As a whole, the NBA has lost around 45% of its viewership since 2012.

[KidJSoul]

Assuming that article is factual


I don't think 3pters are the reason.

Everyone says that, yet the biggest ratings draw is Steph Curry of all people...

I think the real culprit is that the current stars are wack... they foul bait and load manage.

So it makes the product feel boring when the players themselves don't care.

Again, this mfer Embiid comes out and says he'll never play back to back again. The fukk?

Oh yeah.. and foreigners are never big ratings draws.

 

[Dipsey Doo]

There's more people who watch/follow NBA than ever before.

Do you have metrics that actually prove this?

I don’t believe the NBA as a business would allow their main revenue source to be jeopardized by people stealing the product. And to have it happen on such a large scale as well.

 

[The God Poster]

Stars not playing is a bad take.

Teams not being innovative & the NBA media being a joke are bigger issues

 

[UpAndComing]

Bring back defense.
The End

This is why playoffs usually have a higher viewership. Higher defensive intensity

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I don't disagree with some of the points but you have to factor in that cable used to be in 100 million homes and now cable is in around 65 million homes.. Cable has been slowly dying..

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Do you have metrics that prove actually prove this?

I don’t believe the NBA as a business would allow their main revenue source to be jeopardized by people stealing the product. And to have it happen on such a large scale as well.

TV ratings are pretty much down everywhere, especially for a product that spans as long as the NBA does.

The NBA has been fighting a battle to restrict laws on illegal streaming for a minute now.

Young people don't watch shyt on cable anymore. It's really as simple as that. Even when they are digesting NBA content, illegally, they're less likely to sit down for hours on end and watch a whole game, when they could be consuming other entertainment instead and then only tracking what they believe is relevant like highlights.

 

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[Doctor Doom]

Cable is dying, League Pass is a waste of money and there's more entertainment now than ever before (cats only have two eyeballs).



Over the last decade NBA is more popular than ever.

Unless you buy on 3 different platforms/services, you can't even watch all of your team's games. Silver selling games to the highest bidder has been bleeding their live viewership

 

[khross415]

its crazy how we have this convo every year and people dont realize that cable is on the decline

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

its crazy how we have this convo every year and people dont realize that cable is on the decline

Oh, they realize, it's a just a strawman argument for them so they can protect the 90s/80s etc. They're not really interested in having a genuine discourse around the matter.

 

[khross415]

Oh, they realize, it's a just a strawman argument for them so they can protect the 90s/80s etc. They're not really interested in having a genuine discourse around the matter.

kinda figured it was or some NFL/NBA thread beef bullshyt. nikkas getting contracts worth 60mil a year and yall nikkas saying the sport is dying , yall gotta be alot smarter then this

 

[Trojan 24]

NBA fell apart when Kobe's knees gave out

 

[DetroitEWarren]

I still love watching every night and 2K25 is probably the most realistic looking and feeling sports game in gaming history.

I'm good on the entertainment value I get up out of that shyt

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

This is a significant decline

Have the Judge from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, run the sport into the ground ballin brehs

 

[Mike18jj]

Nobody watches Tv anymore and you got to have like 4 different streaming services to watch all the games it's so stupid


There's way more things entertainment wise to do then many years ago. When I was a kid I watched the NBA all the time, these new kids be watching Kai Cenet from the moment they come home from school to the time they go to school again the next day.