"The NBA...ratings are down 48% in the last 12 years and they have fallen off a cliff this year and Adam Silver's solution is let's make the courts brighter...Go ask the Democrats. Be warned, once you detach from regular people in America, you will pay a price." - Colin Cowherd pic.twitter.com/V3wifBWu5a
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There's been a lot of online discourse with regards to the NBA losing viewers and even more about how to fix the issue. I am in no way an avid NBA fan, but I find it fascinating how a league can drive away so many fans in such a short period of time. The NBA could be considered the second-most popular sport in America (hardcore baseball fans might disagree) and an institution in a way, so it's very surprising how there is such a lack of appetite to watch the games?
Without listing out all the online critiques (i.e. too many threes, flopping, etc.), personally, I would say the main issue is people these days just have way more media to entertain themselves, and the NBA isn't equipped to acquire back those fans they lost. It's far easier to throw on a YouTube video or fire up Steam than it is to watch a game these days, and if you can't indoctrinate more kids then in the long-run you're fricked as a growing league and business.
Besides just the low hanging fruit of "LOL BIPOCS" what do you guys think the main issue is/are and how can the NBA remedy this decline (if possible)? I know we're all r-slurs here, but I feel like we'd get a less overly biased take than from say the NBA Twitter and NBA reddit users that's why I ask.
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Isn't this the case for all pro sports leagues though? I'm not a big sports fan in general, but I think the decline in interest for athletics in general is not a good thing. Sports and sports leagues are important for building community and preventing people from getting
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Big problem for football is the CTE meme. They think little Johnny who isn't gonna make it off the JV squad is gonna get the same CTE as a dude getting hit by profressional athletes for a decade.
Basically millennial dad's are too cucked to standup to their wife.
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Parents don't like their kids getting brain damage. That was game over for boxing, basically.
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kitties!
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Why would anyone want to risk their kid getting concussions for a sport they won't make it anywhere in, when they can just play some other sport they'll never make it anywhere in with far less risk?
I know millennials are pathetic but they are right on this one.
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Because the only other fall sport is cross country and I'd rather have a concussed son then a cute twink.
On the real though, football is fun and a concussion or two in high school isn't going to frick you up. Think the lessons you learn as an student athlete pay off in the long term.
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Just do basebaall and don't get concussions lol.
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Baseball is a summer sport, kids should be working in the summer, not playing games.
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Rowing is a fall sport too, if you're not a poor
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Played full contact football for 10 years, saw one confirmed concussion on my team and it was because we played a BIPOC School that had rocks on their shit field
Until high school kids aren't moving fast enough to really do much damage
If you don't start hittting before high school you will suck at football
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Nah man, my buddy was an offensive lineman for my shitty private high school and took 3 concussions in a 16-month span. Now a decade later he legitimately is noticeably more r-slurred than when I met him, and it gets worse every year. He may not end up with CTE but it for sure fricked with his life.
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Did your friend play for the coyotes?
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You're right in that there has been a decline of athletics in general which is bad but I don't have or want to look for the numbers though. The NFL is really the only league not getting pounded by loss of interest. Nielson changed how the ratings work, and now include out of home viewing numbers (bars, airports, etc.), so there has been a ratings spike for leagues the past few years, but the NBA has either stayed the same (a loss of overall viewers) or declined. Football is just so ingrained in society at this point that other media is chasing their cultural cache imo.
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Which is honestly kinda lame, football is one of the more boring major sports.
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!mensfootball down Marsey
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!mensfootball, we need to seriously talk about how there's only 11 minutes of live play in a 3 hour game.
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Yeah, soccer sucks
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Deserved. I should say it's boring because for every 30 seconds of action there's 4 minutes of ad breaks.
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SUBSCRIBE TO NFL REDZONE ITS THE BEST THING EVER
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I watch F1 instead
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Anyone who can't respect football is stupid. You don't have to like watching it; but how are you not impressed by eleven men on both sides of a line destroying their bodies and brains to make that line move their way no matter what.
No sport in the world other than Sumo can compare.
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please excuse my biden moment when I wrote that, I was more complaining about the ratio of actual gameplay to ads. if I could watch 22 hunks duking it out without globohomo incessantly shilling their products to me I'd like the sport a lot more
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Because that is only 11 minutes in a 3 hour slot.
Its too many ads
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Canadian football is much more exciting.
Better fundamentals too.
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It helps that NFL games are pretty much all on Sundays with a couple exceptions versus a whole bunch of NBA games scattered throughout the week. This makes NFL games more of an event to watch with a group. The load management thing a lot of stars are doing is also not helping. No one wants to watch the 76ers get shit pumped because Embiid and George need to rest their knees every other game.
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MLB has been trying different things to maintain less hardcore fans interest, the pitch clock and a few other things to speed up the game. I watched a few games this seaon for the first time in a few years, and the game does flow a lot better now. But they have a real problem with pitchers getting injured, they're pushing them way too hard too early, willing to sacrifice career length for a few years of crazy velocity
The time has come for the Necromaster. The unleashing of the fourth joker's card. The arrival of The Great Milenko
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The only reason I went to MLB games was because the Oakland A's were handing out free tickets and going "dude bro, I promise its half-price beer night bro please come, bro please"
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Euro football (Premier league, only one that matters) is more popular than ever.
Dread it, Fear it, Run from it. You will learn to love the beautiful game or else.
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