The NBA Wants Them to Lose
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The new MBA CBA is taking full effect and it’s not good for certain teams. This is a look at how the league has changed the rules and how teams operate forever.
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the problem with the new CBA is that it punishes teams that draft and develop well because there is no salary tax exceptions for players that you drafted.
I agree. They really should have made provisions for players a team drafts and developes themselves.
Yeah, though with some exceptions maybe. As in a team that tanks 4 or 5 seasons to get alot of lottery capital maybe be restricted.
Though another issue is this would alter the value of draft picks after so many have been traded. Imagine you traded your picks under this system of rules but before those picks conveyed they change it so the picks are now worth significantly more. They maybe need to something like that worked out to come into play in 5+ years time or something so reset the draft picks and values.
Honest question here... Doesn't that mean that the teams will negotiate lower salaries from now on? Max deals should be harder now that spent really matters. It doesn't matter if a star threatens to leave, who will pay them as much as they want without butchering their current roster? The way I see it, and I may be completely wrong, the teams will not give the players top money so easily anymore....
@cauekacperzak983 it might. It's tough to tell because so many players are already on big contracts but the flow on might not be felt for 4 or 5 seasons and some big extensions end.
@@jake8748well. One of the reasons why we got the new CBA is because a lot of star players requested trades. Most notable ones were Harden and Ben Simmons (the latter had 4 years left on his contract). New CBA basically punishes guys who don't show up
To keep dynasties together, they might have to introduce some sort of loyalty benefit, where if you kept a player over X number of years, a discount can be applied for their salary against the cap.
Or can't the players (the star players) take a paycut and take like 30 or 35 million per year
Finally a good idea in entertainment.
@@adriancomia6618not gonna happen mate. Imagine being 10x better than a player making 50 million. And your making half of what he’s getting. And being in the league is cut-throat. So many players want your spot and just one big injury could ruin your career. So might as well get as much money as possible.
@@kieffer4615 they are already making more money than pretty much anyone here including me that are commenting, if they are injured and no longer in the league they either play overseas or get a literal job in case their careers ended short, not every player gets to keep that money forever in their pockets, they'll keep moving cause they'll spend them in their daily needs
@@adriancomia6618Bro let the players make that money
I think a big part of the ratings problem is people are watching on illegal streams😅
A little bit, but he already made a video showing the 100 most watched events and it was mostly nfl, mlb, college games, etc. Despite the fact that basketball is bigger globally. I think the main reason is cause there's no defense played until the last 8 minutes, that's when a lot of people tune in. The NBA has basically punished the defense by removing hand checking and more importantly adding the gather step and allowing carries to make the offense look better. It's boring.
@@huntermach7356league wide offense is so good I feel like the nba would be a better product if they removed the 3 sec paint rule
Bro they play defense, the thing is it’s far harder to play defense in this era than any other because of the shooting abilities. They need to cover far more space which takes much more energy. Plus the tick tack fouls which heavily favours the offense. 80’s 90’s 00’s half the team could camp in the paint and foul the hell out of anyone coming down the there.
The NBA needs a few more NFL players.
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I don’t really have a problem with dynasties. In fact, I like it. People only hate it when it’s not their team. The lame part is that once a team heats up, they’re gonna get cut off at the knees. That means that good teams will now have a very small championship window before they have to be broken up.
Dynasties are trash idk what you're talking about... 1st dynasties prevents other teams from getting a ring which makes the end of season extremely boring no one likes the same team winning unless if its their team take a look at the celtics no one wanted them to win because they were the clear winners and they already had franchise success but the mavs did not as much besides 1 chip. also just makes the entire season more interesting to see teams fight for the standings not just have one time dominant over their conference. Also lasty its boring seeing back to backs i like seeing the underdogs or the ones not suspected to win actually win a chip i loved that Denver got their first chip not to long ago and i'm not a Denver fan but liked how it was a new team and not the same 4 teams over and over again its bland boring and stupid
@@rossGrett Fr, everyone hates the warriors dynasty but they have the most viewed finals in the last 20 years. Now finals viewership gets lower every year
@@rossGrett Well, you can have your opinion, but the ratings say otherwise 🤷 Besides, it’s not like they win every year. A lot goes in to that.
And in the timberwolves case you have a good team that didn’t make a championship run and now they’re in cap hell..
Not if you build you roster smart. Paying 1 guy the Max the filling the Roster up with Role Players around that 1 guy. The super team 3 star era in the NBA is over.
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True the explosion of sports betting online has caused people to ironically tap out. If you were a fan and had huge losses, you might never watch again.
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Funny how the lowest TV rating was in 2020 lol. Literally had the most amount of people sitting at home in front of their TVs!
Yeah I’m pretty sure more people are watching the nba now compared to the past
you had Lebron in DIsney land no one wanted to watch that
The NBA sank there feet deep in politics in the bubble. And sure fire way to lose viewership is going into politics.
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It just means that the role players are gonna have more championships than the superstars. Look at KCP and Jrew Holliday Two championships which is more than their superstar counterparts. Were gonna see role players getting more championships because they’re changing teams more frequently. That’s what the new CBA is going to do in the next decade.
And role players getting more championships than the superstars it’s not good for the NBA.
Good for the role players, bad for ratings
Jrue is not a role player lol he is nearly getting paid max money lmao.
people begged
for parity but in reality loved a few elite super stars getting all the rings.
Anything below the third man is a roleplayer especially if the player has no prior history of being a first option
This has actually happened before, see robert horry 😂
That’s not even why the Knicks couldn’t keep Hartenstein. They could keep him because of Early Bird rights
I dont think that the quality of the NBA product has a direct effect on ratings. As a college student i enjoy watching basketball game and media surrounding it, but mostly through youtube or restreams. The NBA product is the most inaccessible its been since the 70s most likely. Basketball is a fast growing sport among people, something coveted by the other major sports, but young people dont have expensive cable plans or league pass. While i dont know for sure, i would hazard a guess that a graph of nba finals ratings would mirror a graph of household cable adoption. Rising in the 80s/90s, hitting a plateau in the 2000/2010s and shrinking with the rise of streaming.
Thats why league pass exist you don't have to watch NBA games on cable you can stream the games live.
@@emilfrederiksen.1622 Yet again tho that is something you have to pay for... Which was literally his point.. This leads to people watching it illegally and the views looking like they dropped off when in fact they have not its just that people have found other ways to watch the games.. Not everyone wants to spend any amount of money watching the games they wanna watch at all.. So its easier to find someone streaming the game for you and you just watch it through their stream...
Parity isn't the issue, the modern NBA just sucks. No defense, non-competitive, players don't care about the fans, players are crybabies, NBA lacks soul, three point spam, leftist politics injected into the game. People like to see dunks and threes, that doesn't mean people want to see EASY + wide open dunks and threes. Creating more parity is about the only good thing the NBA is doing right now, because 2017 and 2018 were wasted years in the NBA thanks to KD taking the chump route
@@Vandakai Facts.
People don't want parity of champions, people want parity of the chase. It's like in professional wrestling, a great heel drives interest even though everyone "hates" the heel. The chase is the thrill and the championship is the apex. A dynasty with multiple challengers falling and then some new team takes them down a few years down the line is good for national interest.
Viewerships tanked though. Are you sure about that?
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Knicks couldn’t sign iHart because the early but rights limited the max amount they could offer him
i think the second apron will only work if they expand soon
The ironic thing is, their roster is already looking a bit more substantial than last year. I think people will be surprised.
oh please. it's a lateral move.
Least dilutional warriors fan
I didn’t think the 2022 roster was good enough….turns out I was wrong so I won’t judge a book by it’s cover
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The Isiah Hartenstein comparison is a little inaccurate. The Knicks could've kept all three of the players you listed. They couldn't keep Hartenstein because of Early Bird Rights or something to that effect that limited them on their offer to 4 years $72m regardless of what other teams offered.
6:14 - 7:40 nothing but facts. One of the most satisfying NBA takes I have ever heard. Parity is overrated as hell
THIS TV RATINGS IS IRRELEVANT, PEOPLE NOWADAYS ARE NOT WATCHING TVs BECAUSE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AT LIVESTREAMS
0:53 Woah there jokic
Bro Reed Sheppard was not drafted first 😂 he went 3rd to the Rockets. And why everyone keep saying first white American, so y'all just forgot about Chet 😂 and he was drafted higher than Reed 😭
exactly! i was so confused!
Hartenstein had nothing to do with payroll! He had early bird rights and the Knicks could only offer him so much.
You know who the NBA is? It’s all the owners of the teams together and the players union
@0:53 Jokic copping a feel
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NBA is done with superteams
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good dont bring them back they are cringe
Yea right lol you really think they'd prevent Lakers from getting another star? Don't be surprised if they somehow manage to miraculously get Grant or Levine or Derozan or a team surprisingly waives a very good player and he ends up on Lakers.
@@robglobal1ur a sad man
@@robglobal1 ah yes of course the "lakers clause" in the cba right that every team except the lakers is subject to the second apron. lol stop being ridiculous how do the lakers live this rent free in your head
I can assure you that the NBA does not want their golden children, the Lakers and the Warriors, to lose. It's literally all they ever talk about on ESPN.
Yep. NBA fans want them to lose, not the nba
the celtics are glazed by espn so hard
@@bandobandicoot13 almost all of their analysts picked the MAVS to win. They started glazing after they got embarrassed.
You confusing warriors with the Celtics Gsw lost in the play in 2021 missing 5 players including Klay vs Lakers by 3 nobody gave them any excuses like LeBron and KD would of got they just say they lost no mention of injuries same in 2016 it's literally two ppl that say anything good about Gsw in the media and that's tim legler and Stephen A
You are right about the Lakers. But dead wrong about the Warriors. There is only a couple ways the NBA can control games. Either suspend players extensively, fines, and the most obvious is bias from referees during games… so go have a look at the FTA per game over opponents FTA per game. Who has the biggest advantage in the league? Lakers. But guess who’s at the very bottom? Warriors
The thing is, the Warriors currently have the largest fan base of all the teams. As they should. The ratings graph from this video proves this. This IS the reason why the ratings are 💩. The largest fan base can clearly see the bias and unfair officiating night after night. So they dont watch.
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Mike takes so long to get to the point of the video. 90 percent recap/ad. 10 percent “new information”
Just hate watch Mike
A.M. Hoops seems much more knowledgeable and accurate with his assessments as well.
Personally I like Kenny beecham the best
Now, demanding a trade with a lengthy and expensive contract won't happen. Teams will be unable or unwilling to take on the salary. Good for franchises. Bad for chemistry. What else can be done to stop blind spending for rings? Lmk
Now it’s all about calculating how to time the best pieces, it’s better than seeing those superstars failing at teaming up again and again.
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Speaking for myself, having Cavs-Warriors for 4 straight years in the Finals was something I referred to as "the dark times". Not much better was 1980-1998 where if you didn't play for the Celtics, Lakers, Pistons, Rockets, Bulls, or 76ers (once), you just didn't get a ring. I'm not a fan of dynasties, and I'm not a fan of big market teams like Los Angeles, New York, Miami, etc. getting no-cap spending to accompany their already built-in advantage of being cities rich players want to be. Whether that's the case or not, however, I do like teams to be rewarded for developing their core outside of big-ticket free agents and especially getting to keep guys they drafted or acquired before they became superstars.
I'm kind of torn. I don't really want to see Klay Thompson playing for anyone other than the Warriors, but I don't really want to see the Warriors in the Finals again anytime in the near future.
Bulls weren't a dynasty they just had Jordan and Pistons won by physically beating the crap out of players wich was not real basketball.
For tv ratings I just wonder how many ppl are watching the Finals with one tv??
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The issue with the league is the injuries. Just look at the Eastern Conference Playoffs this year. I don't know what can be done, but it does seem odd that so many players are getting injured and stars no less! I've been watching hoops since 1991 and the amount of injuries these days is off the charts.
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The Knicks were capped at what they could offer Hartenstein because of early Bird rights.
NBA: You can't make super teams anymore.
Boston: Hold my 🍻
I think the ratings dropping has a lot to do with being able to watch on streaming and social media.. I can’t remember the last time I’ve really watched tv like that
You’re off base with Hartenstein bro. It wasn’t that they couldn’t pay him, they offered the max they could pay him. But OKC could offer way more over less years.
The problem with owners not wanting to pay luxury tax is that they seem to be buying franchises at 200-400 million and the selling them for 2.4 billion dollars. And you don't want to spend 30M more per year to make your product better? No logic here.
You are so right about dynasties. Dynasties = name recognition for casual fans - those who will only watch occasionally - and often only when someone they have heard of is playing.
The fact that bro was talking abt smooth and pg was playing in the background😅
Would if it just ends up like 2k where you’ll see someone like Buddy Hield in his prime in the free agency because he’s worth 20 mil but no one will pay him that.
Imo, there are less views now because people are cutting cable. "Illegal" streaming is getting really good too
I wonder if this will have long-term effects on salaries. Could we possibly see a day when players take significantly less money to buddy up and build a power team?
That’s exactly what’s gonna need to happen to combat the new rules. Once it starts to happen, there’s no going back
@@tomassantos4508 Lebron said he would take a salary cut to have Klay or PG and that didn't happen so yeah...!
That will for sure happen a bunch of aging superstars taking the vet minimum to team up together.
I think the only way to combat this and to make super teams again is if players collude to take drastic pay cuts to team up
Home-grown talent should be excluded from the punitive penalties.
Man I'm glad we have ad blockers and time stamps for youtube, imagine sitting through multiple ads from youtube then ads in the video, intros and exits for a 9 minute video. Shit would be worthless
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Curry needs to listen to the song “Dupe - Mbappe” to be more motivated 😮😮
basketball fan want parity, nba celebrity fan wants dynasty.
I would add one thing. A player drafted by the team only has 50% of his contract go toward the luxury tax. Keeps salary cap in place, penalties for free agent only teams, but incentives to draft, develop, and keep players.
I don't buy into these tv ratings anymore. Most people have cancelled their cable subscriptions and just watched “illegal” live streamings.
Ratings falling down is mainly about variety of entertainment venues like video games,watching podcast, netflix.
I partially agree, though the main problem is that there are no good rivalries in the NBA and there are too many entitled divas. On top of that, the parade of flopping, traveling, free throws, and poor defensive effort makes for a boring product.
Reed Shepard was taken 3rd, not 1st
He said he was the first AMERICAN WHITE GUY .... meaning the first American players taken are normally African-Americans ... AKA American black players ... in what was it? 48 years or something? You had Bogut as the #1 pick but he was Australian.... Also, Bargnani was a #1 pick but he was Italian. I don't normally think about it in those terms so it was kind of an odd comment. Bill Walton was the #1 pick in 1974 ... a HOF player .... Won 2 Titles despite injuries marring his career.
Kent Benson in 1977 .... I had to look it up. Benson wasn't very good.
@@randygraham926 we'll see if Cooper Flagg gets taken 1st overall
Meanwhile they keep giving out max contracts.
These rules are like rubberband design in game design
That is the point its to allow the other teams to try to keep up instead of going 100 years into denial cause they signed 3 guys that did nothing for their team 2 times and then they had to wait 10 years after both of those times to rebuild... Right Nets fans lol...
6:23 trust me, the biggest issue for the NBA’s views is illegal streaming
For that matter the biggest issue with any telecast’s viewership these days is the rise of the internet as an alternative to watch things
If they had a proper price to watch all games from all teams I’d consider buying. But pricing is bonkers when you’re outside of US.
@@klapaucius515 i think 15 a month for the league pass and the ability to watch every game is good pricing
And streaming of movies and to series, so many things to watch who needs live nba?
@@klapaucius515 its bonkers in the US as well...lol
If they get Lauri markinem they gunna be a top 5 seed
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I dont even need to see the video. People have been wishing on the Warriors downfall for a long time. Sad part is the casuals think its a chuck 3 and clock out type of team. There's so much more going on. Curry has proven so much more than what was asked of him. His offense is unlike anything we have ever seen. Dray is a donkey dumbfuck but his iq and defense, coupled with his ability to be a swiss army knife is amazing. The warriors have played some of the best systematic, fundamental, beautiful basketball I have ever seen. Go watch 2022 playoffs if you disagree. Curry is a 1 of a kind, he is in the convo with the greats, by virtue of being unique, holding records that people cant even scratch, and rewriting how you play basketball. Also, fun fact, that record setting season where wars got 73 wins, Dray got the most minutes and games started. We can hold him accountable for his on court antics, but at least he keeps it on the court, we act like we know but we don't. He has an amazing relationship with the majority of players he has played against.
I hated on this team for a long time. I was from the bay and I honestly wished on their downfall. I didn't realize I was witnessing a revolution. I started really trying to understand basketball and when I did that I appreciated Lebron, the Warriors, and KD so much more. I think as couch sitters we get way too comfortable judging stars when in reality they are just like us, and they are putting in work that few of us even understand.
It's crazy to think as a fan you hold it against a nba player to average 31 ppg 50-40-90 in the greatest stage in nba history and hate on them. KD deserves some flowers. I dont give a fuck if he joined a 73 wins team. They drafted their star players. What team did that? Who has pulled those stats in a finals series? KD is a monster, we should show him some love, and Steph's gravity is at an all time record when it comes to basketball.
Stop hating on Lebron Steph and KD. Those guys are monsters, mentality wise, talent wise, and personality wise. None of ya'll could handle the scrutiny of a million people juding your every move. These dudes owned the league up till recently. Throw them some flowers and stop being haters, NBA fans foster a hateful ass culture. Show some fuckin love.
I don't get why the NBA cares so much, Steph has like 1 or 2 more years left then they will fall off naturally. it not like steph is 27 and has 10 more good years.
I skip through the ads all the time it’s really annoying
I understand the NBA doesn't make a penny off pirated streams of games, but if they moved to count viewers via the pirate feeds instead of aggressively shut them down, I guarantee they'd see a big boost in viewership of all NBA games, pre-season, summer league, regular season and of course playoffs. The amount of people I know and heard using pirate streaming sites this year was a record for sure, especially for the finals. In fact, I'd argue that is where most of their viewership is going and has gone to - pirated feeds instead of paying money to watch. And when it aligns with people getting sick and tired of dynasties and the same damn superstars and teams getting all the attention and talk, it lowers people's willingness to pay for the lower quality product.
I feel a big reason why the ratings are dropping that was completely untouched in this video is the rise of streaming and pirating. I’d be surprised if even 60% of fans paid to watch rather than just using the internet. The NBA needs a way to deliver their product in a competitive enough price range that people will be willing to pay for it
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I don’t think its anti-super teams, just anti “I want off this team with 3-4 yrs left in a contract.”
Gonna make it harder to demand a trade while on a lengthy, expensive contract. Teams won't be able or willing to take on the salary.
Yep star players are rarely getting traded in the New CBA they are most likely sticking with the team that drafted them for at least 10 years or more. Like in the 90s and 2000s.
He keeps stating that the Mavericks are second apron, but they aren't. Spotrac has trouble updating this time of year. Once the website updates, they will be $2.5-4.5M below the first apron with one (possibly two if they waive Lawson) roster spots to fill. The current total on the Mavericks page is still including the salary with Josh Green even though he was removed from the roster higher on the page.,
Actually, they updated it today. Spotrac shows the Mavericks as a 1st apron team right now.
The biggest issue I see with this is those role player not having a secure team and being tossed around like hot potato. Imagine being on your team for 5 years and all of a sudden they’re like yea we not tryna be in that second apron so they trade you or you just get dropped
Dynasties are what make people watch and also give people someone to ROOT AGAINST..
Man if this guy was in the sales department or selling some real estate or insurance, I'd be fleeced every damn time and buy whatever he's selling with how convincing he talks.
The passion shines through in every video. It's truly inspiring.
The NBA will balance out over time, it feels weird at the moment because we've gotten used to seeing these teams full of three stars, and every other summer in free agency a new big three is formed. So we're in an era of team breakups, but once it all settles down we'll have a totally different league with talent spread out to more teams
Dynasties could happen with smart signings. 1 supermax franchise player, 1 max player, the rest. Also you need players that are willing to sacrifice their salary, high-risk players, unwanted guys, veterans, etc. And good experienced rookies (not one-and-dones).
I've heard "the new CBA" so many times that I feel it has become old CBA 3 times over
Actually a very informative video for me. I've been very confused about what's been going on with the new rules.
Greatest video! Thanks!
so here is a random idea for team management that could solve these contracts problem as well as provide a stable future for these players. one of the issue about sportsman is while they make a lot by normal standards, they might not have good financial ideas and possibly end up broke quicker then expected. so here is it, every player gets a minimum contract, this solves another issue where players judge respect by their pay and acts on their ego. not thinking about money means pure basketball, for the win, for the team and that's it. with all the money saved the team could secure the player's future, even build some village for the team's vacation for life. who knows, he who is tired of all the extra struggles that comes with these big stages and big contracts would love this, an idea of security and pure basketball
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"Ratings have never recovered since Mike left". That says a lot.
I love the new rules.
THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT LIKE THE OLD WAY ARE FANS OF TEAMS WHOSE OWNERS WILL JUST BUY THEIR CHAMPIONSHIP.
The Warriors were a half billion dollar team with LT. Compare that to the Grizzlies who lost to them in the playoffs 2 years ago, around 120 million! NO WAY IS A TEAM WORTH 4X THE OTHER TEAM GOING TO RESULT IN A WIN FOR THE CHEAPER TEAM! It happens, yes, OKC is an example, but it’s rare.
ALL THESE PEOPLE WHO PUT RINGS AS A PLAYERS HISTORICAL WORTH ARE BASICALLY EQUATING RICH OWNERS WITH REAL BASKETBALL SKILL.
If you even the playing field, and let’s be honest, money still prevails, but at least we are entering an era where rings are more a testament to player skill than owner wealth.
I LOVE IT!
Loosen up the jacket, will ya? it's summer!
Sounds like what the NFL does now with their hard salary cap. Pay the most important players and replace anybody else with younger/cheaper contracts.
I was thinking the same thing - the NBA has always been a league where young guys rarely play a big role of Championship teams, while in the NFL, you need young guys making real contributions to win. It’ll be interesting to see if the NBA is similar
Gahlee whilikers the ESPN guys will have to go to okc and Orlando to cover the finals they don’t have as good as San Francisco, New York, or LA. That’s so unfair!
You can't really judge the popularity of parity by the 1970's. The finals were still tape-delayed, back then. And in terms of raw numbers, the NBA was nowhere near as popular. Ratings are merely a percentage of the tv audience -- not the actual audience. And there were only a few channels in the 1970's. So, with so few options, the percentage of viewers for 70's ball was going to be higher than it should have been -- even though they were tape-delayed games -- and even though the sport wasn't that popular. The moment that elevated basketball was actually the 1979 NCAA championship between Larry and Magic. So, again, those 70's numbers are inflated due to restrictions on choice of programs to watch. The 80's had more channels available - especially by the end of the decade - but even if you go into the 1990's, only 60% of Americans had cable tv. And there was no internet viewing options -- nor was satellite big yet. So, options were still restricted for many people. And in the 80's basketball felt like the new sport. Oh sure, it had been around forever, but it really only gained true national interest at that time. With limited channels for at least half of Americans, it's still not fair to compare ratings-wise.
But what about the 1990's? Michael Jordan was in seven commercials at the same time. Seven. Nike, Wheaties, McDonald's Rayovac (though he may have switched to Energizer), Gatorade, and Ballpark franks. The 1990's was the peak of commercials being a part of pop-culture. The 1990's was also the peak of sports viewrship. ESPN was big, and that fact made even non-ESPN sports programs better. Therefore, athletes were infinitely marketable, and Jordan was the most marketable out of all of them. Furthermore, everyone watched tv, and in spite of new channels, people still felt culturally obligated to watch certain main events that everyone else was watching. In addition, Michael is still considered to be the GOAT by most people. The confluence of marketing, sports interest, unified viewrship, and basketball talent will probably never happen again.
So, there is no snese in comparing percentage of tv viewers from then until now. The NBA will likely never get back to that. It's not a valuable metric to measure how well the NBA is doing.
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What's more relevant is the recent drop-off, and I really don't think that parity is the issue. The NBA struggled with viewership during the regular season so badly this year, that they literally changed the rules of the game.
Seriously.
They made refs call the game totally different after the All-Star break. They stopped calling fouls so strictly. It altered NBA offense and defense.
It took a while to get to the point where the NBA had to change things -- and the previously bad rules is partly what lead to the decline in ratings. It will also take a while for the rule changes to draw people back.
In the meantime, the NBA hasn't tried the parity thing since the 70's (which we can't reasonably compare to now for all the reasons mentioned earlier). And initially, when you try something new, there can be a hit. A drop-off. So, if you are right about parity hurting the NBA, it could be a temporary thing. And it also might take a while to draw in the people who never tuned into the NBA *because* of the dynasties. There are people like that. Once those anti-dynasty people realize that those days are over, then we could see some uptick. But it will take a bit!
You neeed to also remember that if people loved the dynasties of the past, it was because players didn't collude to form them...
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Also, the NBA likely lost viewership due to Black Lives Matter.
In order to stay perfectly neutral here, I'll just say this: To people on the left, Black Lives Matter was about justice, reform, civil rights, and many other wonderful things. To people on the right, Black Lives Matter was a cover for a socialistic agenda that sought to re-define capitalism and other American institutions in a negative way.
Regardless of who is right, conservatives watch more sports than liberals.
Regardless of who is right, black athletes in the NBA were more outspoken in favor of BLM than athletes in any other sport.
Regardless of who is right, these things would lead to the NBA losing viewrship from conservatives... who watch more sports than liberals.
Therefore, the NBA took a huge hit from America's #1 sports-watching audience.
Yikes.
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So, there are a lot of issues besides parity. I think the NBA is legit to try something to get itself out of its funk.
For the Knicks, it wasn’t the CBA per se, they didn’t have the bird right to Hartenstein so they couldn’t pay more than the asking price.
If you're a great trading GM, this is your moment lmao.
The NBA is not the NFL. People will tune in to watch Green Bay v Atlanta. If the NBA has Utah v Atlanta in the NBA finals, nobody will watch.
I would
Thats because the NFL along with the media markets every team better. The NBA and the media only markets The Knicks,Celtics,Lakers and Warriors
Honestly if those two teams made it, they must have very good players 😂 they’d watch.
@@IAmAHeater What’s crazy is the Nba actually BARELY marketed the Warriors and we were looked at as one of the laughing stock franchises of the league, that is until we decided to draft a 6’3 skinny Point Guard that everyone doubted including MULTIPLE Warriors fans themselves, that player I’ talking about well it’s Steph Curry!!!!! Also get prepared to hear a shit ton about the Spurs because of Wemby for the foreseeable future
Biggest problem is the NBA finals has lost it Aura from the past.
The Knicks could have resigned Hartenstein and stayed under the second apron, but they could only pay him a maximum of 175% (16m/yr) of his last contract because of his early bird rights. OKC just gave him an offer he couldn’t refuse by doubling what the Knicks could offer him.
This is gonna be like the 70's for thr NBA. No more dynasties like the 90's Bulls or 00's Lakers.
Everyone watching illigal bruh that’s why
Buddy isn’t a bad replacement
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@@ThurstonWatt first 8 seasons in 3s made, curry, hield, klay
Welcome to the Knicks fan world. They always want the Knicks to lose.
best NBA channel there is. TY Casey.
Great video! Keep it up !
The fact that two things are happening at once could kill the NBA. They’ve successfully got pairing in the league from the new CBA… BUT that means there’s more teams that will win and new players winning championships.
Well, the current sports media isn’t adept to cover this. The talking heads format prefers covering drama of only a handful of key teams. They are terrible at covering the whole league (e.g. the push for Ant being the next MJ)
So the casual fan has no idea what the other 90% of teams are doing throughout the season. We don’t have 24/7 highlights anymore.
Maybe sports betting makes up some of the gap. But the NBA needs to figure out how it wasn’t to redevelop storylines and player appeal at a league-wide level.