Huge difference between calling something ridiculous and asking that it stops.

Nah, dude... It's not a "huge" difference. It's a tiny difference. If a "fan" agrees with you that it's ridiculous, then they will want to stop being ridiculous. If they disagree, then they will probably be offended. At the end of the day, you're a dick either way because you don't respect their habits and are almost certainly trying to put them in an "awkard" position of changing or defending themselves. The passive aggressive title suggests that you're not talking to those people, but this is /r/nba. You knew there were plenty of fans who would also see your submission.

You seem to just not like big words.

Nah, dude... I love big words. I just don't like the way you use them. Aside from being awkward to the point of being poor English, it's not suited to the topic. First, grab an english textbook, and study. Second, take that shit to /r/philosophy or /r/atheism where people more like you will eat it up.

Socially awkward in the sense of being on the far low end of the spectrum of fandom wouldnt be correlated using more than one syllable in an effort to be clear.

Wow... Thanks for the extra detail presented with a few more impressive big words, but it's not necessary. Rest assured, I understood what you meant the first time. The point of my comment was to correlate the awkwardness of your language with your awkwardly vocal criticism of "fandom" (as you're now putting it). I understand that you're coming of age, and all of these ideas rattling around in your head seem extra special. I'm just here to tell you this one isn't. You're literally and unwittingly whining out the textbook definition and calling it ridiculous. Get over yourself.

Weird that you would begin to answer a question and assume you'd be able to complete your answer in a response (but then again, when you leave condescending comments regarding word choice, you know you'll provoke the opportunity).

I didn't assume. I could see that you had a curious mind with an aggressive mindset, so I thought it was likely that you'd engage with me. Beyond that, I really just didn't care that much. This has been entertaining, though. It takes me back 20 years to when I used to think it was fun to argue on the internet with strangers all the time... just like you.

Had you not heard the term hooper? Do you hoop?

Bruh, come on... This is /r/nba. We be ballin' up in here.