The NBA has a TV contract with TNT/ESPN to the tune of $2.6 billion annually. The term of the contract is 2016-2017 season through the 2024-2025 season. That’s $24 Billion and that explain why they feel so empowered. They are floating in cash.
However, the effect that tuning out will have is not on the players but on TNT and ESPN and their advertising revenue. Its time to teach ESPN a lesson. I cannot think of a better reason to boycott the NBA forever !!
In order to really cut funding for TV sports, we’d all have to “cut the cord,” or “ditch the dish!”
The $100 - $200 you send AT&T, Cox Cable, Dish, Xfinity, Verizon, etc., etc. every month is divvied up among the networks. They have a guaranteed income every month.
Granted, their advertising revenues can and will be affected by our boycotts, but ESPN and the network sports contracts are not in any real danger in the short run.
In the long run, absent TV and in-house fans might make a difference.
I sure hope so!
These anti-American bastards need to be taught a lesson and shoveled into the coal bin of history!
I meant to say “arrogant bastards!”