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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They say they’re oppressed; let’s see how they like being ignored.
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I like that one.
Oh that’s too bad...
Sounds like ambassadors James and Curry aren’t doing so well.
Lebron James is a BLM thug. Stephen Curry when he played for Davidson, he was an underdog. But once he started to win championships for Golden State Warriors, he became arrogant. His father was a NBA pro so it's not too surprising.
If you are white and watch the NBA you know how battered wives feel.
Absolutely need to walk away and try to build a better world. Hopefully without the “wokesters” as they are in a societal, intellectual, philosophical death spiral.
3 pointers from 26 feet out is better...who cares anyway...make baskets with smaller diameter..raise them a foot. Can make a slam dunk only if players pushes off floor from at least 6 feet away from basket...zone defense allowed... Fouls in last two minutes...3 free throws...the games, the strategies, the players ...boring...and predictable....plus they think i racissss...goodbye dummies...
“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.
Such idiots running the NBA, NFL, MLB, and the NCAA. Who in their right mind would not have known this before the fan backlash? They should all be fired.
Seems really weird to me. Business men (mostly) who know a lot about making money own these teams. They hire a bunch of (how do I say “descendants of slavery” without being called out as a racist?) and pay them lots of money to work part of the year.
Then it turns out that the sports teams make less money when interest in the sport declines? Maybe the owners are looking to the future? A future where they make less money, but they have done the wholesome and responsible thing by putting “principles” ahead of profits?
I guess i don’t have what it takes to be rich.
Modern day court jesters for the emperor
Only rarely am I treated to the opportunity to revel in this degree of intensely sumptuous schadenfreude, and I am grateful for it to every former fan.
I have waited a very long time for these detestable, despicable, depraved, degenerate, debased, decadent, degraded piles of rat filth to take a good shot to the spunk bunkers.
Wouldn’t bother me a bit if the NBA went bankrupt and all the players had to join the Army.
Agree. 100%.
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.
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E-sports ...
VGHS was pretty accurate to what kids want to do.
Got a 11 year old. No interest in playing basketball (Philippines national “sport”).
Rather play Roblox, Minecraft and learn to code.
Wouldn’t bother me a bit if the NBA went bankrupt and all the players had to join the Army.
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As the Communist Chinese increasing bankrolls the NBA, the PLA?
Free seats with a resident photo ID.
we should respect them...../s/
Players could host local library storytimes if they only knew how to read.
The thug ass 90 percent woke black NBA can pound sand
“My sense is there’ll be somewhat a return to normalcy...” — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver
Let’s hope the new normalcy will be continually falling ratings until the furniture at nba commissioners office is for sale on E bay.
Bet the demographics are even worse than the ratings...
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