Posted on 10/01/2020 7:19:20 PM PDT by montag813
by Ron Kersten
One would think that having the American sports world’s most popular athlete playing in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, would equal impressive ratings.
Well, one would be wrong. One would in fact be very wrong indeed.
Instead of posting the good, if not great numbers that the NBA should have drawn for a Game 1 Finals clash including with millions at home on lockdown and LeBron James on the floor, the NBA saw a catastrophic drop in both ratings and viewership.
Get woke, go broke.
According to the Hollywood Reporter:
The opening game of the series between the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat brought 7.41 million viewers to ABC, the smallest audience for the finals since at least 1994, when total viewers began to be regularly recorded -- and likely ever.
The previous low was 8.06 million for Game 3 of the 2007 NBA Finals.
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Good. Racist, socialist, Communist China loving NBA.
I am happy for them.
I hope it drops further. I am doing my part, TUNE OUT!
I remember when the NBA Finals were shown on tape delay.
Maybe people are tired of LeBron LoL. I can’t watch anyone who is an apologist for the ChiCom butchers
These special guys can throw a ball and it goes where they wanted it to!
Awwww, that’s a shame
LOL! Sports/entertainment is way, way, way downstream from survival. The puppets and their puppet masters don’t get it. Go back to school Le Yuan.
R.I.P. Andrew
Last year a non American team was in the Finals and thus there was only one local market for US ratings so the fact that this year is off even that is telling.
See this empty box?
This is the box, where I keep all the f**ks I have to give about professional sports these days.
I think the scales have fallen from a lot of peoples’ eyes about just how stupid and pointless it all is.
Who wants to watch a bunch of commie traitors!
Athletes = Unessential workers.
Enjoy your games. Let us know when you get back to basketball, the whole basketball, and nothing but basketball.
Look at me Durrr, I got a rubber ball.
You shot the golden goose in a drive by dumbasses.
So happy.
advertisers should be asking for 1/3 to 1/2 their money back!
If not for that, the numbers would even be lower.
Get woke, buy a 32 million dollar house, watch people not tune in.
But how did they do where it matters, in China?
Yes, and full of whining privileged players who wouldn’t be earning huge sums of money if it weren’t for Patriotic Americans.
They shit on the country that gave them their privilege.
They are disgusting.
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