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[QUOTE="moqui, post: 311934, member: 214"]
[URL='http://hoopspeak.com/2012/07/why-ray-allen-might-not-care-about-boston-fans/']Very good Ethan Sherwood Strauss piece at Hoopspeak[/URL]:
 
"Many of these guys have been dealing with the wants since sentience. It doesn’t take a boy genius to figure that your AAU coach might have an angle, especially if he has a gleaming Mercedes. The college coach comes next. He’s all sweater vests and sanctimony, but perhaps he’ll pay your AAU coach via an NCAA sanctioned 'scrimmage.' He’ll do it just for a shot at you, because you’re the goods. It’s a cynicizing life, spent playing a beautiful game. And on to the fans of pro sports teams, the ones who only care about you insofar as what you can do for them. Quite a few South Florida citizens seamlessly transitioned from celebrating Mike Miller’s incredible Finals three point barrage to openly investigating how he could be replaced going forward. What would an amnesty accomplish? Can Riley convince the broken toy to retire? The love is so conditional, and conditions can easily cause the affection to ferment into a hatred dark and addled. When Miami’s LeBron first returned to Cleveland, he appeared before a large 'Like father, like son' sign, because some idiot wanted to mock and hurt James over growing up without a dad. Such ugly displays are indivisible from the love that precedes them. [B]It’s a lot of misplaced emotion, funneled towards someone the fan recognizes as human in the most shallow of senses[/B]."
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