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

[tremonthustler1]

people who want the 82 game schedule lowered let alone drastically are people who don't have time for the NBA but don't wanna feel like they're missing out on anything either. That's all it is. It's selfish. Folks wanna go about their lives without feeling bad that they might have missed a good game, so the solution is for that game to not exist at all.

There is such thing as a football season taking too long. How many Giants fans on this forum were thinking to themselves "goddamn there's 11 more weeks of this shyt? "

 

[FTBS]

FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT
DIDNT EXIST UNTIL 2018-19



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2005. It was made a point of emphasis in 19.

 

[prime]

I think there's something more to it than just the play style/quality of the product.

Yes those are issues, without a doubt, but the NFL product is complete shyt and has higher ratings than ever. So saying that the dip is just due to poor product isn't the whole picture.

I think it's unfair to bring up the NFL or football in general The country just love football the UFL average 1 million viewers per game on broadcast network tv (ABC and FOX) if the g league was on network television they won't even get 500,000 viewers I personally believe people don't wanna watch niqqas shoot threes all day and no defense I really believe it's that simple also there isn't a young American player that's must see tv

 

[Flight]

Maybe this should be a separate thread, but Ja & Zion turning into colossal fukkups might have bigger lasting impacts to the NBA than we might realize. Both of them actually play the game the way that casuals love, above the rim, and close to the basket. Those two were supposed to carry league after Bron & Steph. Now they’re both personal non grata with the league and marketing/television executives. Both players being irrelevant, after coming into the league with such hype, and delivering on that hype early on set the league back years.

This absolutely played a part. Great post breh

 

[Art Barr]

The problem is abc coverage and cable.
Make nba viewership back into the good ole boi seventies snd wide world of sports.

Cable meets wide world of sports for the finals is the same.
as needing cable in the 70's and the nba finals are taped.

Nobody will watch and nobody in history was behind the nba in this incarnation.
Why the nba would listen to someone who ignores this.

Then wonders why it fails is beyond me. This country is in such an arm race to be racist again. That they forgot they never made no bread during racism. All this disenfranchisement bullshyt needs to end.
All this sneak return to no civil rights era bullshyt needs to stop.

As real talk. There is.no more hiphop to fix this shyt like before.

So keep it this brand of clandsstined racism and watch it all fail.

All of you who are in collusion with it wearing black face are rhe issue. If you lost it is because you lack soul and you white. You not supposed to be in our conversations as black people to begin with. So all the misappropriation can stop with me. You can't copy me. That is why y'all white ass ain't been shyt since eminem. Stop trying to copy and get some knowledge of self and be a respectable nonracist person. Then things will prosper.

Tiref of the bullshyt.

if you do not see it. Take off your c00n mask filter and get some soul.

Art Barr

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

MJ’s brand was being smooth just like his game. NBA ratings dropping after the lockout like all the other sports. MJ was the coolest cat around. Charles Barkley wasn’t Mike, neither was Shaq, Magic, KG, AI, etc.

Hip hop people at fashion week and it’s viewed as fashion week - not “hip hop” fashion week. I agree that it isn’t how it used to be and some of it is old head shyt but I don’t see the kids loving this shyt was what I said in one of my older posts. I’ve got colleges aged younger cousins who are athletes who don’t give two shyts about what is happening in the NBA. And it’s weird because all of these people played on ball teams as kids.

Y'all kill me with this "my experience is" shyt.

Your experiences are NOT representative of the majority, let alone everyone else. That seems to be this disconnect on this subforum when criticizing the product, where y'all think your experiences and the circles in which y'all move in, are applicable to the standard in which the NBA is perceived. Just because you don't see kids loving today's NBA, doesn't mean they don't, all it means is you don't see them.

The NBA has the youngest fanbase in this country out of all the four major sports, but you're telling me kids don't love it like that?

MJ grew into being a superstar without any parallels to hip-hop, so it's strange to me how you keep trying to draw on that as if that's what made the league relevant. Even more to the point, before Kendrick resurrected people's love in the genre, hip-hop had both feet in the grave, with the last of the dirt thrown over it, all after it had stopped being a Black artform long ago, so that says less about the NBA and more about hip-hop.

Things change, they always have.

Just because you're the one who's going through the transitional phase of experiencing that change where you don't recognize the NBA anymore means exactly that and nothing more -- it's just you.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Maybe this should be a separate thread, but Ja & Zion turning into colossal fukkups might have bigger lasting impacts to the NBA than we might realize. Both of them actually play the game the way that casuals love, above the rim, and close to the basket. Those two were supposed to carry league after Bron & Steph. Now they’re both personal non grata with the league and marketing/television executives. Both players being irrelevant, after coming into the league with such hype, and delivering on that hype early on set the league back years.

This absolutely played a part. Great post breh

Ja and Zion can easily re-write their stories.

Not to say that their indiscretions haven't played a part in them fumbling the passing of the torch, but even if they were both squeaky clean and could stay on the floor, neither of them would've moved the needle in that respect. It's largely because for all the highlight material they give us, they haven't proven there's anything underneath that artificial exterior. If you ain't winning, or at the very least, on the biggest stage [playoffs] going toe-to-toe with the best players in the game, then you'll quickly lose your shine.

If you can prove you're a winner, all that other shyt will be forgotten (or relegated to a whisper in the distance). Kobe proved this.

The only thing the likes of Ja and Zion set back is the love and identification of a certain demographic of American fan (made up largely of millennials). The league is still thriving without them. The number of NBA fans in this country has increased since 2019, more people in this country are playing hoops than ever before and more people are following the NBA, globally, than ever before.

 

[DaMos Supreme]

The Swifties also tuned in to KC games last year because of the marketing of all that bs.

I think your assessment is spot on about gamblers/FF players. So that goes to the question with the NBA, is there a marketing issue with the NBA that is not connecting with potential audiences that is causing this dip in ratings? Or is it just the product quality?

Before we even get into the conjecture around the on the court issues - whether perceived or not - is in the eyes of the beholder. The NBA is not going to connect with Casuals/Middle America/Middle-Aged White males like the NFL. There are factors that just work in the NFL’s favor (In the U.S.):

- Race element/Bigotry
- Team aspect over the Individual
- Convenience/Accessibility/Games-Scheduling
- Promoting/Marketing-Urgency
- Pagentry/Social Gatherings
- Patriotism (whether it’s contrived/fake)
- Gambling
- League Perception of/via the Commissioner through eyes of the viewers (Roger Goddell is viewed as more cutthroat and not as player friendly in comparison to Silver. Which ties back into the racial element/bigotry).

I have mentioned on here on several occasions that the NFL’s late game 4:00 pm EST/1:00 PST window have actually been brutal to viewers this season, as well as some of the Thursday games. Although I watch more of the NFL than the NBA, the NFL is not an uber drastically better product when it comes to on field play versus the NBA’s on court play recently, IMO.

 

[Flight]

Ja and Zion can easily re-write their stories.

Not to say that their indiscretions haven't played a part in them fumbling the passing of the torch, but even if they were both squeaky clean and could stay on the floor, neither of them would've moved the needle in that respect. It's largely because for all the highlight material they give us, they haven't proven there's anything underneath that artificial exterior. If you ain't winning, or at the very least, on the biggest stage [playoffs] going toe-to-toe with the best players in the game, then you'll quickly lose your shine.

If you can prove you're a winner, all that other shyt will be forgotten (or relegated to a whisper in the distance). Kobe proved this.

The only thing the likes of Ja and Zion set back is the love and identification of a certain demographic of American fan (made up largely of millennials). The league is still thriving without them. The number of NBA fans in this country has increased since 2019, more people in this country are playing hoops than ever before and more people are following the NBA, globally, than ever before.

You know the game Gil. Silver needed to pivot to a young American star and Tatum was too boring to get the torch. Z had the Duke/next great prospect who was entertaining hype. We haven’t seen a PG as athletic as Ja since young Russ/Rose. He needed those two to carry it at least until you got the Flaggs, Dybantsa and Peterson and they couldn’t do it.

They tried to give it to Ant but as of rn I don’t see him getting the face treatment. It’s a shame Shai for some reason doesn’t get the push or OKC in general. In no world should they not have a Christmas Day game.

 

[Consigliere]

I’m betting this is more about racial animus than style of play or star power.

 

[mastermind]

Maybe this should be a separate thread, but Ja & Zion turning into colossal fukkups might have bigger lasting impacts to the NBA than we might realize. Both of them actually play the game the way that casuals love, above the rim, and close to the basket. Those two were supposed to carry league after Bron & Steph. Now they’re both personal non grata with the league and marketing/television executives. Both players being irrelevant, after coming into the league with such hype, and delivering on that hype early on set the league back years.

Brother, with all due respect I don’t think you watch the NBA and haven’t for a long while. Zion Williamson has never been an NBA superstar and Anthony Edwards has taken over for what Ja Morant temporarily had a stoppage over. I say temporarily because he is playing at an all star level right now.

Zion especially because the NBA just signed an 85 billion dollar TV deal and he wasn’t been one of the faces of the league when the deal was signed.

When you enter NBA threads, it’s only to talk about ratings and doom and gloom. Do you watch the NBA? What’s been your best game of the season? The player who impressed the most this year?

 

[mastermind]

They tried to give it to Ant but as of rn I don’t see him getting the face treatment

Anthony Edwards has been part of several national sponsorshop campaigns. He is part of one right now that airs on non-NBA broadcasts. When @Gil Scott-Heroin says cable tv is dying, your post is unknowingly supporting his case.

 

[Drake's Tan]

the NFL is not an uber drastically better product when it comes to on field play versus the NBA’s on court play recently, IMO.

I think it's been worse imo

and I generally prefer football to basketball

 

[Dave24]

The usual suspects will still tell you that the NBA is a league of selfish inner city street thugs with cornrows and tattoos.

Today, The NBA is whiter(slow but steady influx of white players in the league-both foreign and local), softer, lighter(more biracials), less aggressive, less gritty, more sanitized, and much more kid-friendly than 20 years ago. The NBA is more much culturally appropriate, socially acceptable and politically correct than in the Malice at the palace era. The Early to mid 2000s era (2000-2005) had its fair share of « scandals » and « controversial players ». But what’s the excuses now?

racists just hate the sight of young, tall, virile, powerful, skilled , talented, handsome () black men making hundreds of millions and enjoying national/international fame. They’re making life changing money and are worshipped by many. The hate, envy, jealousy and resentment burning slow inside them (Nas- Ether)

Dark skin alone turns someone into a «violent thug » according to these racist bozos/losers.

Why didnt they have hate, envy, jealousy, and resentment for Michael Jordan? @Soldier