Are the Heat the most hated team ever?

[deja vu]

Please aware me.

[JohnFreeman]

Detroit, Chicago, Lakers and Boston are up there

[Fudge]

Bad Boy Pistons are definitely up there. Might've been even worse with them.

[deja vu]

Detroit, Chicago, Lakers and Boston are up there

Don't think so. Opponents respect these teams.

[JohnFreeman]

Don't think so. Opponents respect these teams.

People respect the Heat?

[1987_Lakers]

Don't think so. Opponents respect these teams.

You are clueless if you think opposing players respected Detroit. People hated Detroit because they were so dirty and physical.

You had Parish knocking out Laimbeer, Barkley connecting punches on Laimbeer. Isiah & Mahorn were dirty as hell too.

[JohnMax]

If they win championship, they will be most hated team in any sport, not just basketball.

[J Shuttlesworth]

Don't think so. Opponents respect these teams.

I think every opponent the Heat faced this playoffs called LeBron the best player in the world

[VengefulAngel]

I think every opponent the Heat faced this playoffs called LeBron the best player in the world

There is no one close to Lebron as a basketball player at the moment. Don't give me Kevin Durant, he's no where near the player maker/facilitator and defender Lebron is.

Lebron impacts the game in every way , Kevin Durant scores points.

[Micku]

I think the bad boys Pistons were the most hated team ever. Nobody liked Bill Laimbeer (every non pistons player wanted to punch him)and some players didn't like Isiah. And this rant by Johnny Most is legendary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu8Da3pe9h0


But the 2011 Heat are up there tho. Nobody liked them either, but they didn't really want to fight them, they just want to beat them very very badly. It cooled down tho it seems. The Pistons are the team other players wanted to fight.

[LongLiveTheKing]

Yes they are. They can't win even win being the most hated team. People never want the Heat to be at the top of any greatest/most all time list

[Cold soul]

Yup. Top 5 or so.

[wagexslave]

No team will ever be as hated as MJ's Bulls were at the time because in sports the greater you are the more haters you have. And trust me, I know a lot of people that may respect MJ's Bulls now, but they couldn't stand them more than any other team in existence at the time. And Bron's Heat aren't nearly great enough to draw that much hate from people. The mid-00's Spurs were even way more hated than current Heat.

[ABfor3]

Bad Boy Pistons were dirty and they knew how to win. Everybody hated them

[DaSeba5]

They have a strong case. This is the first super team in the media age. LeBron's Decision was never done before and everyone hated it. Millions of people discuss basketball online. You didn't see million of people hating on a team on the Internet in the 80s and 90s. Forums, sites, Facebook, Twitter, and so on full of hate for one team. Plus Miami gets constant coverage on sport networks 24/7. ESPN talks about the Heat all of the time, making people dislike them either more.