"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.
Thanks for taking this long journey with me, and just know once we hit land you will be sold into slavery 
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I like playing basketball, but it is the worst sport to watch, even worse than soccer.
Also even "close" playoff series are just an alternating pattern of blowouts. I think of the 10 playoff games I watched last year maybe 1 or 2 ended within 5 points of eachother. Most were one team winning by 15+
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Golf?
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Lol poor.
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I don't consider anything a sport unless you can directly effect what the other team/player is doing
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But you can
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I loved watching basketball until like 2006. Game has been going rapidly downhill due to a combination of changes to officiating and the realization that 3s are way too high value.
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