“NBA ratings are down b/c too many foreigners and mulattos”

[IIVI]

It’s bad when people in their 20’s are starting to have this view on the game.

Good point additionally:


I said in the other thread, TikTok really changed a lot of the game up. People got so many choices now regarding entertainment.

Seeing normal people from around the world make great content and blowing up is more inspiring than seeing 6’10 people do 6’10 things.

 

[CrimsonTider]

It’s never been easier to score at the rim

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

It’s never been easier to score at the rim

No more plumbers defending the basket

 

[High quality poster]

No more plumbers defending the basket

Clogging up the paint

 

[010101]

It’s never been easier to score at the rim

easier to score at the rim pre 01 than post 01*

 

[CrimsonTider]

It’s bad when people in their 20’s are starting to have this view on the game.

Good point additionally:


I said in the other thread, TikTok really changed a lot of the game up. People got so many choices now regarding entertainment.

Seeing normal people from around the world make great content and blowing up is more inspiring than seeing 6’10 people do 6’10 things.

I was saying for a couple of years that the NBa has nothing that makes sports special.

Team pride
Rivalries
Players doing whatever to play
Competitiveness

I still say 2019 player movement is the source of all the negativity around the NBA right now. The NBA has been on a downward trend culturally from that moment

 

[SchoolboyC]

I was saying for a couple of years that the NBa has nothing that makes sports special.

Team pride
Rivalries
Players doing whatever to play
Competitiveness

I still say 2019 player movement is the source of all the negativity around the NBA right now. The NBA has been on a downward trend culturally from the moment

The superteams from the 2019 player movement all failing has contributed, yes

The Nets failed, the Clippers failed, the Lakers had one amazing year and have been mediocre otherwise

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

It’s bad when people in their 20’s are starting to have this view on the game.

It shows just how much echo chambers on the internet have done a number on them more than anything else.

Throughout the last 25+ years, TV ratings, relatively, have always been down over the first quarter of the season. This isn't some recent phenomenon as if this just started happening recently. Add to the fact that cable viewership has decreased by nearly 40% since 2010, so it only makes sense that TV ratings are lower than they were, in a vacuum, purely because of that. Nearly every single medium has had a drop in TV ratings because of that. Not just the NBA.

Furthermore, that "Ratings are down nearly 50% drop from 2012" is actually based upon a Right-wing puppet agency that has an axe to grind about the "woke" NBA. It's not even remotely close to nearly 50%. The number is exaggerated by over 20%.

It's using a full season from 2012 and comparing it to a small portion at the start of this season; add to the fact, that full season in 2012 was actually when the season began on Christmas Day because of the lockout. Go figure.

ESPN’s Most-Watched Season of NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC in Five Years

ESPN’s NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC series was its most-watched in five years, since the 2018-19 season, according to Nielsen. The 2023-24 campaign averaged 3,133,000 viewers, up 12 percent from last year (2,801,000).

espnpressroom.com

ESPN’s Most-Watched Season of NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC in Five Years

ESPN’s NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC series was its most-watched in five years, since the 2018-19 season, according to Nielsen. The 2023-24 campaign averaged 3,133,000 viewers, up 12 percent from last year (2,801,000).

NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC was also up 14 percent from last season in the pivotal People 18-49 demographic, averaging 1,080,000 viewers.

The season finale of NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC Presented by Wingstop – the Golden State Warriors and Stephen Curry defeated the Los Angeles Lakers and LeBron James – averaged 2,968,000 viewers.

This season’s series included the inaugural NBA In-Season Tournament Championship Game on December 9, which delivered 4,580,000 viewers on average across ABC and ESPN2.

 

[Dave24]

Fans are fickle but honestly the game is hard to watch for me because it’s broken it’s all threes in transition and teams that can’t shoot as well that pretend that they are defensive.

I’m exhausted by the media pretending every game is do or die especially when going into the game a star is hurt or not playing like coming into this season we all knew the Sixers were hurt so why is it a big deal a few weeks into the season that the Sixers are hurt.

The NBA Cup is stupid and the plan for this years all star game with multiple games is stupid just let it be East vs West and keep it moving. The captain picking teams shyt was cool but until they have a new idea keep it classic.

It’s been years since a team has gone back to back so it’s like teams get extra shyt on for trying vs teams that keep punting. It’s a slog of a season but let teams take shape. If I was running it if the media wasn’t positive they wouldn’t be allowed. Idc if it’s the blazers playing you better find something positive to chat about

Good points @Kinguno

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

Denver, Milwaukee , OKC, Minnesota are all top 10 in national TV games. San Antonio is 11, Memphis is 12. That small market talk has been dead for the last 3-4 years

i was specifically talking about the Magic.... where Banchero didn't get a nationally televised game until AFTER being ROY and an All Star.

Imagine a QB getting drafted #1 overall, winning ROY and being a pro bowler and not getting to see him on Sunday Night or Monday Night until midway through his 2nd season.

 

[CrimsonTider]

It shows just how much echo chambers on the internet have done a number on them more than anything else.

Throughout the last 25+ years, TV ratings, relatively, have always been down over the first quarter of the season. This isn't some recent phenomenon as if this just started happening recently. Add to the fact that cable viewership has decreased by nearly 40% since 2010, so it only makes sense that TV ratings are lower than they were, in a vacuum, purely because of that. Nearly every single medium has had a drop in TV ratings because of that. Not just the NBA.

Furthermore, that "Ratings are down nearly 50% drop from 2012" is actually based upon a Right-wing puppet agency that has an axe to grind about the "woke" NBA. It's not even remotely close to nearly 50%. The number is exaggerated by over 20%.

It's using a full season from 2012 and comparing it to a small portion at the start of this season; add to the fact, that full season in 2012 was actually when the season began on Christmas Day because of the lockout. Go figure.

ESPN’s Most-Watched Season of NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC in Five Years

ESPN’s NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC series was its most-watched in five years, since the 2018-19 season, according to Nielsen. The 2023-24 campaign averaged 3,133,000 viewers, up 12 percent from last year (2,801,000).

espnpressroom.com

This nikka here is lost

 

[In The Zone '98]

ESPN’s NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC series was its most-watched in five years, since the 2018-19 season, according to Nielsen. The 2023-24 campaign averaged 3,133,000 viewers, up 12 percent from last year (2,801,000).
NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC was also up 14 percent from last season in the pivotal People 18-49 demographic, averaging 1,080,000 viewers.
The season finale of NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC Presented by Wingstop – the Golden State Warriors and Stephen Curry defeated the Los Angeles Lakers and LeBron James – averaged 2,968,000 viewers.
This season’s series included the inaugural NBA In-Season Tournament Championship Game on December 9, which delivered 4,580,000 viewers on average across ABC and ESPN2.

Ratings increase for the ABC games is interesting data

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

• TV is dying
• NBA App sucks the biggest nuts this side of Vanessa Del Rio
• The players are unrelatable, cornballish, simp maybe, and downright funny style
• Old washed players that won't hang it up (I'm looking at you Bron)
• Kobe took the spirit with him to the grave
• Weirdo formats (tournaments and shyt like this is AEW , the shyt doesn't work like that in the NBA, its all over the place)
• 3s and nothing but 3s
• Ho ass refs calling everything a foul
• No passion on the paint
• I'm convinced most of the players are running train on the same bytch (thus I'm happy to be here energy)

Its like clock in and clock out situation and quite frankly, its spreading throughout sports in general except for the NFL and NHL (but whose watching the NHL lmao)

 

[FunkDoc1112]

When will y'all stop repeating this lie?

Y'all sound like some cotdamn Republicans with the way y'all shyt on the NBA. It really is no wonder why so many on this board try to disguises themselves with #BothSides.

Like for you can play that game with every era. Like yeah, surprise, and middling team like the Miami Heat made a bad play

I've said it a zillion times already but the higher level of exposure to bad teams thanks to the internet and so many games being on TV has tricked nikkas into thinking there's a crisis in quality of play...like that dude you quoted is making it sound like low IQ players and below average teams didn't exist until 5 years ago lmao

You watch an Inside the NBA from 20 years ago and Charles Baekley will be shytting on the product just as much as he does now

 

[CrimsonTider]

Like for you can play that game with every era. Like yeah, surprise, and middling team like the Miami Heat made a bad play

I've said it a zillion times already but the higher level of exposure to bad teams thanks to the internet and so many games being on TV has tricked nikkas into thinking there's a crisis in quality of play...like that dude you quoted is making it sound like low IQ players and below average teams didn't exist until 5 years ago lmao

You watch an Inside the NBA from 20 years ago and Charles Baekley will be shytting on the product just as much as he does now

The idea that thee are no bad shots is new to the nba