Which NBA team has the most loyal fanbase?

By YPB Team

Attendance figures are one measure. Turning up through a decade of losing seasons is a completely different one.

  1. Boston Celtics — ranked #11
    Boston Celtics
    A city that treats the parquet floor as civic property and sells out regardless of the standings.
    1000pts
  2. Sacramento Kings — ranked #22
    Sacramento Kings
    A fanbase that fought off a relocation to Seattle and rang cowbells through 16 losing seasons.
    622pts
  3. Miami Heat — ranked #33
    Miami Heat
    Reputation says they arrive in the second quarter; the playoff decibel readings say otherwise.
    551pts
  4. Utah Jazz — ranked #44
    Utah Jazz
    A small market that has led the league in attendance percentage without ever winning a title.
    551pts
  5. Indiana Pacers — ranked #55
    Indiana Pacers
    Basketball is the state religion, and the Pacers inherited the congregation.
    551pts
  6. San Antonio Spurs — ranked #66
    San Antonio Spurs
    The smallest market with five titles, and a crowd that never treated them as routine.
    551pts
  7. Toronto Raptors — ranked #77
    Toronto Raptors
    A whole country's fanbase, and the Jurassic Park crowds that watched from the street.
    466pts
  8. Chicago Bulls — ranked #88
    Chicago Bulls
    United Center still fills up decades after the last banner went up.
    466pts
  9. Los Angeles Lakers — ranked #99
    Los Angeles Lakers
    The biggest travelling support in the league, and a home crowd that fills every road arena too.
    363pts
  10. Golden State Warriors — ranked #1010
    Golden State Warriors
    Roaracle sold out through 40 years of mediocrity before the dynasty arrived.
    363pts
  11. Cleveland Cavaliers — ranked #1111
    Cleveland Cavaliers
    A city that burned a jersey, forgave, and then got the 2016 parade.
    363pts
  12. Milwaukee Bucks — ranked #1212
    Milwaukee Bucks
    The Deer District turned an entire downtown into an outdoor stand in 2021.
    363pts
  13. Oklahoma City Thunder — ranked #1313
    Oklahoma City Thunder
    A city that adopted a borrowed franchise and made it the loudest building in basketball.
    362pts
  14. Detroit Pistons — ranked #1414
    Detroit Pistons
    A blue-collar crowd that adopted the Bad Boys identity and never gave it up.
    362pts
  15. New York Knicks — ranked #1515
    New York Knicks
    Five decades of near-misses and Madison Square Garden still sells out every night.
    233pts
  16. Portland Trail Blazers — ranked #1616
    Portland Trail Blazers
    Blazermania survived one championship in 1977 and every lean decade since.
    233pts
  17. Philadelphia 76ers — ranked #1717
    Philadelphia 76ers
    A crowd that booed its way through The Process and never stopped turning up.
    233pts
  18. Denver Nuggets — ranked #1818
    Denver Nuggets
    Forty-seven years of waiting before the 2023 parade, with the building full most of them.
    233pts

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