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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Nice to know the Constitution allows the government to decide on the NFL schedule to protect live attendance at high school and college football games.
Also, LeBron really needs to have his money changing table flipped over by an angry middle eastern man who is using his belt as a whip.
Diddy he or diddyn’t he? That is the question.
Not really for me:
You’re a bum
You’re a punk
You’re an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God it’s our last
LeBron..,...Just another trifling ni$$er.
Always a clown.
Oh, so he’s not missing any longer. too bad.
Hmmm...
Two criminal organizations fighting over possession of Christmas?
A tune to get everyone into that Christmas spirit.
What is an “NBA”?
I stopped reading the headline, and everything else, after Lebron.....
juneteenfh nba day
NFL has pursued games on Christmas, with significant ratings wins over the NBA each year
LeBron james is a big part of the NBA’s problem
There was a boxing match on Netflix a month ago. Okay, it was a fake match but everyone is drawn to Mike Tyson because he's a huge star.
LeBron James is a great basketball player but no one likes him.
Who wants to watch either?
Christmas is Jesus’s day!
People still watch NBA games? How devoid of meaning must your life be?
Both should burn like the flag they disrespect
Compete.......bitch
ARROGANT JERK.
HE IS THE BIGGEST REASON I NO LONGER WATCH NBA.
NFL sold those 2 games to NETFLIX for $35 MILLION.
I SINCERELY HOPE THEY ARE PROUD OF THEMSELVES-—THEY PISSED OFF MORE THAN 35 MILLION NFL FOLLOWERS-—INCLUDING ME.
I have watched football since I was a teen-—with my Dad.
NOW 85 & really pissed off about the Christmas Day NFL games being on station I could NOT get.
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