Knicks · Which Team Do You Cheer For? An N.B.A. Fan Map... (page 1)

holfresh @ 5/12/2014 9:31 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/...
H1AND1 @ 5/12/2014 10:11 PM
That's pretty cool! Thanks for sharing.
Nalod @ 5/12/2014 10:14 PM
Lot of lavender. Lakers are americas team!
actofgod @ 5/12/2014 10:20 PM
Wow, shocked at the reach of the Lakers
DrAlphaeus @ 5/13/2014 8:55 AM
Wow, there are ZIP codes in Paterson and Newark even where the Lakers are the tops over the Knicks, and the Nets aren't in the top 3.
jrodmc @ 5/13/2014 9:05 AM
Are all the Clipper fans in Guam, or Puerto Rico?

Glad to see no Raptors fans in the US, not even in Alaska! Props to Border Security!

DrAlphaeus @ 5/13/2014 9:08 AM
I will admit that as a young boy in the early 80s in Paterson, my favorite team after the Harlem Globetrotters was the Lakers, back when I thought there were only two NBA teams: Kareem and Magic and the Green one.
Nalod @ 5/13/2014 9:58 AM
Lakers have been a winning franchise for decades. Now we maybe understand kobes contract a bit more.
Bonn1997 @ 5/13/2014 10:16 AM
Interesting. So many teams cover more territory than the Knicks!
It's surprising since so many New Yorkers move south but I guess they have no reason to hang on to the Knicks.
djsunyc @ 5/13/2014 10:20 AM
gunsnewing @ 5/13/2014 10:40 AM
Bonn1997 wrote:Interesting. So many teams cover more territory than the Knicks!
It's surprising since so many New Yorkers move south but I guess they have no reason to hang on to the Knicks.

Yea is this accurate? Atlanta, Charlotte
& Florida seem to have a ton of Knicks fans when the Knicks play in their buildings

Then again the Knicks have been awful for 15 yrs

DrAlphaeus @ 5/13/2014 10:43 AM
It is based on Facebook data so there are all kinds of demographic skewing you have to consider there.
gunsnewing @ 5/13/2014 10:51 AM
Yea my take is those New York transplants don't have Facebook
DrAlphaeus @ 5/13/2014 11:21 AM
Bonn1997 wrote:Interesting. So many teams cover more territory than the Knicks!
It's surprising since so many New Yorkers move south but I guess they have no reason to hang on to the Knicks.

Don't be too Bonn... it would look a lot different if the map visualized population density.

jrodmc @ 5/13/2014 11:52 AM
djsunyc wrote:

At least that's one fan. Or two, depending on your focus.

Bonn1997 @ 5/13/2014 3:43 PM
DrAlphaeus wrote:
Bonn1997 wrote:Interesting. So many teams cover more territory than the Knicks!
It's surprising since so many New Yorkers move south but I guess they have no reason to hang on to the Knicks.

Don't be too Bonn... it would look a lot different if the map visualized population density.


Oh yeah, there are a huge # of Knicks' fans. They're just all concentrated in a small area.
Gsus @ 5/14/2014 5:05 AM
If this is based on Facebook status or whatever, then it's skewed, otherwise there would be A LOT of orange in Florida, especially Miami, which is basically an outer borough of New York.

New Yorkers, no matter where they end up, don't give up their roots, they say they're from NY till the day they die, so a lot of these Knicks fan who are transplants are still probably New Yorkers on Facebook, so the orange only shows up around New York, not where they actually might be living.

This would explain LA's reach, too. Not a lot of people leave LA, but many people outside of it adopt the Lakers, especially in the mid-west. New Yorkers leave NY in droves because of taxes, finances, weather, etc, but they are rooted, so they never really change their location. That's the only explanation I have as to why there isn't more orange, because, even during games, commentators talk about it all the time, that Knicks fans are everywhere. Atlanta being another city, like Miami, which should have more orange.

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