Comments Off on LA vs. OKC for a Confused Fan: Picking Sides When Loyalties Collide
Growing up, I was never that much of a basketball fan. That's probably because it was one of those sports I could never get good at no matter how hard I tried. Like so many Midwestern, white kids... and more particularly middle-class kids from Oklahoma City, a future in basketball was not on my radar.  So, I did what everyone else was doing; I joined a soccer team and then ended up playing some high school football. Oklahoma City's professional sports focus was the Oklahoma Sooners football team in those days, and despite what people say about my USC Trojans, I intentionally call the Sooners professional because I know many players have profited off of their Sooner allegiance. And no, I'm not talking about by getting drafted early. It was by complete chance that OKC ended up with the ...

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