Posted on 08/12/2020 12:52:46 PM PDT by Stravinsky
NBA ratings continue to be inexplicably low this month, with all of the Twitter chatter surrounding the league’s return not translating into an actual increase in viewers.
When the NBA resumed its season at the end of July, many observers assumed it would be a ratings boon for all involved. Networks were starved for sports programming as a result of COVID-19, and basketball’s glut of big name stars should have converted into a ton of viewership.
Only it didn’t.
In the first week of action, the NBA’s ratings immediately sputtered. Rather than spiking due to an increase in hype and intrigue around the return of basketball, the numbers dipped to 14 percent below pre-COVID averages.
Last week, the games that took place from Thursday to Sunday drew smaller ratings than the same period the prior week.
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Let’s go Flyerssss!!!
Nothing inexplicable about it. People watch professional sports for entertainment, not for political lectures by woke TV talking heads and millionaire players.
National Broadcasting Association masquerading as sports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FchEkTYynp0
Leave the masks on. We see through them.
Similar to “unexpected” rise in job numbers. In both cases, who is making the pronouncements?
Then they can enjoy listening to the sound of the worlds smallest violin playing.
360+ players in the NBA share between 3.75 and 4 Billion Dollars. An average salary of roughly $10,000,000.00 per player.
Instead of marveling at the greatness of a country that this can happen in we are subjected to these same players acting as if they are oppressed and treated poorly.
The NBA can die as far as I am concerned. Let these “engineers, accountants, MBA’s, doctors, dentists, and mechanics, car washers, and fast food workers” get a job in the REAL world. Then let them complain.
Millions who like to wag their finger and lecture me all day are strangely not appealing to me...
There’s nothing inexplicable about it. In fact, it’s well deserved.
It’s inexplicable only if you’re a moron.
I started to watch the Spurs game a couple of days ago and got so sickened by all the BLM crap that I turned it off. Maybe that has something to do with the “disappointing” numbers...
This article is profoundly stupid.
Back when people played Dr. Naismiths game it was worth watching. Not anymore
I’m beginning to understand that the terms “inexplicable” and “unexpected” simply refer to the obvious reality that liberals are incapable of recognizing.
It took Target Corporation a LONG time to recover from the PR disaster of gender in public restrooms.
LOL!
The explanation is easy and the Left won’t acknowledge it.
I know personally about twenty former NBA fans who will no longer watch because of the politics. It’s very simple, really.
You go woke, and socialist, you go broke....
Why pay to see a game when you can go out and loot? That’s a sport the fans can play. It’s as good as rollerball.
Inexplicably ???
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