Posted on 12/26/2024 11:02:03 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
As is tradition, the NBA played five high-profile games on Christmas. When the ratings come out on the day's games, the NFL will almost certainly have drawn in more viewers.
You can bet the NBA's stakeholders are very aware of that fact, to the point that one of them outright challenged the rival league in his postgame interview. Speaking to ABC's broadcast crew after a thrilling Los Angeles Lakers win, noted football fan LeBron James said, "I love the NFL. I love the NFL, but Christmas is our day."
James' sentiment is likely shared around the league, though perhaps without the confidence.
One of the fun parts of the American sports calendar is how each league claims a different holiday. The NFL has had Thanksgiving for decades. The NBA has Christmas. College football and, more recently, the NHL have New Year's Day. MLB has the Fourth of July.
Since 2020, however, the NFL has pursued games on Christmas, with significant ratings wins over the NBA each year. In order to get four teams ready to play on a Wednesday this year, the league pushed their games the previous week to Saturday, taking advantage of an opening in the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 that allows them to play on Saturdays after the first week of December.
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and there’s no Christmas party like a Diddy Christmas party!
I would think a racist like him would care more about Kwanza, not Christmas.
I think the NFL would win that battle.
Christmas is Christ’s day and the NBA usurped it and is now, in turn, being usurped itself. Boo to both of them.
The NBA is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Kind of like we're paying attention to soccer.
Shane kindly corrected her, "Christ was born on Christmas. I was born on December 25th!"
NFL games are often on ‘Prime’ or ‘Netflix’. My eyes don’t watch, including commercials. Try getting a comment to the NFL. It looks like the only way is with a USPS stamp.
Christmas is acknowledging the birth of Jesus.
Lebron can take his Chinese Checkmark and shove it.
I could say more, but I will refrain.
I thought King Flop was hiding out from the Diddy blowback? Is he done with Malcolm X’s book yet?
The NBA is on at Christmas? Never noticed. Not that I’d bother watching, especially on Christmas Day.
Tribal battle coming.
Obviously.
LeBrain is not too frigging smart. He wonders why the NBA is losing an audience? Maybe the dimwit ought to look at himself.
Exactly.
Watched little of the NFL...Watched a lot of NCAA football....
But it is becoming the “mini” NFL....
Well said.
No, LeBron, Christmas is Christs’s day…so why don’t you just go away and cry.
LeBron, no one is watching you
I have the Pouges CD “If I should Fall from Grace with God” with that Christmas favorite, Fairytale of New York. Great Celtic Punk band.
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