Keep whistling that tune, Adam.
Posted on 04/18/2021 6:22:17 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The NBA has suffered another ratings disaster, with ABC falling 45 percent since the 2011-12 season, while TNT was down 40 percent, and ESPN was off 20 percent.
This ratings tumble is nothing new, granted. The past two NBA finals each have fallen one over the other, with last year’s down 51 percent to all-time low for the championships. The worst was the final game, off nearly 70 percent year-over-year.
So far, the average viewership for the league’s games is only 2.83 million, according to The Athletic. For comparison, recent episodes of the NBC crime drama, The Blacklist, average about 3.3 million viewers, while one of ABC’s biggest shows, medical drama, The Good Doctor, averages just over four million per week. Historically, sports out earns any regular TV series.
The NBA’s collapse may not be surprising in light of recent polls finding that basketball fans feel that the league has become far too wrapped up in politics.
In September, a Harris poll found that 39 percent of respondents who identified as sports fans felt that the NBA had become too political, and 19 percent said that they had turned off pro basketball because of the NBA’s deep links to China.
In 2020, the NBA’s coronavirus season in the bubble launched with heavy-handed paeans to the anti-American Black Lives Matter agenda. But reactions to those displays of leftism may have alarmed NBC Commissioner Adam Silver because the league boss claimed that this season would dispense with the more overt displays of support for BLM.
“My sense is there’ll be somewhat a return to normalcy, that those messages will largely be left to be delivered off the floor. And, I understand those people who are saying, ‘I’m on your side, but I want to watch a basketball game,'” Silver said last October.
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The org BLM is an insurrectional, domestic terrorist construct.
Not zero yet which is what it should be
Coke-a-Cola is still buying Ad Blacks, I mean Blocks.
it’s time to go on strike for higher wages. A man can’t make it on a 50 million dollar contract! Inflation, man.
That is a shame.
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Wait until they cancel games in sympathy with the Floyd verdict. (They are preparing teams already).
Let them protest about their Communist Chinese masters using slave labor to manufacture sneakers and NBA apparel.
Sports and entertainment have been ultra woke and have gone out of their way to alienate their fans. ESPN and all major league sports as well as Hollywood and the academy awards shows are all at record low attendance. They will lose this battle.
They should integrate and allow transexuals on the teams (NBA as well as college and high school levels).
Just make sure that those with male DNA play in the male leagues.
Corporatists would agree, sorta.
Love it. Quit watching all of it NBA NFL MLB NHL NCAA .... our normal Saturday NCAA football viewership dropped big time last year. We are big SEC fans but still they just couldn’t STFU with crap in. And around the games. Off it went.
I remember the NBA.
Not down enough.
They say they’re oppressed; let’s see how they like being ignored.
Keep whistling that tune, Adam.
It’s because we be races.
I find this ridiculous. Sports fans have been dedicated to winners. It’s one of the purest meritocracies around. And yet...my money and time was not enough for these knuckleheads.
So, I stopped watching with my wife.
It’s bad enough I have to listen to woke crap on the news, in the stuff I read, and around my town. When my butt hits the chair to be entertained, I don’t need to be “re-educated”.
I have reclaimed my money and my time. Too bad for LeBron.
They dont need or want white folks
See ya
When you outright call half your fan base racist scum, you might lose a few fans. The surprise is how many are willing to take the abuse.
In addition to marxism and racism, the quality of play is BAD.
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