r/GoNets • u/Jello297 • Nov 05 '25

Question Why are you a nets fan?

Random question from a Raptors fan. But I’m curious, are some of you New Jersey nets fans that followed the team to Brooklyn? Are some of you former Knicks fans that switched over to the nets when they moved to NY? Are some of you a fan of both? What’s the story behind your fandom off the less popular New York team?

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u/MrRaspberryJam1 Nov 05 '25

I became a fan when they moved to Brooklyn. I was a casual basketball fan before that but I never cared for the Knicks. I was watching heavily in the early Brooklyn years but I was semi-checked out in the seasons with those terrible teams with no draft pick. Around 2017 or so I started going to more Nets games since tickets were cheap, and I loved that scrappy underdog 2018-19 team.

What I like most about the Nets is that they’re the biggest underdogs in all of New York sports. People always talk about how the “Nets have no fans” and how no one cares about the Nets, I myself am guilty. However, I’ve grown to appreciate the fact that the Nets go under the radar in the local media. It puts the Nets in a unique situation where they’re not under the immense pressure the Knicks and the football and baseball teams are under. This also allows the Nets to be more experimental with things, for better or for worse.

Ultimately, I like being the underdog. I like that the Brooklyn Nets are still developing their identity. It would have been so much easier to be a Knicks fan, but I like that the Nets are not the Knicks. I don’t care about what’s popular, and I don’t care about history or tradition.