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

[Fani Willis fan]

LEAGUE PASS?

nikkaS DONT HAVE
ESPN AND TNT BECAUSE THATS
WHAT THESE RATINGS ARE ABOUT?



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I don't have either of them or ABC, CBS whatever else.
Not many consumers are going out of their way to get access to cable networks.

 

[Black_Jesus]

THIS GOOFY ASS nikka
JUST TRYING TO ARGUE



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Man shut your cornball ass up you replied to my post trying to argue with me goofy nikka hold this

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

it’s short sighted tho. Next TV deal may not be as lucrative. There are no viewership trends that point to a world where people are sitting down and watching a full 82 game season.

Load mgmt ain’t going nowhere as long as the regular season is irrelevant… which is fixed with less games.

I'm all for lesser games (not only in NBA been saying the same for soccer) more for quality not quantity but its hard as everyone is money hungry.

Current 30 team set up. 62 games is perfect. Everyone plays H & A. And then within division everyone plays an extra game amongst themselves to get a tie breaker for playoffs/play-in. Eliminates b2b's and basically teams are playing 10 games a month. So works out as 3 2 3 2 scheduling format.

 

[CHICAGO]

I'm all for lesser games (not only in NBA been saying the same for soccer) more for quality not quantity but its hard as everyone is money hungry.

Current 30 team set up. 62 games is perfect. Everyone plays H & A. And then within division everyone plays an extra game amongst themselves to get a tie breaker for playoffs/play-in. Eliminates b2b's and basically teams are playing 10 games a month. So works out as 3 2 3 2 scheduling format.

YALL NEED TO STOP SAYING THIS.

IF THEY SHORTEN THE SEASON
TO 60 GAMES THESE nikkaS
WOULD PLAY 40 GAMES



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[Kunty McPhuck]

YALL NEED TO STOP SAYING THIS.

IF THEY SHORTEN THE SEASON
TO 60 GAMES THESE nikkaS
WOULD PLAY 40 GAMES



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It's actually more about quality control. What do people complain about again? The lack of fundamentals and defence. More time they get to practice and rest throughout the season the better those skills become. You do want players to have better fundamentals and become better at defending right?

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

NBA like a poorly scripted Netflix series.


The NBA basicall took away the ability to play defense.

 

[Jplaya2023]

It's actually more about quality control. What do people complain about again? The lack of fundamentals and defence. More time they get to practice and rest throughout the season the better those skills become. You do want players to have better fundamentals and become better at defending right?

How does your skill become BETTER with MORE rest? You have to be in game situations in order for that to inprove. Hence when people use the term "basketball shape" vs regular shape

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

How does your skill become BETTER with MORE rest? You have to be in game situations in order for that to inprove. Hence when people use the term "basketball shape" vs regular shape

It's called overload if you're tiring the players out and they don't get sufficient rest their form will drop. Sometimes the best thing a player can do when in a slump is too give them rest not just physically but mentally as well. You aint getting shyt out of a fatigued player beyond poor performance. Most of the time slumps happen when a player has a technical fault in their technique and they need time away from actual playing to correct it that's how skills get better with more rest.

If you're playing b2b's or every other day the rest and recovery period is at a bare minimum even more so when you're on your the road trip and travelling by plane/coach to venues. Take the Nuggets from 22 Dec to 4th Jan they play 9 games over 14 days. You think a schedule like that is sustainable throughout the season and the players are going to maintain their levels.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

This is who the NBA ratings are down crowd are attaching themselves to.

Dog whistling ass bullshyt about the "the regular people in America".

It's no surprise the most vocal cavillers of today's NBA product have megaphone'd their Right-wing rhetoric into the conversation, which is why they've done their damn best to push this misinformation about the NBA losing viewership because it became too liberal/woke. Aside from cable being on its deathbed, an overwhelming amount of the shift in TV ratings are due to White America turning their noses up at the NBA, not because of the actual game, itself, but because it's not pallatable for their white sensibilities any longer.

Bu-bu-but the 3-pt shot is the reason why the TV ratings are down.

Go and tell that to all the MAGA crowd who helped popularize Caitlin Clark on her way to shooting nearly 10 threes a game.

 

[Serious]

They will be back once Cooper is drafted.

Plus what really made the nba hard to watch are all the injuries to star players.

@No1 is trying see Delano Banton drop 25 pts

 

[In The Zone '98]

Not enough patience to go back/forth with racist on Twitter

I have access to the games. I'ma watch

 

[Lakerman0834]

fukk Colin and his racist ass. NBA rating down cuz no one trying to watch a game where both teams miss combined 75 threes

 

[Nero Christ]

This is who the NBA ratings are down crowd are attaching themselves to.

Dog whistling ass bullshyt about the "the regular people in America".

It's no surprise the most vocal cavillers of today's NBA product have megaphone'd their Right-wing rhetoric into the conversation, which is why they've done their damn best to push this misinformation about the NBA losing viewership because it became too liberal/woke. Aside from cable being on its deathbed, an overwhelming amount of the shift in TV ratings are due to White America turning their noses up at the NBA, not because of the actual game, itself, but because it's not pallatable for their white sensibilities any longer.

Bu-bu-but the 3-pt shot is the reason why the TV ratings are down.

Go and tell that to all the MAGA crowd who helped popularize Caitlin Clark on her way to shooting nearly 10 threes a game.

Anyone who couldn't see the correlation to the drop to the ratings after the bubble is being intentionally obtuse. Add in now that twitter is a nazi shythole that rewards users for daily "shyt on the NBA" tweets, and you see what's going on. Yes the NBA has issues (what sports league doesn't), but there are factors out of their control that create this narrative, a narrative () by the way that's existed for over 50 years now

 

[Da_Eggman]

I dunno it seems when I was a kid multiple players had funny commercials/characters for the last 20 years the focus had been basically on one player constantly and that player is on his last leg

Basically, promote and build your young stars and run it like an actual damn business Adam

 

[FakeNews]

Is viewership really down 48 percent? I need some legit proof other than to take the word of a racist cac site that once said "go woke go broke" in regard to the NBA.