Not sure about Raptors fans nowadays, before Vince Carter retired, he mentioned wanting to retire as a Raptor or hope they’d retire his jersey. I remember at that time seeing a decent amount of Raptors fans not fucking with those ideas, so you know how much disdain they held even after many years. Spurs fans still constantly boo Kawhi extra hard to the point Pop did what he did last week. We had OKC fans hating KD, but it seem like the hate had slowly died down these past few years? Cavalier fans forgave Lebron after he returned and won one for them. These are the most obvious ones that came to mind.
Answers not limited to NBA players. Feel free to share if there are players of other sports that for whatever reason, had fans turn their backs on them.
Booing the guy who helped win a championship and won a FMVP for your franchise is crazy no matter how he asked out lol
I will now hold a lifelong grudge towards the Nuggets just to show you how petty I can be.
Suns fans are not too fond of Suns legend Robert Horry I reckon
uhh… Aaron Hernandez
Us Raptor fans made amends with Vince back when he was on the Grizzlies. There’s a great video on YouTube from the grizzlies/raptors game when they played a tribute video to him and fans began booing it but then it evolved into cheers and a standing ovation. To the point Carter got emotional that the fans finally accepted him again. It’s actually a truly beautiful moment.
AD and the pelicans, I believe there was a hurricane last year that hit New Orleans and there was a store that was completely empty apart from some chips with AD’s face on them, next level petty
Gordon Hayward and the Utah Jazz
Many became more neutral towards Hayward after his career in Boston fell apart.
Fuck no we didn’t
We were complaining because VC wanted to shoot more 3’s and bot attack the rim anymore. Little did we know he was ahead of his time 😆
Fuck VC