Why is NBA Media so much worse than other Major Sports

[BucciMane]

People are always going to focus on rings. With that said, I think most people with a brain realize that in football, you need a complete TEAM to win a Super Bowl, or multiple. You can have a few of the best players in the NFL and not win if you don't have a complete team. In the NBA, one player can make all the difference when it's 5 v.s. 5 and you play both sides of the ball. Much more responsibility and more ability to impact the game. With that, comes a lot more criticism and praise.

 

[Rakpo98]

It’s this way because the NBA regular season doesn’t matter anymore. With stars sitting for “load management”, or just being hurt in general, the regular season discussion has never meant so little.

The NBA is now at the point where viewers won’t care or watch the league until the playoffs begin. All this ring talk has contributed to this too. The only hardcore watchers are probably on this forum.

The league is in big trouble if this doesn’t change. Ratings are down now 30% from just 3-4 years ago, and that’s with all the great games and performances in the bubble when everyone was cooped up in the crib with no where else to go.

Silver needs to figure out how to drum up interest in the league, because pretty soon the casuals which the NBA depends on will tune out completely. The league is probably at its worst state it’s been in decades. Silver needs Zion, Luka and Trey to make the leap to superstars that can draw back the casuals.

 

[MITS]

The game is just bad now.
Players putting up crazy numbers with ease

nothing that appears easy will draw attention. That’s the reason nobody gives a shyt about Westbrook’s 3x2 when you have big men clearing out so he can grab boards.

Nba is in big trouble once Lebron retires

 

[daboywonder2002]

If u want actual analysis watch nba tv or Tim legler on sports center. Those guys actually break things down

 

[daboywonder2002]

This is where the WNBA actually thrives. Just pure hoop fans that enjoy the sport. No hot takes or click bait videos.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

College game is simpler and slower so that makes sense. I think college football analysts are a lot better than NFL analysts too.

It's way easier to tell what is going on in the college game, because college schemes have to be simple enough for relatively inexperienced college players of various ability levels to pick them up quickly.

NFL scheming on both sides of the ball is so complex that it is extremely difficult for most commentators to even understand what is going on in real time unless they have done an incredible amount of film study or themselves retired from the league very recently.

 

[Negro Caesar]

The game is just bad now.
Players putting up crazy numbers with ease

nothing that appears easy will draw attention. That’s the reason nobody gives a shyt about Westbrook’s 3x2 when you have big men clearing out so he can grab boards.

Nba is in big trouble once Lebron retires

Ain’t nobody giving Westbrook boards.

greatest rebounding guard all time

 

[tremonthustler1]

College game is simpler and slower so that makes sense. I think college football analysts are a lot better than NFL analysts too.

In college, the coach is the star of the show.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Because NBA fans are worse than other major sports

Worse than NFL fans in what way?

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

NBA has an obscene number of dikkriders and stans compared to other sports .

Media caters to it .

pretty much that simple

 

[Uitomy]

This is where the WNBA actually thrives. Just pure hoop fans that enjoy the sport. No hot takes or click bait videos.

 

[Mastamimd]

A lot of them aren't journalists to be honest, most of them are dikkriders like Cowherd, SAS, Skip, or the like that throw hot takes out there to rile people up.

 

[MoneyTron]

Meme culture and the NBA merged at some point. It brought a different element into the online discussion of basketball. Way more kids involved which is a good thing if you're at HQ.

 

[ÆTHER]

The NBA is covered by people that don’t even like basketball.

It's a reflection of the audience.

It has similar issues to soccer in that it's driven by narratives. Also there's still a friction between the analytics and traditional crowd despite the fact that analysis is always better when both are involved.

The English soccer/football media is even worse. Its just as shallow and ignorant of what's happening on the field, just as big market and narrative obsessed and the only difference really is they took away the obsession with imaginary all-time rankings and ring culture and they replaced it with scapegoating, stereotypes, racism, xenophobia and pocket watching. Those guys will blame an entire team's failures on a black player getting a haircut.

 

[The_Third_Man]

because the NBA fans themselves are bad. most of them are.