Saturday, November 21, 2015

Celebrity NBA Fans

Leave it to the Bleacher Report to list the greatest celebrity fan for every team. Here’s the 2011 NBA list, with a few of my own additions:

Bobcats/Hornets: Nelly
Bucks: Red Forman (That 70’s Show)
Bulls: Gene Siskel, Barack Obama (future owner?)
Cavaliers: Usher?
Celtics: Matt Damon
Clippers: Billy Crystal, Will Ferrell, Frankie “Malcolm in the Middle” Muniz
Grizzlies: the Tuohy family (The Blind Side)
Hawks: Lil’John, Jermaine Dupri, T.I., Bow Wow, Young Jeezy, Lang Whitaker
Heat: Jimmy Buffett
Jazz: American Idol’s David Archuleta
Kings: Tom Virtue (as Steve Stevens from Disney’s Even Stevens)
Knicks: Spike Lee
Lakers: Jack Nicholson
Magic: singer Tamia, Grant Hill’s wife
Mavericks: Mark Cuban, Jessica Simpson
Nets: Kim Kardashian (her ex-husband was Net Chris Humphries)
Nuggets: Trey Parker, Matt Stone
Pacers: ex-Subway spokesman Jared Fogle
Pelicans/Hornets: Lil’Wayne, Harry Connick Jr
Pistons: Eminem
Raptors: Justin Bieber, Drake, Samuel L Jackson
Rockets: YouTube’s Back Dorm Boys
Sixers: Will Smith
Spurs: Eva Longoria
Suns: Alice Cooper (also the Coyotes)
Thunder: Sam Bradford
Timberwolves: Craig Kilborn
Trail Blazers: Elizabeth Banks
Wizards: rapper Wale
Warriors: Dusty Baker (when he managed the Giants)

This is the first time I ever typed the word Kardashian.

On all three lists there were 23 that I had never heard of.

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