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I think we would need to keep at least one of them cause they are our culture setters
The Official NBA Season Thread: Business is about to pick up 🗣️
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- Jun 7, 2014
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Why do y’all care so much about casual viewers?
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Eh I think Ime is ultimately the culture setter. And you already have the young defensive dudes ready to take those guys roles.
FVF and Brooks are average-ish guys at the end of the day. I’m not saying to move them for just some shmuck, but if you can get a legit piece in return for them that’s individually better, you should do it.
- Jun 7, 2014
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Also that tweet about every other league getting record ratings wasn’t true and didn’t even have a source. NHL’s viewership is down and the MLB has had some of the lowest rated World Series of all time in the past 5 years, even the Dodgers and Yankees.
- May 10, 2006
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please get this cup over with
- Mar 31, 2011
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NBA gets consumed in a different way than the other sports. It’s the easiest to just clip into a reel and get the gist of what happened. Folks still watch those and keep up with things.
These broadcast companies still line up to bid top dollar for the rights. The league is more than fine.
Just watch the games or don’t.
These broadcast companies still line up to bid top dollar for the rights. The league is more than fine.
Just watch the games or don’t.
- Dec 19, 2013
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Silver lucked out in having Lebby or Wardell in the finals every year. That luck finally ran out. Nobody else in the league moves the needle. Caitlin Clark is the 3rd most popular basketball player…
- Jan 5, 2011
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Idgaf at all directly about viewers.
But I deeply care about the NBA and it's future. And that's kind of in limbo with viewership being in the dump and the foreseeable future.
So the casual viewer matters greatly to it's future.
In the grand scheme.
Obviously.
- Jan 5, 2011
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We got Dennis the Menace.
#5 & 6 otw.
On Crip & Blip.
#5 & 6 otw.
On Crip & Blip.
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bonafide101
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Hol up, Nuggets were 6th seed in '22?! What was the overall Jokic MVP justification?
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Murray didn't play that season and I think MPJ barely played too.
- Jul 29, 2001
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Took a trip down memory lane, because people are complaining so much about ratings and how the NBA sucks compared to 20-30-40 years ago. Well, lemme tell you about a little 7-game series between the Nets and Pistons on 2004, the same year the Pistons destroyed the Lakers in the Finals. You know, a team that had Shaq and Kobe.
These were the results of that Pistons-Nets series:
Whoooooo, boy, that 56 point effort by the Nets in Game 1 sure would have sent the national audience into a tizzy! Especially with established superstars of....Rasheed Wallace, Ben Wallace, and Jason Kidd (who literally nobody liked). So exciting to watch that! Who needs scoring anyway? But wait, it got better! Game 3 had the Nets holding the Pistons to 64 points. Man, I'm sure that was exciting as hell! The Lakers surely have this whole thing wrapped up because the East sucks, and they're getting every call in the West, right? The Nets are up 3-2...wait, what's that? Game 4 ended 127-120? How does that happen? Did everyone forget to play defense and punt to the next game? Do the Pistons suck now? Nope. They won the next two games, and beat the Pacers the next series and curb stomped the Lakers. Again, the Shaqobe Lakers.
My point is, ratings don't matter. You can make all the rule changes you want. The NBA is what it is. The TV deal proves that networks believe it's worth it. And, whenever people tell me "oh, the NBA was so much better when they played defense, or when Larry Bird played", I can just easily point to this nonsense and say "WAS IT?"
The point is, the NBA was legitimately awful to watch for a long period of time. FIFTY-SIX POINTS in a second round game, by a team coming off a Finals appearance, and with Kidd still being an All-NBA first team guard?
The NBA has a talent boom it's never experienced in its history. David Stern would have green lit expansion yesterday, but Adam Silver is such a wimp that he won't even commit to Vegas and Seattle, while the NHL has lapped him in terms of expansion. Silver is a terrible commissioner, and is still dining out on the Sterling thing. Stern would never have let Gary Bettman get the upper hand on TWO major markets.
These were the results of that Pistons-Nets series:
Whoooooo, boy, that 56 point effort by the Nets in Game 1 sure would have sent the national audience into a tizzy! Especially with established superstars of....Rasheed Wallace, Ben Wallace, and Jason Kidd (who literally nobody liked). So exciting to watch that! Who needs scoring anyway? But wait, it got better! Game 3 had the Nets holding the Pistons to 64 points. Man, I'm sure that was exciting as hell! The Lakers surely have this whole thing wrapped up because the East sucks, and they're getting every call in the West, right? The Nets are up 3-2...wait, what's that? Game 4 ended 127-120? How does that happen? Did everyone forget to play defense and punt to the next game? Do the Pistons suck now? Nope. They won the next two games, and beat the Pacers the next series and curb stomped the Lakers. Again, the Shaqobe Lakers.
My point is, ratings don't matter. You can make all the rule changes you want. The NBA is what it is. The TV deal proves that networks believe it's worth it. And, whenever people tell me "oh, the NBA was so much better when they played defense, or when Larry Bird played", I can just easily point to this nonsense and say "WAS IT?"
The point is, the NBA was legitimately awful to watch for a long period of time. FIFTY-SIX POINTS in a second round game, by a team coming off a Finals appearance, and with Kidd still being an All-NBA first team guard?
The NBA has a talent boom it's never experienced in its history. David Stern would have green lit expansion yesterday, but Adam Silver is such a wimp that he won't even commit to Vegas and Seattle, while the NHL has lapped him in terms of expansion. Silver is a terrible commissioner, and is still dining out on the Sterling thing. Stern would never have let Gary Bettman get the upper hand on TWO major markets.
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Where’s LeBron
- Jul 8, 2013
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It’s probably Ime but if you trade the only veteran rotation players it might get ugly during parts of the season. It’s very rare for a bunch of 23 year olds to consistently play winning basketball.
There’s no clear target but i’d rather have Zach Lavine over some of the guys being floated.
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Late 2000s into mid 2010s was a good median of ball to me.
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HOU$TON
formerly convertibleburt
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Probably gone somewhere to get some injections.
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Still kinda salty about how Trae shot us out of it in the final 3 minutes. Should have been bogey and Hunter taking those 3’s. Walked away feeling pretty good tho knowing Giannis and Dame had to play 40 minutes to get the win, makes me feel better about a 7 game series where those type of minutes are as not sustainable. Hopefully Risacher finds more consistency scoring as the season goes on, we need more from him in the minutes he’s playing.
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This is facts
