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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Tell them to stop playing
They culturally appropriated our game
Stopwearing whige clothes, using all the white technology, stop using guns, air conditioners, planes, cars, trains, buses, video game systems, straightened hair and white hairstyles, european white food and cuisines, soda, sugar,microwaves,....
Yeah lets play this cultural appropriation game awhile.
Who cares, I have not watched a NBA game in decades. Spoiled children which I refuse to support.
Haven’t watched it since the Michael Jordan days.
Commissioner Silver, from the article: “And, I understand those people who are saying, ‘I’m on your side, but I want to watch a basketball game,’”
Slight correction: I’m not on your side, and I no longer give a rip about your basketball game.
They are forever dead to me
Dont care what they do, about anything
Dead. To. Me.
This is why conservatives never win the way libtards do.
You need to be able to walk away from offenders, forever. You do that in enough numbers, you can take things down. Or severely cripple them.
The thing is, I don’t care if they kneel or not anymore, same goes for MLB, NFL and NHL.
Since most of their stadiums are taxpayer supported, how long before a mayor asks the local NBA team to provide free seats for the poor? If a city provides 50% of stadium cost, then they should get 50% of seats for the poor. After all it’s about bread & circus.
Too bad, you hate us, we’ll hate you right back. We’re fair-minded that way.
Politicized sports ain’t sports anymore.
Hey NBA, have a nice sojourn into the dark side of the Infinite.
Same to you NFL and Pro Baseball.
Makes me long for the days of “Soul Train”.
The Basketball people go to big, too rich and too political. Time for them to go.
The NBA has been on the road to becoming nothing but a brutish, no finesse, smash-mouth league of tattooed thugs, set to a gangsta-rap soundtrack, for a long time now. It has long been apparent that for whatever reason the NBA only cares about appealing to inner city blacks. The NFL is going down the same road. It won’t end well for them.
Very sad news. Sad that it’s down only 40% .
I now openly mock anyone watching this trash. The NBA is slime, and lives in the sewer.
It took some time for me to do this, but enough is enough. Thus far, I have not yet been confronted.
Even sports addicts know when they are seeing dribbling turds.
“Yeah lets play this cultural appropriation game awhile.”
100% as the kids say.
NBA should move to China.
Plus blacks are grosly over-represented on these teams.
I’m not gonna support that extremist bias.
Michael Jordan had over 35 million viewers for game 6 in 1998 NBA Finals. Last year, it was around 7 million viewers.
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