Posted on 10/04/2020 11:44:57 AM PDT by conservative98
The NBA took another L Friday.
Game 2 of the NBA Finals between the Lakers and Heat utterly collapsed with just 4.5 million viewers. The embarrassing average is down wait for it 68% from last years Game 2, which featured a team in Canada.
How bad is the number? Its the least-watched NBA Finals game on record. Dropping even below Game 1s 7.41, the lowest-viewed Finals opener in history.
There is no way for the media to spin this positively. Declines of this magnitude are unheard of. Then, factor in the tank-job occurring with the leagues biggest individual and team draw in the Finals the NBA is officially a disaster.
A ship doesnt sink for one reason, but undoubtedly, politics sit atop the historical tank.
After nearly two decades of reinventing the NBA discussion, LeBron is now a detriment to the leagues brand.
With misleading social statements, lying about putting human rights before his brand, bowing to China, refusing to comment on the shooting of two police officers, paying for fines so felons can vote (for Joe Biden), and craving celebrity worship LeBron now alienates more viewers than he attracts.
The NBAs new self-inflicted identity is written in ink. Millions of turned-off Americans associate the NBA with radical politics catered to only a minimal number of sports fans.
How much lower can the ratings drop? Find out tomorrow.
“When will the players start feeling the consequences of this in their pocketbooks?”
Not until new tv deals are signed by the leagues.
The current NBA deal runs through the 2024/2025 season. Fortunately for the NBA they signed an extension in 2014, long before the WhuFlu and BLM came along.
The NFL deal is up after the 2022 season.
I’m sure there are protections in the contracts for the networks concerning ratings. But it will take a while for the burn to reach the athletes.
The big names have guaranteed contracts and will get paid regardless. Unless their teams cut them and eat a partial loss of their pay.
These woke athletes are going to be living in interesting times.
This is a big reason why the quality of play in the NBA has deteriorated so much over the years, by the way. The only way to win is to put 2-3 stars on the team and fill out the rest of the roster with a bunch of guys playing for the minimum salary.
America has overcome its addiction to Pro Sports.
I hope that when that does happen the players unions call for a strike. It will only hasten their demise.
But what are their TV ratings in China?
Nobody can stand La Braun James. I know I can’t. He’s truly a China bought and paid for POS.
My daily Schadenfreude.....
SO? Who cares?
Care that the an-anti American communist Democrat pushing trash company that was pushing politics is tanking and losing power and other companies are seeing what happened to the NBA when they supported the BLM and Antifa mobsters and smeared millions of fans, yes! This is great news.
LeBrain&cohorts over-achieved.. again.
Bassetball?
The embarrassing average is down wait for it 68% from last years Game 2, which featured a team in Canada.
Ship of fools, and LeBron is the Shang Xiao (Captain).
Well maybe if the ratings drop low enough they can change the uniforms so the team names and the player names are in Hanzi - they can then at least recoup some of their losses in the overseas market they so badly covet.
[for those unfamiliar with Hanzi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters]
I love watching the NBA self-immolate.
They should have gotten a real job.
Guess we can assume that all the viewing in the Nation’s prisons is included...
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