You can do nothing, you can do something, or you can do the right thing-- Dont let your kids become lakers fans

by fckendrick on Apr 10, 2011 12:56 AM PDT

You can do nothing, you can do something…. Or you can do the right thing-- The immortal words from Spike Lee’s "Do the right thing."

Kings fans, this is an empassioned plea from the rest of the basketball loving world—Do the right thing and don’t let your kids become Lakers fans. When your team leaves for Anaheim this summer there are three ways to play it. You can do nothing; be bitter and angry at the NBA for taking your beloved team, and write off basketball forever, ala the citizens of Seattle, and never regail your kids with tails of Mitch Ritchmond, C-Webb, and Peja, and hope your kid doesn’t find basketball on his own and immediately jump on to the winningest teams bandwagon, and risk it being the Lakers bandwagon, no-way. You can do something, and not drop the sport you love completely and float around team to team player to player until your kids eyes find another team or player to root for, and because they’re kids they will probably bandwagon jump on to you guessed it the Lakers, and could you really have your kid root for the Lakers.

Or you can do the right thing; and continue to follow the team you love, and because its 2011 you can watch every game every night on tv, and let’s be honest other than a few season ticket holders the majority of the fanbase wasn’t going to Arco every night. If you’re my age (21) then part of your basketball life was at one time Kings-Lakers. How could any Kings fan at any point in their lives ever let their kid grow up a Lakers fan? That’s the risk you take by not doing the right thing and continuing to follow the team you love, especially in the modern fan era when you can talk to fans every night on the blogs, only after watching every game on your computer of big screen, only after listening to the post-game podcast, and looking to see what D-Cuzz tweeted that night. Other than that one, or possibly two nights a year, when you decide to pony up the 200+ for tickets and parking and merchandise for the kids to go to the game, what is preventing the fan in 2011 from following his team from afar? And is it worth it to forgo the bond you will create through sports with your kid? And Kids CANNOT be left to their own devices to pick their sports teams—IF you don’t do the right thing Kings fans or should I say Royals fans— your sons and daughters will probably get enticed by the bright lights and winning ways of Hollywood and be rocking kobe jerseys before you can scream out TIM DONAGHY!!!

Poll

will you continue to support the kings/royals?

Yes

37 votes

No

52 votes

Anything but the lakers

17 votes

106 votes | Poll has closed

(This is a FanPost from a member of the Sactown Royalty community. The views expressed come from the member, and not Sactown Royalty staff.)

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They aren’t gone quite yet. And the right thing is whatever each of us individually decides to do in order to deal with this ridiculous situation. Maybe we’ll choose the right thing to do is to write off basketball because of how it has written us off us into a footnote.

I know the words you chose are probably just a result of you needing a snappy title or something, but oh well. If my kid wants to be a Lakers fan, who cares? I’d laugh at the irony, then move on because life is full of all sorts of ironic, painful, stupid little things like that, like that one time the team I’ve followed for twenty years decided to move to Anaheim. I wouldn’t care about missing out on the bonding experience because I bonded with my dad over the Kings and hey, look how that turned out.

I think being a Lakers fan sounds appealing just because right now, up is down, black is white, and doing the most wrong thing possible seems to fit the situation pretty well. Maybe a Heat fan. It doesn’t matter, I can do whatever I want. I won’t actually become a Lakers fan because I’m not completely dead and cold inside, but I could. At this moment in time it really doesn’t feel that much wronger than following the Kings in Anaheim honestly. But that’s just me.

Thanks for your empassion and whatever, but we don’t need you telling us what the right thing to do is, you know? Because you aren’t here, and you don’t know.

by Ezis on Apr 10, 2011 6:11 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs

Holy Comma Splicing Batman!

More simple sentences, more periods. Comma splices are my achilles heel in writing as well. You have to take a proactive approach to nip that shit in the bud because holy hell I just realized what I had been doing to my instructors the whole time.

by Nutterball on Apr 10, 2011 8:09 AM PDT reply actions

If I had kids..

…I’d encourage them to root for the Lakers before ever rooting for the Anaheim Royals. That’s just me though.

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by pookeyguru on Apr 10, 2011 8:31 AM PDT reply actions

anybody but fakers.pokieman!

good god,man.

by cowboyron96@yahoo.com on Apr 10, 2011 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

Yeah! Come on pokemon

Pack a lunch and dont rise the lakers. hot hand

"Children want what they want when they want it." ... Andy Sims

by edm7 on Apr 10, 2011 11:56 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions 2 recs

There’s a black man with a black cat livin’ in a black neighborhood
He’s got an interstate runnin’ through his front yard
You know he thinks that he’s got it so good
And there’s a woman in the kitchen cleanin’ up the evenin’ slop
And he looks at her and says, “Hey darlin’, I can remember when
you could stop a clock.”

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by pookeyguru on Apr 10, 2011 5:40 PM PDT up reply actions

Im 38 (almost 39) years old

I was born and mostly raised in Sac. I met my wife and we were married here. We have three kids 15,17 and 20 , all Kings fans from day one. I have too many memories with this team to just let go. I love the Raiders, but dont live in Oakland. While I would feel the pain IF they move, I can at least understand the decision, and the reason it was made by the Maloofs. Its not a new discussion. I am familiar with all of our players , coaches , personel and drama. I have fretted over the past five drafts like an expecting new parent. Watched part of my family(Divoc,Webber,Bibby ,Peja,Christy…etc) fall away piece by piece , broken and disgruntled. Only to be replaced by a young , gifted , energetic and entertaining team I did not see coming in the middle of this past decade . A move would suck big , and so-cal would add a bit more sting to it , I just dont think I would stop being a fan of MY team . GO KINGS !!!

by 9K1NGS6 on Apr 10, 2011 9:32 AM PDT reply actions

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by section214 on Apr 10, 2011 9:57 AM PDT reply actions

If 16 teams can find a way to block relocation,

I will do the right thing and make a child in each of those cities, who will grow up supporting those teams.

Clippers & Lakers might have to share.

This.

by elfboy_ on Apr 10, 2011 10:14 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs

Dad?

If the Kings leave, We all lose

by prowseinthehouse on Apr 10, 2011 5:50 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

I don't think I can

A mayor was elected whose primary goal was getting an arena done. Obviously, it hasn’t happened yet, but he’s only had two years to do something that hasn’t gotten done in over a decade. And now, a fairly big name group is working on an arena proposal. Meanwhile, a lockout is looming. A lockout where the Maloofs would break even. They’d have no Kings revenue coming in. But they’d also have no salary to pay. And, if a lockout does occur, they aren’t getting the supposed TV money they want to leave for. Leaving this year makes no sense and is just heartless. Not sure I could root for that team.

However, if they gave KG/Taylor/ICON a chance to get this thing done, and just wait through the potential lockout season, and there’s no legit arena proposal in place I’d still root for them when they moved. If they participated in the last chance effort of a mayor who really does give a shit, yet it doesn’t get done, and they want to move to a new city before basketball starts up again and they can make more money, I’d forgive them and still be a fan.

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by vfettke on Apr 10, 2011 11:43 AM PDT reply actions

Just what i want to do...

Fork over almost 300.00 to the NBA for crappy league pass when Sacramento just got screwed. If I was still in Sacramento I would become a Warriors fan but I’m not so my new favorite team is whoever is playing the Lakers and to a lesser extent Heat on any given night.

At this point I hope the NBA implodes on itself like a star does when it goes nova. And all of the “small markets” go belly up one by one because the NBA’s foolish pre occupation with markets has taken away all incentive for anyone with a brain to give any money whatsoever to a product which only wants to take as much money from you as possible but not a fair shot at winning in return. A lot like Disneyland but way less fun.

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by Ponaldson on Apr 10, 2011 4:57 PM PDT reply actions

I completely disagree

I think the RIGHT thing is to tell the Kings organization and the NBA to shove it. You’re going to continue to support and put money in the pockets of an organization(s) that would do this to a loyal fan base that’s supported the team for 26 years? Supporting them after making that decision is the absolute wrong thing to do IMO. Continuing to pay money while you have a knife in your back to the people that put it there is something I can’t get on board with.

by TTown Kings on Apr 10, 2011 5:27 PM PDT reply actions

Hell No!

Im going to steal as much free NBA coverage as humanly possible. Fuck them!

by chenp22 on Apr 11, 2011 3:19 AM PDT up reply actions

a little perspective from the author

This was supposed to make people think about memories that won’t be shared with your kids one day… I grew up in las Vegas a place with no professional teams, I grew up die hard bravest redskins and capitals with out ever setting foot in either turner field or fed ex…. and that was the 90’s w/o league pass broadband and blogs… and my most cherished memories are of watching chipper on the couch with my dad… point is I know.more expos nationals fans now than I did when they were around…. and if my kid ever put on a black and gold crosby sweater I might disown him right there so should any kings can feel about a kobe jersey… anyway think about what your giving up not for.you but for your kids a lifelong bond that will always be shared

by fckendrick on Apr 10, 2011 10:53 PM PDT via mobile reply actions