Why is NBA Media so much worse than other Major Sports

[Soldier]

I think a major problem with the modern NBA is the player-based fandom that has seemingly taken over the sport. The amount of people who support a team and watch their individual games are dropping, fans are instead following players around to which ever team they play for.

I also think the Instagram-ification of the league doesn’t help because obviously there are many people that almost never watch full NBA games but instead they prefer to watch highlights on the Bleacher Report IG feed. It’s great that highlights are readily available like that, though I definitely feel like a lot of people feel the need not to watch full games as a result.


Basketball is not a tribal sport like baseball/football/hockey/soccer are.

That's definitely a factor too. The NFL is seemingly impervious to this (probably because it's the most tribalistic sport), whereas a star-driven and player’s league like the NBA has suffered from the lack of a true monoculture. Jordan and the Bulls were basically the Beatles in the 1990s; that's not something that could really happen again today in 2024.

And this is across popular and mainstream culture today. There’s less of a monoculture and therefore less myth making with guys like Jordan. Even with movie stars there’s not really anybody that can really command the box office. Same thing with artists. There’s no modern artists in music right now who can reach everyone and get love from every demographic and generation like the Beatles, Bob Marley, Elvis Presley, Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, Lionel Richie, Rolling Stones, Queen, Louis Armstrong, Stevie wonder, micheal Jackson, Prince, etc. Don’t tell me about post Malone, Morgan wallen or Travis Scott. Or Drake/The Weeknd. Or even Beyoncé/Taylor Swift/Rihanna/Dua Lipa.

 

[Soldier]

Also people can schedule their lives around Sunday football. they can’t do so as easily for primetime NBA on random evenings during the week. that’s really the bulk of it.

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

The Godfather and Lauryn had shytty peers.

This is one of the dumbest things I've ever read.

But it does illustrate who I'm dealing with, here.

"The Godfather"'s peers are the movies of Hollywood's greatest era, the 1960s & '70s

And Lauryn Hill's peers are Nas, 2pac, Biggie, Snoop, ATCQ, Outkast, Public Enemy, etc. .

You know "The Golden Age of Hip-Hop"???

There are no movies better than "The Godfather" being made right now & there aren't any albums better than "Miseducation" being made right now.

To pretend there are is just nonsense.

Again, nobody's saying that the NBA doesn't have talented players, but the product is trash, period.

The ratings and lack of star power tells the story.

It's a cop out to label everybody who criticizes the product as being "stuck in the past".

That's just an excuse not to demand a better product.

We don't have to just take any crap they give us & like it because it's "basketball"

Also people can schedule their lives around Sunday football. they can’t do so as easily for primetime NBA on random evenings during the week. that’s really the bulk of it.

That was the case when NFL ratings were down, as well.

 

[phillycavsfan]

Dude, Jordan only played 2 full seasons in Chicago before Pippen got to Chicago.

He made the playoffs 3x, lost to the Celtics (who had 5 HOFs) in '86 (broken foot year) & '87

And lost to a Milwaukee team that had 4 All-Stars in '85

You act like he was crashing out or something.

He was on a rebuilding team where the 2nd best player was a rookie Charles Oakley, coming in as an 8th seed.

Pippen's first year in the NBA, they won a playoff series, Jordan averaged 45 & Pippen averaged 10 & you nikkaz acting like it was Pippen that made the difference.

I'm not the one who brought his ass up, retard.

But I"m sure "PhillyCAVS" fan doesn't have Bron on the brain

Nothing.

Dude, I was there, nobody even respected Pippen in the '90s, even after he became like an All-Star.

Even other All-Stars made fun of Pippen. That's why he's so bitter, now.

They're stuck on shyt that's good because the new shyt isn't better.

That's like saying movie fans are "stuck on old shyt" because they're saying "The Godfather" is better than the bullshyt Hollywood is putting out.

It just is.

Nobody's saying "go back to the '80s", just play fukking watchable basketball, genius.

Liking basketball doesn't entail just liking anything they serve us.

It'd be like saying I have to pretend that Sexy Red is as good as Lauryn Hill because that's just what Hip-Hop is these days.

An inferior product is an inferior product

And the ratings tell the truth.

Literally, nobody does this.

There's tons of 30 for 30s & documentaries about Magic vs. Bird, Lakers vs. Celtics, The Bad Boy Pistons, etc. . .

MJ himself always said that he wouldn't disrespect the OGs by calling himself the GOAT

You pulled that phillyCAVSfan and thought you had the juice, huh?

Cavs is for UVA, hence the avatar.

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

You pulled that phillyCAVSfan and thought you had the juice, huh?

Cavs is for UVA, hence the avatar.

 

[K-Apps]

Long thread, but the main point is this tweet:

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Long thread, but the main point is this tweet:

The journalists: the game is trash

The fans: the game is trash (tune out in record numbers)

ex-players: the game is trash

NBA sycophants:

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

The journalists: the game is trash

The fans: the game is trash (tune out in record numbers)

ex-players: the game is trash

NBA sycophants:

The funny thing about this is, you're using this meme for the wrong crowd.

 

[HandyWithTheSteel]

The journalists: the game is trash

The fans: the game is trash (tune out in record numbers)

ex-players: the game is trash

NBA sycophants:

You’re using this meme wrong.

“We done with the ‘90s” had y’all bushing threads and deleting posts. The children are trying to tell you how they feel but you’re covering your ears and closing your eyes.

 

[NYC Rebel]

Long thread, but the main point is this tweet:

Nick was one of the hosts of Filling the Lanes. We briefly touched this before the show ended.

I used to go in on this.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Nick was one of the hosts of Filling the Lanes. We briefly touched this before the show ended.

I used to go in on this.

Can yall drum up a reunion show

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

You’re using this meme wrong.

“We done with the ‘90s” had y’all bushing threads and deleting posts. The children are trying to tell you how they feel but you’re covering your ears and closing your eyes.

Y'all didn't have me deleting a damn thing.

I actually watched the games while they were happening. .

You munchkins just look at highlights (or lowlights) on Twitter or Tik Tok and act like you're doing something.


The only people who like the current NBA are young people who know no better.

90% of the people who've watched the NBA for 30 years or more say it's currently trash.

That's how I know we're right.

90% of the journalist
90% of the ex-players
90% of the fans over the age of 35 all say it's trash.

But yeah, let's listen to the 21 year olds who weren't even born when Kobe & Shaq were winning chips together

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Such compelling basketball

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

"This is the greatest the game's ever been"

 

[K-Apps]