NBA Ratings Drop: New Poll Reveals Main Reason Why

Game 7 ^ | September 8, 2020 | Charles Kruger

[md1986]

The NBA’s TV ratings have been dropping ever since the league returned to action from its brief suspension of play. There has been a lot of conjecture regarding the cause, with little evidence offered either way.

Some have pointed to changing consumer habits as to why the numbers are plummeting, while others maintain it has to do with the NBA’s increased politicization.

Last week, a Harris Poll aimed to get to the root of the issue. The agency reached out to almost 2,000 people and gave them 10 choices to select from on why they are watching less NBA action.

Respondents were permitted to choose more than one answer.

[gbaker]

I’m sure if BLM BS was an option it would gotten even more votes.

[Paladin2]

““The league has become too political” ultimately was the top reason why the people surveyed said they were tuning out, capturing 38 percent of the vote.”

[Gay State Conservative]

If I want to be lectured I'll watch reruns of Osama Obama’s speech at the Rat Party Convention.

[Thommas]

“The league has become too political” ultimately was the top reason why the people surveyed said they were tuning out, capturing 38 percent of the vote.

Well, Quell Surprise!

[Spok]

I have sworn off all professional sports. Jury’s still out on college sports.

[OttawaFreeper]

Same reason why I’ve not bothered with the NHL. Should have canned the season and just started over in late August with the rookies’ camp and then the rest of it starting in September as always. And cut out the gesture politics and image nonsense as well.

[ealgeone]

Oh it's already infiltrated the college arena. Kirk Herbstreet broke down crying regarding blm and "systemic racism".

IF espn is smart, and we know they're not, they will reign in the sjw talk.

[PAR35]

I haven’t cared about the NBA since Spud Webb retired.

[Rummyfan]

Gawd! It doesn't take a genius to figure this out. Sports fans do not want to be lectured to by a bunch of overpaid jocks who have spent the better part of their lives mastering bouncing a ball and stuffing it through a hoop and who have generally no concept of what Joe Citizen's day-to-day life is like. Further, people have realized over the last several months that they can get by just fine without professional sports.

Tomorrow evening we have our fantasy football draft. This is our thirty-first year but I have never felt so ambivalent and apathetic about it. I'm going to draft a team and that's it. The team can sink or swim after that.

[cgbg]

“Too political” means that the NBA started hating white people.

[Professional]

I quit watching due to lack of players in wheelchairs

[Professional]

College sports..

Where do you think these athletes were indoctrinated?

[colorado tanker]

Ten years ago basketball looked to be on the verge of giving the NFL a serious run for its money domestically and challenging soccer overseas. Now the idea of either of those things happening seems like a pipe dream.

Better take notes, NFL. Same thing can happen to you.

[mylife]

Could it be that you guy SUCK?

[MuttTheHoople]

Knowing the way these drafts go, this will probably be your best season.

[hardspunned]

Are they playing college and or NFL games yet?

[AndyJackson]

They PAID for a poll to tell them that?

[A_Former_Democrat]

Every sports “journalist” White Boi goes out of his way to show how ‘woke” he supposedly is

Each knows its career suicide to tell the truth

Heard today on Finebaum that Coach Orgeron is friends with The President

But the geniuses that can’t read or write English still managed to bellyache about that to him

[nickcarraway]

I didn’t think Democrats were, in general, basketball fans.