Posted on 08/02/2020 4:37:49 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
The NBA resumed its season Friday night with two televised games. How were the ratings? Ethan Strauss of the The Athletic reports:
After a four-and-a-half month absence, tons of lead-up media coverage regarding the bubble, with little competition on the airwaves and a schedule specially constructed to deliver us the draw of Zion Williamson, Pelicans-Jazz garnered 2.1 million viewers. For context, that’s roughly 400,000 fewer viewers than the average audience of a TNT game in the 2011-12 lockout season. Notably, the NBA’s official Friday viewership news release did not mention the season’s opening game at all.(Emphasis added)The more feted Lakers-Clippers matchup did better, but its 3.352 million viewers fell short of expectations, even adjusted for the fact that the game also aired on local RSNs. Basically, the Lakers-Clippers bubble opener roughly equaled the Lakers-Clippers season opener audience, only the latter was going against a World Series game. Baseball, despite all its controversies, managed an audience of 4 million for its Yankees-Nationals opener and 2.8 million for the Dodgers-Giants nightcap last week. For another comparison point, both season-opening NBA games in 2017 topped 4 million viewers.
Why the poor ratings? Strauss tosses out a grab bag of possible explanations as to why more viewers aren’t tuning in:
Chalk it up to load management, post-Warriors hangover, China, cord-cutting, kneeling, whatever your pet theory is, but the bottom line is that the NBA has been losing on the domestic front.I know why I didn’t tune in, and won’t ... the remainder of this season. It isn’t so much China and the kneeling. It’s more the expectation that the NBA isn’t going to settle for a nod to BLM before at at the start of the games, but instead will subject us to propaganda throughout the proceedings.
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NBA basketball has been a bad product for many years. The kneeling millionaires are just the final straw. Important point: young people don’t watch sports like their parents did. That isn’t going to change.
I have to wonder who they think will pay for their princely salaries,
I have to wonder who they think will pay for their princely salaries,
“Think”? I believe you’re asking way too much from these, ummm, gentlemen.
Pray to your god Baal. You know, the one you kneel to. Maybe he can aff I Rd you.
Disillusioned and disgusted Boston Celtics fan here of some 50 years here who’s finding it extremely difficult to muster up any enthusiasm for my team.
Also, Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn appeared on Justice with Judge Jeanine Pirro last night and aptly described the NBA now as the National Beijing Association.
Finally, the fact that Commissioner Adam Silver has become a maximum contributor/donator to Sleepy Joe’s campaign is another harsh turnoff for me.
I’ll bet the ratings are worse than they are saying.
Just imagine where the ratings are for the freak WNBA.
When you think of the WNBA, you think of Deuce Bigalow meeting Sexy Fluisa:
Have you ever parked your bicycle in an airplane hangar?
Have you ever thrown a toothpick into a volcano?
The WNBA is filled with Fluisa’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCVTs4Wetg0
HaHaHahaHa...
Good...it’s the Sino-BLM league now...
They should not invest in silver!
My kids and I are huge bball fans. I took my daughter to a sports bar to watch the Clipper / Laker game. 7 minutes into the game I said to my daughter, this really is boring. At the end of the first quarter she said lets give to halftime and if gets better we stay. 5 minutes into the 2nd quarter she said “lets go”. We did.
4 of the best bball players in the world were playing against each other and it was borrrrrrrrrinnnggggggg.
Watching it was almost surreal with no fans, players spaced far apart on the benches, etc. And BLM stuff was posted everywhere.
What a great way to end the day! Some good news!
Who is still watching this garbage?
If NBA goes ouy of business, my life style won't change. I would not miss it at all. However, if there's a reduction in police, that would be a serious problem.
I wouldn’t mourn the demise of the NBA, and the death of ESPN and cable would be an added bonus.
I saw a report the other day that the NBA and the WNBA had strong ratings on their return. What gives?
Where did you read it? Is it a purposeful lie by the media who needs to gin up interest to keep their job?
As far as I know, I cannot watch the game. I have tried many times. No strategy, no defense. Just run, pass once, or twice, and shoot. Back and forth...The game is done. Superb conditioning and movement by the athlete’s, but who cares?
I tried to watch a baseball game, basketball game, and a hockey game this weekend. It was horrible. Seeing fans in the stands is apart of the atmosphere. The music during the breaks in the action to drum up feelings didn’t work. Couldn’t get into watching it and turned it off. I don’t think I will watch it again.
I became a much bigger fan of the local MLB team, and was a fan of the NBA team, and season tickets/PSL’s to the NFL team here in Houston.
I’ve not watched a single 30 seconds (or more) total, of MLB or NBA since this all started (and they restarted their season).
For the NFL? I was given the option of just taking a complete refund - with no penalties - for this year. I took it.
Next year, I’ll buy the tickets - but I’ll resell them to whoever is going to pay the most, and I’ll even donate half of any “overage” I get, to the Ronald McDonald house... Great organization (or was 15+ years ago), and a totally worthwhile charity.
I agree, I will not watch; but there are reports that the ratings were good.
White liberal ‘elites’ who own the teams are the biggest jerks...they’re letting this happen.
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