Only down 23%. . .surely American patriots can do better than that!
After getting dunked on repeatedly over collapsing NBA ratings, Mark Cuban turned off comments on his Twitter feed. https://t.co/yYp05rMpoa— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 31, 2020
Note to NBA and other like type fools, you only kneel for the Lord.
Wonder what the demographics were...
I believe it is the combination of ‘race politics’, the thuggeries enacted by the team members off the court-overpaid as they are, the virus’ imposed fear tactics, and the association’s anti-Trump stand.
Seriously though, canned basketball on a TV screen is very boring... I watch March madness and that's about it, and apparently there will be none again until 2022. Pro basketball is complete nonsense.
Good idea,,,,go to China,,,,,These clowns destroyed their futured by themselves..........they forgot who pays the bills......
Too many variables to know how much of this can be blamed on COVID-19, politics, and/or a bad format (i.e. The Bubble). But with a mostly captive audience with limited options for entertainment (pro sports, college sports, movies, etc.), you would think a higher percentage was possible.
Covid victim?? The kneeling turned off a lot of folks and they ain’t coming back and they killed their own profession.
Vast majority of fans going to NBA games are white.
Great business to dis those who pay the bills.
https://www.city-journal.org/nba-mlb-boycott-black-lives-matter
I think Breitbart may have actually understated the NBA's problem.
Also interesting: nobody's talking about demographics.
Let me know when Larry Bird’s Celtics are playing Dr. J’s Sixers for the right to play Magic Johnson’s Lakers in the NBA Finals....
Channel surfing 2 seconds on NBA game, and see painted on court “Black Lives Matter”
Read my lips, fellow Americans, this is simple.......”Sports & Politics” never mix well. If our athletes want to grind their personal politics into their professional daily lives, then they will be abandoned by their faithful fan followers. If they so desire to play in political games then I suggest they do it on their own time and at their own expense.
If I so desire to watch a football, basketball, hockey game or, a NASCAR Race I do not want their political bent to become part of that activity...period!!! People like LeBron James and company are just killing the goose that lays their egg. Too bad....they are so taken in by themselves,filled with false ego, to see how stupid and foolish they are!!!
I recall some years back in the mid ‘90s period, someone in a discussion I was in on said Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recently remarked about how the NBA by that time had way considerably fewer players who really knew how to play basketball compared to when he started out as a player in that league. You wonder if the slam dunk along with how big and strong and fast the players are nowadays compared to the 1960s to early 1980s era greatly contributed to that.
The league has tried to blame the coronavirus and its effects; however, SportsBusiness Daily recently noted that ratings for last season were also bad, as the 2018-2019 season lost 12 percent in viewership. That, of course, was pre-pandemic.
I'm going to assume the 12% drop in TV viewership was for the regular season in 2018-19.
In addition:
Other ratings reckoning also finds the NBA has lost viewers. ShowBuzz, for instance, noted that the league lost 28 percent in the important 18-49 age bracket.
I guess that may explain the pandering to the SJWs out there, but good luck with that.
GOOD
I hear the the word NBA and I immediately think of LeBron’s face. That does it for me.
Self inflicted wound. Jerks never should have refused to play. Selfish uneducated morons playing a game for money.