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 know. What is it? 😁😆🤗
Well, of course. If they want to leave the US, Hawaii is the place to go. 🤗😁😆🤣
Well, at least we’ll still have the WNBA
LOL!
The Chinese economy is not recovering. They are not growing despite what they say. They are staring at a famine and their manufacturing is fleeing at breakneck speed.
Not to mention the fact that the retribution for unleashing Covid-19 on the world hasn’t even started. When Trump gets reelected look for him to cancel the $3trln in US treasuries China owns. Look for all those Belt and Road countries to say “thanks for the port. It’s the least you could do”.
The trouble with gunboat diplomacy aka Mercantilism is you need the navy to enforce it.
The skies have never been clearer in Hong Kong.
Athletes = Unessential entertainers.
(There, I fixed it)
Excellent.
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