Posted on 10/05/2020 3:53:21 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
Instead of a methodical seven game march towards an NBA championship, the 2020 NBA Finals have turned into a methodical march to the historic depths of television watching futility.
Game 1 of the Finals brought with it the lowest viewership since 1994, and Game 2 was the lowest ever on record. But wait! That was before Game 3, which beat out Game 2 by becoming the least watched Finals game in NBA history.
Game 2 earned a paltry 4.5 million viewers, while Game 3 submarined that number by peaking at 4.395 million. Mind you, this is a nearly 70% decline from last years Finals numbers which included a team from Canada. Not only that, unlike this years audience, last years audience was not on lockdown and did not include the games best player, LeBron James.
As Breitbarts Warner Todd Huston reports:
This horrific collapse should not be surprising after polls have found that many fans now believe that basketball is far too political.
A Sept. 2 Harris poll found that 39 percent of respondent who identified as sports fans felt that the league was too political. And another 19 percent said that they had turned off pro basketball because of the NBAs deep links to China.
The 2020 post-COVID season launched with the heavy-handed presence of the anti-American Black Lives Matter agenda.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I am grinning from ear to ear.
The millionaire/billionaire owners don’t care until it hurts the team’s value. So when does the NBA TV contracts come due for renewal? If ratings remain low, Please God Make This So, then TV revenue drops and team value tanks, then the owners will . . .
Yeah, but they were up against some big programming on the other networks.
The Food Channel had a special on Turnips.
SCREW'EM!
My Schadenfreude meter is pegged! They have brought their own destruction down on themselves.
Actually, I think they are too self-centered and pampered and isolated for even that. Someone tells them 'hey, the cops are killing black men' and they agree to wear BLM jerseys and back Antifa.
Sports is pretty much dead. I used to be a sports junkie since a kid and now I give zero cares for any of it.
The butt hurt - it burns.
Adam looks like he’s been suffering from AIDS for years
NBA results are prearranged - and the action lacks the high entertainment value that keeps people watching WWE. :)
4 million viewers? 4 million should be watching in California alone. Still...it is 4 million black viewers and that is all the advertisers care about.
Kiss that "Jewish money" goodbye.
Used to care...track & watch my team...
Now, who cares...?
They have much to do to win back their fans...
With all this PC crap, they are not heading in the right direction...
Play good basketball...cut all this protest crap!
The NBA and all the racist-Marxis- loving players can move to China, and I wouldnt shed half a tear.
Finally something to get excited about sports again!
Your fans are NOT ZOMBIES !!! and now not fans
For me it’s simple. I have tuned out the NBA because players like Lebron James have made numerous racist statements and have made it clear that they detest our Country They have chosen to do business with communist China and have become tools of that evil government. Many, like Lebron have made statements of hatred for our law enforcement heroes. To me they’re DEAD. I will never watch another NBA game or support their league in any manner.
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