Have you ever seen a professional sporting event this empty?

[Hard Hitta]

Yeah I ain't taking 94 all the way from the creek , have a few times back in the early 00s ... An they basically give tickets away now lol

 

[WOAHMYGOODNESS]

as a detroit resident who's been to several pistons games before during and post successful years, auburn hills is awful hike from the city...

it was rough as fukk getting/leaving that shyt hole when we were playoff consistent, but making that 45 minute freeway drive to go see a bunch of young guys with potential but no real direction play the raptors isn't worth that hike to me. The red wings, lions, and tigers are all a few miles from each other in the heart of the city they play for, Detroit...smh that the pistons are still way the fukk in auburn hills where all they got is deer, a home depot, and a bunch of farm land and shyt...its awful

 

[jfkennedy]

the nba consolidating all these teams into super teams kind of tips off the direction we are starting to go to in sports for the future. the economy is not really looking too good either and wont be for a while, which compounds the problem. the nfl being an exception, as football is america's most loved sport, but all other sports face some big problems right now and going forward.

for example its just hard for me to envision certain nba teams being able to exist and actually make any real money, same in baseball, and i dont really follow nhl like that but probably these problems are systemic across all tier 2 sports. organizations really at risk are the wnba and boxing

and just in my experience.... little kids dont even fukk with sports like that like 80's and 90's babies did....

like we were more heavy into it because thats all the entertainment we really had but today theres so much other things that kids are into. so fast forward that culture 15-20 years later and you have a situation where the people of a certain age group who are supposed to be putting all this money into following sports dgaf about it at that point

Forbes said 27/30 MLB teams made a profit last year, idk why y'all think just 'cause you hate baseball it isn't profitable.

http://www.forbes.com/mlb-valuations/list/

 

[concise]

how do these teams pay salaries with such putrid attendance? isn't ticket sales a huge part of revenue? someone school me breh

TV is a much bigger piece of the pie than tickets for the big 3 leagues.