Fansided

Every NBA team’s biggest celebrity fan

By Brendon Kleen

LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 22: Beyonce and Jay Z laugh during the game between the Brooklyn Nets and the Los Angeles Clippers at Staples Center on January 22, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and condition of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 22: Beyonce and Jay Z laugh during the game between the Brooklyn Nets and the Los Angeles Clippers at Staples Center on January 22, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and condition of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) /
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA – JULY 12: Writer/creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone speak onstage at the ‘South Park’ panel during the Hulu portion of the 2014 Summer Television Critics Association at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 12, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – JULY 12: Writer/creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone speak onstage at the ‘South Park’ panel during the Hulu portion of the 2014 Summer Television Critics Association at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 12, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images) /

Denver Nuggets: The South Park/Book of Mormon Guys

What does your NBA team do before tip-off? It’s probably some hip-hop beat playing while the PA announcer sets the lineups and prepares the crowd for the game. Maybe a loud buzzer sounds, or the arena goes dark. A lot of times, people will stand up to get a good view of the first possession. In Denver, thanks to the team’s relationship with Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the South Park character named Cartman will get the crowd going.

Anyone who lives West of Texas has been to Denver once. They have ski slopes, good summer weather, and a growing downtown. Other than that, it rivals Austin and Portland as one of the weirdest cities around. Their legislators have turned the name “Nuggets”, which once referred to finding gold in the mines, into a punchline for recreational marijuana users.

Sports rarely come into play on South Park, which mostly keeps to its own world. Celebrity cameos come to South Park from other parts of the fictional world, but the kids never go see a Nuggets game or anything realistic like that. It’s a real-world interest of the show’s creators, not simply a creative game like so much of their lives. Nuggets fandom represents a chance to step out from behind the curtain of their tremendous work.

The duo both grew up in Colorado, and their show is set there. Their Nuggets fandom is more by birth than passion, but the small circular young men that South Park brings to life are the most fun and silly fans of any NBA team.

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