Fansided

Every NBA team’s biggest celebrity fan

By Brendon Kleen

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PHOENIX, AZ – APRIL 02: Musicians Macklemore and Ryan Lewis perform at the Capital One JamFest during the NCAA March Madness Music Festival 2017 on April 2, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images for Turner Sports)
PHOENIX, AZ – APRIL 02: Musicians Macklemore and Ryan Lewis perform at the Capital One JamFest during the NCAA March Madness Music Festival 2017 on April 2, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images for Turner Sports) /

Utah Jazz: Macklemore

Let me start by saying that I have no idea why Macklemore is a Jazz fan. The 34-year-old rapper was born in Seattle at a time where the Supersonics still existed and were actually pretty good. He had no need to look elsewhere for a favorite team. Yet somehow he started to peer a little to the South and a little to the East, toward Salt Lake City. There, apparently, young Macklemore found a Jazz team to root for.

I will also say that basically everyone is a fan of the John Stockon-Karl Malone pick-and-roll. Even my mom knows who Stockton and Malone are. She probably could not name two Sonics. It’s just strange because of the perception we have of Seattle as a city deprived of basketball, with its team ripped from its grasp. Macklemore was over the Sonics before the NBA was over the Sonics.

As a scrawny dude who looks nothing like a basketball player, maybe Macklemore was drawn to the excitement of watching Stockton, another scrawny dude who looks nothing like a basketball player. The rapper wore the point guard’s jersey for a show in 2013, which is what sprang the Macklemore-Jazz relationship into existence:

The curse of a small market team is that if there’s a celebrity for every several thousand regular people, having less regular people also means less celebrities. Utah is a small market, so the Jazz had to go and steal their fan. The final problem to solve is whether or not Macklemore is even a celebrity at all. He hasn’t been successful since the release of his single “Downtown” in 2015. If a celebrity fan cheers in the quiet fortress of their downsized apartment and no one hears it, they never really cheered at all.

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