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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I don’t think it’s a “woke” issue. I just think people are fed up with multi-million dollar airheads telling us what we should think. BLM is nothing more than a bunch of thugs with a slogan. BLM is making a fortune for 3 Marxists who live in LA and “woke” businesses that are stupid enough to let themselves be conned. No, I’m done being preached to. Racism is a learned behavior and blacks refuse to ask why they are discriminated against more than other minorities. Until they see the 800lb gorilla sitting their own living room and continue to do nothing to fix it themselves, all of that’s on them...not me.
Probably still dwarfs the ratings for that farce that is the MLB Playoffs.
I have no sympathy for the NLJBA.
None at all.
Yep - late 70s. May those days return.
Sowwy NBA...y’all worked hard. SO DO WE.
Well, good for LGBTQ leftist disney.
ABC is squarely an anti-God, anti-American, and anti-traditional family.
And ABC’s parent company Disney has not just been celebrating sodomy for 30 years, they are now going toward male/male, female/female, and trany sodomite children’s programing.
And that is on top of its leadership going attacking Trump, aiming toward LGBTQ Avengers, going against patriotism, and essentially “french kissing” the Chinese Communist Politburo and UN.
They’ll be working at Mcdonald’s or behind bars for beating their girlfriend soon enough.
Black lives matter. Black whiners don’t.
If David Stern was still alive, he would have rigged it to get Celtics-Lakers for better ratings.
The new guy still has a lot to “learn”.
Yes, imagine that.
The Chicoms allowed COVID to spread to our country, destroy our economy, and kill a lot of people.
And LeBron, sitting in his newly purchased 32 million dollar ChiCom paid for house, is fine with all of that.
GFYL
The value of the NBA teams just like the value of urban real estate is plunging due to the BLM inspired violence and racial unrest. Many of the owners with huge payrolls and the cities that hold bonds on their stadiums are going to be squeezed out of the business within a few years when they have to default on loans.
My prediction is that when the sky is darkest well funded investment pools will suddenly begin buying up these assets at fire sale prices. No one will be able to trace the funds sources but if they could they would find the money was coming from China. Once China has bought up most of the NBA franchises and stadiums (not to mention prime urban real estate) BLM activists and rioters will suddenly be elected to government offices around the country to manage the remarkable period of peace and prosperity that will follow.
Look at how the Chinese economy is rapidly recovering, Hong Kong dissidents are replaced by US riots in the news, and Joe Biden is on the brink of getting elected due to fear of the Wuhan virus and you understand how the CCP is playing a very long and complicated game of 3d chess while we play checkers.
The cause and effect rule is definitely at play.
When will someone or something actually go broke from being woke?
I have the same box. College is in there too.
It was well worth it.
LOL ......BLM and marxist bigotry and anti police nonsense has destroyed NBA and basketball for the very people they are suppose to represent. LOL be careful for what you wish for. Anti American idiots get what they deserve. People of color were doing fine until Obama came along and BLM was formed and now they are in the toilet. America is the most non racist place on the planet and all their lies is just the devil dividing people and the media is pushing it.
Given what’s going on, I stopped watching Black sports.
The NBA is still a thing?
Everything liberals touch.
Everything.
Wow, down 44 or 58 percent depending on how you score it.
Those are the kind of numbers I like to see. Hopefully there’s a momentum effect and the numbers crash further.
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