NBA TV viewership in the dumps so far

[Born2BKing]

76ers' Embiid, George won't play vs. Grizzlies

76ers stars Joel Embiid and Paul George will each miss a fifth straight game with left knee injuries when Philadelphia plays host to the Grizzlies on Saturday night.

www.espn.com

 

[J-MIL]

Silver ruined the game. Nobody wanna see a 3pt contest with no defense every night

Stars missing more games to injuries cuz of weak ass practices. Shyts a mess

 

[Da King]

1. Basketball starts 2 early
2. Star players not playing
3. Game has become a 3pt shooting contest that become stale and boring

And season is meaningless till March/April


It’s now an ugly game to watch

 

[SithLawd]

A players league with unlikable players and an unwatchable product

 

[Dilltastic VolWon(derful)]

Fans are the ones they are trying to get to subscribe.

The league is not prioritizing subscribers. They don’t get revenue from that. The tv packages are driven by ad dollars. Right now ad dollars (especially in live entertainment) are one of the few things that a guaranteed revenue stream for businesses (television) that is transforming.

 

[IIVI]

Game has gone the way of baseball where everyone swinging for the fences. Only problem is HRs are one of the most exciting things in baseball, launching 3s in basketball is boring after the first few

Yeah, it's just tough. When the more valuable points are as easy to get as the least valuable points, and especially when it's mathematically valid, the strategy then becomes "why not go for it 90% the time?"

It's something the creators of the game, nor anybody else really thought would be possible until 10 years ago.

It'd be the same for every other sport. If slap shots were worth two (and as easy to get), players would be gunning from range at all times as well.

Football is another sport where there are multiple different point values, but getting a touchdown is still significantly harder than getting a field goal and teams have to pick and choose when is the appropriate time to go for it or take the points.

 

[pete clemenza]

The energy seems to be off this season. A lot of players not playing. Injuries. Next generation of stars not translating -I thought we'd be basking in Wemby-Mania by now. More money than ever, but all the players seem unhappy and depressed. TNT is angry. Espn is in a desperate search of drama. Big trades from the off season not translating(yet). Hopefully things can improve or at least get smoother in a month or so.

 

[Regular_P]

Game has gone the way of baseball where everyone swinging for the fences. Only problem is HRs are one of the most exciting things in baseball, launching 3s in basketball is boring after the first few

Yeah, it's just tough. When the more valuable points are as easy to get as the least valuable points, and especially when it's mathematically valid, the strategy then becomes "why not go for it 90% the time?"

It's something the creators of the game, nor anybody else really thought would be possible until 10 years ago.

It'd be the same for every other sport. If slap shots were worth two (and as easy to get), players would be gunning from range at all times as well.

Football is another sport where there are multiple different point values, but getting a touchdown is still significantly harder than getting a field goal and teams have to pick and choose when is the appropriate time to go for it or take the points.

What really got the snowball rolling downhill was the league allowing all of Harden's bullshyt and REWARDING it. That led to the rest of the league to start doing it.

That charlatan abused the rules and refs like nothing we've ever seen in professional sports. All the flailing, hooking, flopping, etc. And you know what might be worse than all of that? His fukking stepback three, which is a fukking travel. That shot is absolutely unguardable because it's a travel.



Which led to...





You can't defend this shyt so that's what you see 50 times a game. Why drive into traffic in the lane when you can always get off a step back three? Why go in the post when you can always get a step back three? Why break someone down when you can always get off a step back three? Why expand any extra energy other than lean into a defender, take three steps back and launch a three?

It's so bad we have a 7'5" "unicorn" spamming this bullshyt instead of operating in the Dirk spot.



That was six years ago and now we're seeing the fallout of it being allowed. ^^^^^^

 

[DropTopDoc]

1. Basketball starts 2 early
2. Star players not playing
3. Game has become a 3pt shooting contest that become stale and boring

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