[gbaker]

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

[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.

[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.

[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?

[nickcarraway]

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

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Things ain’t looking good for the NBA when a playoff game attracts a smaller audience than a rerun of 60 Minutes.

OTOH, I bet the IndyCar Series would kill for the lousy numbers the NBA is pulling...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“China” and “Too political” combined got 57% of the vote.

Evidently people are paying attention.

[Alberta's Child]

I honestly think the NBA ratings are way down simply because people aren’t used to watching NBA games in August. MLB would have the same problem if they played the World Series in February.

[The Antiyuppie]

I would NEVER have anticipated these results.</s>

What they aren’t telling you here, and advertizers will find out, are the demographics of those who stay vs. those who leave. The NBA will be made thoroughly familiar with this at network contract renewal time.

[Pagey]

It’s killing me that the BLM has even INFECTED my Nascar races. I don’t watch the other sports + haven’t for years, Baseball, Basketball + Football certainly have earned everything that’s coming to them. Less attendance is a real positive imo. They’ve all Jumped the Shark in our home, years ago.

[Skywise]

China IS politicization you dolts. So 54% of your respondents claimed it was your SJW support.

Please - feel free to maintain your business with half your fans gone.

[bort]

The league has become too ghetto. Poor sportsmanship. Tattoos. Thuggish behavior. Whites and affluent blacks tuning out.

[joshua c]

Let me know when the season starts so I know when not to watch.

[Vision]

The NBA equals the DNC but with more mouth breathing.