As a lifelong Bay Area sports fan going to college in Los Angeles, I receive a fair share of smack talk for supporting teams like the Giants or the Sharks. But as historic as the Giants-Dodgers rivalry is or however intense Sharks-Kings games get, nothing in 2016 gets people more riled up than when I out myself as a Golden State Warriors supporter.
“Yo, f— the Warriors,” is usually the response, followed by an avalanche of complaints about how the Warriors are just not fair, how they’re ruining the game and how Kevin Durant is a bigger traitor than Benedict Arnold.