The Los Angeles Lakers have a rich history of basketball and championships; names like Wilt Chamberlain, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, Pat Riley and Phil Jackson, to name a few, are synonymous with greatness.
So after Game 2 against the Oklahoma City Thunder, when Steve Blake missed a shot near the end of the game, Laker fans’ behavior was alarming. Despite multiple past championships and some of the greatest players in history, fanatical basketball fans fired death threats via social media at Blake’s Twitter.
Blake’s wife ended up having to block around 500 people. The question is asked: has society gone too far? Do we as fans need to reevaluate the priorities in our life? Has our sports following produced an irrationality that’s detrimental to teams, our society and ourselves?
Buckeye fans may also share in this alarming behavior. In recent Ohio State Football history, two young men, Alex Anzalone and Lewis Neal, experienced similar things as Steve Blake….
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