Posted on 12/14/2024 10:39:09 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Fox Sports analyst Colin Cowherd has claimed the NBA and the Democrat party share an issue when it comes to losing supporters.
Despite signing a 11-year, $76 billion TV deal with Disney, NBC and Amazon this summer, the NBA's ratings have taken a severe hit over the past decade with figures plummeting even further this season.
The league's ratings have taken a 48 percent drop over the last 12 years, and this year alone they are down 28 percent on ESPN, according to Front Office Sports.
Many fans and analysts have pointed to load management as a source of blame but while Cowherd agreed in part, he suggested there was an added factor behind the reasoning - and it's to do with the American people.
'The NBA ratings are down 48 percent in the last 12 years and they have fallen off a cliff this year and Adam Silver's solution is let's make the courts brighter,' he began on his FS1 show, 'The Herd.'
'I like the NBA but I think the All-Star game is now embarrassing. Load management is a shame on the league. It is a really bad look for a family of four to go to a game and the [stars] don't play.
'Go ask the Democrats. Be warned, once you detach from regular people in America, you will pay a price.'
Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign, of course, went on to suffer a landslide defeat to Donald Trump when the American people took to the polls on November 5.
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Raise the men’s baskets to 11 feet and get rid of the 3 point line and shot.
"The NBA...ratings are down 48% in the last 12 years and they have fallen off a cliff this year and Adam Silver's solution is let's make the courts brighter...Go ask the Democrats. Be warned, once you detach from regular people in America, you will pay a price." - Colin Cowherd pic.twitter.com/V3wifBWu5a— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) December 13, 2024
personal note: He's really not talking about the NBA, he's talking about himself. I used to watch his YouTube clips from time to time, but haven't since he said, with that brainless grin and blank unblinking stare, that anyone who doubts some leftist stoogery just can't be talked to or reasoned with so don't bother (I forget if it was about the need for COVID vaccines and masks, or the global warming hoax). I exited the vid and have never gone back.
I used to love the Celtics and the Boston Garden back in the 60’s thru early 80’s. Then I moved to LA. I haven’t cared in 40 years. Good riddance.
Basketball bores me, because it is too easy for these guys to score a basket.
People used to know what channel to find games. Now they don’t, and some need a subscription to watch.
All the teams have figured out that it's way more efficient to make a 3 point shot so basically that's all what they're doing nowadays.
So now it's a terrible viewing experience for TV if you're going to watch a game.
The detachment with America is MUCH more than “load management”.
OUTRAGEOUS Salaries
OUTRAGEOUS Ticket, Concession, and Parking
OUTLANDISH Personal Behavior
CONSTANT Whining to the officials
TOO Much LIBERAL POLITICS - Kerr, Popovich, Doc Rivers, Steph Curry, Lebron James
TOO Many 3 Point attempts
LACK of fundamental team basketball
BRUTALLY BAD (Stars get all the calls) officiating
TOO MANY OLD PLAYERS 36 to 40+ years old
TOO MANY YOUNG PLAYERS - GONE are the days when an early draft choice makes a real impact - The Draft is boring
THE ALL STAR GAME used to be an event 25 years ago. It is not worth watching anymore.
So who's paying? I can understand why the Lakers are doing well.
But a typical team, let's say the Spurs?
Viewers, especially young viewers are cutting their cable and satellite cords and subscribing to streaming services. NBA games aren’t always part of the streaming services lineup and as a consequence, game viewership is slipping away.
Professional sports have gotten to the point where fans in attendance in the stadium are not the primary revenue source.
Just look at the current NBA television contract, 11 years and 76 billion dollars, which is almost 7 billion per year despite ratings falling off a cliff, this is just for the US television market, estimates are the NBA brings around 5-6 billion more per year from China.
Before the NBA sells ONE ticket, they bring in around 13 billion per year in TV money, divided by 30 NBA teams equally.
Each NBA team is generating around 400 million per year in TV money alone.
It’s not hard figure out how a team in San Antonio can compete financially with a team in LA, the NFL is the same way, a team in Jacksonville, FL can compete financially with teams in NY, Chicago and LA.
The one and only professional basketball game I attended was when my Dad took me to see the ST. Louis Hawks defeat the Baltimore Bullets.
I gave up on sports when they started taking knees, but when I followed basketball something like 2/3’s of the teams made the playoffs and if that’s still true, then why even bother with a regular season.
What, you think $108 for a nosebleed seat, $85 for parking and $22 for a beer is too expensive? If you carpool with a kid you might get out of there spending slightly less than a week’s pay. That is if the kid doesn’t demand a souvenir.
7-footers shooting three's all night?
We do miss the Dr. J/Larry Bird era. And the Walt Frazier/Jerry West era before that.
I lost interest in the NBA when it became a contact sport and the traveling rule became a suggestion.
NBA has become thug ball.
Little defense and guys playing you wouldn’t care to have a beer with.
Isn’t there enough probation and parole officers for the players to keep the stands full??
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