I am not from America or any of its cities, never been to America, do not have any family in America and have no connections to the country nor any of its cities therefore I do not follow any of their sports teams.
As a teenager I did watch a lot of NBA basketball. Michael Jordan was the don of sports in the ’90s and used to really enjoy watching him play, but I still never felt the need to latch onto any of the teams.
I think it’s very false when people have no connection to a place or team for them to say they’re a supporter of them. A bit sad, in fact.
I couldn’t say I was a Detroit Pistons fan because I enjoyed watching Grant Hill and then walk out of my front door in Manchester Great Britain and breathe the Manchester air and have any semblance of a Detroiter, therefore have no right to be supporting them.
I think supporting your local sports teams represents you as a person more than supporting your county’s sports team. Nobody supports another country in sport so nobody should be supporting another city’s sports team neither.