NBA crisis over declining TV ratings and why China is so important: "stagnant since 1998"

[SchoolboyC]

If white people tune in to leagues only because of the amount of cacs playing, baseball and hockey would be the biggest sports in America by far. NFL has the perfect formula to draw fan attention for an entire season.

If you don’t think the NFL having white Americans stars gives them an advantage over the NBA in America you are delusional.

Now, is that the only reason the NFL is more popular? No, not at all. But does it help them? Yes.

 

[fifth column]

yeah and it was milked for everything it was worth.

Bills have due dates.

I was talking more about trends, things change over time so the money might be in online/streams soon enough.

 

[fifth column]

Lakers and Celtics history still carried as much interest. And CBS also wasnt so player first heavy.

Marketing teams only enrich the league and owners but marketing players enrich the league, owners and players. NBA players cash out while NFL players

 

[SchoolboyC]

Man im glad you said this. I've always had an issue with how meaningless the divisions are in the league. They're absolutely pointless.
You dont even get rivalries inner division.
They should get rid of divisions and cut the number of playoff teams.
So it's the whole east/west 1-6 from day 1.
I get from a fan experience you wanna give every fan a chance to see every team at home but there isnt a reason for each team to play eachother twice a year.

Division don't carry significance in the NBA anymore because fans don't want them to. The NBA had similar rules to other leagues, people complained, so they changed them. Hell a large number of fans & media don't even want the NBA to have conferences anymore.

Sounds like a damned if they do, damned if they don't situation.

 

[FlimFlam]

The nba will last longer than NFL and possibly football as a whole as long as nothing stupid is done (egregious money mishaps)

Regardless of its current relative positioning, no enterprise wants a looming expiration date. NBA doesn't have that...they'll be str8

 

[MITS]

Nothing better than a thread full of average people, explaining how to market a billion dollar industry.

 

[CrimsonTider]

More white people like football than basketball. Does it mean that no white people like basketball? It just means MORE like football.

more black people like football than basketball

 

[FTBS]

When the division doesn't matter, neither does the regular season.

And when the regular season doesn't matter folks just wait for the playoffs.

NFL : 6 division games out of 16 = 37.5% You have to win your division.

MLB : 76 division games out of 162 = 46.9% You have to win your division

NBA : 16 division games out of 82 = 19.5% You can go 0-16 and still be a 66 win team.

There's no need for a Bulls team in 2018 to play 2 games against The Warriors.

Work on winning your division. -- but divisions don't matter.

It's just about getting to the playoffs and since you play teams indiscriminately almost, no one team is truly in your way.

In Baseball, we kept the Cubs out of the playoffs, we had 4 games in Chicago and we swept them. We ended their season.

That doesn't really happen in an NBA regular season, there aren't enough division games for the Bucks to put their foot on the Pacers necks.

According to what you posted, divisions matter more in baseball and yet no one cares about their regular season either. People are just throwing their own preferences/gripes out there. You really think the average fan cares about divisions? You think the average person that isn't watching NBA games would start watching if there were more divisional matchups of teams they clearly don't care about anyway? No matter how you slice it, you just can't compare 16 games on a set day (well sorta) on the weekend, in the day time or prime time at the latest with white men as the glamour boys to 82 games throughout the week usually at night and often late as fukk if you live on the East Coast with a bunch of black men running shyt.

 

[FromStLouis]

According to what you posted, divisions matter more in baseball and yet no one cares about their regular season either. People are just throwing their own preferences/gripes out there. You really think the average fan cares about divisions? You think the average person that isn't watching NBA games would start watching if there were more divisional matchups of teams they clearly don't care about anyway? No matter how you slice it, you just can't compare 16 games on a set day (well sorta) on the weekend, in the day time or prime time at the latest with white men as the glamour boys to 82 games throughout the week usually at night and often late as fukk if you live on the East Coast with a bunch of black men running shyt.

Baseball fans care a great deal about their teams regular season and division. Baseball does very well regionally because of that.

Baseball's problem is there's too many games to maintain a consistent national audience during the regular season. But I suspect they're happy with the tradeoff as it hasn't hurt their national audiences when the postseason starts.

And yeah it wouldn't hurt the NBA to have more division games. You don't even have to take away the marquee national games to do so.

The question of would it draw the average person who doesn't watch NBA games is the wrong question and isn't your target audience.

Your target audience are the people who wait until the playoffs start before watching. Because that's when things are at stake.

You have to create stakes for the regular season (as best you can, no league is the NFL) more division games would help do that.

Bottom line, there's a more meaningful NBA regular season to be made and it involves division rivalries.

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

Nothing better than a thread full of average people, explaining how to market a billion dollar industry.

 

[fifth column]

I don’t think it’s a race thing when it comes to ratings. White people buy all the shyt that NBA players endorse. The structure of the NFL with gladiators mixed with war strategy and formations is just perfect for retaining interest all season long.

 

[fifth column]

I think he meant to say customers giving input on how to improve the experience

 

[Diondon]

Mike = THE GOAT

 

[who_better_than_me]

Is there a research or survey that confirms more black folks like basketball than football

 

[LurkMoar]

Is there a research or survey that confirms more black folks like basketball than football

Yea that ones obvious, but it’s close tho.