Oh, you thought we were done? Nah, here's another NBA TV Ratings thread

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

It's gonna be drilled into y'all heads until y'all stop acting like the sky is falling down on today's NBA, all because y'all are trying to speak the demise of the league into existence because YOU don't like it.

All the shyt you think has only existed during this era, existed in all the eras that have come before: discourse around ratings being down, bad basketball play, discourse around how the current era doesn't compare to the previous era(s). All these things aren't recent phenomena; all these things have been lurking in the shadows since the league's inception.

No matter how much crying and complaining y'all do about it, the league is gonna continue on its path without a care for your tears, as it has always done.


And here are some side notes for y'all who claimed the TV ratings are down because nobody wants to watch today's product:

Lakers-Warriors led the way with a combined 7.76 million on ABC and ESPN, up six-fold from Sixers-Heat on ESPN alone last year (1.30M) and the largest NBA regular season audience since Clippers-Lakers on Christmas 2019 (8.76M).

It was also the most-watched NBA game on a day that included NFL games since the 2020 NBA Finals, and the most-watched outside of that anomalous circumstance since Christmas 2017 (Cavaliers-Warriors: 8.83M).

Spurs-Knicks placed third with 4.91 million in the Noon ET window — including a “Dunk the Halls” Mickey Mouse-themed simulcast on ESPN2 — the largest audience for the Noon Christmas game since Celtics-Knicks on TNT in 2011, which was the first game of the lockout-delayed season.

Owing to the Christmas Day performance, NBA viewership on The ESPN networks in particular are now up four percent.

Nuggets-Suns rounded out the schedule with 3.84 million — nearly triple Mavericks-Suns last year (1.47M) and the largest audience ever for the late night Christmas window (dates back to 2008).

"Largest NBA regular season audience since 2019"
"Most-watched NBA game* since the 2020 NBA Finals"
"Largest audience for a Noon Christmas game since 2011"
"NBA Viewership on ESPN networks up 4%"
"Largest audience ever for late-night Christmas window (dating back to 2008)"

Y'all bytch ass nxggas can't even carelessly use an outdated-measurement of viewership like TV ratings as a weapon now. Y'all only have your delusions left.

Now gon'head, pick up your ball and head back to the crib.

 

[UNATTACHED]

These nikkas don't know what tf they be talking about. They will just deflect and bring up the nfl or something else irrelevant

 

[360Waves]

I’ve said it before but it’s hard to believe a “black” forum has this much disdain for the only unapologetically black league in America. Being indifferent is one thing but these nikkas seem to be actively rooting for the leagues failure and that shyt is very

Convinced half the NBA haters on here are c00ns/covert cacs and the other half are the ever insufferable group of brehs who came up in the 90s and are on a non stop crusade to maintain that that decade was the greatest thing to ever happen in human history.

Lost on those idiots is the fact that the NFL was still steamrolling the NBA in ratings even during almighty MJ’s reign. There is not a single league in America that can touch the NFL, for a variety of reasons that have little to do with the actual quality of play on the floor, but let nikkas continue to be ignorant.

Brehs really think the NBA was pulling 25m+ on some Dallas Cowboys shyt during the 90s regular season. Oooh are in they in for a rude awakening.

 

[Boonapalist]

You used to be a positive on this forum but now you keep groveling with the rest of the pigs.

nikkas do not care about no facts thrown their way. They only care about what they feel wrong and all

 

[The_Dread_Dormammu]

I’ve said it before but it’s hard to believe a “black” forum has this much disdain for the only unapologetically black league in America. Being indifferent is one thing but these nikkas seem to be actively rooting for the leagues failure and that shyt is very

Convinced half the NBA haters on here are c00ns/covert cacs and the other half are the ever insufferable group of brehs who came up in the 90s and are on a non stop crusade to maintain that that decade was the greatest thing to ever happen in human history.

Lost on those idiots is the fact that the NFL was still steamrolling the NBA in ratings even during almighty MJ’s reign. There is not a single league in America that can touch the NFL, for a variety of reasons that have little to do with the actual quality of play on the floor, but let nikkas continue to be ignorant.

Brehs really think the NBA was pulling 25m+ on some Dallas Cowboys shyt during the 90s regular season. Oooh are in they in for a rude awakening.

I’m saying….

 

[number21]

Needed thread but the nba hate watchers will still run with their narratives because they don't want to admit that they don't have love for the game.

 

[bigde09]

You have to be Adam Silver himself

 

[DjMe]

Very shocked Roger ran a 1pm and 4pm game, and skipped prime time.
With the way they were hyping this NBA vs NFL shyt...piques my interest a bit. Did the NFL cede the night time slot, knowing they would be handing their captive audience over to the NBA? Because if Rog ran Bills v Lions there, that Lakers rating drops down to 1-1.5.

 

[Trojan 24]

So what you saying is MJ the GOAT

 

[concise]

Very shocked Roger ran a 1pm and 4pm game, and skipped prime time.
With the way they were hyping this NBA vs NFL shyt...piques my interest a bit. Did the NFL cede the night time slot, knowing they would be handing their captive audience over to the NBA? Because if Rog ran Bills v Lions there, that Lakers rating drops down to 1-1.5.

Numbers would be terrible trying to run a football game up to midnight ET on Christmas Day.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

You used to be a positive on this forum but now you keep groveling with the rest of the pigs.

nikkas do not care about no facts thrown their way. They only care about what they feel wrong and all

Ain't nobody groveling for shyt, nxgga.

Nobody's feelings are wrong.

We like what we like and we don't like what we don't like. We all have our preferences. We all have times where we might become disinterested with something for whatever the reason may be. You don't have to like something 100% of the time. You don't have to hate something 100% of the time either.

This is about cats who try to push the way they feel about the NBA onto everyone else, hence why they bring up shyt like ratings to say "see, nobody likes the NBA anymore", as if that gives them justification of why their feelings are right. Trying to speak the demise of the NBA into existence because they're the ones who don't like it. Trying to get everyone to be as miserable as they are.

 

[The God Poster]

Mods gotta start merging into mega threads.

 

[In The Zone '98]

Mods gotta start merging into mega threads.

Mans still gonna act like they don't see it

Need those daps

 

[itsyoung!!]

USA has gained almost 100 million population since 1991

What an insane post

 

[feelosofer]

Man that Spurs-Knicks game had me glued to my seat and even though my Nets are trying to tank it actually shone a light on promising players.