Is The NBA Going BROKE?!
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- Rasheed Wallace, Tim and Tyler debate whether the NBA is starting to have money issues and if that is why Mark Cuban left the league. They point to a decline in TV ratings and the traditional media outlets like ESPN struggling to keep viewers. What will Adam Silver's next move be?!
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The product on the floor is trash
LeMedia tries to convince you otherwise lol
The media and Adam Silver sucks with the continuous d riding they do on LeBron. LeBron is not as loved by the masses as Kobe and Jordan was. The refs are ruining the game with their soft ass calls. Also, Adam Silver wants to run a happy go lucky superfriends daycare by not allowing rivalries, animosity, or players showing emotion, and celebrating their own plays. Today's NBA is soft and unwatchable.
The problem is every one just drives and shoots the 3. Every team runs the same pick and roll and shoot a 3 every play . Personally, i dont want to see that
Even when i play pick up....Everyone just wants to shoot 3's...like what happened to posting up, back to the basket, using glass, using footwork...The game is soo much more boring, and these players are not as good as they think they are....Players of the past have way better fundamentals and were entertaining to watch..
@@AlainNavasDrama facts
Honestly the problem is the game can't be saved now. Maybe getting rid of the three? Or extending it much further out? But really I don't see any solution. Essentially any time a game becomes easy, it necessarily becomes boring. Think about video games, once it becomes easy you just get tired of it. That's what happened to basketball at a sports level. It became easy. Teams understand how to break any defense by driving and kickinh out for three. It really can't be defended. That's why the game became boring. Unfortunately, not get extreme but I really don't see a future for pro basketball economically. I think it sorta reached it's peak.
The problem is all the marketable players are retiring. & the new ones are boring or they get paid then disappear (Ben Simmons). Plus their making too much money.
@Dakidpepe spot on ,besides the getting paid too much, I disagree on that.
20, 30 even 40 point leads are so common now, and 40 point quarters? What the actual heck is that? Just goes to show the lack of defense in today's NBA. Basketball is played on both sides of the floor, it has always been like that and should stay like that. You simply can't handicap one aspect of the game without sacrificing the integrity of the sport. Doesnt work like that.
You can’t even touch a player without getting a foul call, so why play defense if you’re just gonna put the other team in the bonus in less than 4min? I agree with what you’re saying, I’m just making my own point on top of yours.
Thank you been saying that still nooo defense and these players even today even though they're so skilled scorers tho and that's even why still and but these players are not even fundamentally sound players still as well tho fo realz and that has lead to them doin other things but rather rely on their athlectism and stuff still, and but basically juss rather even shoot a bunch of 3's still as well tho.
@@julianbartley7766the players of the past 8 years have brought in more money than any generation of players. The league has never seen its value increase at this rate before. Feel free to fact check me.
@@WGAGENCYOfc they did which has zero to do with the players or quality, but social media.
That'll hit a wall at some point and after that when older dudes die, the TV ratings will drop off so much that the money they made due to the introduction of social media doesnt even matter.
Most money the NBA makes is with TV deals. Hell the NBA aint even the only sport that has this issue coming in the future. Football, American football hell most sports that are regularly televised.
If you’re watching with any consistency, you ought to know that 20 and even 30 point leads are becoming increasingly meaningless (depending on the teams I’ll admit).
Instead of addressing the elephant in the room, the nba has resorted to gimmicks such as the in season tournaments. If the nba would focus on better and consistent officiating, calling out travels, no soft calls like hanging on the rim after a dunk, and focusing more on defense rather than scoring, i believe it will naturally result in more entertaining and exciting games. The league have also been made so much biased calls so they can maintain a narrative, favoring some players and teams which of course would turn off a lot of fans
But nobody had a problem with this when David Stern was rigging games for all the big market teams in the 80s and 90s right?
@@j-short5431that era had more competitive games .. stop moving the goal post 😂
@@tacotom3492 that is all cap. Teams like the 76ers, bucks, Clippers, kings, wizards, pistons, Raptors grizzlies did not do anything in the 90s and were dreadful to watch. If the games were so competitive, how were the Bulls able to win 72 games every year?
THE NBA HAD RECORD REVENUE AND PROFIT LAST SEASON!!! 24 BILLION was the media rights fee's they got in 2014. They are looking for 75 BILLION this time around. and they are going to get it.
@@j-short5431people saying it was more competitive in 80s and was like 4 or 5 maybe good teams but same 2 makes finals and 90s was even worse. Mj didn't "retire" been Bulls and some other sorry team in west
Imagine paying someone 70 million a year and he don’t get you a ring… I’d be pissed as an owner 😂
Imagine him sitting out games and healthy, forget the ring part, most owners don't care about a championship, just the bottom line
yeah i love basketbll but something is wrong with the nba watching teams get blown out by 40 makes me not wanna watch games@@jsain360
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Owners usually don’t care about rings, they just want to maximize profits. Championship’s actually cost them more money if you think about it
NOT REALLY YOU CAN SELL PLAYOFF TICKETS FOR A LOT HIGHER. ITS MORE GAMES MORE MONEY AND THE CITIES ECONOMY GROWS. @@ogquincyy
The reason the nba is going to shit is because of all the bs. Fans are sick of the 5 minute timeouts, the superstar calls, it being rigged especially in the playoffs, players not playing. The league need to listen to the consumer and they don’t seem to do it as well as they should as they are held hostage by the players
I agree with you. I love basketball but I don't love what the nba has become. I no longer watch.
the nba dont need to listen to the fans. majority of them never ran a business in they life. The nba makes over 2 billion just off tv deals alones
@@deon3133Networks pay the nba billions of dollars for the right to air their games with the expectation that we the fans, the paying customer, are going to watch. Without viewers there is no money. Any business that neglects their consumers will eventually fail, regardless of size.
@@deon3133 Who are they making the product for???
@lukepittle8961 The NBA could still salvage it's business if it wants to by changing the rules back to decreasing the scoring output and put more of an enfasis on team defense and offense like it was in the 90s.
The Spurs were a great team for 3 decades with this model.
The video game 🎮 like scores are ridiculous 170-172 like games are laughable.
I love defensive battles in games they're the best.
Defensive battles in other sports are entertaining as well.
So this explains why Jordan and Mark Cuban sold their teams. Makes sense now.
MJ needed to sell a while ago lol
Mj sold because of bad GameStop investment
@@Realest1neThat team has been garbage since the 90’s..doesn’t matter who the owner is.
Mj got a gambling addiction
@@madscrillaog5703The Hornets new majority owner who just bought the team was the CFO of Melvin Capital, the hedge fund that the GameStop investors from Reddit took down lmao.
STOP PUSHING LEBRON DOWN OUR THROATS!!!!!
Lmao you are absolutely right. They talk about him every single moment of the day it’s kind of cringe at this point.
I can't wait for his son to get drafted. You will hear even more
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They show sooo many laker games, and wont promote teams like OKC, Minny, Indy with rising stars just because they are in small markets ,even though Pacers with PG was 1 of the most popular teams until he broke his leg and left, OKC was 1 of the most popular teams, Minny finally has their 1st potential superstar since KG.... Whats going to happen is the media will pressure all 3 guys to leave to larger markets by the time they start to get mainstream success.
Every heterosexual referee is gonna give you a tech for that comment.
The NBA is losing money for a lot of reasons.
The biggest reason is the game is soft and very biased toward big media stars. It gives too much money and power for players so they don't even play, but they prefer to have podcasts and party around. The games are bad because of super teams and match fixing, no fouls, or too much unfair fouls. Teams are allowed to tank and get better draft picks so their fans don't even show up.
The NBA is not losing money lol. They bring in $10 billion in annual revenue and basketball is the fastest growing sport in the world. The NBA is the fastest growing professional sports league both in the country and worldwide.
These 3 guys aren’t businessmen who understand the nuances behind media rights negotiations. They are just talking out their a**es while speculating
SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE ONES IN THE BACK! THAT'S REAL TALK
@@THEEINNERGOD You can say the exact same thing that OP said word for word about any other sports league
The big one for me and why I stopped watching thw nba altogether is the bias towards the faces of the league none of them are called for offensive fouls or travels anymore and when they drive to the basket everyone on D runs out of the way(aka) lebron james, james harden, kevin durant and so forth the nba product is trash no one has footwork or fundementals anymore
@@zeus4885 IM NOT SURE WHICH POST YOU ARE REFERRING TO. I WAS RESPONDING TO THE ONE WHERE THE GUY WAS BLAMING LEBRON FOR THE NBA'S PROBLEMS. I TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH THAT. I AGREE WITH THIS POST BECAUSE I THINK ITS A COMBINATION OF THINGS. WHAT DO YOU THINK THE FUTURE OF SPORTS IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE?
Too many NBA games are locked into cable TV subscriptions. How many men between the ages of 21 and 28 subscribe to cable TV today? Anyone with a TV and a coat hanger can watch a ton of football games every Sunday. Cable TV is shielding young fans from the product.
well get nba league pass lol. the nba is making alot of money off tv deals
@@deon3133not me buddy I don't pay for that trash I watch it for free
@@deon3133 why when you can google VIPleague tho? I bet alot of people illegally stream games. That's because it's so easy to do so.
New nba tv deal will be on broadcast TV again such as nbc
@@deon3133 I’m going to buy nba leaves pass said no ever lol 🤡
1. stop paying for the WNBA
2. Stop talking about LeBron only and focus on other good players
3. Focus on players learning fundamentals and playing the right way instead of jacking 3’s
4. Fix the all star game
That’s a start
Without woke your people would not have been allowed into the country. Where did your immigrant people come from. Don't claim Native American if you put white on your job application.
So they were just supposed to ignore LeBron, becoming the leagues, all-time leading score? Lol.
Adam Shilver has ruined the league along with the entitled players:
1) promoting bad politics
2) removing east versus west all star games
3) play in
4) non competitive games and all star games
5) allowing LeBum to cheat the game
6) not calling traveling and carrying and moving screens
7) too many threes
8) calling owners "governors" because owners is a bad word and hurts feelings
9) aklak
9) the jerseys keep changing every year including the courts
@@dreamcage1801 10) subsidizing the wnba
@@eastbee103 wnba one is the main reason. I wouldn’t say the others are that bad casual fans are the target when your promoting the brand so they really don’t know the rules
@@Dejays_lifestyle there are no casual fans if the product is trash for the core fans!!
Casual fans dont support anything!! They will watch if the product is popular among core fans!!
@@eastbee103 I went to the Celtics game last night, when a team hot. It's mostly casual people or people who wouldn't normally watch it. Same for the warriors
they won't admit to the elephant in the room, some people flat out don't mess with the league because of the players
Preeeeeeeeach!
The NFL is trying to finish them off. Look at the way they did them on Christmas.
Brah nah nfl got gms
The NFL can simply absorb the NBA. They'd operate like some "general" sports league.
The NBA is controlled by the players, that is when you lose control of marketing. Players play, and the teams do the marketing. Players think they know the market but you see what is happening. we are walking away!!!
then the NBA tries to control the game by officiating, we the fans can see that, so we walk away!!!
Players need rest and don't play. Fans walk away!!!
The FANS are the MVP of the game!!! If Fans don't pay to go to games... GAME OVER!!! it is close.
Yes sir ....we see all of that 👀👀
The players DO know the market. The talent and game changed because players were given more freedom to play and let their talent and IQ shine through. The league (from Adam Silver on down to coaches like Popovich) is who mis-managed the talent and created what you see today.
@@kevinconroy6606 Then why is the NBA declining? The players know best right!!! Their talent and IQ are shining right??? Why is the NBA not better than MLB or the NFL.
Back in the 90's and 2000 it was No. 1.
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Today's game is boring as hell. The Sunday CBS games back in the 80's were a blast!!
Sunday NBC games were the bomb in the 90s too
Haven't watched NBA since magic
I have been following the NBA less and less for the last few years to the point where I haven't watched a single game this season yet. I enjoy these podcasts that talk about history much more.
the most watched NBA game in history has 35 millions viewers, the last Superbowl had 200, the World Cup final has billions, there is a financial limit when the majority of your fans don't even consume the product
Yeah but playing 30-100 less games than the competition. Makes people tune in more cause you only get 5 months of it.
A football game can have 80+k people in a stadium. A basketball NBA game most of time cannot sold out all the tickets of an arena.....
You're a straight liar. The NFL is dead outside of the USA. If you're counting viewership outside of America, the NBA viewership has 10× more eyeballs than the NFL. The most watch superbowl had 200 million and a regular season game featuring Yao Ming had over a billion people across the globe watching. So miss me with your dishonesty.
@@Ilestunin cities where they dont gaf about sports like Miami. Even in the Lebron era they werent always selling out.. Like in LA. The Chargers and the Rams dont sellout and when they do. More than half the stadium is from the team they are playing against😅😅
What ratings are you counting, all that you just spewed is garbage
The nba is geared more towards the kids now a days , as opposed to 90’s when more adults watched. what the nba should do is have more nba shows like inside the NBA with Amad Rashad, fire malika Andrews and some of the other espn host
Actually both NBA and MLB are making the same mistake. They're not cultivating any new interest in their sports. NBA Inside Stuff and This Week In Baseball were shows that made young people interested in the game and they marketed players. Shows like those two no longer exist and the need to bring programming like that back.
Agree
NBA gearing towards kids and 5 minute highlights. Not many sit around and watch a whole game. I used to all the time and now I can’t remember the last time I watched a whole game
At least David sterns NBA was somewhat believable
This Adam Silver NBA just raises your eyebrows 🤨
So many odd things happening, unheard of runs/finishes/droughts
Lot's of corruption with the legalization of sports betting in many places.
@@chasehudson5881buddy and I talk a lot of sports betting pretty much every day. And I still place wagers on NBA, he quit a few weeks ago. He quit because there have been more than a handful of bets he has placed where the stats have changed at end of game. One less assist, one less rebound. He’s convinced at this point it is rigged.
@@chasehudson5881I totally agree. Sports betting is making it very corrupt
When players like Fred Van Fleet getting 43 mill per year, that isn’t sustainable
He's a damn fine player too. But 43 mil. That's mental illness
Lol wtf. Making more than Devin Booker and Luka. Worth it! Lol
The NBA is hard to watch. Teams scoring 150 points, where's the defense?
One Main reason why the NBA lacks is that every single day on the hour they are talking about and hyping the same teams that ain’t doing shit rather than showing love to the teams that actually win it. Why is it that the nuggets dominated the league all season and won while most fans didn’t even realize until they played the lakers in the playoffs? NBA needs to market the best teams in the league who cares what city they are from because what’s the point of winning when you can just be the 8th seed and get talked about more than the 1st?
All sports have that same problem, that’s a media problem not nba thing…for example the nfl always talk about the cowboys rather they are good or not….
I couldn't have said it more better than you did growing up in the 80s 90s and young in the 2000s everyone got TV time because of the talent of the teams magic and bird was it for the 80s but I still saw the rockets the spurs with the ice man sixers the bucks then in the 90s the my Knicks Detroit Indiana nets Utah you get the point everyone knew the good teams and bad one and the up and coming teams. When the NBA started to focus on casual fans that's when things went south real basketball fans want to see good ball not bullshit
literally talk about all sorry teams all morning loll
@@darrylhenry3188 yes the casual fan focus ruined it all. These guys are carrying and traveling up the court with no regard now it’s ridiculous
@@Bmotivated94 and look what happened to the cowboys lmao they got embarrassed but yet I guarantee all summer we will hear about this everyday smh.
Too many of the important games require a specific package to watch them. You can’t even watch the upcoming NBA All-Star game without a cable or a streaming package having TNT. In the past, the actual All-Star game was broadcasted on national TV like NBC. I miss the days when there was the NBA on NBC where you could see some competitive games between the two playoff caliber teams for a Sunday afternoon game.
NBA needs to return to NBC which I believe it’s bound to happen this time around
You still watch? Wow
You can get league pass on the app
That in season tourny shit is just a participation trophy.😎
it is but at least players played with more effort
only one player in the entire league cared about it: LeBron James 🤣
Absolutely 💯
@@fadercreekThat’s a shame in of itself, I have to incentivize millionaires to give max effort in the regular season? MJ Larry and Magic played every possible game they could during a season and only sat out when there was a REAL injury they were dealing with. All soft.. 😂
Nah
Rap playing out, NBA going broke. What’s going on with this generation
All of the “traveling”, “carrying” and “moving screens” getting 3pt shooters open wouldn’t matter if the game was presented properly. The lack of centers and PF’s wouldn’t matter if the game was presented properly. ESPN is the biggest problem. Finals games are presented like Regular season games. TNT has always done a great job and they have great theme music and great pre/post game, but they don’t have the Finals. When CBS had it during Magic and Bird in the 80’s it was presented incredible well. And we all know how well the Jordan Era was presented on NBC. The problem is ESPN… music, production values, and poor pre/post game, does not put you in the mood to watch the game. When you think Jordan Era, you think NBC “roundball rock”. What do you think of when you think ESPN NBA? Elevator music, or trap music going into a commercial.
You hit the nail on the head. I miss the NBC introductions when they made you want to watch the games.
Lol theme music
Jordan sold his team too. Greatest Era of all time apparently.
Yeah, he sold the Hornets for a massive profit. Weird, huh?
I was a die hard basketball fan in the 90s saw Jordan, Shaq and even Kobe play. It was a beautifully played game. Defense was an integral part it.NBA now is watered down, I haven’t watched basketball in over 7 years. It’s not entertaining any longer.
Preach!!!!! Facts1000%
Here's a novel idea: Let the players play defense. Role back the rules. Fans are bored with the "one pass, launch a 3 offense". Make it so teams are forced to play inside the arc, and interest will increase.
I agree. This is why (as a Cavs fan) I would much rather watch the Denver Nuggets. They still jack threes but there is a balance with great movement without the ball.
Stop shooting 50 uncontested 3 pointers a game, play defense and bring back the menacing big man... That's how you fix the game. Run it back to the mid 90's.
People aren’t really watching sports like they used to. So that cuts ad revenue money
The problem is that all the big market teams suck in every sport. Nowadays it's the small markets team that win championship or have the best players.
no people are still watching sports just not the nba they went to soccer hockey and college sports have seen an uptick in viewership
People will always watch sports. The NBA is trash.
The NFL isn't having a problem, both conference championship games were the most watched ever
I hadn’t watched a game since about 2004, turned on a Houston game around 2019, watched a PG dribble the ball off his foot out of bounds, a ball thrown out of bounds behind teammates head because he wasn’t paying attention, players taking multiple steps without dribbling, no defense yet somehow neither team scored for 2-1/2 minutes. Its worse than I imagined
an absolute trash of a product
Lmao keep lying for likes . You totally watch the nba
I find it really hard to sit down and watch a whole nba game,even if I have money on the game.the refs and overall effort,especially on defense is terrible.
82 game's wasn't a problem in the past 🤔 Maybe the fast paced, 3 point heavy new style of play just isn't as interesting 🤷🏽♂️
The NBA and ESPN used to be so fun to watch. I grew up in the 90s but became a diehard sports guy around 2000 and sports center just hit different back then. Now it’s just a Hollywood production. The NBA feels hollow like it’s more of a production than an actual competition
The RSNs collapsing is the reason that every sport but the NFL will take a hit. The NFL is immune to this because is on its own stratosphere but NBA, NHL and MLB teams really need RSN
It's going broke because they're trying to hard to shove Lefraudulent James as the Goat down our throat. And people are getting tired of all that Ball riding.
Of course a hater finds a way to make this about Lebron
@@jayguiles9434LEBUM takes PEDs
@jayguiles9434 Lebron was the face when this ship is sinking so yes he's to blame he created this soft culture of players not competing and ring chase at a very young age.
@@Michael-md1zj Incorrect. He came in the league getting beat up by the pistons and has always been more of a driver or post player. He also hardly ever rests. So no that’s false.
@@Michael-md1zj Plus he’s 39 why is he still the face? Ask yourself that. It’s because foreign players are now the best players in the league and they are less marketable. Jokic is a great player but a terrible player to be the face of the NBA.
The nba used to be like chess and gladiator combined now it's soft and no real strategy to it just run and shoot, sad
The stupid in season tournament was an act of desperation. I said that when it happened. The players have too much control and they dont play hard. The product is unwatchable. This podcast is more entertaining then any nba game
his name might be on the epstein list.
Cubans a Jew
It’s become too much of a “product” as opposed to a sport. I may be alone in this but I really do not like the ridiculous amount of different jerseys and court designs every year.
Preeeeeeeeach!
its a business .. its a business and the business has never been better
@@aklakl5854 Never been better in what respect? Because viewership has gone down in recent years. That fact was part of the reason for the IST.
@@aklakl5854 Ratings and fan backlash tell a different story
I’m a huge college football fan and absolutely hate all the alternative uniforms they wear
Took a bit longer than I thought it would to go downhill. If only the league didn't allow gambling on NBA... It is now rigged to hell.
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GREAT video. Sheed explained perfectly why the In-Season "Tournament" is not a tournament. If there was $$$ to be made then Cuban would not sell the team. He owned the Mavs largely for ego and losing $ is bad for ego.
The gimmick games work for a few years and then they wear off. Baseball did the inter league games and it was really cool at first. Now it's just another game
The league was finished when superstars could point to a fan and have then thrown out. And quite simply the game is tough to watch, I stopped watching the NBA.
Someone can't cuss you out and wish dth upon you at your job. Let's be serious.
Popovich started the trend with the "load management". If the coaches and players don't care about the regular season, why should the fans care?
I think the NBA needs to address as it has been talked about of players who are heathy playing full 82 games, and bringing back tye physicality of tye 80s and 90s back I think would inspire more grit and toughness back in the game. Just my thoughts like everyone else
To save the game they’ll need to change the rules back to the way they were in the 90’s .
If soooo, then stop paying the athlete's all those mills
The problem isn't the play on the floor, it's the cost of living. If you know how to read charts, you know that since late 2021 we have been in a recession.
This has nothing to do with the product and everything to do with the cost of the product
No defense, no carrying/traveling guys taking 5-6 steps, superstars changeing teams consistently so there's no real rivalries or loyalty anymore, guys taking games off all the time now, gimmick shit like the play in means nearly 2/3 of the league makes the playoffs so the boring regular season means less than it already did. Watch a 90s early 2000s all star game here on RUclips, they play harder defense then the NBA does in regular season games and even playoff games. Players used to have pride and used to want to prove themselves. Now it's just a 3 point pop a shot league.
I don't know what the NBA was thinking with load management. Are they giving seaosn ticket holders refunds for star players sitting out half the season? They have to come out with a rule so players will actually play? What the hell is that?
The 3 ball is killing the NBA... Bring back defense or it will eventually kill the league.. This is a very simple response as there is a ton of other issues of as well.
the regular season is basically unwatchable now, i havnt sat and watched a whole game for years
Load management, bad officiating, All-Star game scoring every night and player “empowerment” ruined the league.
Can’t forget about analytics
in season tournament is disgusting, they needed to do that to increase competition...
a shell of its former self, true fans like defense
There’s way too many stoppages in play. Each team gets 7 timeouts, plus they have established TV timeouts. Not to mention all the long officiating reviews. It completely disrupts the flow of the game.
Like let the maggots play and play through the game to make a comeback.
When the nba start putting sponsors on the Jerseys I knew it was over
Playing no defense not calling travels and carrying. Saying these kids are better or more skilled because how the game is ref is killing the league
ESPN: "For the next 12 hours we're gonna have our most famous and influential hosts and analysts debate whether or not Lebron is the GOAT and ignore every other player and team...oh by the way, watch the Thunder take on the Grizzlies tonight at 7:30pm!"
Mark Cuban is gearing up for casino business in Dallas.
The NBA is no longer about teams, but individual players and has been watered down as a result.
In season tournament didn't work, next year will show it, because fans have seen how hard the players played during that gimmick and when it was over their play dwindled back to their norm. That's the issue with sports, the NBA in particular, they really believe their fans are dumb.
They don't believe it, they know their fans are dumb
it did work the rating were up.
@@aklakl5854 the ratings went right back down after though, meaning they still have the same problem
they are supposed to.. its still football season so its really not a problem@@buddylee5712
@@buddylee5712 which meant it worked.
It also can be that The Maverick is at its peak right now. 2 Superstars!!! This is the max value for the Maverick since Dirk. As a Investor, this is the best time to cash in on your investment.
I don’t have the mental bandwith to watch 82 basketball games. The mid season tournament was a platform for the pacers to get more prime TV time and tyrese Halliburton really benefited.
That said F. The fans by moving teams, not showing up for games, letting the ref's fix games politics in games and announcers that hate men.
Finally someone says it on the in season tournament 😂 like what’s so special about it right now
They deserve to go broke. They destroyed their own fan base.
They won't let fans watch games in their local markets.
They won't let anyone watch the games.
I live in Orlando and haven't seen the Magic Play in 15 years. (since D12 left town). Not once. Because they don't let you watch them
I can't name a single player on the team. I don't know any kids that even know Orlando has a team anymore, because they're blacked out.
WTF???
What kind of idiots stop their own fans from following the sport?
The only games you can see are Laker Games on ESPN and TNT. I don't want to watch the Lakers. What about our team?
Grew up watching away games and sold out home games on local channels. It was always an event. A Family night at home. Father/Son Stuff.
Now... Nothing. It's like the team doesn't even exist anymore.
They should go broke.
That and the Lesbian WNBA Announcers in the Games they do let you see on ESPN.
Nobody Cares about the WNBA. Nobody.................. (Not even women)
im not from the us can you explain what you mean with blacked out thanks sir
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None of the Local Market Games are televised.
Only the Lakers on ESPN or TNT.
When the NBA built their fan base up. All the away games were televised in the Local Markets.
As well as Sold out Home Games.
It's been almost 15 years since I've seen our home town team play a single game.
There are no more fans because the NBA won't allow people to become fans.
They literally won't allow people to see the Games
@@jacobscholtissek2410 The MLB did the same thing in the 2000s.
My kid played baseball his entire life but never saw an MLB game and can't name a single player.
All his teammates were the same way.
None of them have ever seen a game except their own little League games.
Now. The local little leagues are gone. Nobody plays because no one's interested.
We had an amazingly successful farm system here. And after they stopped broadcasting the Local team's games and locked everyone out.
It just went away.
We had 3 leagues in town. Little League, Babe Ruth and a separate feeder league for the High School that had the really good kids in it.
14 teams in each age group in each league. That's 42 teams per 2 year age group. Plus travel Ball and ALL STARS. And all the surrounding towns were the same way.
Now they're lucky if they can put together 2 teams to play against each other in the whole city.
Kids know nothing about sports anymore because the owners won't let them see it.
They don't even know the names of the teams let alone the players.
NBA needs to drop the WNBA fast.
If you were alive to watch the NBA in the 70's and 80's it hardly compares.
The NBA product is declining.......viewership is declining.........the bubble is bursting.......
Teams change jerseys every year and the sneakers are mismatch to their uniforms
And yet People talk its the most skilled League than ever but loosing Viewers very fast
Straight fact
If it was real basketball - with some physicality included, and fair officiating, it would be good. Silver is killing the game
Load management= disinterested fans and loss of money. I'll start watching around second round of playoffs like usual because at least then the starters that aren't playing are actually hurt.
Speak of the weird nights were at least 3 teams will have crazy double digit blowouts all in the same night. The product just isn't that good anymore.
Lebron James is single handedly killing the NBA. He's already killed it for me. I haven't watched it in years.
He needs to be kicked out of the league soon.
if you haven’t watched in years how do you know he’s killing the nba? what do you know? 😂 clown man
Yeah man that's why since my guy kobe left still while he was alive tho it definitely wasn't the same after that still and especially after he died and stuff still like shit has gone down the drain tho fo realz it's so fucked up still smdh.😢
Blame it all on one man who’s played the game the exact exact same from the day he walked in y’all just said
NO ONE PERSON CAN CARRY NOR DESTROY A BRAND AS BIG AS THE NBA. THATS A BIT EXTREME. YOU NEED TO "LISTEN" AGAIN TO WHAT THEY ARE SAYING. THE PROBLEMS ARE BEYOND EVEN THE PLAYERS. TO BLAME LEBRON AND NOT LOOK AT THE BIGGER PICTURE SHOWS HOW LIMITED YOUR UNDERSTANDING IS. NO OFFENSE BUT THAT'S COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS.
NBA is hard to watch now. With flopping and the play always being stopped I just can’t watch. Plus everyone needs to sit out 2-3 times a week! I can’t
The problem is a narrower market. I loved the NBA between 1980 and 2002. I could name 5 or more players on each team for 60% of the league 40 years ago. Now, I can name 10 total players for the entire league, and I'd struggle to do that. I quit watching altogether in 2020.
I haven't watched a single second. 2020 was a huge inflection point that lost millions of viewers.
I hope the league folds, a new group starts a new league with more European type rules, new contract structure with a pay per game system, to avoid load management, hard salary cap.
Well, that would be anti-capitalism, wouldn’t it be?
@@j-short5431 No, it's actually the opposite. Current management, structure is causing ratings to fall drastically, which will lose money. Somebody puts out a better product, draws more fans= more revenue. Very capitalistic!
@@chrisbrooks6756 the NBA already has a hard salary cap. Are you suggesting that the players should only make a certain amount of money but the owners profit should be unlimited?
@@j-short5431bro the products trash the rating don’t lie
@@j-short5431 No. A hard salary cap means an owner can only spend, x amount. They routinely spend OVER that amount and pay a luxury tax to the league, allowing the creation of superteams, killing competitiveness. This would allow other guys on the team to make more, but not have 3 or 4 superstar level players on the same team.
It’s going broke cause it doesn’t have likeable players and the players that are likeable they don’t market very well. That along with the obvious fixes ,the preferential treatment, the complete lack of Defense and effort. If I was commissioner of the league I would be leaning into ant Edwards jokic and Giannis. Not these travelling flopping temper tantrum throwing no skill 3 point chucking bums the league chooses to highlight.(lebron James harden) when a guy like steph curry who has jj reddick skill set with a bit of Tony Parker mixed in is one of the best of the decade something is wrong.
😂😂👎🏿 the lakers double in value once lebron got there. Did you see the Cleveland economy once lebron left?
Steph has a JJ Reddick Skill set? Next level hating lmao
Idiotic you are😂
Curry is actually good at what he does making difficult of the dribble 3s the problem is all the other players trying and failing to copy his play style
I never said curry was bad at what he does. Jj Reddick was an elite jump shooter and yeah currys better off the dribble so my splash of Tony Parker with his handles. However no one should mistake that player for a generational talent. Jj Reddick was a starter on playoff teams for like 10 years. Certainly not a scrub. Certainly not generational.
I’m a former season ticket holder who would drop $30K on season tickets every year for 10 years, I’d spend tens of thousands of dollars on merchandise annually. That all stopped when the NBA started pushing their work agenda down our throat. I ain’t watched a game in 2 years. I’ll watch highlights from time to time but I’m not spending another red cent on the NBA.
When you call the majority of the ticket buying fans racists its a bad business move.
Problem is Wokeness which has destroyed NBA
You’re misusing what “woke” is. You mean DEI pandering just for the fun of it. Woke just means being cognizant or aware of something systemic.
Cultural Marxism...They're systematically destroying our institutions on purpose. All part of the WEF agenda
Define woke
@@kingquestOZ You're that guy
Sure did ... We won't forget
Espn Is dying, you have potentially Apple TV, Hulu TV, and RUclips that might be the product that buys new TV rights. They will negotiate with better leverage than tnt and espn. Nba has a talent problem as well. You ran after the European player so bad that now you are competing with international football product who now is on us soil. The new owners of these nba team are tech nerds that have no loyalty to the sport. Yea..... the nba is in big trouble.
I am always amazed at the salaries they pay these guys to play basketball. I do not know anyone that watches NBA. Nobody at work, none of my relatives, none of my friends, none of my kids, none of my kids friends. I don’t watch it, never did.
I could not name all of the NBA cities that have basketball teams were the names of the teams for $1 million
TV deal. What TV? Streaming has changed the game. Music business was destroyed and took a long time to rebuild. TV actors took a hit, residuals are gone. Sports are about to be shook. Once the “tv” money is gone then change must come.
American products as a whole is in shit because we let China do our work
Go woke, go broke + the amount these players are getting paid to act like divas and not play the regular season or don't play competitive during the regular season is disgusting. Saying this as a recent NFL convert. Watched MJ era, Kobe/Duncan/KG/Tmac/Iverson era those were awesome days.
We done with the 2020s
Same here
The players in the 80s and 90s really cared about basketball. They wanted to win, they wanted to beat the best. These are soft, entitled tampered athlete to have been that way, their whole life.
This has been going on for years if you following closely. The product is bad , tv viewership shows that and the average fan has been priced out.
Thanks LeBron
yea the problem is the nba put all of its eggs on the lebron basket. It should have built the product on its own shield instead of the stars like the UFC or the NFL.
@@dataphoenix8004 The NBA marketing star players instead of teams started with Michael Jordan. Not LeBron James.
I think the league lost the audience with overlapping the league with hip hop culture
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡
Wrong, they lost the fans because of how they promoted their product. Hip Hop has nothing to do with the nba being a s**t show for the last 13 years.
Oh yeah not to mention pandering to a certain demographic or more. Also trying to appease a specific age group plus the casual and no casual audience. That’s terrible!
The league been in Hop Hop culture for over 30 years. Not only that most the players and potential/future players are in Hip hop Culture "Black", so they catering to their audience and their future employees
@@truthiscensored nah,,the league started doing the hip hop thing closer too 15 years or so,there have been hip hop players like iverson but the league didn’t adopt it until David Stern left. That dude was not having it during his time as commissioner
Once guys like KG Kobe Duncan Paul Pierce D-Wade retired the NBA became dead to me I haven’t watched a full game in 3 years they high scoring is to much for me
They should start fixing the basic stuff: allow tighter defense, make players play instead of sitting out at will, be competitive, call travelings, stop calling T's on players who rightfully protest for a no call and so on
After Kobe retired the NBA was not the same for me. There isn't a player out right now that brings it every night. Someone who actually want to compete and show they are the best player in the arena on that night. At times the referees get the call wrong but for me it isn't that bad. The teams try to put together a good product but unfortunately injuries occur and some players don't mesh well with other players or coaches. The game of basketball will continue to evolve. Salute to all the court warriors of the past present and future. 🏀👍💪
The game is trash... the broadcast presentation is trash.. the golden age of the NBA was on NBC... now every team plays the same... nobody stands out to be honest...the game is boring 😴...
Blame the league for allowing it to be corny. The league itself wanted to get away from African American players who were from the hood. Let’s be real on that one.
NBA is possibly likely to reunite with NBC next year
All the power has been given to the players who are not wise enough to steward the league they’ve inherited
In season tournaments, zero competitiveness and rivalries are nonexistent. It’s basically an AAU league where everyone flops, travels and shoots 3’s. NBA is 🚮
Blame the league itself for allowing this to happen