooting from the outside as a post player. All my life while playing organized basketball, i've always played the 4 or 5 spot. When i started out, i wanted to play like Karl Malone. After seeing Dirk, I started trying playing like him.
The three things that got me to be a fan of the NBA were...-My first game ever was a Sixers vs Raptors game during the lock-out season I think. I remember Hughes had a great game. - Micheal Jordan. I mean seriously which kid didn't idolize Jordan growing up. - Shaq. One of my first games I ever saw was the Shaq hook shot over Karl Malone to win the game in the last game of the 98 season. It was amazing. I remember my dad was rooting for Malone and he was screaming, and I was like YAY to piss him off. It's all history from there. The next game I saw was Game 1 of the Lakers-Rockets series first round in 98. Shaq sneaks up on Cuttino Mobley for the game winning block. It was amazing. I don't really consider myself a hardcore NBA fan until around 01 or so. All I cared about was Jordan, Shaq, and the Sixers until then when I gained knowledge on just about every team.
