Basketball is in my heart. I dont watch anymore. I dont want to watch a layup line and 3pt contest. Theres 0 competitive spirit. If i watch a game i feel like i wasted precious time out of my day. Bored out of my mind.
Everything you said pretty accurate. Additionally, consider what MJ said back in '05 about players work ethic from being paid on potential rather that proving and earning. And to add to how bad the current viewership ratings are, view it as a population percentage...36M views in 1998 with a 6 billion world population (0.006%) vs. 12M people in a 2024 8 Billion population (0.0015%) is ridiculous!!!
Another reason why football is so popular is because everyone understands the rules of the game no matter where they are. In the NBA we are constantly arguing about what the rules even are at this point.
The rules are simple! NBA stars can travel carry and use moving screens . But you can’t in a pick up game do these things. Oh I get and give hand checks in my local pickup game
Astute analysis, love the analogy to Soccer. The NBA needs an overhaul or that's a problem. The NBA product is very blase.....no celebration of defense or an elite defender. 💯
Football is way harder to follow then basketball. I think football is just more exciting to watch but basketball is exciting to play. Everyone makes the football team in highschool so you have a personal connection with the game basketball is harder to stay relevant in growing up.
They care for money & fame #1, 2. They don’t have love or passion for the game anymore, the last person you seen who gave their all was Kobe. 3. They don’t want to compete against each other (super teams). 4. No defense at all 5. They always injured. 6. The All-Star game is dead they play around I wanna see the best try to destroy each other. 7. THEY SOFT (CUPCAKE ERA)
That James Harden step(s) back threes are not only illegal but ugly asf. How the rulebook even tried to justify it being legal is why i don't watch the games anymore.
@@willwon8962 my point is it should be illegal because he is taking 4 steps. They are not calling it because The NBA is catering to offense. That's a travel and everybody knows it
@@MidLifeThoughts461 exactly. I hate traveling. They all travel now. Plus I hate the sloppy play and excessive turnovers. And people standing around on defense
O think the disrespect of the other eras to prop up today's players also plays a part in it. They don't do that in football, baseball, hockey or soccer. The NBA is like the WWE with narratives and storylines and constantly eating their own by calling past players plumbers etc.
None of these new-era players have captured non-basketball fans' attention like MJ, Kobe, LBJ, or Curry. They are talented, but the excitement is lacking.
What ruined the NBA: LeBiogenesis James. Magic and Bird - RIVALRY saved the NBA. Rivalry and competition being the key. Then MJ had to battle and overcome, so did Kobe who wanted to prove himself without Shaq. We saw Iverson give everything he had every night dragging himself on the court. Then enter LeBron. Refusal to compete or to expand and improve his game - basically the same player as he was in highschool - football player on a basketball court with all power and very limited actually basketball skills. Ways LeBiogenesis cheated the game: No dunk contest Super teams Buying the media to make excuses and lower the standard of the NBA Removing competition Steroids and PEDs Making participation trophies cause you can’t win Crowning yourself “goat” Bum son in the league making it fake Buying the NBA media who used to represent fans but now makes excuses for a bad product and tries to lower the standard Klutch running the league Acting above competition cause you are afraid to compete Entitled diva attitude Coach killer Sitting out national tv games It started with acting above the dunk contest cause he was scared he couldn’t win. That was when his ego became more important than the game and the fans. The super teams took the entitlement to the next level and saying you are “the goat”. NBA media used to represent NBA fans and hold players to account. That’s how the regular media is supposed to work too - just like the regular media collapsed into a joke that lies for the rich and powerful to exploit us - the NBA media are fanboys who want to be buddies with LeBron and the NBA’s rich and powerful aka LeBron and Rich Paul - and they know if they don’t lie they will be black balled - this creates a toxic feedback loop just like trump and Fox News. The NBA today is basically fox and friends for dictator LeBron. He watches it and says he will get people fired the same way as trump. Remember LeBalco sat out a Lakers Vs Celtics TNT game to try to embarrass Darvin Ham and got AD to sit out too and the Lakers won without them - then the broadcast announcers tried to credit LeBron with coaching the team to the win as they started to win and LeBalco jumped up and faked excitement - fraud. Oh then he came back the next night to stat pad against a G-League injury depleted Memphis team. Adam Silver helped this too - he is from NBA marketing so he comes up with gimmicks rather than actual make the sport better. He saw the NFL get more offense and he thought that would be good for him too. Also after the “malice at the palace” they wanted a “softer NBA” - they took it WAY too far. Legislated defense out of the game and this coupled with LeBron taking competition out on the player side - Silver taking it out on the league side - and analytics nerd GMs deciding every team should just have a 3 point shootout every night cause they don’t understand the sport or human beings and think they “hacked the game” they hacked the ratings away. These 3 factors together have ruined the NBA. Also Silver seeing ratings down - his answer is gimmicks - play in, NBA Cup, now ALLSTAR game gimmicks, that’s how marketing people see the world - gimmicks to fool people rather than just sell a good product people actually want. Baseball had analytics nerds ruin their sport - they had to ban the defensive shift and institute a pitch clock to fix it. Players emulate the best player - Magic and Bird caring SO much about winning spawned MJ to “want to fit in a place with those guys” - he said that when he won his first title. Also getting 6 cause Magic had 5. The Kobe’s quest for 6. Who says Kobe is bad cause he got 5 and not 6 - no one. If you listen to Kobe or Michael Jordan talk, you realize they are extremely extremely confident, but they’re not narcissist they love competition and they give credit to their competition when they feel their competition is worthy. They NEVER made excuses for losing and the media blamed THEM!!!!!! LeBron now pays the media to blame role players and spin a narrative that he is so great he is ENTITLED to win EVERY NBA title - or if he doesn’t it’s the role players fault, or the organizations fault cause he didn’t have enough help - or the coach, even tho LeBron is supposed to be the highest IQ player ever he can’t ever have ANY coach or teammate stick with him for more than a few seasons.
And now even with the league pass you can't watch everything. Every good national game in unavailable until 24h after it. But you can listen to it with no images. Nauseating
LeBron is trying to take away the emphasis of Jordan’s achievements and put it on stats. He can’t challenge Jordan’s stats because he’s not offensively skilled/sound enough to do it so him, Klutch and the media are trying to dumb down winning for stats
There’s so much talent in the NBA right now, and all sports media talks about Lebron. I forgot Celtics even won the chip. He’s taking up space. NBA needs to start marketing other players the way they market Lebron.
None of these new-era players have ignited nonbasketball fans' attention like MJ, Kobe, LBJ, or Curry. They are talented, but the excitement is not there.
Because of LeMid lol all the diva behavior and antics. Brought politics into the league, we know that doesn’t mix. Catlin Clark fans don’t watch the NBA
Rating are down strictly because of streaming 😂 The Same way streaming killed rap music artists you to can sell 10 million albums because of streaming now the sell 20 thousand at best
Basketball is in my heart. I dont watch anymore. I dont want to watch a layup line and 3pt contest. Theres 0 competitive spirit. If i watch a game i feel like i wasted precious time out of my day. Bored out of my mind.
Yupp! Players are not even competitive anymore. Too much buddy buddy
Everything you said pretty accurate. Additionally, consider what MJ said back in '05 about players work ethic from being paid on potential rather that proving and earning. And to add to how bad the current viewership ratings are, view it as a population percentage...36M views in 1998 with a 6 billion world population (0.006%) vs. 12M people in a 2024 8 Billion population (0.0015%) is ridiculous!!!
Another reason why football is so popular is because everyone understands the rules of the game no matter where they are. In the NBA we are constantly arguing about what the rules even are at this point.
Yup
The rules are simple! NBA stars can travel carry and use moving screens . But you can’t in a pick up game do these things. Oh I get and give hand checks in my local pickup game
Astute analysis, love the analogy to Soccer. The NBA needs an overhaul or that's a problem. The NBA product is very blase.....no celebration of defense or an elite defender. 💯
@AbundantMindsetClub There are defenders, it's just that they are so unbelievably stifled by rubbish refereeing.
Football is way harder to follow then basketball. I think football is just more exciting to watch
but basketball is exciting to play. Everyone makes the football team in highschool so you have a personal
connection with the game basketball is harder to stay relevant in growing up.
People are tired of financing Prima-Donas like Embiid..and yes..NO DEFENSE..soft!
Imagine how many extra points MJ would have if they let him travel like that and call weak fouls like that.
@@darnelljones9849 exactly bro. It's crazy what they get away with these days
@MidLifeThoughts461 it amazes me how many people don't even watch the games but have so much opinion.
They care for money & fame #1, 2. They don’t have love or passion for the game anymore, the last person you seen who gave their all was Kobe. 3. They don’t want to compete against each other (super teams). 4. No defense at all 5. They always injured. 6. The All-Star game is dead they play around I wanna see the best try to destroy each other. 7. THEY SOFT (CUPCAKE ERA)
That James Harden step(s) back threes are not only illegal but ugly asf. How the rulebook even tried to justify it being legal is why i don't watch the games anymore.
@@willwon8962 my point is it should be illegal because he is taking 4 steps. They are not calling it because The NBA is catering to offense. That's a travel and everybody knows it
@@MidLifeThoughts461 exactly. I hate traveling. They all travel now. Plus I hate the sloppy play and excessive turnovers. And people standing around on defense
O think the disrespect of the other eras to prop up today's players also plays a part in it. They don't do that in football, baseball, hockey or soccer. The NBA is like the WWE with narratives and storylines and constantly eating their own by calling past players plumbers etc.
@@ijamorris yes yes yes. LeBron James started those narratives and continues with his son
@MidLifeThoughts461 exactly...
None of these new-era players have captured non-basketball fans' attention like MJ, Kobe, LBJ, or Curry. They are talented, but the excitement is lacking.
The league is water down since 2011
Highest NBA rating on MJ's watch! Lowest NBA ratings to date on Lebron's watch! Even the 70s had higher ratings than this era! Figure that one out!!!
@@jaybird8192 exactly
Awesome video bro. All 🔥
Way too easy to score, no defense. Game is over
What ruined the NBA: LeBiogenesis James.
Magic and Bird - RIVALRY saved the NBA. Rivalry and competition being the key.
Then MJ had to battle and overcome, so did Kobe who wanted to prove himself without Shaq. We saw Iverson give everything he had every night dragging himself on the court.
Then enter LeBron. Refusal to compete or to expand and improve his game - basically the same player as he was in highschool - football player on a basketball court with all power and very limited actually basketball skills. Ways LeBiogenesis cheated the game:
No dunk contest
Super teams
Buying the media to make excuses and lower the standard of the NBA
Removing competition
Steroids and PEDs
Making participation trophies cause you can’t win
Crowning yourself “goat”
Bum son in the league making it fake
Buying the NBA media who used to represent fans but now makes excuses for a bad product and tries to lower the standard
Klutch running the league
Acting above competition cause you are afraid to compete
Entitled diva attitude
Coach killer
Sitting out national tv games
It started with acting above the dunk contest cause he was scared he couldn’t win. That was when his ego became more important than the game and the fans.
The super teams took the entitlement to the next level and saying you are “the goat”.
NBA media used to represent NBA fans and hold players to account. That’s how the regular media is supposed to work too - just like the regular media collapsed into a joke that lies for the rich and powerful to exploit us - the NBA media are fanboys who want to be buddies with LeBron and the NBA’s rich and powerful aka LeBron and Rich Paul - and they know if they don’t lie they will be black balled - this creates a toxic feedback loop just like trump and Fox News. The NBA today is basically fox and friends for dictator LeBron. He watches it and says he will get people fired the same way as trump.
Remember LeBalco sat out a Lakers Vs Celtics TNT game to try to embarrass Darvin Ham and got AD to sit out too and the Lakers won without them - then the broadcast announcers tried to credit LeBron with coaching the team to the win as they started to win and LeBalco jumped up and faked excitement - fraud.
Oh then he came back the next night to stat pad against a G-League injury depleted Memphis team.
Adam Silver helped this too - he is from NBA marketing so he comes up with gimmicks rather than actual make the sport better. He saw the NFL get more offense and he thought that would be good for him too. Also after the “malice at the palace” they wanted a “softer NBA” - they took it WAY too far.
Legislated defense out of the game and this coupled with LeBron taking competition out on the player side - Silver taking it out on the league side - and analytics nerd GMs deciding every team should just have a 3 point shootout every night cause they don’t understand the sport or human beings and think they “hacked the game” they hacked the ratings away. These 3 factors together have ruined the NBA.
Also Silver seeing ratings down - his answer is gimmicks - play in, NBA Cup, now ALLSTAR game gimmicks, that’s how marketing people see the world - gimmicks to fool people rather than just sell a good product people actually want.
Baseball had analytics nerds ruin their sport - they had to ban the defensive shift and institute a pitch clock to fix it.
Players emulate the best player - Magic and Bird caring SO much about winning spawned MJ to “want to fit in a place with those guys” - he said that when he won his first title. Also getting 6 cause Magic had 5. The Kobe’s quest for 6.
Who says Kobe is bad cause he got 5 and not 6 - no one.
If you listen to Kobe or Michael Jordan talk, you realize they are extremely extremely confident, but they’re not narcissist they love competition and they give credit to their competition when they feel their competition is worthy. They NEVER made excuses for losing and the media blamed THEM!!!!!!
LeBron now pays the media to blame role players and spin a narrative that he is so great he is ENTITLED to win EVERY NBA title - or if he doesn’t it’s the role players fault, or the organizations fault cause he didn’t have enough help - or the coach, even tho LeBron is supposed to be the highest IQ player ever he can’t ever have ANY coach or teammate stick with him for more than a few seasons.
Agree completely
And now even with the league pass you can't watch everything. Every good national game in unavailable until 24h after it. But you can listen to it with no images. Nauseating
@@michaelthreepeat lol.
NBA is down fall do to Lebald Lames Facts........ im a lakers fan an i dont watch the game live so no tv views i rather watch it in youtube.
LeBron is trying to take away the emphasis of Jordan’s achievements and put it on stats. He can’t challenge Jordan’s stats because he’s not offensively skilled/sound enough to do it so him, Klutch and the media are trying to dumb down winning for stats
There’s so much talent in the NBA right now, and all sports media talks about Lebron. I forgot Celtics even won the chip. He’s taking up space. NBA needs to start marketing other players the way they market Lebron.
I don't know, man. There is a lot of talent, but the media can't create a star; either you have that star-drawing power, or you don't.
None of these new-era players have ignited nonbasketball fans' attention like MJ, Kobe, LBJ, or Curry. They are talented, but the excitement is not there.
Watching teams shoot 50 three-pointers a game (no hyperbole) is not exciting.
Because of LeMid lol all the diva behavior and antics. Brought politics into the league, we know that doesn’t mix. Catlin Clark fans don’t watch the NBA
Rating are down strictly because of streaming 😂 The Same way streaming killed rap music artists you to can sell 10 million albums because of streaming now the sell 20 thousand at best
@@SnoGo902 they have a way to keep track of streaming numbers.
Nope you’re just disconnected trust me 🤣
Ofcourse your going to blame Lebron.
It’s facts tho. People don’t like that fraud he has had 2 of the worst finals ratings in history.
@@CoreTradingMastery yes I am. Most everything that's going wrong in The NBA these days is his fault and that is facts
Isn't this his era?
He's the face of the league. Who else have his influence?
Lefraudulent James is definitely the reason. And y'all don't understand this isn't real basketball.
@@MidLifeThoughts461 Not one point you made in this video can be blamed on Lebron you bozo.
Wgn. 1992 free bulls games!!!
@@XYz-co1ob right