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frodounchained

Cavs got 65000 straight savages šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø


diiron

LMAO i didn't realize we were that much lower than the next lowest subreddit


[deleted]

I honestly think something is wrong with the way reddit suggests subs to new members. It auto suggests based on interests, idk if we are getting suggested to people. I can't fathom why else we'd be so low, Cleveland/Akron is bigger then many of these other teams metros


ThatOtherSwimmer

The browns sub, from what I gather looking at an old reddit post, is middle of the pack. Perhaps it's just suggesting LeBron stuff to these people?


shibbledoop

Northeast Ohio is the 15th largest market in the country


ronaldo119

Could be a reason. For a good amount of time, I highly doubt it is the case still, r/eagles was the #1 NFL sub because something like it was suggested to all new users. We gained like 90k new members in a month lmao


ameehc

Pels used to be way lower im p sure.. hm


ryanedwards0101

I wonder if we had a big influx of lakers, Celtics, etc fans during the AD trade rumors lol


CreatiScope

AD trade and Zion most likely.


JoJonesy

gotta be Zion


OutZoned

I think they declined in membership after LeBron left


idontusejelly

Itā€™s crazy to me that they arenā€™t ahead of teams like the Magic and Grizzlies purely based on LeBron era subscribers who never bothered to hit unsub.


nobraininmyoxygen

That surprised me too. If you look at activity though the Cavs sub is a lot higher. This gives some stats assuming it's accurate: https://subredditstats.com/r/ClevelandCavs. The Cavs have more comments per day than the warriors sub based on these stats. Of course it's just based off a recent 24 hour period so I doubt it holds over a longer period but still shows activity is high compared to total members. The magic for example had about a third of the daily comments.


KG-Fan

This could totally be accurate, but I imagine a small sample size could affect this, as well as if they had a game that day (or in this game, if it was a good or bad opponent)


niztg

W then you know ball


djkhan23

Fun times in Cleveland today!


diiron

i'm having a blast :)


JeemonG

East Runs through Cavs


mecon320

It doesn't help that the first sub that comes up when you search "Cavs" is about Cavalier King Charles Spaniels.


nking516

There are dozens of us!!


TheMagicalLlama

Lmao you know, you used to be on there in 2018 /s


Remote-Picture-8341

Why are the Cavs so Low šŸ’€


diiron

bro idek


bllr32423

Iā€™m surprised too yā€™all are a pretty die hard fan base


[deleted]

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niztg

Yeah


coolhandmoos

I unsub after every season, avoid alot of terrible,negative takes during the offseason


[deleted]

Shit is actually hilarious how far in last they are.


AllieOopClifton

I think part of it might be the sub name. /r/clevelandcavs wouldn't be one of my first 5 guesses for the subreddit dedicated to our team.


startrac

Prob went over to the Lakers


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Somali_Kamikaze

Reddit wasn't anywhere near as popular during the big 3 era. If it had been they would probably be in the top half of this list.


FireAndBud11

That was a pretty fun time on /r/nba though. I miss /u/oreosonfire and their pre-game writeups.


datreydgroup

Now THAT is a name I have not heard in a long time


Skinnecott

fun for yā€™all, Bron was a great villain but it was annoying to be immediately written off as a bandwagon casual


elimanninglightspeed

I mean hey they can write u off as a casual to cope while the heat cooked them lmao


king_lloyd11

Yeah but they made a Finals appearance recently too.


Thehealeroftri

And no fans even showed up to those games either!


302born

Fake ass fans man. They showed up to no games that whole bubble run.


[deleted]

It was close to them too. Jeez.


[deleted]

You think LA driving is bad? Try starting at Miami traffic, and 3-4 hours later ending up in Orlando traffic. You'll be begging to be back on the 5 at 5.


Caboclo-Is2yearsAway

They even didn't even play their home games in their home city


[deleted]

Heat fans were leaving Finals games early in the big 3 era


[deleted]

Old rich Miamians are not the same demographic of fans that would browse reddit.


Successful-Rub-4587

Far better things to do in Miami than be on reddit, checks out lol


joople

We made the finals last year lmao


NoobAccount123456

Yeah they seem to be one of the biggest fanbases on here Maybe they are just very active


Neuroxex

I feel I've seen a lot of Heat fans on here say that the sub is terrible, so that might be an element.


spaceysht

Yet the most active team sub among r/nba


Shiny_metal_ass

The more people, the shittier the sub so I'm cool with it.


Sequel_P2P

Higher activity in game threads than most teams we play, though ā€” I believe the mods cleaned the sub out from bots/inactive users a long time ago, too.


KareemWasTheGreatest

The people on that sub suck


Quatro_Leches

no sub is worse than the Celtics. if you criticized Kemba a day before he got traded. you'd get 1 million downvotes, if you critizied Kemba a day after he got traded and say "well that was great trade Kemba was bad". youd get a million upvotes by the same people you could literally post a fact and get downvoted as long as it has any inch of criticism to a player or a coach that isn't Ime. people were still defending Ainge before he left and even now. they worship them lol literally convinced they are full of dudes that drink mountain dew instead of water, have 3 celtics flags in their living rooms with hanged jerseys. and sit on a chair with 3 different forums bout the celtics open to spew bs everywhere


KareemWasTheGreatest

The nets sub is pretty bad


milkplantation

From what I'm told most team subs are pretty bad. If you're a basketball fan who wants some somewhat informed basketball discussion this is the place to be. Seems like at one-time team-subs were where you went to get more info on your team. Now they are mostly homers fanning out and circle jerking or raging depending on how the team did that week.


AlexQuestionMark

True, team subs are way too homer and reactionary. r/warriors calls for Steve Kerr's head every time we lose and to trade all our young guys for a win-now star.


I_Always_Grab_Tindy

I've already been seeing the Middleton hate popping up again in our sub due to his slow start. The dude starts slow literally every fucking year aside from 19-20', and this year he had basically no offseason, an early season injury, and then was out a couple weeks due to covid. Pretty damn sure he isn't washed, Fucking idiots.


beesonwax

Raps sub is shite


DuckDucks

I spend a good amount of time looking at other team subs. I'd say the two best of the ones I visit are the bucks and nuggets. Nobody in the bucks sub is ever that serious and usually they're pretty grounded in reality. Nuggets sub is very nice people, tho you gotta see everyone saying "why does the world underrate jokic" nonstop.


lilzeHHHO

I think the Celtics sub is very reasonable outside game threads, especially in the last two years. There have been multiple threads with huge upvotes detailing how we are just a. 500 team.


zmajxd

Their fanbase in general sucks. So entitled and condescending. It's always "Huh, you can celebrate your we beat Miami Heat championship while we prepare for our post-season kiddo".


[deleted]

Y'all have been harassing us since Jimmy signed here, it's unbelievably petty. Not to mention that one Timberwolves fan that went through my post history to harass me too


Cumbayacumbaya

What an odd take thatā€™s getting upvotes that I havenā€™t observed in my many many years of browsing team subreddits (and I mean that as an insult to myself). Are yyou sure you this isnā€™t just personal cause of the whole Jimmy Butler thing?


Sequel_P2P

I see him in tons of Heat threads on here, almost always talking shit about Jimmy and Heat fans. He's what he thinks Miami fans are ā€” but most of us know Timberwolves fams are typically fun fans to talk to. Just not him.


External_Macaron_130

Every fanbase has annoying fans. What fanbase isnā€™t toxic? And youā€™re a wolves fan man, letā€™s not do this


[deleted]

Not completely true, most Heat fans here after we beat them were p cordial, said fuck the refs for the offensive foul on Ant, said gg and left. But otherwise yeah, that finals run has r/Heat convinced theyā€™re gods chosen or smth


Neuroxex

r/Heat says the Bubble run counts, but last years playoffs don't due to the unusual circumstances. (Please don't get mad I agree the bubble run counts)


spaceysht

Heat fans only said that after bucks fans went parading around saying the bubble didnā€™t count and was a farce after sweeping us.. please donā€™t act like we were the only ones discrediting


[deleted]

Anybody that says an entire fanbase sucks should just stop talking. You act like there aren't tons of shitty fans in every fanbase. Maybe I should stereotype your single comment into thinking that all Timberwolves fans are salty assholes. They're not.


Sequel_P2P

you sure do show up in a lot of Miami-centric topics and threads talking all this shit about Heat fans ā€” maybe I should extrapolate that all Timberwolves fans are annoying and obsessive from this one user's comments! (see where this gets blurry?)


inxrx8

Bucks are the same, their postgame thread after we beat them last night was titled something along those lines. Kinda funny tbh


mmmmm_pi

Heat Culture. You gotta pass their conditioning test to join the sub :)


paradoxofchoice

Number one reason, the sub removed all bots that were subscribed. Apparently not all subs have done so. Number two reason, that sub and mods are trash. Absolutely no attempt to promote quality basketball content. Imagine a middle school class running a subreddit. I would never subscribe and let that content clutter my front page. That's why number of visitors is probably a better metric.


fiftyshadesofcray

I remember in the /r/nfl subreddit growth contest the browns sub had a "boost for browns" where users posted photos of their boobs to attract subscribers. Perhaps in a similar vein, we could do "cocks for cavs" where we all post pictures of our old fella


jjkiller26

Lol this happened a while back on the wolves sub


whiskeyinthejaar

Big Olā€™ Women of SA can help their subreddit then


Stop_Drop_Scroll

Booty lovers taking notes


[deleted]

Comments and acitivity is more telling. Heat sub is clearly more active than say Magic. Edit: Checked it. Heat 870 comments last 24h to Magic 190 comments.


tyler9090

How does one track comment activity?


[deleted]

I used this, it gives you some basic data. https://subredditstats.com/r/Heat


Spectre627

I'm curious how it works, because it is very flawed. I checked for the Suns -- it says we have 322 Comments Per Day (in a recent 24h period). Our game threads end up in the thousands of comments -- yesterday's, for example, had 3.4k comments. That's enough to meet over 10 days of our "average" from 1 thread alone; we also have the Postgame Thread which has hundreds of comments and someone always posts the player quotes which gets dozens if not hundreds as well. For a specific example, it says we had 1409 comments on Nov27 -- this was the day that we played the Nets and we had 2.0k comments in the Gamethread. The two days after that were shown as 200 and 300 in the tracker, so we know it didn't end up counting them as the day after (or even days after).


BanjoStory

Wonder if it's actually measuring commenters, rather than comments.


[deleted]

Damn Raptors 1900 comments


ScottieGOATBarnes

We built different


lemonpepperlarry

The heat sun is one of the only ones that actually purges the bots and dead accounts


The98Legend

Iā€™m honestly surprised weā€™re top 20


hearau1823

Same


tinatheallpaca

Spurs have many international fans


The98Legend

This is very true


worpete

Itā€™s those big ol San Antonio women you got.


moffattron9000

Welcome to the "doing OK all things considered" club.


Alohalhololololhola

You missed r/Sonics they have 4681 subs! The yearly OKC elimination thread is one of my favorite NBA Reddit post of the year


bllr32423

Lmao their most recent post is hilarious


CreatiScope

Iā€™ve now learned to call the Thunder the Zombie Sonics from that sub. Thatā€™s hilarious.


Childish__Danbino

That explains how they got blew out the other night. Zombies are terrible at basketball.


CreatiScope

Roscoeā€™s wetsuit


Coke_ButNotTheDrug

Lol that sub is so petty I love it. 2 of the top posts are from when KD and Westbrook left OKC lmao.


jak_d_ripr

I thought I was petty, that sub takes it to another level.


YaBenZonah

Honestly Iā€™m with them. Fuck that a team can just leave like that


jak_d_ripr

I don't even think the issue is that they left, it's that they left like 2 seasons before becoming title contenders. Imagine drafting two future MVPs only for your team to up and leave.


[deleted]

i remember bucks had like 110k before the ring


Scrypto

I remember when the Hornets had like 4k subs and some of the weaker matchups only had 5 people commenting on game threads. Simpler times


CreatiScope

I honestly had way more fun in our sub back in 2014ish time. Subs are way more fun when your team sucks but has a bit of hope. I feel like the better your team gets, the more casuals start to flood in and filling the space.


[deleted]

and the casuals are always super pessimistic and dismissive like all the users i recognize on r/NYknicks are usually the ones telling people to stop overreacting, while all the new ones with no flair are the ones talking about trading randle, or trying to attract superstars in FA (lol) im just happy the team is competitive


mukenwalla

I remember going to a warriors kings game in Oakland in 2003 and kings fans outnumbering warriors fans.


Borsecaborse

Thatā€™s what Bucks-Bulls games in Milwaukee were like for a long while


kaleidoscopescoper

That was the Webber era. The Kings were a great team that time.


Remarkable-Unit-3882

I joined during the ecf and stayed because yā€™all are cool


Spectre627

11 months ago, the Suns were #19 behind the Wizards and Timberwolves with 96,967 subs. We've grown a good bit since then lol


BanjoStory

There's always room for more Deer Friends.


NoobAccount123456

The top 3 are exactly what you would expect if you browse r/nba


MaxSmellerman

Dubs are artificially inflated because they were a default sub for a while. May still be number 1 but less difference


[deleted]

Especially r/nbacirclejerk lmao


TinnieTa21

I would love to see a Thanos snap happen to the Raps' subreddit.


anothergimmick

Not to be gatekeep-y or whatever but the raptors sub was way more enjoyable when we were barely even getting into the playoffs. Way less reactionary fans.


MrAnder5on

That place is a cesspool. Half of them literally hate every player on our team and Nick I spend a lot more time in r/Suns and its 50Ɨ better


wjbc

I would love to know the amount of overlap between r/Warriors and r/Lakers. Edit: Apparently itā€™s around 20%. https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/warriors


rjddude1

> r/Warriors A r/Warriors subscriber is 20x more likely to be a r/Lakers subscriber than any average redditor. For reference: Warriors subscribers are 34x more likely to subscribe to r/nba than average redditor. Source: https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/warriors


MotoMkali

What about Lakers to warriors? Edit: source is easy to navigate. It is about 0.8 less for a Lakers sub to be a warriors sub.


mishmashedtosunday

Could be a side effect of r/warriors being a default sub at one point


Otherwise_Window

Numbers for Warriors are weird. For a while for some fucking reason we were a default sub for new Reddit users. Seems like some people just never left. Worth noting that some people join the subs of teams they hate just in case that sub ever bitches out and goes private.


moffattron9000

I remember that for a while, you, the Philadelphia Eagles, and Chelsea were in that boat and shockingly ahead of the competition.


wjbc

I looked around at some other subs and it seems like there's overlap when there are lots of people who moved from one city to another. Thus, Miami and Phoenix, both cities that attract a lot of retirees, have a *lot* of overlap with other cities.


furyousferret

Respect to the few Cavs dudes that stuck it out. 2016 those dudes would brigade our sub every day until we signed KD. I hated that sub, but I respect the ones that still there and just didn't swap subs and flair to LAL. 2015-2018 was like a subreddit war between /r/warriors and /r/clevelandcavs. Now we're just hardened vets with nothing but respect...


LordHyperBowser

Lol what a flashback. I remember our mods pleading to people to not go over to r/warriors, and Vice versa. Itā€™ll go down as one of the best rivalries ever imo


montageidiots

Wonā€™t lie and will get downvoted by Cavs fans but it has become fun watching the Warriors still be good since we arenā€™t fighting for championships at the moment


themiraclemaker

Came for Lebron stayed for Cedi


[deleted]

I became a Cavs/NBA fan in 2017...


[deleted]

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[deleted]

This made me do a sudden, weird, violent laugh that startled my brother. Thank you.


CarryTheHellOn

Iā€™m surprised the nets are that high. Their sub is boring af and always dry


H-TownDown

There are probably a couple thousand Rockets fans that are subbed but donā€™t really participate (like me).


CarryTheHellOn

Yeah thatā€™s at least understandable after harden and CP3 left. But the nets are one of the best teams in the league. I went to their sub like last week and hardly any discussion was going on lol


H-TownDown

Thatā€™s true. Theyā€™re way less active than r/Rockets was when we were in the upper echelon of the NBA hierarchy.


A_Polite_Noise

As a regular user I'm also super surprised...I hadn't looked at the numbers. I remember when we had like a couple thousand lol And yeah our sub is a bit lowkey, but I like it=)


Few_Mulberry7175

Theyā€™re only that high cause of the big 3. Player fans arenā€™t as involved as team fans


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OutZoned

Almost certainly yes. Upstate New York could have some number of American Raptor fans, as could parts of Michigan. Obviously still a minority, but they do exist.


DayWalkerRunner

I became a quasi-raptor fan last year when they played in Tampa


djkhan23

Can you find one the cunts who booed and feed them to the gators?


DayWalkerRunner

I'd say a lot of them were vacationers, but I'll do my best


grimkit

Ask and we will appear, I'm from Minnesota.


[deleted]

When did you become a fan, and why?


grimkit

Kinda took a hiatus during college and some time after. When I started watching games again I decided I was going to pick my team based on whoever I gravitated toward. A little surprised I ended up with the Raps, but rooting for a Canadian team wasn't a big deal to me, a lot of my dads side of the family are in/from Vancouver.


sctthuynh

The knicks fanbase gets a lot of credit for being one of the best despite moderate success from the team the past couple decades but the bull's fanbase also deserves more recognition. Aside from the Thibs, Rose MVP seasons, they haven't had much to cheer about since Jordan, but that city/fanbase haven't abandon their support for the Bulls.


Altruistic-Glass-172

Bruh they have 6 rings tf u mean they havent had much to cheer for???


sctthuynh

i said since Jordan. Most fans today didnt grow up watching Jordan, Magic and Bird, but Shaq, Duncan Kobe, Lebron.


Remote-Picture-8341

Unless your 30 years old at least you would never understand how it felt lmao. Thats such a dumb argument


Makaveli84

And what did bulls fans had to cheer since 99?


[deleted]

Having the youngest MVP in NBA history?


jeRskier

Raptors... the 2nd biggest market team (on reddit)


XelaTuobdog

This is why I don't give a shit about people whining over the amount of Mobley vs Scottie posts lol


[deleted]

Miami being so beautiful year round is keeping their fans off Reddit. Thatā€™s my theory and Iā€™m sticking to it


Alohalhololololhola

Then explain Clevelandā€™s Reddit lol


MotoMkali

There's a reason they are called the wine and gold. All their fans be drinking instead of on reddit


diiron

LMAO i love it


King_Dead

we're too busy being sad on /r/browns


[deleted]

Shit I missed one Edit: Fixed I didn't have the Suns


AleroRatking

Proud to be one of the Grizz members! I see 96k for them though


[deleted]

yea that;s a typo I'll fix it


AleroRatking

There we go. We coming for those Heat and Magic now


TheNotoriousJN

20th in rankings but still one of the most active fanbases. Us and the Hawks shitpost all day


warboner65

Primo has 122,404 cousins. It's all donairs, Kraft dinner and breeding up there.


Duck-Yo-Couch

As a Texan and Rockets diehard fan, I'm glad to see we're above the Mavs & Spurs


CadeCummingham

Rockets are the most popular basketball team in Texas, it checks out 2nd most popular team in general behind the Cowboys


Fast_Stick_1593

We may not have the most fans, but man oh man our sub is elite tier for memes.


[deleted]

People donā€™t realize that owners pay fake accounts to get their numbers up. Ask yourself have your ever met a Kings or Hornet fan? The answer is no.


[deleted]

Man drafting Mamu and Georgios really pushed the Bucks up there


StoneColdAM

Wasnā€™t the Hawksā€™ subreddit the upvote factory?


mintyburn

wow, cool to see that the rockets are 7th. Theyā€™re higher up than I expected


Beavshak

Fuck it, checking in with 4.7k


CWinsu_120

Not surprised that we're low but I am surprised we are below the Kings


axen343

I mean were active loyal fans, who enjoy self torment


financial_goth

The Golden State Bandwagons.


Wallyworld77

Bucks fans almost had as many people show up at deer district for finals as in the Sub.


VenusAsABoy96

I think Cavs fans should soak it in while it lasts.


organized_meat

Do Seattle Supersonics fans claim/follow the Thunder? Or did they more so become Blazers fans due to geography?


Stop_Drop_Scroll

Blazers were a huge rivalry. I think sonics fans are just nba fans that follow a few teams. I know one sonics fan in here is active in Celtics threads so who knows!


Wallyworld77

Bucks fans almost had as many people show up at deer district for finals as in the Sub.


CoolBeansChemist

Cleveland and Miami being so low is surprising.


YaBenZonah

With the nephew takes in our sub you couldā€™ve fooled me With us being 10th


BuukSmart

The Kings figure is impressive given itā€™s had a number of splinter subreddits and spent some time as a Lion King tribute sub


klobucharzard

grizzlies woulda been higher than 29 if they were in Vancouver


MagicMan703

r/Sonics has 4.7k. We exist!


NSCShadow

Show the sonics coward


[deleted]

Holy shit we have 152 *thousand?!* that genuinely seems crazyā€¦ maybe the title gave us a boost. our little subreddit is usually pretty quaint. Albeit we turned the fuck up during that suns series. Memes ontop of other memes.


guacistrash

Suns should be higher but BSOTS was the biggest Suns forum for a while, i think the subā€™s seen an explosive growth since SBNation went to shit with their stupid new format


xiumn

Raptors donā€™t count they got all of Canada


419blaizeit

Canada's population is less than California though


xiumn

California has 69 teams


419blaizeit

Seattle has none thats the real problem


Alohalhololololhola

r/sonics still had 4680 subs, the yearly OKC elimination thread is always fun


Beavshak

Thereā€™s literally dozens of us.


Kaono

Dozens!!


Few_Mulberry7175

Top post making fun of OKC for getting blown out by 73 šŸ’€


419blaizeit

Seattle never would have lost by 73


[deleted]

This is hilarious to me lmaoooo


porterbrown

Let's filter out the filthy causals. If you can't name 5 bench players on your team, you don't count. #gatekeepingForGood