The Deep 3 Podcast - Tier Listing The Most Depressing NBA Fanbases | TD3 Clips

Episode Date: July 22, 2026

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We are going to put the most depressing NBA fan bases to be in into a tier list. Label them S through F. I'm going to name to you a fan base that we would assume their fans don't have a great time reading for this team. We've got a tier list. And based on just how bad of a time those fans probably have. Okay. Let's start with the Sacramento Kings.

Got to go there first. They really are the gold standard for just tortured fans. It got to be S. They have to be S. It might be S in all the sports, honestly. Like, there really is not a fan base that has had less hope. even the worst teams usually have like one player here or there, one team here or there they feel good about. The best they had was the light the beam team.

We treat them like they want a championship because they had such high hopes because they were the Kings. Even the Browns have been to the second round of the playoffs before the Kings have. And what makes it so sad too is that like the Kings have actually contributed to NBA history in the worst way possible. They literally are dormats. They literally are like washcloths, bro. You sit down. You have to let you have to let go of Mike Brown. You have to let go of Deer Fox.

because you have to let go, Tyrese Halliborne. All those guys made the NBA finals the second they were released from your shackles. The best part is they did not have to let go of any of those guys and they chose this faith by their own volition. And you know what? I want the Kings fans to beat up, but the Kings just don't want that for their fans.

They don't. Next up, Chicago Bulls. They have Caleb Wilson. They have Josh Giddy. They have Modus Bezellus, but they are still the Bulls. They are still destined for mediocrity. How do we feel about,

I mean, it's been 20 years. Most of these fans weren't alive to remember Michael Jordan. So if you are a age 50 and above Bulls fan, it's only like a C or D. You had a time. 30 years since the last year. Yes. You had a time when you were a kid if you're of middle age.

If you are our age or less, you just know despair. Yeah, literally like the highest points of being a Chicago Bulls fans for real over the last less than like 16, 17 years or so is like, Okay, you draft D. Rose, I guess. D. Rose wins the MVP. And then you have that two months span back in 2021 when you had Alonzo, DeMarre, and Zach Levine. Yes, it. The highlight of Modern Bulls fandom is despair of losing Derek Rose. So I think they have to, lo-key, be an A.

Yeah. There's not many more tortured fan bases. They're definitely up there. I think when you start clinging onto 21 game sample sizes in December, you're at the top. To prom to Marrador Rose and Hoops. That was your pinnacle. Tough. That's a Fred Hoidberg, man.

Yeah, that's tough. Dallas Mavericks. Now, you might say this isn't that tortured of a fan base. We are still in the point where we can still talk about Luca Donchich, and it is a open wound with salt being poured in it every day. It's tough. They were tortured for a year, though. They're for the most part, they've been.

But now they got Cooper flag. Yeah. The question is, are they no longer tortured, or are they still going to think about Luca forever? So you can, they're no longer tortured, but obviously you go through something traumatic. It sticks with you for a long time, but you're on the path to healing. And you are healing. So I think they're not. Not S or A.

I think they're like C. Okay, C. Maybe by next year, Cooper Flag is ready to be an all-M-B-A player. They can be D or F or even get off this list. But for now, Nico still gives you nightmares. Yeah.

They find their Carl, though. For my ball and hours out there. Okay. They found their rebound? Yeah. Yeah, well, Carl sucks. Wow. It's Cooper Flagg suck.

Maybe Carl doesn't suck. How about that? Maybe he's Cooper Flag. It's all about perspective. Maybe he's Cooper Flag. Okay. Washington Wizards. the wizards

they never mattered right they really never will but they got agent de bonza now so maybe they do but they have to watch a jay in those hideous ass jerseys oh that's depressing and they like

every team in NBA have some type of updates be even the bulls dude can they fall down to B because they have AJ now because they got the number one pick that gives you at least like one year of not being depressed

cost so bam like drop 80 through on their head oh that sucked yeah put them in I don't know we might we have to go see remember John Wall got hurt because he slipped in the shower. Towards ACL or Achilles. Yeah.

That's just, that's just wild. That's depressing. That's incredibly bad. Remember Bradley Biel? Had a no trade clause. That's depressing. Yeah. Yeah.

Honestly, it might be A, actually. I think they're A normally, but the fact that you got the number one of all picked, that gives you like a one-year probationary period to fall out of real depression, so we can go to be. Okay. They got rookie your hope.

Sure they do. Los Angeles Clippers. I steer You're just forever the Clippers I steer Because the moment Like They had a window

Where they could have started Taking over LA When the Lakers were bad For a couple years Did not Did not get to a conference finals Failed to do everything then You get

Paul George You get Kauai Leonard Go to the bubble Blow a 3-1 lead Now when you start to have Some actual success Some hope on the back end Investigation

Investigation They're depressing Because they're the opposite The Kings The Kings never have anything good The Clippers usually always has something kind of good and is never good enough.

Is it depressing to always lose? Yes. Is it depressing to always almost win? Even more, yes. Yeah, but you know what? They're a unique type of depressing though. They are.

You put them in ass. Would you rather be? Would you rather just always be bad or always be too close? Always be bad. I don't want to be at the precipice every time. I'm always running up the mountain and be pushed back down. Always low.

You don't expect anything at all for the Kings. Okay. The Clippers are eternally pushing that boulder up the mountain and being humble by the gods. They're a living Greek tragedy. Utah Jazz. They're fine. The jazz always like, obviously it's a rough era right now.

They always find their way into like competency every, every decade. They always find something to be happy about. They've been making like a lot of smart moves on the back end of things. We're having all types of picks. The guys Bailey. Cody Williams looks like a good player now again, at least in Summer League. You got better. Yeah.

have Derek Peterson, too, who looks absolutely insane. I think they're in probably B. No, no, actually not B. C with the Mavericks probably. Maybe D, actually. Could they be F? Should they does not be depressed right now? They've been rebuilding the entire time.

The only times where you're depressed is like literally when the lottery comes and you find out you don't get the number of overall pick and you've been perpetually like at 4 or 5, 6. So are they F? I'm going D for them. I don't think they're as tortured as some of the other people. It sounds like he goes on putting an F like there's not torture anymore. You got.

You're a torture for a lot. Losing does suck though. Yeah. They lose a lot. On purpose. On purpose. So we'll go D. Okay.

They're still a little bit tortured. Pelicans. Oh, they might be S actually. They're S. Yeah. You just know there's no lightning in the tunnel. Brother, how do you rebuild your rebuild? They're the first team in May of history to do that.

What do you mean? You drafts on. The Wizards a bunch of times. He drafts on and then you have to get rid of B.I. And then JJ Renet goes away to. The worst part is it's time to rebuild, the rebuild to the rebuild. And they don't know it yet. bro.

They went from Chris Paul to AD to Zion did nothing with it. That's the worst part. They don't know. They don't know they don't have their guy right now. That they need to do a fourth rebuild of the rebuild of the rebuild, of the rebuild, of the rebuild, of the rebuild, of the rebuild, of the rebuild, of the rebuild, of the rebuild. I think, yeah, I think when you start, when you start talking about, did this team even be here anymore? Should they even have the right to exist? We have to go ST.

They let 14 games of DeJonte Murray young at people. Be like, you know what? We don't need to rebuild. He's our guy here. You're ready to your first Pelicans? did not have the right to exist. It's us and baby boy. I guess the world.

Brooklyn Nets. Perpetual little brothers in New York. Have to be a. Yeah, I'll put them in age. Are they that depressed though or do they not give a fuck? No, I think they do.

I think everyone continuously punches down on you for being known as the little brother of the fucking NBA. But that's the thing. It's not even like, they don't care. It's not even little, little brother. No,

trust me, I've been on the murder Thursday. Those are the six people that care. Most of them are. He doesn't give a shit. They're not going on Reddit about it. Nah, they, they care. They care.

It hurts. Notchalant gimmick, but they care. And also, bro, like, over the last, what, four years being in this weird in-between era, not having no young players. Now, of course, like, last year's draft and this year draft is impressing. But, bro, it's been four years to get to this moment.

That's tough. Yep. Your best shot peaked at the second round. Mm-hmm. Tough. Phoenix Suns. This is a real new depressing era. Because now they're in this no picks.

They finally get a pick. They trade it for Miles Bridges. And they're just, the Isbiyah era is depressing. You had, how many years of competency? A lot. Mostly,

most of their history, they're pretty competent until Matt Ischbio came in and now they're nothing close to it. But remember before, before Chris Paul got there, before Monty Williams got there, they were like atrocious.

True. They had the fair share of down times for sure. Yeah, for I would say more often than not, Devin Booker has only had like three really feel good seasons in his career so far with the sons, bro. Other than that, nothing's been good, bro.

Like, you've been trying to see what you can get off of guys like Tyler Ulyss and Marquis Chris, bro. You know, you have multiple draft bus. I'm talking about guys like Josh Jackson and shit like that. Like, there's nothing that's been good for this organization. And you actually have good back-to-back drafts with Cal Bridges. You get Aiton or whatever who's very important for what they're trying to do. It's, it's, they literally struck a lightning, bro. And they went straight back into where they go?

I think C, I guess. Put them in B. I think they deserve to be in B. Move them up. Yeah. They have no picks, too. They traded a 233 pick for Miles Bridges. Oh, yeah, all right, all.

They suck. I did. I didn't forget about that. Milwaukee Bucks, fresh brand new entry to the depressing team club after trading Janus. You just stepped in there.

You're an F. You're enough. Maybe that makes it worse, though, because maybe they're, it's not a freshest run out. It's not even open wound. They just got shot. Like, the knife is in them right now.

But they might just be like, it might be the, the beginning stages of it. But they don't have their own picks, though. Yeah, exactly, so they know a lot of stages are coming. They're not larping. They're going to be depressed for a long time. LARPing.

Are they sad? Are they just sad? Or are they like full out? Oh, but also, they just traded him so they have that brand new short era where they can be like, maybe our new young players are going to win a championship. So we're better without you. We got a young core. He two is really nice out there.

He's from Wisconsin. Kululah, where it can be Wembee. I hate telling good people bad news. Are they good people? Probably all right people. The good people of Milwaukee. Let's go beer A, I think. I think they're pretty fresh.

Put them in B, I think. B's cool. The bad people of Milwaukee. The evil motherfuckers of Milwaukee. Philadelphia 76ers, one of the always most tortured fan bases in sports. They up right now. Well, they're up, yes, you're right.

They think they're up, but you know they're not because every time they think they're up, they'll get even more down. they're the definition of one step forward 16 steps back S tier yeah minimum 8 tier they've gotten so many all stars

and said it's our year it's never their year I want to go A or S I think S easily because they get so many tastes of good things and they do get like somewhat close like they're kind of like the clippers

where they always think like and their bar is eating at high like yes they want to win a chip can we get to the conference finals no can we can we have a healthy joel and B playoff run no it's so much more depressing to have a joel and be bead and see him wither away and be wasted

than he'd be the kings and never have a hope of anything kings fans just exist and just like i don't know just sit on their phone when the game's on sixers fans live and die for this shit yeah and what's even worse about the whole joe and bid thing while he's being wasted is that yo like you're you're going you're having this you're you're having health issues but we have constant guys in the door to help elevate the situation started with ben sim and that died out curved out turned around and you pivoted to James Harden after James Harden Burn and Folder, whatever, saying Darry Mori is a bad person to a bunch of Chinese kids.

You spun around to Tyree's Maxie. Boom, we got VJ. All of a sudden you have fucking Jalen Brown on your team. Guess what? None of it's going to matter. It won't because you're the Sixers and you're cursed. Atlanta Hawks. Work like perpetually mid so C, right?

We're with the Mavericks. The one thing we could say about your teams are perpetually mid. Man, that's depressing. Yeah. It's like I can't even experience like hope like the Pelicans could with when they got Zion. Nothing generation. You can have Pelicans level of hope? No.

I never got Zion on my team. I never had a Joellen B. or Co. Y. Leonard on my team. And then the kings are the faces. So I can't even compare myself for them. You never even had a title of a hero on your team. Hey.

All right, bro. You're doing too much. Don't piss me off. You would die for an awesome. on your team. All right, right. Why the hell are they in A? I'm not the Bulls.

I'm not the Brooklyn Nets. Yes, you are? You are perpetually mid. How are we the Bulls? But you've never had a Derek Rose, though. I never had a one-time MVP, okay, but I've had a massive success. Never had an MVP. Sure, but I've had maximum success in the regular season over the last 15 years.

Yeah, compared to the Bulls. He knows nothing about chips. Compared to the Bulls and the Brooklyn Nets. I've had massive success. You know, a rage baiting me, bro. You just found out of parades one month ago. But I know about it now?

Relax. Relax. His whole gimmick has been, I don't know what success looks like. He's arguing like sincere. But guess though? But guess what though? Guess what though?

You're not a saint. No, no, no. I'd rather, it sucks to be like the 76ers because my hopes would be like crash and burning. You know, I'm real at the end of the day. I know what I see what is.

I know what it is. And I accept it. exactly. I've been fine these ones myself. You know, keep them in put them in C. They're not C. Hey, put them an S. No, don't put them in S.

Put them in S. No, they don't belong in S. Stop it, you're out voted. Put the rest. Bro, that doesn't even make any sense for real at all. That's just stuff pure hate. Too bad. They don't belong in this.

You don't have the mouse in your hand. I can get up and do it right now. They can't. I would you want to bet. You can't. You know what? We'll be civil today. What's that?

I'm not. No, you can't get a little bit back. You can't let him get a word. He said that's what I thought. I'm writing checks that B. Souls has to cash. I'm about to say I'm going to look like that second-play kid. He has the mouse.

Meek-meek.