"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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1. Let the players touch each other without calling fouls every 2 seconds.
2. Move the 3 point line waaaaaaaay back.
3. Penalize players harshly for requesting trades without a good reason.
4. Make the players sign longer contracts. It weakens the fanbases and sells less tickets when the fans don't even know who's on the team.
5. Penalize them harshly for sitting out games. Buck break that weak butt player's union and give them less revenue share if they do not comply.
6. The trade off for the 3 previous changes can be a shorter season where they get paid more per game. They are all multimillionaires so tell them to shut the frick up if they don't like it.
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I wonder if the push for tweeners and guards who can shoot has made it more boring cuz it's less masculine and all trickery by coaches on how to spam uncontested 3s
Even tho 3 shooting is entertaining it was more fun when it was a new idea
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