Rakim Allah
Superstar
The thing with a lot of Lakers/Kobe Haters is that they are in denial that they are Haters.
So Lebron James and the Heat rise out as heroes now
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So what they have more fans then haters what team doesn't...if you don't think other oppossing teams fans don't see the Lakers as villians or hate them I don't know what to tell U. THE LAKERS AND KOBE HAVE A shytLOAD OF HATERS...wake up!!
The reason the Lakers never fell of the national radar because they had Kobe
The national media is east coast so their is always an east coast bias as well as plenty of national media personalities who don't like the Lakers or can't stand them. Of course they use them because the Lakers move the ratings but ESPN has always had a thing for LeBron over anyone or any team. Their are haters in the local media too...ie TJ Simmers.
I just don't understand how their can't be more than 1 villainous team in the NBA. I've run into so many Haters IN L.A. over the yrs who can't stand the Lakers or Kobe. So miss me with that horseshyt U peddling.
Are you having trouble comprehending? At what point did I say that they Lakers didn't have any haters or even didn't have a lot of haters? I never said that I have simply said that they have more fans than haters which you yourself agreed with so what are you arguing?
As I said before the Lakers always have stars and NBA fans are more about stars and less about team allegiance than any other sport making the Lakers an appealing team. Do they have haters yes? Does the hate come close to outweighing the love or straight up fellatio? No. Because you can name a columnist or two that hates doesn't change the fact that the great majority are on their dikk. As a fan you are just more sensitive to anything resembling hate because of your feelings for the team and are blinded by the love because that's how it's supposed to be in your eyes.
Rakim Allah
Superstar
I wasn't denying that the Lakers have individual haters or pockets of hate, I was speaking in general in that post. I have been speaking in general throughout this thread. Let me break this down for you. Yes the Lakers have people who hate them. No the Lakers are not hated on a national level or cast as villians by the national media.
Rakim Allah
Superstar
Neither are the Heat/Bron. The national media is past The Decision/Heat Free Agency but that doesn't mean they are not hated nationally by fans or cast as villians by fans. I just always felt the Lakers/Kobe never stopped being villians by the fans. The Heat were just the new villians and new story.
I didn't say anything about Heat/Bron
. The Heat arent' villians anymore either. Like I said after "The Decision" all that villian shyt disappeared after they won a ring. Outside of Boston and Cleveland the Heat aren't seen as anybodies villian anymore. You know how you know the Lakers aren't villians? The Heat became villians for doing the same shyt the Lakers have been doing and the backlash for the Lakers has never even come close to that shyt. America loves the Lakers. 
Deal with it. nikkas need to stop tryna play the "Me against the world" card because two people (hyperbole) don't like your team.
Rakim Allah
Superstar
I didn't say anything about Heat/Bron
See we've been going in circles when we pretty much agree. I was just going off what U initially said.
U see what U wanna see...it's all good.
Rakim Allah
Superstar
That's like saying America loves Obama
They elected him President and will re-elect him in November.
It's actually more like saying America loves the Bush family.
Rakim Allah
Superstar
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Rakim Allah
Superstar
Since the Lakers have been Hated they have never did anything like the Heat did so they weren't going to get that same type of backlash. The Heat did something out of the ordinary. The Heats' actions was some shyt that came about abruptly while the Lakers Hate has been building since West got Shaq/Kobe. The Lakers weren't hated before Shaq/Kobe came. It still took a few yrs and the rise of the internet for the Laker Hate to blow up.
The Lakers have a sustain hate build up for over 10 yrs. shyt niccas are still complaining about the Gasol trade even after the fact that Grizz benifited from trade.
Rakim Allah
Superstar
They elected him President and will re-elect him in November.
Yet Obama has a gang of Haters.The Lakers weren't hated after Shaq and Kobe came either
The return of the Lakers was celebrated. No one bemoaned small markets. Young black men didn't start talking about arrogance and shyt being over the top and narcissism (still 
at that). The Gasol deal which at the time was an extremely lopsided trade still wasn't met with the vitriol that MIA signing guys as a FA was. Not even close. 
at all this conditions you are putting on the shyt. "They weren't hated then, it took years for it to build up." "It took the rise of the internet.". The hate has not increased the random nikkas who don't necessarily reflect the national concsiousness getting the opportunity to express themselves has. The-coli and facebook are not the best indicators of what is going on nationally. If I was gathering my impressions of what was going on nationally I would think that most people in America ride with Floyd and TO when in fact there are actually 2 of the most hated athletes in the country.
Every famous person or entity has haters. Only a few have a hater/fan ratio big enough to be cast as villians and neither the Lakers or Obama fall into that category.
Rakim Allah
Superstar
The Lakers weren't hated after Shaq and Kobe came either
Now U back to saying the Lakers weren't/aren't hated. I'm done wasting my time with such ignorance...I'm Out.