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?
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.
Yes. This. It’s an awful product
“TOO Much LIBERAL POLITICS - Kerr, Popovich, Doc Rivers, Steph Curry, Lebron James”
I’m not going to say that most or even a significant cohort of fans are staying away for political reasons, but, clearly, the NBA is the professional sports league with the greatest number of annoyingly smug, self-satisfied leftists, especially the prominent names that you mention. And the hypocrisy of it is just stunning, as those gentlemen and the entire league coddles the People’s Rep. of China where human-rights abuses are the order of the day.
Also they got rid of traveling...