The myopic responses from you fukking sub 90 iq retards are painful to read.
Guess the 3 point shot isn't killing basketball.
Guess the 90s weren't so great after all.
I want some of you idiots to really take a moment here. Go get your in-home support worker to help you read this and process it. Tell your mom you're going to be 30 minutes late for dinner downstairs and grab a chair, because this shyt needs to be broken down on a remedial level. Go ahead and print out two copies, one for each eye if you got that Lamar gap between them. I need you take this next point and hold it in the center of your soul for every future ratings discussion about this sport. You ready?
No one here dislikes the sport of basketball, and, by extension, the premier global basketball league, the National Basketball Association.
When we discuss slumping ratings, it is in the context of the garbage regular season product that they put out.
Regular season ratings were down 2% overall, saw 10% decreases month over month to start the year, and the season as a whole was one of the lowest rated in this same quarter century time frame.
That's a bad indicator for the league.
Playoffs attracting viewers while the regular season loses viewers? That's a bad indicator for the league.
March Madness opening round doing 9-10 million this year? DOUBLE that of the NBA? The amateur playoffs doing better than the pros? That's another bad indicator.
Now this is where you need to really outsource your thinking here and have someone break this down for you: acknowleding this shyt doesn't mean people don't like basketball. It means the NBA product itself is garbage.
The NBA product itself being garbage impacts people who like the sport: it makes it harder to expand--domestically and internationally. It makes it harder for non-big market teams to get play on TV. It leads to gimmicky shyt like Luka being gifted to LA.
Every single health indicator for the sport is in the red. It is absolutely RIPE for a rival league, be it Saudi funded or not, to move in and steal market shares.
ALLLLLLL of the metrics that critical thinkers and observers have used to judge this sport against for this slump have been hand waved away by you fanboys vis-a-vis "no one watches traditional TV like that anymore."
Ok, so did everyone get a cable subscription this weekend? NOW everyone's watching TV?
All of you dipshyts in this thread that want to have a parade because HALF AS MANY PEOPLE THAT WATCHED THE FIRST ROUND OF MARCH MADNESS (on a Thursday and Friday night, ratings poison) TUNED IN FOR THE OPENING DAY OF THE NBA PLAYOFFS (on Easter Sunday, captive audience) bring this energy forward into next October.
Now you want to join the discussion.
Unfukking believable.
