Boorometer Rankings: Active Players

 

 

Villains have always been a juicy storyline in the NBA.  There have been League-wide villains, like when Lebron James left Cleveland to go to Miami.[note]Not 1…Not 2…LOL[/note]  There have been villains that only provoke one certain franchise, like Kobe Bryant and the Toronto Raptors after January 22, 2006.[note]Of course other franchises hate Kobe too, but after that 81-point game the Raps, and Jalen Rose, never lived it down[/note]  Then there are the villains that villainize their own team, enter Rajon Rondo… forever a former Maverick.  

 

There are several villains that receive some extra discouragement from MFFLs when they’re introduced in the AAC.  So we surveyed 140-221 people[note]Family feud style[/note][note]At least that’s how many votes we received [/note] and simply ask if MFFLs would boo Insert Active Player’s Name if they were introduced at the AAC.  Here are the results:

Name	Votes	Yes %	No %	Yes Votes	No Votes
TCWSNBN	172	90%	10%	155	17
Rajon Rondo	178	83%	17%	148	30
Patrick Beverley	141	83%	17%	117	24
James Harden	175	82%	18%	144	32
Chandler Parsons	178	48%	52%	85	93
Draymond Green	161	45%	55%	72	89
Russell Westbrook	221	38%	62%	84	137
Dwyane Wade	163	36%	64%	59	104
LeBron James	174	34%	66%	59	115
Kevin Durant	190	32%	68%	61	129
Manu Ginobili	152	29%	71%	44	108

 

TCWSNBN[note]Aka the Clippers Center[/note] received the most “Yes” votes and the highest percentage of Yes Votes which shouldn’t come to a surprise at all.  The Mavs[note]And Wes Matthews wallet[/note] and Mavs fans are still feeling the effects of ‘Emojigate‘ almost a year and a half later.   This is super creepy but enjoy this interpretation of the night TCWSNBN got away…. [note]Told you it was creepy[/note]

 

The second highest ‘Yes’ vote getter needs no introduction, the way he handled himself and waltz up the court in this playoff game a few years ago is all that needs to be said…

 

 

 

Rondo, TCWSNBN, and the two Rockets were the easiest to predict but some of those numbers are really surprising.  

 

After Dwyane Wade and Lebron James mocked Dirk Nowitzki during the 2011 NBA Finals by pretending to cough[note]HAHAHAH THEY ACTED LIKE THEY WERE SICK[/note] Mavs fans have a free pass to boo Wade for the rest of his career.  On the latest Mavs Fanatic Podcast, Chris Arnold said that Mavs fans have a “short memory” regarding the low percentage of MFFLs that would boo Wade.  Arnold reminded us that after the 2006 NBA Finals Dirk said that the Mavericks “blew it” after they lost the championship despite winning the first two games in the series.[note]But we didn’t have to remind you of that…sorry[/note]  Wade’s response to that notion was more than boo-worthy, Arnold recounts that “D-Wade said, ‘you didn’t blow it, we took it! How dare you say we blew it?’ And he refused to shake Dirk’s hand at the All-Star game the year after that.  That’s petty.”

 

(You can listen to our podcast with Chris Arnold in its entirety here and on iTunes)

 

 Only 48% of Mavericks fans said that they would boo former Maverick Chandler Parsons even though this was the actual response the night Parsons first returned to the AAC:

 

The response for Chandler Parsons in the 300s was 'a few loud boos' but mostly apathy. #DALvsMEM pic.twitter.com/Q0cFZPESEH

— Nick Angstadt (@NickVanExit) November 19, 2016

 

 

Mavs Fanatic Podcast: Boorometer Episode

 

Taimon and I were joined by Dylan Duell and broke down the Boorometer rankings and scold the MFFLs that voted ‘No’ on ‘Prop D-Wade’ on the Mavs Fanatic Podcast:

 

https://soundcloud.com/mavs-fanatic/ep-9-mavs-fanatic-boorometer

 

 

Follow this thread on twitter to see the complete poll results