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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I am loving watching my kids’ high school and little league sports. I honestly could notncare less about professional sports and it is liberating. Waste of time.
I wonder how much viewing revenue they get from the commie police state. Probably more than sufficient to cover their domestic losses.
GOOD! I hope not only the NBA but all professional sports that “go woke, go broke!” It’ll teach them a lesson.
Interesting
Meanwhile, Yanks lineup is a disaster. Cubs can’t score runs
Can we get a patriotic XFL?
How are they going to pay these poor black players?/sarc.
LOL, my weekly check of sports standings, and of course all Detroit teams in last place.
Eff boxing and Manny Pacquiao:
Manny Pacquiao as a Player in U.S. Politics
How’s this for a detail from the fabulous life of Manny Pacquiao: Even as Pac’ was launching his own political career back home, he was taking time to save Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s career here in the U.S.
Many political observers believe that Reid, the senior Senator from Nevada and most powerful man in the Senate, would have gone down in defeat during the Tea Party tidal wave of 2010 if not for a last minute campaign appearance made by Pacquiao in Las Vegas, which drew massive crowds of U.S. citizens of Filipino descent.
As Manny himself noted afterward, Reid was trailing by four points in some polls when he arrived in Las Vegas, only days before the election.
Pacquiao’s support has also been cited as critical for helping elect Jerry Brown Governor in California.
The very thought of the NBA makes me want to puke! NEVER AGAIN.
Meanwhile, Yanks lineup is a disaster. Cubs can’t score runs
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At least they are not the Rockies...
It’s owned by the Rock now, so no.
I’ll go to a pro game when prices are the equivalent of what they were back in the early 80s. You were able to buy on the court fold down chairs for the Chicago Bulls on game day for $15. So, about $30. That’s about what these people are worth.
Rondon
“ I remember the NBA “
Lew Alcindor ! !
those were the days
That’s the great thing about kids sports. The absolute heart felt connection. After watching 12 year old kids play a sport very well, with heart, effort, skills they possess, ... no other game matters.
I was fortunate to see both my boys win state championships. On in U16 soccer league, the other a class 6A football his senior year. I coached the team (soccer) and individuality coached the football kicker (punt, place FG). No game on TV will ever come close to being proud watching a determined 10 YO leave their all on a field.
I see no Rondon implication
Rodon has his johnny Vander Meer moment, Monday 11 am Boston
Hopefully, soon the NBA will be talking about raising their minimum wage to $15/hr.
I think it’s heading back in that direction anyway. Millennials are not big sports fans. They are more interested in playing video games and using social media or watching Netflix. They’ll go to an occasional sports game or two. But that’s about it.
Gee, that is too bad. Hahahahahaha
I quit watching NBA when Michael Jordan retired.
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