"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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Look this is a chud nuke:
1) Both the NBA and NFL were the most watched sports in America
2) The NBA white players got better in quality in the past decade too the point that one of the best new NBA stars is a white guy
3) NBA ratings collapse in the past decade
Conclusion:
Black people playing is a core component of these two sports and people lose interest the moment the black people disappear from the game. The whites enjoy watching the blackies working the field and the blacks enjoy watching their own get too play as some sort of stars.
The white man doesn't want too watch a white man play basketball. It isn't part of the sports mythology. It's like a black mermaid but reversed, and it clearly matters even more based on the results.
Jewish lives matter too Aevann.
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I do think there's a race component but you missed it entirely.
Most of the biggest NFL stars as far as marketing are white QBs.
All the good white NBA players are foreigners, making them more difficult to market and even less relatable than blacks to the average white man.
My conclusion: having marketable stars of different races can help make the game more popular with that race, and for this exercise foreigners (besides Canadians) only appeal to their home country.
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Americans are too xenophobic too have successful sports.
Jewish lives matter too Aevann.
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