your interest was shown well after the fact that the season started. Because this wasn't something you wanted in the summer, the league wasn't gonna schedule it, let alone on Christmas. shyt, where are all those people who wanted to watch more Pacers games a month ago? What about all those casuals still curious about that Zion guy? They're gonna stick to tried and true now. The league is tired of getting burned by teams that lose eyeballs once NBA fans lose interest.
It's business, and no league more than the NBA lets you know that some teams are bad for business. The #1 question at halftime woulda been "can the Lakers or Knicks get ANY of these players?"
The bolded has never happened, either the team fell off or the team fell off , and you sound like a nikka that needs to put in an application to work for the league or some shyt because I don't give af about none of that. I'm a fan. Get the young talent on tv it ain't that hard to flex especially when the "tried and true" isn't tried and true....Embiid didn't play yesterday, Draymond suspended, Beal didn't play and his team is out of the playoffs, Kyrie didn't play. All that's bad for business I would guess, idk or give af, all I know is that that was at least two games out of a 5 game slot that was spoiled. A 5 game slot that I'm sure YOU didn't even watch to completion btw so wtf is you tagging me about.
Get Ant Man on tv and force that promotion a bit, the rest will follow. As stated before, that's your American star and there is no star that shines brighter than the American star and Bron and Curry are on the outs....since you care about the business so much.