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No, what's ridiculous or ignorant is that everybody seems to push the fact that you "have to respect" the Lakers franchise. No, I don't. Not even a little bit. The Lakers getting unfair advantages is not only a large reason of why my favorite basketball team doesn't have a championship, but it's also a large reason why I may not even have a team to cheer for anymore after next year. Fuck the Lakers and their fans. After the year that we were blatantly raped by the referees to get the Kings/Lakers series to a 7 game series ( See 'Greatest Tragedy in Sports' doc on youtube), our fans pretty much gave up. Sacramento didn't have it in them anymore to put faith behind a team that the league didn't want to win a Championship. Not only was it a disgrace to the sport, but the Lakers and most notably Shaq tried to rub a victory in our faces that they didn't earn whatsoever. After the ref scandals comes the Pau trade and from that moment I just knew that's how it was going to be. I have a big problem with how large market teams get preferential treatment in the league, but above all other teams, I will always hate the Lakers with a brutal and burning passion.
Aside from the Lakers organization being abysmal, Lakers fans are only second to Raiders fans in how fucking ridiculous they are. If they win a big game, they riot. If they lose a big game, they riot. If they start to lose by a large margin, they leave. If they are up by a large margin, they leave. The Lakers and their fans are everything I hate about sports all wrapped up in a bow. Also, anytime you bring up how big of a piece of shit the Lakers organization is, their fans spout off about how they had nothing to do with the reffing scandals or the trade scandals and that it's all the leagues fault. But they have absolutely no qualms benefiting from all of the ridiculous shady behavior. If you are a Lakers fan, then you inherit ALL of the history from the team, not just the stuff you want to highlight.
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