NBA Finals ratings : Game 1 between the Celtics and the Mavericks was viewed by only 10.99 million people

[MicIsGod]

Tell your dad the finals have been starting the same time every year other than COVID

the same day every year?

 

[NOSaintsFan02]

Scheduling a hard date for the Finals and getting more than a week with no games was not a good thing.

People keep saying the scheduling.

First off, the NBA has to schedule a hard date. Do yall not know how hotels, and lodging, and travel, and setup works? They can't play a Finals schedule by ear lmao.

Secondly, it could be 3 three weeks between games. If the matchup is appealing enough, fans will tune in. The schedule reason is always a cop out. There's way more reasons why the viewership isn't high.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

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That’s the problem right there. The NBA is treated and viewed like some athletic soap opera . No other sports league on the planet would say parity is bad.
More teams having a chance to win should mean higher engagement from each sports fanbase …it’s the reason why the NFL is busting the NBAs ass . Fans live and die for their squad . Don’t matter if it’s the Lions,Panthers or Jets . They down for life. When the lions wasn’t winning shyt nikkas had no problem say they fukk with the lions around here but would look at you crazy if you said you was a pistons fan..that makes NO sense.NBA fans dikkride who they think will win the most because the NBA and the Media promote it that way.

Now they seeing the problem with it . Because everyone says people don’t connect with foreign players but last 5 or 6 MVPs went to foreign nikkas ,80% of the NBA’s 1st team was foreign nikkas,The next dude to run the league Wemby..is a foreign nikka ,the top two picks from this years NBA draft will be French nikkas and while everyone is focused on white boy Flagg for next year Nolan Troare is overseas killin’

They need to switch up the way they sell this game because the amount of talent and parity in the NBA should not be a problem …Stop making everything about chasing Jordan and other ghosts and do like every other competent sports organization does and emphasize the team game

Another guy that doesn’t understand basketball being intrinsically different than football lol

 

[DjMe]

I was going to break down why all your points were wrong, but then I realized you were just an idiot.


You're right, everyone was watching Breaking Bad cause they liked to deal meth in their free time.



Thank you for reminding me that our previous conversations revolved around your insane conspiracy theories and women hate though.

All of the points that I made are links to statistics.
America is a nation that is obsessed with guns, drugs and violence--both in media and in our actions.
Shows like that were not made 60 years ago, when crime rates were lower.
It is the slow degradation of the culture, the state, and our morals--and people have become desensitized to it, both on tv and in actuality.
What point, exactly, are you trying to make?
That people don't consume media that relates to their interests and life experiences?
Remember America's opiod crisis ocurring simultaneous to Lil Wayne and Dipset constantly pushing sizzurp?

Break down why it's all wrong though. Poster of the year, right? Kick knowledge.

 

[Harry B]

Still wanna know streaming, illegal and legal numbers as well, if we really wanna gauge the interest for the game.

 

[Jim Cornette]

IT WAS A 20 POINT BLOWOUT IN THE FIRST QUARTER

 

[bl2k8]

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That’s the problem right there. The NBA is treated and viewed like some athletic soap opera . No other sports league on the planet would say parity is bad.
More teams having a chance to win should mean higher engagement from each sports fanbase …it’s the reason why the NFL is busting the NBAs ass . Fans live and die for their squad . Don’t matter if it’s the Lions,Panthers or Jets . They down for life. When the lions wasn’t winning shyt nikkas had no problem say they fukk with the lions around here but would look at you crazy if you said you was a pistons fan..that makes NO sense.NBA fans dikkride who they think will win the most because the NBA and the Media promote it that way.

Now they seeing the problem with it . Because everyone says people don’t connect with foreign players but last 5 or 6 MVPs went to foreign nikkas ,80% of the NBA’s 1st team was foreign nikkas,The next dude to run the league Wemby..is a foreign nikka ,the top two picks from this years NBA draft will be French nikkas and while everyone is focused on white boy Flagg for next year Nolan Troare is overseas killin’

They need to switch up the way they sell this game because the amount of talent and parity in the NBA should not be a problem …Stop making everything about chasing Jordan and other ghosts and do like every other competent sports organization does and emphasize the team game

NBA as a league has always done terrible when there’s parity, that has never been the norm for the league so I can’t blame them for going with has brought them the most success

 

[Big Boss]

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That’s the problem right there. The NBA is treated and viewed like some athletic soap opera . No other sports league on the planet would say parity is bad.
More teams having a chance to win should mean higher engagement from each sports fanbase …it’s the reason why the NFL is busting the NBAs ass . Fans live and die for their squad . Don’t matter if it’s the Lions,Panthers or Jets . They down for life. When the lions wasn’t winning shyt nikkas had no problem say they fukk with the lions around here but would look at you crazy if you said you was a pistons fan..that makes NO sense.NBA fans dikkride who they think will win the most because the NBA and the Media promote it that way.

Now they seeing the problem with it . Because everyone says people don’t connect with foreign players but last 5 or 6 MVPs went to foreign nikkas ,80% of the NBA’s 1st team was foreign nikkas,The next dude to run the league Wemby..is a foreign nikka ,the top two picks from this years NBA draft will be French nikkas and while everyone is focused on white boy Flagg for next year Nolan Troare is overseas killin’

They need to switch up the way they sell this game because the amount of talent and parity in the NBA should not be a problem …Stop making everything about chasing Jordan and other ghosts and do like every other competent sports organization does and emphasize the team game

Facts

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Damn, the only solution is to spend more time talking about who is going to coach the Lakers and Bronny.

Man I warned coli years ago to stop focusing sooooooooo much about Lebron.

Stop focusing on everything he does, over analyzing everything he says or does and start paying attention too the new gen


Lol

 

[High quality poster]

Most people want to see athletic, BLACK players doing amazing shyt. Nobody cares about a bunch of guys standing around taking jump shots and flabby Europeans

 

[Buckeye Fever]

There are a few factors, one is that the Celtics are one of the most hated franchises and many of those in the hater demographic believe Boston will win, so there is no joy in that for them

 

[concise]

People keep saying the scheduling.

First off, the NBA has to schedule a hard date. Do yall not know how hotels, and lodging, and travel, and setup works? They can't play a Finals schedule by ear lmao.

Secondly, it could be 3 three weeks between games. If the matchup is appealing enough, fans will tune in. The schedule reason is always a cop out. There's way more reasons why the viewership isn't high.

No they don't.

They don't schedule hard dates for the 2nd round or the conference finals, sometimes a series in those rounds will start while some other teams are still playing in a previous round. This excuse is not valid at all.



And they used to do it before anyway.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

The best part of game 1 was kristaps.

I was happy to see him having fun.

Plus, I think Brown and Tatum will have big games tomorrow. The NBA did right by playing game 2 on Sunday instead of Saturday. I'm at work right now and would have missed the game. Now, i will be able to watch it with my sons

 

[Professor Emeritus]

All of the points that I made are links to statistics.

But they're nonsense. The fact that youth participation in soccer is dropping while tennis is increasing is meaningless, because soccer has ALWAYS gotten poor TV ratings and tennis has ALWAYS been more popular than soccer on TV, even back 40 years ago when soccer was the most popular sport for kids to get into and only rich kids played tennis at all. And there are STILL more kids playing soccer than playing tennis, yet soccer ratings can't touch tennis ratings.

The same is true for basketball and football - football has ALWAYS been more popular than basketball on TV, even when way more kids played basketball than football.

Your charts showed that golf and baseball and soccer are played by more kids than football too, so why aren't their ratings as good as football ratings are? Swimming and ice hockey are played by the same # of kids, yet ice hockey is a popular televised sport and swimming isn't even on television except in Olympic years.

There's no correlation between how many kids play a sport and how good that sport's ratings are. Your entire point was bunk and your own stats showed that.

America is a nation that is obsessed with guns, drugs and violence--both in media and in our actions.
Shows like that were not made 60 years ago, when crime rates were lower.

It is the slow degradation of the culture, the state, and our morals--and people have become desensitized to it, both on tv and in actuality.

LOL - so I guess The Godfather was never popular, right? Bonnie and Clyde, On the Waterfront, West Side Story, The Warriors, Dukes of Hazard, all the Westerns that focused on the outlaws instead of the good guys. Movies about criminals have always been popular.

And I had to at your "when crime rates were lower" line. Are you aware that Breaking Bad was televised during the LOWEST crime rates of the last 60 years?

What point, exactly, are you trying to make?
That people don't consume media that relates to their interests and life experiences?

People consume media around their fantasy interests, not their real-life interests. They don't watch Marvel because they used to be a superhero, and they don't flock to the Titantic because they go on a lot of luxury cruises. Star Wars doesn't relate to many people's back story, and The Sopranos didn't hit it big cause so many viewers were nostalgic for their time in the mafia.

The entire point was nonsense.

 

[bigdaddy88]

You woulda sworn by the Cacs on social media that Luka is the face of the league and will draw viewers lol