"Hater" may not be the right word.
When a bunch of chumblees in the media insist the guy is the GOAT........ and, at that point..... he quite obviously WAS NOT..... it caused people to get tired of hearing the repeated bullshit...... and develope attitudes toward the guy. Now he is nothing more (obviously) than a PED using whore-dog and people very well know it. Some don't want to admit it..... but that is what he is. Case closed!