10 Times Fanbases Got Completely Screwed

No one can truly know all of the factors that led rich dad, poor general manager Doc Rivers to trade Reggie Bullock (former first round pick and semi-rotation player), Chris Douglas Roberts (rotation player and decent wing defender), Shavlick Randolph (human flotsam), and a 2017 second round pick (a decently valuable commodity) for fringe NBA player Austin Rivers. Looks like Doc was scouring for some brownie points on the home front. Sure this isn't the worst deal in NBA history but it sure doesn't look good! I feel bad for the five diehard Clippers fans. For a second there it looked like the Clippers were a real organization.

When Clay Bennett and co. purchased the Supersonics in 2006 from coffee magnate Howard Schultz, folks should have been more worried than they were. Even though there was language in the purchase contract mandating a good-faith effort to keep the team in Seattle it looked awfully fishy that a bunch of business people from Oklahoma City (a city that hosted the Hurricane Katrina dislocated New Orleans Hornets and had an NBA sized arena just gathering dust) were purchasing a team in Seattle to just keep it there. Given documents later released it seems as if at least a few people in the new ownership group were pretty determined to bring the Supersonics home to OKC and name them after then WNBA team they wished they had. What stings so much isn't necessarily that a team moved from city to city but what happened once the team moved. The Sonics already had promising rookie Kevin Durant. He would soon be joined by Russell Westbrook, Serge Ibaka, and James Harden :( creating a juggernaut of a team that the great fans of Seattle would have thoroughly enjoyed watching.

Look at this smug bastard, a villain of cartoonish proportions. Defending the use of a racial slur as the name of his team? Check. Being generally acrimonious towards the fans? Check (the man sued people who could no longer afford his ridiculously priced season tickets to watch his crappy football team, also he banned bringing signs to the game, a nightmare for sure). Fielding crappy team after crappy team year, after year, after miserable year? Check. Daniel Snyder is the worst owner in sports and an even worse human being.

I believe that teams should be named according to their play on the field. The Browns should be renamed the Cleveland Turds. They've earned it. The Browns excel at giving fans false hope. In an era where Detroit has a serviceable and, dare I say, fun NFL team. In an era where there is unparalleled parity in the NFL, where turn arounds happen faster than ever, it is remarkable that The Browns haven't even given a glimmer of hope. These are the dudes they've rolled out as franchise saving QB's: Jimmy Clausen, Johnny Manziel, Tim Couch, Brady Quinn, Colt McCoy, and Brandon Weeden. This is a veritable who's who of busts in the NFL. For Christ's sake people thought Derek Anderson could save the Browns. The Cleveland Turds...where dreams go to die.

Being a Sox fan was nigh unbearable until 2004. I should know, I was there. We endured more than any fan base should have to. It was all because of this, the initial terrible trade. If this trade happened today Twitter wouldn't know what to do with itself. Kim Kardashian wishes she could break the internet like this would. Would the Cavs trade LeBron for a bag of basketballs and some old sneakers? I rest my case. Go Sawks!

A franchise so wholly incompetent on every level they almost hired Isaiah Thomas twice. I bring you...the New York Knicks! It would be a truly monumental task to list everything that is wrong with the Knicks. Here is a sampling. Phil Jackson sounds like your grandfather when he talks about basketball, James Dolan is the front man of a band called JD and the Straight Shot and this is truly all you need to know about the man, Stephen A. Smith is one of their biggest fans, Carmelo Anthony and the case of the missing cajones, Eddy Curry, Eddy Curry again, Eddy Curry a third time, trading away Zach Randolph, paying Allen Houston an obscene amount of money, actually...paying everyone an obscene amount of money, and to top it all off trading for Andrea Bargnani. They make the Kings look like the Spurs.

Gary Bettman was appointed first commissioner of the NHL in 1993 under the auspices of ending labor strife. Mission Accomplished! He's been about as successful as a Pinkerton. Let's see...three lockouts, a canceled season, two shortened seasons, and mass realignment of teams from hockey cities to places like Nashville and Charlotte. For a moment during all of this the NHL was regaining it's mojo. Folks were tuning in to the NHL. This was a big happening! Then Bettman and the owners locked the players out and canceled a season. I'm not sure if most of America even knows the NHL still exists.

You may be asking, "tons of teams have moved, why the Whalers?" Well because I grew up rooting for the Whalers and I'm still not over it, ok? But besides me being a homer a case can be made that this move was particularly sucky. First, Connecticut has nothing going for it in the way of sports. We grew up either rooting for New York or Boston in every sport. It was cool having a team of our own. Second, what a great logo. Third, the Whalers were an objectively terrible team. They were poorly run and made terrible trades all the time. Pretty much as soon as they moved to Carolina they got good! They made the playoffs a bunch and even won the 2005-2006 Cup. Devastating.

Remember when the Lakers were good? Me neither. What's amazing is that they won a championship as recently as 2010. That team was pretty good - prime Kobe Bryant, Andrew Bynum, and Pau Gasol - and it looked like the sky was the limit for that team. My, my how things change in the NBA. That team ended up flaming out in a glorious blaze of injuries and Lamar Odom/Andrew Bynum insanity. However, in typical Lakers fashion it looked like they would have a quick reboot with a very favorable trade for Chris Paul. At the time the Hornets were owned by the NBA. David Stern thought the deal wasn't good enough for the team that he owned and he vetoed the trade. Shortly after the Clippers ended up with Chris Paul and the rest, as they say, is history.

No one. Every sector of every fanbase have been screwed by the NFL one way or another. Some examples: the NFL covered up information about the danger of concussions and repeated blows to the head, the NFL suspends everyone for seemingly stupid reasons, the NFL has consistently been softer than baby poop on domestic violence, and the NFL made a ridiculous mess of the Saints with Bountygate (the most overblown scandal that ever was).