The NBA’s Best Fans: How The Raptors Turned Hockey-Mad Canada Into Hoopsville

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The Toronto Raptors' 'We The North' campaign has successfully captured the hearts of Canadians and taken their fans from worst to first in the NBA in 5 years. Here's a list of the NBA's best fans:

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Thanks in part to having the most championships in NBA history, the Boston Celtics rank No. 3 among the NBA’s best fans. The Los Angeles Lakers rank No.5—and have been fixtures on this list since its inception. The fact that the Cleveland Cavaliers landed at No. 11 shows why the NBA is considered a superstar-driven league. The Cavs have come and gone from the top ten in sync with LeBron James’ time in Cleveland. Ask any team, though: Bandwagon fans are fans, too.A third straight playoff appearance had Jazz fans glued to their TVs last year before a disappointing first-round exit. Average ratings during the regular season on AT&T Rocky Mountain rose 35%, the third-fastest growth in the NBA.

occupied with flowers, Gigi's #2 Mamba jersey and Kobe's #24 jersey during the January 31, 2020 game at the Staples Center.Although the Lakers missed the playoffs for a sixth straight season last year, they are still the hottest ticket in town: Demand on the secondary ticket market remains the highest in the NBA. Team merchandise is consistently among the top-selling in the league, too, bolstered by LeBron James’ top-selling jersey.

 

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6th place for best fans? Pffft. Get outta here. No one travels like Raptors fans. There is a whole country around this team. And is one of the most internationally loved. WeTheNorth

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Alittle late Forbes but we’ll take it, plus eh fake news we were never worst you are lol

Canada invented basketball. 🙄

You might want to credit SidLee the advertising agency who actually came up with this campaign a few years ago. They're the real heroes behind this.

Been there since 95' You just noticed in the last 5 years.

Worst Excuse you? lies

I mean in all fairness the fans or team were never the worst.

Worst?!! Come on now, I've been going since day 1 and we always had a strong showing!

Obviously not from worst to first. Pretty sure it meant from worst of times.

It hasn’t been 5 years. We the north began in the 2013/14 season.

Dear 'The last handful of years have been quite the hoop dream for the NBA’s northern-most outpost, long known first for its love of hockey.' The 'northern-most outpost' invented both hockey & basketball. It may be helpful to include this information in your articles.

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Worst? I beg to differ.

I love this team so much. Huge heart. WeTheNorth

Trash article. By all measures we weren’t even close to the worst.

Toronto is south of both Portland & Minneapolis. NorthernMost

Cute

I think you're wrong Forbes. Look at Jurassic Park, look at the Raptors fans who take over other arenas in a different country no less. Look at the Raptors fans who show up to watch games standing in the rain. Look at the players express how they never saw fans THAT good....1

key metrics missed: number of fans who travel to away games. when ~15% of an arena are road fans (see celtics or raptors) more meaningful indicator playoff turnout. when 5000-10000 fans gather outside arena (see raptors) for games you got a jurassic level fanbase

🤦🏼‍♂️ Toronto Raptors fan base was never the worst 😂

This is some BS. Worst? Oklahoma is a tiny city of course it’s reach is large in relative terms. Toronto had 3M at a parade, we didn’t burn Kawhi’s jersey, and let’s not forget Lebron’s Game 6 comments when “Let’s go Raptors” went on for 15 min at the end of that ECF year. 🤡🤡

Stick to propping up billionaires and war criminals (often the same people)

Worst what? FoH we top 3 in East for years now. Put some respect on the champs name Raptors

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Raptors were never worst. Get your facts right.

Can someone explain how we went worst to first if we were never the worst fanbase and even now we're still sixth?

Raptors fans were never 'worst' in anything this is silly

T'wolves shoulda beat them to this slogan since we're further north than Toronto

They should use that same energy to boot Trudeau out of office

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