It wasn’t always this way. I grew up a Seattle SuperSonics fan. I’m from Northwest Washington, and you can’t get much further away from basketball and still be in the United States. Over the last few years, I have finally accepted the fact and started rooting for the “local” team, the Portland Trail Blazers.
It was always going to be tough to pick another team. One of the best players from my county, Luke Ridnour, even got drafted by the Sonics, meaning that I got to watch someone play on the team I root for in the pros, that I watched as a kid in high school.