NYT: Black NBA Fans Are Of the Moment Dikkriders

[KnowledgeDropper]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/u...ies-for-black-and-white-neighborhoods.html?hp

It is no secret that the N.B.A. is especially popular among black Americans. About 45 percent of people who watched N.B.A. games during the 2012-2013 regular season were black, even though African-Americans make up 13 percent of the country’s population.

In addition to being numerous, African-American fans also seem to have different patterns to their N.B.A. rooting. Hometown basketball teams tend to earn a lower share of Facebook “likes” in heavily black areas. Many black fans instead seem to gravitate to teams with national followings, like the Heat and the Lakers, over the local team.

Lower levels of support for the hometown team are especially obvious in some of the nation’s most racially divided cities. In Cleveland and Milwaukee, geographic lines of segregation neatly trace the areas where the hometown team has a smaller share of fans, according to the Facebook data. Similar patterns are also visible in Memphis, Atlanta and Chicago.

The pattern doesn’t hold for every city. Black areas in Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia and Washington seem to support the local team at the same rate as other areas. But it also exists in some places where it is not evident at first glance, like in Detroit, where support for the Pistons often drops by 10 percentage points on the south side of 8 Mile Road.

None of this means that hometown teams lack black fans. Given how many N.B.A. fans are African-American, teams like the Pistons, the Hawks and the Bulls clearly have large numbers of black fans. In fact, a larger percentage of black Chicagoans than white Chicagoans probably consider themselves Bulls fans. But the pattern does suggest that an even larger share of Lakers and Heat fans may be African-American.

 

[Panther]

 

[RugbyCardigan]

cac

 

[Yakno1]

Nytimes?? Really.......article is so dumb....must be propaganda behind it

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

GOAT franchise gained a lot of black fans in the Showtime era cuz they were considered the "Black team" in the Lakers/Celtics rivalry. Besides, why wouldn't Black America cheer for basketball excellence?

 

[#1 pick]

Black ppl like winners. I ain't mad at it. Just stick with the team tho.

 

[PortCityProphet]

fukk cheering for those cac and no nikkaz owned teams

 

[I.V.]

:downwhiteguy: He right.

 

[KnowledgeDropper]

I'm not making judgments, just posting the article

 

[EducatedBrothaFromTheBank]

cac's in the media stay obsessed with black folks, shyt is gettin disgustin now

 

[Clark Wayne]

Seriously though, what the fukk was the point of this shyt?!?

 

[Hollywood Co]

The fukk is this?

 

[King Poetic]

no surprise at all by that article

since i live here in L.A. majority of the blacks i know around south l.a and long beach are lakers or clippers fans

however when i visit cleveland where fam is at i notice a lot of the blacks tend to go for miami since lebron went down there.

it's some truth to that shyt but small town nikkas don't want to hear it.

Look at the 90's growing up how many so called die hard fans u seen running around outside of chicago.. tons of nikkas was bulls fans back in the day from every city in america

bulls fall apart in 98.. u have nikkas running around jumping on the lakers bandwagon till 2010.. now i see these nikkas running around being heat fans but have no idea about the heat history ( NOT MY SOUTH FLORIDA BLACKS, I'M TALKING ABOUT nikkaS OUTSIDE OF FLORIDA )

 

[Frump]

was a Yankee and Cowboy fan since birth

 

[Rell84shots]

Cowboys have a massive black fan base and they haven't won since Pac got popped.