"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
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) December 13, 2024
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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Reduce the number of games, 82 is 50 too many.
Change all series to best 2/3, finals can be best 3/5.
I try to get into professional pumpkin pushing so I have something to talk about to the brothas, but literally no single game matters until late into a series.
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Less games means less flying constantly and the players will be more into it
Regular season games feel like a drag so often where the only exciting thing is some rookie going off for 10min
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I think these are both great ideas, but the business and advertising side won't let this happen until the there is a complete collapse of the league, and I feel like at that point the league is in dire straights. Coming closer to the NCAA model with the NCAA Tournament would be great for drama and create more variability in who wins instead of the best team almost always winning in 7.
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I'm not into nfl as much as I used to be but when I watched it a lot I always hated how NBA tried to barge in during the first half of NFL season. For all its faults the NFL is very numerically pleasing. 32 teams. 2 conferences, 4 divisions each, 4 teams per division. Nearly every game matters. A team can't bumble around unless they earn it by dominating for at least 13 or 14 weeks.
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It being 17 games now is very upsetting for my autism.
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If it helps they're for sure gonna make it 18 within a few years next time the NFL collective bargain comes up
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Same
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