What's crazy is that Lebron's 4th Championship being the lowest viewership during a time where people were forced to stay home. People obviously weren't bored enough to be bothered to watch the NBA finals lol.
People had family members dying and were struggling to pay bills because they couldn’t work. Sure they were at home but sports was the last thing on their mind.
It’s crazy to think that fans were struggling but we’re supposed to believe the nba players were competing at full capacity and not tanking to get home their families. That’s why it’s a fake ring.
-To many threes -To many flops -can’t watch local games on league games -To many ref calls -Fans cannot get invested in players because they keep changing teams -to much politics -load management -no rivalry and no drama -boring all star game -lack in defense
They also care more about the name on the back of the jersey than the name on front. Why should I get invested in a team if the players are more excited to play with their buddies than they are to wear team colors. I don't associate players with certain teams anymore. Michael Jordan will always be remembered as a Bull. Kobe as a Laker. Iverson with the 76ers. Larry Bird with the Celtics. Shaq with the Heat. I can't do that with Kevin Durant or James Harden. I would associate Westbrook with OKC, but he has also been a half dozen teams since then. I had to consult Wikipedia like 3 times to write those last few sentences because I wasn't sure where anybody was playing. The MLB is getting bad with this too.
not only that they don't care, they also just outright hate you if you have certain opinions about certain topics. So why the hell should we support that?
Travels, carries and moving screens dont get called, everything is a tech now, constant foul baiting, load management, a barrage of gambling ads and its becoming more difficult and expensive to watch NBA games. No other basketball league has these problems to that degree, not college or euroleague. Olympic games played with FIBA rules and refs were a breath of fresh air.
Give me the Pistons 2004 defense where they held 11 teams under 70 points. Every guy on that team was willing to sacrifice for eachother and wanted to humiliate their oppenents including Kobe and Shaq after they beat them in 5 games.
That was the golden era for a reason. I can watch powder puff at a cheerleading competition if I want. Bring back the NBA when the greatest players would almost die on that floor for a win. Now they’d rather flop and fake a foul than grow some balls and play hard. Sooooo soft.
It’s a multitude of problems. Fouls, threes, sitting out… And then you have the problem with watchability. Nobody pays for cable anymore. You want to increase viewership? Get your games on the streaming services and off of tv networks. Netflix, Hulu, Disney plus… That’s where the eyeballs are. I don’t watch the NBA because I can’t. And I’m not buying a cable package just to do it.
@@rockysalvatore435 Praise steph at all times and make sure you watch an hours worth of ads during a broadcast so that Steph can earn his $40 million a year throwing a ball around, dating supermodels and projecting shitty opinions online, whilst you yourself have to work as a maintenance guy for slave wages and pay taxes so that schools can build even more basketball courts to find more future steph currys :)
1. I dnt want 10 different subscription to watch games 2. I dont want to watch 200 sports betting commercials per game 3. Watching grown men crying to the refs for everything is too cringe for me 4. Players are not taking the regular season seriously 5. Highlights on RUclips are MUCH more convenient to watch 6. There are not as many interesting stars in the game anymore (Wade, Melo, Drose)
Precisely. Regarding your second point, I don’t know how it’s even legal for sports books to be this close to the games themselves. Sports books being allowed to advertise during the actual game opens the discussion of whether or not they and the leagues, not just nba, have some sort of unwritten agreement to influence player performance. Like if I’m fanduel, and a big chunk of users bet on a player to go over or under a certain line, I don’t want that to happen, therefore I offer the players a little kickback to remain within their projections or do the opposite entirely. People losing their bets makes the books money, which in turn makes the leagues money from advertising. It’s too powerful a symbiotic relationship and the books have absolutely no place advertising or in fanduel’s case, owning the streaming rights to people’s home teams via FDSN. It’s shady as hell and there’s absolutely more going on with it.
@@ahjeezrick I could answer you this to details but it would take too much time. Yes, bookies and betting companies are involved in every sport including NBA. The bets on individual players statistics is huge bizz. They certainly have a calls where they instruct when some player needs to sit on the bench 🤐
Ben Simmons being paid 30m+ a season to do cardio and be a cheerleader on the bench is wild where do I sign up? I can definitely average 12 high 5’s, 10 sips of gatorade and 7 hand claps a game
@mavvzahardd2678 Telling the truth is what you call garbage??? You’re the exact reason why the NBA sucks. Believing everything Klutch propagates don’t you ???
I have only been on this platform for like 2 years, BUT I have been talking about this GARBAGE for over a decade. Only now the mainstream media is starting to piggyback when it's too late.
Its been declining since MJ left. Shaq/Kobe kept it alive for awhile. And the media promoted a fake GOAT for the last 20 years to try and keep viewership.
No one is saying it in these videos, but absolutely. I grew up a massive fan of basketball, but have been alienated by the racist rhetoric that is directed at me. People can have whatever beliefs they want, but I don’t have to watch their content. Not surprised at all that the NBA is going through this right now.
Bron took the torch from Kobe and turned the flames out - from not entering the Dunk Competition (why it’s now trash), to not trying in the all star games (why it’s garbage), to joining up and getting “rings” (why ratings in the finals don’t matter anymore, who cares tbh?). The game resembles the ambassador of said game and the commissioner of said era. There’s your answer. They don’t care and why should I, we? The most skilled era ever, sure.
All facts he the leader of load management tryna blame the spurs like kobe didnt load manage despite playing them every year but leave it to soft lebron to do it and make it acceptable
The Lebronization of the league has ruined it. Super teams, flopping, load management, no defense. On top of that every play is either a 3 or a pick and roll, it’s so boring to watch
YEP! I hate that everyone is focusing on the threes though. It is so much more than that! As you said, it is A LOT of stuff that has all converged to put us here. And a bunch of key people in key positions throughout the league have ignored it too long. Who knows if there is any fixing it now.
@@jaymax6127100%! Hockey players are real men. These modern nba players are soft. It’s just not watchable. Tom Wilson takes a slap shot to the face and comes back to play the rest of the game. Lebron gets a hangnail and he’s out for 3 games.
Could also be people are generally sick and tired of these over paid, over entitled, smug, arrogant athletes and celebrities talking down to them so they are tuning out. Just a thought.
Colin Cow and the slimey rat discussing how to improve a league they helped destroy is so insulting it’s funny. Legit one of the stupidest conversations printed to media.
@@darkwa2000 I guess spreading a false narratives and being bad nba journalist in general isn’t destructive? Not sure what’s confusing ngl. Can throw Stephen A, Perc, and JJ in there as well. When did NBA media not play apart in its success
@@DF-ni5sy 11B revenue last season 5x more than any season in 90s. NBA is doing good. They dont need those bag less big man like in 90s who camp in paint and barely move.
@@mavvzahardd2678 I am aware they can do whatever they want and still print money. Plenty of gambling pp pills beer booze apple amazon to buy commercials. It's a lost cause to get a better game, they just print money no mater how stupid the games get
Sick of the "load management"... i grew up watching Kobe have his dislocated finger popped back into place on the court, playing left handed due to a strained right shoulder, and battle back from one of the worst injuries in the sport--ruptured achilles... That mamba mentality is completely absent in today's nba and you can FEEL it
Which is insane to me because all the current players grew up watching him do that stuff. You would think that example would have taught them to be tough like Kobe
Ok but you’re also forgetting how Isaiah Thomas, the former Celtics player played through injuries and that ruined his career. If I saw him go through that, I probably would sit as well till I was 100% healthy
Yeah, but you're not a professional athlete, are you? Pro athletes are the modern day equivalents to gladiators or warriors or Olympic competitors of old. People who have that grit to push caution to the wind when it came to pride and competition. I understand your points and I get it if you would be too scared to play injured. But that's why you're not a pro athlete and this mentality is one piece of the puzzle when it comes to the current NBA's dwindling viewership numbers. It's weak AF, basically. Now, I'm no pro athlete. But you can't argue it's not weak AF when viewership is this low compared to eras where players weren't soft as pillows @@Mark-jn3wo
Load management, load management, load management. NBA is supposed to represent the PREMIER basketball experience on the planet: but every time I flip on a game, half the stars are sitting out. If I’m watching something that isn’t indicative of it being the PREMIER product it purports to be; then I won’t watch.
Right. The competition is gone. It’s really only the European and Foreign players who are competing hard to win. Only a few of the American stars are really trying to win at a high level. And once the old guys like Curry, Durant and LeBron are gone, there will be even less.
One thing that really turned me off with todays NBA, is the in your face gambling ads. We as viewers really couldn't tell if the game is slowly being "rigged" because of the gambling. Aside from all of the things mentioned years beforehand.
2:30 Lebron suggesting that the problem is too many 3s feels like a subtle shot at steph. He's kind of agreeing to the "steph ruined the game" narrative, while he himself is clear main reason. They catered the whole league to Lebron in order to have the equivalent of what michael jordan was in the 90's. But they got the opposite because Lebron is a whiny narcissistic loser and now the league is in shambles.
It’s not a shot to Steph, it’s a shot to the players who shoot 10 threes a game who aren’t nowhere near Steph or klay as shooters. Your 8th man off the bench is shooting 6-8 threes games
Not subtle. He just failed to try teaming up with Steph so he's going to blame him for everything wrong with the game. While also trying to deflect any blame on himself.
It is an absolute eye sore. If you outlawed zone defenses again, forced players to defend 1 on 1 and allowed hand checking again, things would change quickly.
The 3s arw worth more then 2 is pure idiocy. Because its all about efficienty. Look at kobe for example and MJ. They both consistantly went for garanted shots/points. Because you couldnt foul bait or flop. Or challenge any call. The joker is a beast because he gets 2s and doesnt hunt 3s . Thats why 3p shooting% in kobes era was better then currently. Because if they took that 3. They were most likely then not confident it waa going in. Todays nba era thanks to coaches and media analyst is. Its better to have 4/12 from 3 then 6/8 because 3s are worth more. I wanna see more dunks and long 2s then constant airballs and haymakers from everg team
@@iGucikthat’s just dumb y would they just take more long 2s for your enjoyment they play to win and shooting threes is proven to be a winning method in the nba they’re not just gonna play inefficient because you’re stuck in the past
@@skap_attack They allow hand checking and even the blatant fouling of some players - the ones they don't want to promote. Jokic comes to mind. You can gouge him, punch him or bearhug him and the refs usually won't call the foul. Corruption would seem to be just as big a problem.
Wemby shooting 10 3s a game is pure vomit. As is seeing teams score 130 a game. Seeing James harden and Embiid shoot 25 free throws a game burns my eyes. Especially when I see how soft those fouls are. Shaq would shoot 50 free throws if he played today.
@@001luiyou must not watch them then. Hell I don't either but look at the numbers. They are #1 in free throws over the last few years, and it ain't close. You know who's dead last? Warriors.
The last 2 games against Sacramento Sa - 14 Sa - 22 La - 21 La - 30 Mg - 30 La - 39 Mh - 9 La. - 19 Uj - 16 La - 25 Ps - 10 La - 25 And that's just a few I looked at plus there are very few if any teams that get more FF'S than the LeLakers when they are playing them!
@@DarkWolf-407 I think that refs in the nba in general have gotten extremely worse and there are a lot of calls I watch every nba game I can and I’ve watched a lot of lakers games and there’s a lot of times when they miss out on easy calls and the same things sometimes happens to their opponents the lakers don’t shoot as many 3s as other teams and have a lot of players who rather prefer to go to the rack and get free throws and I believe this causes the discrepancy most of the time
I think the biggest problem is the rules. 1. The NBA needs to change the charge rule to match the NFHS and NCAA rules, which determine charging based on whether the defensive player has "Legal Guarding Position" instead of the weird "who reached the spot first?" rule that makes it almost impossible to call in real time. The other rulesets are very easy to call if you understand them. 2. The refs need to call traveling, palming, and displacement CONSISTENTLY. 3. Refs need to stop tailoring their calls based on the players involved. Also, pay players by the game. Of course all of this means that Bron will suffer.
@@tassothomas5186 FACTS!!!!!!! MJ and Kobe left the league in a BETTER place. I became obsessed with NBA basketball BECAUSE of Kobe. And now I don't watch BECAUSE of Bron. Curry, kept me interested for a bit, but after 2017/2018, even that got old.
@@allworksnew That's a common misconception. It's not about being "set." It's "who was there first?" Being "set" is just an indicator that the defender reached the spot first. And yes, palming is a problem too, but I think it is less obvious than the others.
I was too young for that era so can’t comment. (Was ten years old when Mike won in 96.) Mid 2000s was peak for me. I’d tuned out by mid 2010s. When Bron went to Miami. I called it back then that it would ruin the league and was called a hater. Guys used to compete and took pride in winning. Current gen is nothing to aspire to.
@@pablosnackbar6417 i like how you honestly refused to comment on an era you ahvent seen unlike fanboys who often talk out their ass about things they know not.., .. but anyone can easily go back and watch playoff games from the 80s and 90s , they are free on RUclips ... more ppl should do the responsible thing and watch some of those games and Finals then you would be more free to comment on all of NBA history.
@@pablosnackbar6417 Right LeBron should just rot in Cleveland his whole career, an organization that clearly didn't care to support him at all during his time there. Yall are such whiners man
Player empowerment was the worst decision ever made. While nobody is in love of greedy billionaire owners, these entitled player attitude really killed the game. No D, no effort, out of shape, no loyalty, no pride and too much 3s and too much politics, race bait and DEI.
Honestly a simple way to make the league more interesting to watch. Make streaming or watching NBA completely free, surely the advertisement from all the new viewers would make up more than enough of the cost of streaming. Like an NBA twitch or NBA RUclips would be killing it.
@@Abekrampe The reason they're making people pay is because the ratings have been steadily going down and with it advertising rates, so to make up for it they're chasing money everywhere because salaries are going up so they need total advertising dollars up.
One of the best analogies I’ve heard about all the excessive 3’s being shot is “Lazy Basketball.” It takes no skill or basketball IQ to just walk up the court and chuck a 3. Running plays, low post play and mid range jumpers take skill and IQ.
100%. I don't mind drive and kick basketball, but the amount of pull up threes bothers me. Like, they don't even try to work the ball inside, just take a heat check 3 and it either goes in or not. That's also a reason why people didn't like bigs shooting 3s, because it is weak and lazy. I think the Nuggets are a blueprint for a good offense that takes less 3s. But people want to follow the Lebron blueprint, having their star pound the air out of the ball, and pass the ball if they can't score.
Wish I heard more people talking about this. Anyone who ever played basketball knows. When you're tired and don't want to drive and bang bodies then you chuck up an outside shot. It's lazy basketball and that's what the NBA has become. No heart. No fight.
The problem is you cannot force a system that doesn't work with the system that everybody does that works. Top elite teams need to chuck volume threes to keep up the pace, because that's what wins most games. If you force the triangle offense in this era you'll lose games. Nuggets play it well though, but they're still averaging 31 attempts a game which is well over teams pre-2014, so they're not necessarily chucking "less" threes per se.
@@001lui There is some complex offense being played, there is great skill levels at all positions now, and its boring as hell to watch sometimes because there is simply no fire to the game. No real rivalry. Team hopping, tick tack fouls and just the culture change of lower physicality has taken the heart from the game.
@@chironjo he only took 7 shots and only played 22min. Steph doesnt care about a 10pt streak like Lebron does, nor is steph a stat padder like Lebron James so having 2 points for steph wasnt a big deal he had a HORRIFIC night and he knew that so he took himself out the game. Thats how a superstar gets 2 points in a full game. I hope this helps
Can’t blame Steph though💯in 2016 the league chose not to celebrate a team who did it the right way and rigg it so lebron can win and the warriors said oh hell naw a yo Durant which killed competition for years every team in the NBA knew they didn’t have a chance so they started playing for stats and money
The Europeans try to play everyday even hurt. Its the overpaid Americans of a certain demographic like Embiid, Kawhi, Paul George, and just to name a few that dont play.
There was a Nuggets game where a bunch of players including Jokic were thrown out with ridiculous techs. They asked Jokic about it after the game and he basically said “Thank God this game wasn’t in Serbia because the people would riot if they paid that much money and this is what they got.”
@ Literally. It’s crazy to see the refs thinking they’re the main characters. I watched the Celtics game the other night and the refs blew the whistle then took like 10 seconds to say WHY they blew it. Coach Mazzulla was pissed and the ref gave 3 techs out for Celtics players complaining. Absolutely ridiculous
Embiid has probably played through the most injuries in nba history, stop being a clown and try to think before just repeating everything you see on twitter
Them hanging the in season cup banner (Milwaukee aint exempt from this either) instead of focusing on championship banners is gonna be a top 3 moment of the NBAs reason of decline.
I don't think there is the option to not hang it as that would basically be a big F you to the league and no team is gonna do it. There could be fines attached to it as well, i don't know
Won’t ever forget my Rockets missing 27 3’s in a winnable game 7 against the Warriors. I also won’t ever forget how worthless Harden really was when it counted in the playoffs. Here’s to him never ever winning a ring 🍻
Adam Sliver KNOWS the views is going down AND STILL NOT DOING EVERYTHING TO SAVE THIS LEAGUE. These players started to not give a fuck about the game but want to have "superstar treatment" this is BS
This shit has been coming for a LONG TIME now. For at least 15 years. The league just sat back and watched it unravel, NOW they are talking about fixes. Its too damn late, unless they want to lock the league out for, probably a full calendar year.
@@skap_attackthat would be a great start. The players won’t care unless they get hit hard financially. They’ll probably shorten the season and still struggle to get players to play.
The NBA got politicized. Some of the "stars" aren't very likable or relatable. Ultimately the problem lies at the top. Who signs the guaranteed checks? The NBA just signed an 11 year TV rights deal worth 76 billion. ESPN and ABC will pay 2.6 billion annually versus 1.4 billion for the last deal. Nothing will change. But someone got taken to the cleaners on that deal. I just watch the highlights on RUclips and of course the Skap attack channel!
Get rid of LeBron. Get rid of flopping and traveling. Get rid of load management. Get rid of guaranteed contracts. Get rid of handing entitled idiots championships and mvps. Get rid of 40 3s a game. Get rid of corrupt refs who don't call the game properly. I could go on but that's a good start.
The NBA died when Kobe retired. Kobe was the last true genius worth watching. It's funny, people who watched both almost ALL say Kobe was better. If it wasn't for LeBalco PAYING ESPN pundits to diminish Kobe/MJ while glazing him every 3 seconds, this current generation wouldnt be so propagandized. LeBalco is a cancer to the NBA.
@@ludvigwittgenstein6469 11B revenue last season 5x more than 2000 season. colorado kobe needs refs help to win a ring. they even fired a refs because of blatant cheating. kobe is far from genius he just shoots and bricks it thats why no one really put him in top 5 all time.
Couldn't agree more! We lost an alpha competitor and a TRUE ambassador of the sport for the Clown King that came in after him. Historical downgrade. This all should have been expected...
This is what I told everyone. The thing about Kobe was he was able to take the torch handed to him from Mike and keep the game exciting. LeBron's style and skill level was just never on par and it's why he was never actually admired the same way mj and Kobe were. Both of them had style and finesse and competed. They played defense. They didn't try to be friends with everyone in the league the way Lebron does. He's destroyed the league unfortunately. I don't think it can recover because the next generation of players are alive now and emulating this trash. Unless some new alpha on both sides comes along and completely takes over this is pretty much the end of the NBA. I actually told my friend a decade ago when Kobe retired that the NBA will decline until it's no longer being watched much-kinda like boxing and baseball compared to what they once were. Perhaps this is the nature of sports in general though. They eventually fizzle out to some degree and always have a peak, plateau and dip. I think what wasn't really anticipated though was how quickly the NBA has dipped. Caitlin Clark proves that drama and excitement brings in fans and that it's not necessarily basketball that's the issue rather it's the NBA and it's players.
Lebron games after Kobe’s retirement and even while he was playing have been some of the most highly rated games in the nba I think he’s filled his shoes quite well but now he’s getting old I think the NBA is struggling to find a new star to elevate
Definitely not in terms of money, when you try to go for mass markets the product gets watered down for appealing to the common denominator. Problem is when you get more money more corporate leaches get attached that have no clue what they are doing, and you end up with commercial break every 2 minutes and Bron embracing himself by yelling 'taco Tuesday' like an idiot.
I was looking at the scores this season and every team scored 100+ points sometimes 130 each. I remember when getting 100 points was a big deal. That proves there is too many 3s with no defense
It got boring once the players started thinking they were more than just entertainers. Suddenly they wanted their ideology shoved down our throats. I love NBA when there were no agendas but now I feel they're trying to convey a message rather than just playing a game. We get that athletes have opinions but Im trying to see someone get dunked on, not how you feel about the social climate.
The truth is basketball players are disconnected to the fans. Inflated wages, half asked attitudes, entitlement and now they believe they have a platform to portray their views and lecture society. Sport is sport and people are sick and tired of all the other noise. From the UK i rather watch the team from inside the NBA talk about basketball than watch a game itself. In no other sport i watch, do i prefer the analysis to the game. As a massive sports fan from UK who watches any sport on TV even lawn bowls and wheelchair curling that is a sad indictment for the NBA. The All Star game is a farce and i haven't watched one of them in over 10 years. Last point the gambling adverts also doesn't help it's annoying especially for me who doesn't gamble and sees the harm gambling causes families.
Most annoying thing is that players are not loyal to their teams One year the team with the best names is beating everyone, next year the same players are playing for a different team Like Jordan or Kobe playing 2 season max with every team, who would keep watching to see the Bulls or the Lakers? Every year the season starts I can't understand anything The last time things were good was when SC/KT Warriors - LJ/KI Cavs - RW/KD OKC - JH/EG Rockets
Players can shuffle their feet for threes. Threes aren't defended because the offense never gets called for traveling and offensive fouls, so the defense is scared of the drive.
To fix the NBA requires going back to getting players in high school and college team environments and away from AAU situations that focus on individual over team,
Bring back defensive rules of the past like handchecking. Make the game more difficult and competitive. The stars will have to try harder to fill up their stat sheet. They'll be forced to EARN their money. Fans would love that.
Not mentioned in the video is the impact on competitiveness of having 82 games in the regular season. Fans, as well a players, understand that the only games that really count are in the playoffs. So, how to make each regular season game more consequential? Reduce the number of games substantially, possibly to as low as 62 per season. I can hear people saying: "Ooh, wouldn't that reduce revenues?" Of course it would, but at least players would be incentivized to try harder all the time, meaning that fan interest would rebound. If the NFL regular season had 40 games instead of 17, individual games would seem much less important. (I understand that few players could survive such a long season, but the point is still valid.) Again people might say: "But the league had 82 games per season in the 80s, 90s and the 2000s, and players tried hard then." True, but those were different times, and there's no going back. Shortening the regular season is only one of the changes that would help the NBA become more interesting.
@@ludvigwittgenstein6469 lol watch the games payroll doesn’t mean much anymore we have guys like Zach lavine on 50million dollar contracts the lakers have limited personnel and somehow found themselves #1 rated in defense in their last 6 games, he’s a pretty good coach
You forgot a few… Stop scamming people with League Pass The play reviews that make the game last two hours or more when there’s like 10secs left in the game.
@ the NBA is a business but supposed to be entertaining. When the jerseys suck, people don’t buy them as much. Then merchandise revenue drops and the overall product suffers.
I stopped watching around 2010. only came back for Jokic and watching him crush all the media narratives has been the only enjoyable part of the NBA for me. reasons I stopped watching: 1) 2002 game 6 Lakers-Kings and other "questionable" officiating 2) Seattle having their team stolen because a billionaire didn't want to pay for anything (hate OKC to this day and I wasn't even a Sonics fan) 3) Lebum 'taking his talents to south beach' (that was the final straw, and again I wasn't even a Cavs fan and I was neutral on Lebron at that point) tl;dr NBA killed the spirit of competition. until that spirit is revived, nothing else matters.
Hmmm, you gonna talk about the "questionable" officiating in 1992 Finals or does MJ get a pass? If you think the "questionable" officiating started in 2002 Game 6, then you weren't paying attention. Also Kobe was BOX OFFICE. If you missed that, then you're not a real hoops fan. MJ is the undisputed GOAT but Kobe was ART and there's a reason Kobe (and Iverson, and occasionally Durant) are the only 3 players MJ seems to respect after he left the game. Forget stats, Kobe's aesthetics were magical to watch. Kobe made me an NBA fan because his skill level was so advanced (and he DID NOT TRAVEL). It was like he made it harder on purpose JUST to show how talented he was. MJ's true heir. Seattle getting robbed is a legit point, and I hope OKC NEVER wins anything because of that scumbag Bennett. LeBalco killed the competitive integrity of the NBA. And they also nixed the CP3 to LA trade "because of competitive integrity" which is such an LOL moment given how LeBron, Wade and Bosh broke the CBA's rules on player collusion.
Haphazardly stumbled on your vid, good take. Never knew this “NBA”, or whatever that stands for, was even a thing. A ball going into a net is fascinating. Thank you! 🙏
When the NBA got into politics in 2017 when Trump was in office and when your two best players in LeBron and Steph trash him you lose half your audience. How can you ever expect them to come back?
Lefraud is the reason the NBA is failing. Zero respect, competitiveness ,flopping, traveling and the non stop propaganda about king loser being the goat.
I hired a superstar sales guy who made a living off a small allowance and mostly commissions to head my sales force. I gave him a big salary, an even bigger commission %, a car, and made him an executive. Guess what happened the next six months? He forgot how to sell. And came up with all kinds of excuses to explain why. The problem is overpaying players and giving them too much before they’ve proven themselves. Spoiled rotten.
Do what I do. Just watch the old Magic, MJ, Shaq and Kobe games. If they want to fix the NBA then the thing they should do is play with FIBA rules. Keep the game at 48 minutes and three point line as it is right now.
@@skap_attackthose records will never make him the GOAT, cause that's more than stats, it's a mentality. So let him have it, I just want real basketball back.
The heart and soul of the league has died. I don't see it returning until we have a Larry Bird type player. Someone skilled, hard nosed, no BS, and relatable enough to want to watch.
Some changes I'd like to see. - Have ref's crack down on travelling, including on step back 3's. - Bring back hand checking and update rules to encourage defensive. - Reduce the Max contract amount by 25% if the player is leaving their draft team. If the player is staying with their draft team, then the extra 25% does not count towards the salary cap. - Make Max contracts 50% guaranteed, 50% tied to the number of games played. The more games players sit out the less they earn.
@michaelbme1983 they would have 50% of their contract paid regardless of games played. The other 50% would be paid pro rata for the 82 games of the regular season. It would be to entice players to play more games and not rest. It's effectively a performance incentive. If they are ruled out the entire season due to injury, they still have 50% of their contract guaranteed.
Its this - if teams throw 40 x 3pt attempts they only need 10 to go in = 30pts. So only need 25% conversion. Where as midrange, dunks, layups they need 15 shots. Thats 5 extra ends and need 50% shooting just to match. Teams all play the same because its the only way to match pace. This aint going away.
Lol Jokic was the Main reason Nuggets were down the whole game he's a Walking Cone on Defense nobody sees him as a threat when they take it to the paint , Murray Sent The Game to OT Btw n yall stil wanna trade him
FACTS. Even when Kobe was COMPLETELY washed, he still captivated. The league has been on a slow descent to crap ever since he AND his era of players left.
Agreed, that felt like the convergence of the eras, led by a competent, organic, and entertaining three-point shooting team that actually played defense in the Warriors. Silver's tenure started off so easy for him those first two years; it's been a steep downhill slide since 2016
While I agree on the fouls I think the lack of defense is an overplayed idea a lot of the teams in the nba play great aggressive defense like the Thunder bucks and even recently the lakers
@001lui naw...real defense hasn't been played in decades. freedom of movement is garbage. the over inflated scoring is a result of the lack of defense.
@ I don’t think it’s a result of the lack of defense I think the 3pt evolution and players getting better on top of rule changes all contributed to the explosion of scoring I’ve had the pleasure of watching a few full games and see lots of great defense with great defenders like ad, and even up and comers like Dyson Daniels
@@001luinah man…. it’s the defense. The NBA has incentivized scoring, and an increase in pace. . . because they know that their core audience (younger millennials and gen z) have shorter attention spans. And they don’t really appreciate defense and fundamentals
The three is not the issue, it's hand checking. You watch games in the 90s and 2000s you got big strong athletic defenders like mike, clyde, scottie, bruce bowen, meta that are allowed to not only put theirs hands on you but literally push you around and steer you. There were great shooters in that era...certainly many that would've been better than steph...but you just cant get to spots or even get your feet set if people are allowed to push you. That's why you needed high percentage shots like the midrange and to be able to bang inside.
not that much hand checking wasn't the only thing. Giving dumb fouls to stars is also a big issue because the refs just let star's get away with a lot to boost the stats. Impeding offensive movement rule change had bigger effect on scoring then the hand check rule.
As a once big basketball fan. Biggest problems in my eyes: Ticket prices No physicality Stars sitting 20 plus games a season Tv contracts no longer on local broadcast Euro step and traveling
NBA could renegotiate to empower the owners - and if the players don't like it, they can walk away - owners can hire players who actually want to compete. The Players Association Union can take a hike.
What's crazy is that Lebron's 4th Championship being the lowest viewership during a time where people were forced to stay home. People obviously weren't bored enough to be bothered to watch the NBA finals lol.
It’s simple really, the lack of an audience destroyed the atmosphere of the game and made it harder to watch.
People had family members dying and were struggling to pay bills because they couldn’t work. Sure they were at home but sports was the last thing on their mind.
lol buddy u know what was happening during Covid bro acting like everyone was okay and not struggling
It’s crazy to think that fans were struggling but we’re supposed to believe the nba players were competing at full capacity and not tanking to get home their families.
That’s why it’s a fake ring.
@@RandomPerson-vu6yu stop it my sympathies for all I had a family member pass but that’s a cop out.They were getting outrated by womens sports
-To many threes
-To many flops
-can’t watch local games on league games
-To many ref calls
-Fans cannot get invested in players because they keep changing teams
-to much politics
-load management
-no rivalry and no drama
-boring all star game
-lack in defense
-overpaid players
-expensive tickets
Well said.
Do they still show NBA games on the NBA channel literally haven’t seen any games every time I flip through the guide
All spearheaded by LeBum
*too
The players care more about their pregame outfit than the game itself. I actually watch more content on why the NBA is failing than the NBA 😅
Same.
Right I’ve invested the whole last week into watching videos why they keep failing, but I don’t give a shit when a game comes on
Same 😂 idk who even won the NBA Cup this year.
You ain't lying. They've become worse than women 😂
They also care more about the name on the back of the jersey than the name on front. Why should I get invested in a team if the players are more excited to play with their buddies than they are to wear team colors. I don't associate players with certain teams anymore. Michael Jordan will always be remembered as a Bull. Kobe as a Laker. Iverson with the 76ers. Larry Bird with the Celtics. Shaq with the Heat. I can't do that with Kevin Durant or James Harden. I would associate Westbrook with OKC, but he has also been a half dozen teams since then. I had to consult Wikipedia like 3 times to write those last few sentences because I wasn't sure where anybody was playing. The MLB is getting bad with this too.
The players don't care. Why should I care?
not only that they don't care, they also just outright hate you if you have certain opinions about certain topics. So why the hell should we support that?
@@davidriedy5977um they don’t actually care. They like triggering people like you
Long Ass season sadly
@@davidriedy5977and they're certainly not willing to debate someone like me either
The league has become a business that uses the scammer's mantra:
"There's a sucker born every minute [ready to cough up their cash to you.]"
Travels, carries and moving screens dont get called, everything is a tech now, constant foul baiting, load management, a barrage of gambling ads and its becoming more difficult and expensive to watch NBA games. No other basketball league has these problems to that degree, not college or euroleague. Olympic games played with FIBA rules and refs were a breath of fresh air.
Spot on here. Especially your point about international games being SO MUCH BETTER. They NBA should switch to FIBA rules.
100%
@@skap_attack Rules don't matter if the refs don't follow them.
You can't blame my king on why the nba sucks. He's a walking highlight. He can dunk better than the young guns.
The change of the rules was for benefit James, and juicing more highlights from him.
Bring back Jordan-era rules and officiating. Let players play gladiator-like defense, Rodman vs Malone style.
Give me the Pistons 2004 defense where they held 11 teams under 70 points. Every guy on that team was willing to sacrifice for eachother and wanted to humiliate their oppenents including Kobe and Shaq after they beat them in 5 games.
They too soft 😂
I can say don't allow scumbag play like Laimbeer but otherwise, 100% agree.
That was the golden era for a reason. I can watch powder puff at a cheerleading competition if I want. Bring back the NBA when the greatest players would almost die on that floor for a win. Now they’d rather flop and fake a foul than grow some balls and play hard. Sooooo soft.
They are being overpaid to do nothing. Zero defense, star players not even playing, zero drive to win etc. It’s a lazy ass product, I agree!
No wonder the USA mens basketball team struggles against South sudan and Germany.
They're playing lazy all year then have to adapt to a new pace.
It’s a multitude of problems. Fouls, threes, sitting out… And then you have the problem with watchability. Nobody pays for cable anymore. You want to increase viewership? Get your games on the streaming services and off of tv networks.
Netflix, Hulu, Disney plus… That’s where the eyeballs are. I don’t watch the NBA because I can’t. And I’m not buying a cable package just to do it.
Amount of Games:Even in the important Play offs it is Not Bad if you dont win the First Game bc you get some left
@@Waywind420but we're supposed to praise Steph at Olympics lol
@@rockysalvatore435 Praise steph at all times and make sure you watch an hours worth of ads during a broadcast so that Steph can earn his $40 million a year throwing a ball around, dating supermodels and projecting shitty opinions online, whilst you yourself have to work as a maintenance guy for slave wages and pay taxes so that schools can build even more basketball courts to find more future steph currys
:)
The current NBA = " It's a complete crap!"
Complete and total 💩💯🤣🤣🤣
Complete A$$!
@@skap_attack”THIS IS SHAME!!” 🤬
That guy should copyright that slogan 🤣
@@thefirsttrillionaire2925 🤣🤣
1. I dnt want 10 different subscription to watch games
2. I dont want to watch 200 sports betting commercials per game
3. Watching grown men crying to the refs for everything is too cringe for me
4. Players are not taking the regular season seriously
5. Highlights on RUclips are MUCH more convenient to watch
6. There are not as many interesting stars in the game anymore (Wade, Melo, Drose)
Wade and melo were not exciting at all. I can't believe how truly stupid some of these comments are
@@choossuck7653nuggets melo and pre lebron wade were entertaining. But I generally agree
Precisely. Regarding your second point, I don’t know how it’s even legal for sports books to be this close to the games themselves. Sports books being allowed to advertise during the actual game opens the discussion of whether or not they and the leagues, not just nba, have some sort of unwritten agreement to influence player performance. Like if I’m fanduel, and a big chunk of users bet on a player to go over or under a certain line, I don’t want that to happen, therefore I offer the players a little kickback to remain within their projections or do the opposite entirely. People losing their bets makes the books money, which in turn makes the leagues money from advertising. It’s too powerful a symbiotic relationship and the books have absolutely no place advertising or in fanduel’s case, owning the streaming rights to people’s home teams via FDSN. It’s shady as hell and there’s absolutely more going on with it.
3 is big for me, the players are just so unlikable
@@ahjeezrick I could answer you this to details but it would take too much time. Yes, bookies and betting companies are involved in every sport including NBA. The bets on individual players statistics is huge bizz. They certainly have a calls where they instruct when some player needs to sit on the bench 🤐
Ben Simmons being paid 30m+ a season to do cardio and be a cheerleader on the bench is wild where do I sign up? I can definitely average 12 high 5’s, 10 sips of gatorade and 7 hand claps a game
Almost a triple double!!
I’m actually shocked like how the fuck are you still paying this guy screw him let him go overseas tbh
shaq and chuck getting paid 20M and give garbage basketball opinion
@mavvzahardd2678
Telling the truth is what you call garbage??? You’re the exact reason why the NBA sucks. Believing everything Klutch propagates don’t you ???
I'm about to drop a quadruple double: 10x clapping, high fives, gatorades, and "atta boys"
Sad fact!!! Watching Shaq, Chuck, Kenny, and Ernie talk about any NBA game is more entertaining than watching any NBA game.
No more inner city kids, either jr kids of nba players.soft league.
NBA su-su-su-suuuuuucks. For years and years now. The worst
I have only been on this platform for like 2 years, BUT I have been talking about this GARBAGE for over a decade. Only now the mainstream media is starting to piggyback when it's too late.
Its been declining since MJ left. Shaq/Kobe kept it alive for awhile. And the media promoted a fake GOAT for the last 20 years to try and keep viewership.
@@skap_attacktypically how it goes. Noah’s Ark at its finest
It’s because they removed hand checking and all other physicality to the game, pretty much like horse at this point
I was huge fan 1990 till 2012 then it became unwatchable
Lebronze and Silver destroyed the league, anyone with a brain knows this 💯.
🎯🎯🎯
Facts, but that's a hilarious way to put it
How did Bron ruin the NBA?
By getting involved in politics way too much AKA being a woke leftist!@@kahmalmason5919
LeBRONZE SHAMESSSSS
Everyone in the league told half of their fans to fuck off in 2019, so we did.
Accurate statement.
From 2019-2024 more accurately. I don't miss the league at all. I have lots of memories of the previous 4 decades.
No one is saying it in these videos, but absolutely. I grew up a massive fan of basketball, but have been alienated by the racist rhetoric that is directed at me. People can have whatever beliefs they want, but I don’t have to watch their content. Not surprised at all that the NBA is going through this right now.
Bron took the torch from Kobe and turned the flames out - from not entering the Dunk Competition (why it’s now trash), to not trying in the all star games (why it’s garbage), to joining up and getting “rings” (why ratings in the finals don’t matter anymore, who cares tbh?). The game resembles the ambassador of said game and the commissioner of said era. There’s your answer. They don’t care and why should I, we? The most skilled era ever, sure.
LeBron took the torch, trip and fall, and it landed in a pool of water🤣😅
All facts he the leader of load management tryna blame the spurs like kobe didnt load manage despite playing them every year but leave it to soft lebron to do it and make it acceptable
He has no skills, even his dunks is a one move pattern everytime.
@@DopeBoyTerroryou mean he took a piss on it
Kobe never passed anything stop lying
I miss the MJ era along with the Shaq/Kobe era.
ME TOO!
@@skap_attacku didn’t even watch then why u talking
Aa a Bulls fan I miss.the Bulls era, the Shaq/Kobe era and the pre-ACL Rose era.
Mid 90s to 2010 was the prime. Ever since the torch was handed to LePlayerEmpoerment the league has turned to shit.
I dont miss Shaq and Kobe getting a 20 foul calls against Sacaramento in the 4th. What a scam that was.
LeFake got the nerve to talk .Your the main culprit why the NBA sucks.Nice breakdown of the decline of this sport.
The Lebronization of the league has ruined it. Super teams, flopping, load management, no defense. On top of that every play is either a 3 or a pick and roll, it’s so boring to watch
Tarveling also favorable calls for some 'Superstars'
YEP! I hate that everyone is focusing on the threes though. It is so much more than that! As you said, it is A LOT of stuff that has all converged to put us here. And a bunch of key people in key positions throughout the league have ignored it too long. Who knows if there is any fixing it now.
NBA players have no heart and their play reflects that. NHL players play like every game is their last and the NBA can learn something from them!
It’s been a super team in every decade though
@@jaymax6127100%! Hockey players are real men. These modern nba players are soft. It’s just not watchable.
Tom Wilson takes a slap shot to the face and comes back to play the rest of the game.
Lebron gets a hangnail and he’s out for 3 games.
"I can tell you WITHOUT facts..." - jj reddick
Freudian slip
Reddick is such a tool.
he was right the first time lmao
That guy is honestly such a clown
Could also be people are generally sick and tired of these over paid, over entitled, smug, arrogant athletes and celebrities talking down to them so they are tuning out. Just a thought.
Colin Cow and the slimey rat discussing how to improve a league they helped destroy is so insulting it’s funny. Legit one of the stupidest conversations printed to media.
How'd he help destroy it? Genuinely asking?
@@darkwa2000 I guess spreading a false narratives and being bad nba journalist in general isn’t destructive? Not sure what’s confusing ngl. Can throw Stephen A, Perc, and JJ in there as well. When did NBA media not play apart in its success
No corner 3 is fine with me. Not a bad idea
@@DF-ni5sy 11B revenue last season 5x more than any season in 90s. NBA is doing good. They dont need those bag less big man like in 90s who camp in paint and barely move.
@@mavvzahardd2678 I am aware they can do whatever they want and still print money. Plenty of gambling pp pills beer booze apple amazon to buy commercials. It's a lost cause to get a better game, they just print money no mater how stupid the games get
Sick of the "load management"... i grew up watching Kobe have his dislocated finger popped back into place on the court, playing left handed due to a strained right shoulder, and battle back from one of the worst injuries in the sport--ruptured achilles...
That mamba mentality is completely absent in today's nba and you can FEEL it
Which is insane to me because all the current players grew up watching him do that stuff. You would think that example would have taught them to be tough like Kobe
I also remember kobe taking a free throw with 1 foot… damn those the good old days
@@fantasyEXXthey would rather sit out and collect a check like Ben Simmons.
Ok but you’re also forgetting how Isaiah Thomas, the former Celtics player played through injuries and that ruined his career. If I saw him go through that, I probably would sit as well till I was 100% healthy
Yeah, but you're not a professional athlete, are you? Pro athletes are the modern day equivalents to gladiators or warriors or Olympic competitors of old. People who have that grit to push caution to the wind when it came to pride and competition. I understand your points and I get it if you would be too scared to play injured. But that's why you're not a pro athlete and this mentality is one piece of the puzzle when it comes to the current NBA's dwindling viewership numbers. It's weak AF, basically. Now, I'm no pro athlete. But you can't argue it's not weak AF when viewership is this low compared to eras where players weren't soft as pillows @@Mark-jn3wo
Watching a modern basketball game now is just 10 friends on the court chucking up 3s to see who has the better shot this night.
It's a social activity with a mutual hobby of getting paid millions.
watching 90s when big man just camping in paint with no skill at all and you have guys who cant dribble with their left hand
@@mavvzahardd2678you must not know there was a 5 second in the paint rule... Olajuwon was more masterful than any in modern day.
@mavvzahardd2678
Your mommy has your PBnJ ready for you. She cut into triangles too.
Run along now lil guy
Whp cares there was passi9n and competotion@@mavvzahardd2678
When they tried to promote certain agendas that had nothing to do with basketball ,they were alienating the rest of us.
NBA Basketball has become an embarrassment
Worst thing is the clear bias officiating.
Yep. No excuse for wrong calls with cameras and replays. Even worse imo, is this contractual end to free speech and celebration.
Yep im looking at u Lakers
@@jacobkeeney7971👏🏾💯
League makes more money from facilitating gambling rackets now than viewer ratings.
They have to follow the script. Controllers up top making court decisions for money
Load management, load management, load management. NBA is supposed to represent the PREMIER basketball experience on the planet: but every time I flip on a game, half the stars are sitting out. If I’m watching something that isn’t indicative of it being the PREMIER product it purports to be; then I won’t watch.
Lediddy and his media team completely ruined the entire NBA and the Lakers franchise. It’s hard to watch him attempt to play basketball.
The day Embiid said he didn't want to play back to backs and the league said nothing in response was the final straw for the fans.
The only thing the players are competing for are those guaranteed $200 million dollar contracts.
Right. The competition is gone. It’s really only the European and Foreign players who are competing hard to win. Only a few of the American stars are really trying to win at a high level. And once the old guys like Curry, Durant and LeBron are gone, there will be even less.
Durant and LeBron are leaders in failure @@skillethead15
Yep
Facts 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@skillethead15 boston really beat those european last season.
One thing that really turned me off with todays NBA, is the in your face gambling ads. We as viewers really couldn't tell if the game is slowly being "rigged" because of the gambling.
Aside from all of the things mentioned years beforehand.
It boils down to this: No one likes NBA players anymore. Entitled, childish, spoiled, uninspiring.
And its reached a critical mass. The NBA is cooked.
A great point especially with the next generation being all nepotism lol
2:30
Lebron suggesting that the problem is too many 3s feels like a subtle shot at steph. He's kind of agreeing to the "steph ruined the game" narrative, while he himself is clear main reason.
They catered the whole league to Lebron in order to have the equivalent of what michael jordan was in the 90's. But they got the opposite because Lebron is a whiny narcissistic loser and now the league is in shambles.
It’s not a shot to Steph, it’s a shot to the players who shoot 10 threes a game who aren’t nowhere near Steph or klay as shooters. Your 8th man off the bench is shooting 6-8 threes games
Then he goes one for eight one three's the next game. Make it make sense. Look it up. Dudes the problem
@@cannacare777 look up what Steph just did 🤫 even worse numbers than bron lol
@@Tayxsupremethe difference is , Stephs was an aberration, whilst LeBron chucks bricks on the regular.
LeFraud just can’t shoot, accept it.
Not subtle. He just failed to try teaming up with Steph so he's going to blame him for everything wrong with the game. While also trying to deflect any blame on himself.
It's every team shooting 5/27 from 3 and still deciding that the 3 is the way to go. What is the point of a coach if every coach just shoots 3s
It is an absolute eye sore. If you outlawed zone defenses again, forced players to defend 1 on 1 and allowed hand checking again, things would change quickly.
The 3s arw worth more then 2 is pure idiocy. Because its all about efficienty. Look at kobe for example and MJ. They both consistantly went for garanted shots/points. Because you couldnt foul bait or flop. Or challenge any call. The joker is a beast because he gets 2s and doesnt hunt 3s . Thats why 3p shooting% in kobes era was better then currently. Because if they took that 3. They were most likely then not confident it waa going in. Todays nba era thanks to coaches and media analyst is. Its better to have 4/12 from 3 then 6/8 because 3s are worth more. I wanna see more dunks and long 2s then constant airballs and haymakers from everg team
@iGucik the nba is what boxing would be if boxers only throw jabs and hay makers . No straights, hooks or uppercut. Predictable offense
@@iGucikthat’s just dumb y would they just take more long 2s for your enjoyment they play to win and shooting threes is proven to be a winning method in the nba they’re not just gonna play inefficient because you’re stuck in the past
@@skap_attack They allow hand checking and even the blatant fouling of some players - the ones they don't want to promote. Jokic comes to mind. You can gouge him, punch him or bearhug him and the refs usually won't call the foul. Corruption would seem to be just as big a problem.
Wemby shooting 10 3s a game is pure vomit. As is seeing teams score 130 a game.
Seeing James harden and Embiid shoot 25 free throws a game burns my eyes. Especially when I see how soft those fouls are. Shaq would shoot 50 free throws if he played today.
Lakers free throws discrepancy versus opponents is ridiculous.
🤣🤣 no it’s not
@@001luiyou must not watch them then. Hell I don't either but look at the numbers. They are #1 in free throws over the last few years, and it ain't close. You know who's dead last? Warriors.
They attack the paint a lot
The last 2 games against Sacramento
Sa - 14 Sa - 22
La - 21 La - 30
Mg - 30
La - 39
Mh - 9
La. - 19
Uj - 16
La - 25
Ps - 10
La - 25
And that's just a few I looked at plus there are very few if any teams that get more FF'S than the LeLakers when they are playing them!
@@DarkWolf-407 I think that refs in the nba in general have gotten extremely worse and there are a lot of calls I watch every nba game I can and I’ve watched a lot of lakers games and there’s a lot of times when they miss out on easy calls and the same things sometimes happens to their opponents the lakers don’t shoot as many 3s as other teams and have a lot of players who rather prefer to go to the rack and get free throws and I believe this causes the discrepancy most of the time
I think the biggest problem is the rules. 1. The NBA needs to change the charge rule to match the NFHS and NCAA rules, which determine charging based on whether the defensive player has "Legal Guarding Position" instead of the weird "who reached the spot first?" rule that makes it almost impossible to call in real time. The other rulesets are very easy to call if you understand them. 2. The refs need to call traveling, palming, and displacement CONSISTENTLY. 3. Refs need to stop tailoring their calls based on the players involved.
Also, pay players by the game.
Of course all of this means that Bron will suffer.
One of the main reasons that he needs to retire. I guarantee you the league would improve and ratings will go back up.
@@tassothomas5186 FACTS!!!!!!! MJ and Kobe left the league in a BETTER place. I became obsessed with NBA basketball BECAUSE of Kobe. And now I don't watch BECAUSE of Bron. Curry, kept me interested for a bit, but after 2017/2018, even that got old.
I thought you only get the charge if the defenders feet are set no? And what about palming?
@@allworksnew That's a common misconception. It's not about being "set." It's "who was there first?" Being "set" is just an indicator that the defender reached the spot first. And yes, palming is a problem too, but I think it is less obvious than the others.
The NBA has regressed back to the 70’s when the players didn’t care and no one else did
1998 definitely was the peak, the competition was unbelievable back then.
98 Pacers winning a chip in this era too big for these small ball clowns
I was too young for that era so can’t comment. (Was ten years old when Mike won in 96.) Mid 2000s was peak for me. I’d tuned out by mid 2010s. When Bron went to Miami. I called it back then that it would ruin the league and was called a hater. Guys used to compete and took pride in winning. Current gen is nothing to aspire to.
@@pablosnackbar6417 i like how you honestly refused to comment on an era you ahvent seen unlike fanboys who often talk out their ass about things they know not.., .. but anyone can easily go back and watch playoff games from the 80s and 90s , they are free on RUclips ... more ppl should do the responsible thing and watch some of those games and Finals then you would be more free to comment on all of NBA history.
@@pablosnackbar6417 Right LeBron should just rot in Cleveland his whole career, an organization that clearly didn't care to support him at all during his time there. Yall are such whiners man
@@comparehealthcareBut that would take curiosity and intellectual integrity, things 95% of humanoids are allergic to...
Player empowerment was the worst decision ever made. While nobody is in love of greedy billionaire owners, these entitled player attitude really killed the game. No D, no effort, out of shape, no loyalty, no pride and too much 3s and too much politics, race bait and DEI.
Not according to Colin cowherd! These type of people been propping up the NBA cro decades,it's trash
Honestly a simple way to make the league more interesting to watch.
Make streaming or watching NBA completely free, surely the advertisement from all the new viewers would make up more than enough of the cost of streaming.
Like an NBA twitch or NBA RUclips would be killing it.
Fax.
@@Abekrampe The reason they're making people pay is because the ratings have been steadily going down and with it advertising rates, so to make up for it they're chasing money everywhere because salaries are going up so they need total advertising dollars up.
Loyalty?? Did you not see kat get shipped out. Dont fkn talk about loyalty kid. These owners dgaf
I also believe that the NBA is pioneering the dead internet theory. The interactions of their social media accounts seem so odd and artificial
Lebron = worst thing to happen to the NBA
No no
@@markfroman738 yes yes
You not good like people think he is
LeBron is trash 🗑️ killed my LA
@ helllll no
One of the best analogies I’ve heard about all the excessive 3’s being shot is “Lazy Basketball.” It takes no skill or basketball IQ to just walk up the court and chuck a 3. Running plays, low post play and mid range jumpers take skill and IQ.
100%. I don't mind drive and kick basketball, but the amount of pull up threes bothers me. Like, they don't even try to work the ball inside, just take a heat check 3 and it either goes in or not. That's also a reason why people didn't like bigs shooting 3s, because it is weak and lazy.
I think the Nuggets are a blueprint for a good offense that takes less 3s. But people want to follow the Lebron blueprint, having their star pound the air out of the ball, and pass the ball if they can't score.
Wish I heard more people talking about this. Anyone who ever played basketball knows. When you're tired and don't want to drive and bang bodies then you chuck up an outside shot. It's lazy basketball and that's what the NBA has become. No heart. No fight.
@@sarnow76 I’d argue todays nba coaches run some of the most complex thought out offensive sets and schemes ever
The problem is you cannot force a system that doesn't work with the system that everybody does that works. Top elite teams need to chuck volume threes to keep up the pace, because that's what wins most games. If you force the triangle offense in this era you'll lose games.
Nuggets play it well though, but they're still averaging 31 attempts a game which is well over teams pre-2014, so they're not necessarily chucking "less" threes per se.
@@001lui There is some complex offense being played, there is great skill levels at all positions now, and its boring as hell to watch sometimes because there is simply no fire to the game. No real rivalry. Team hopping, tick tack fouls and just the culture change of lower physicality has taken the heart from the game.
the current state of the NBA is a reflection of Lebron James and Steph Curry. they will leave the game worse than they found it.
How can a superstar go as low as 2 points in a full game?
FACTS! And I agree with you 100%, Steph deserves to be lumped into this as well.
@@chironjo he only took 7 shots and only played 22min. Steph doesnt care about a 10pt streak like Lebron does, nor is steph a stat padder like Lebron James so having 2 points for steph wasnt a big deal he had a HORRIFIC night and he knew that so he took himself out the game. Thats how a superstar gets 2 points in a full game. I hope this helps
@@jonwanjokic 34/18/14 win/lose: he needs help.
Bron 31/13/11 win/lose: omg he is such a stat padder 🙄
Can’t blame Steph though💯in 2016 the league chose not to celebrate a team who did it the right way and rigg it so lebron can win and the warriors said oh hell naw a yo Durant which killed competition for years every team in the NBA knew they didn’t have a chance so they started playing for stats and money
The Europeans try to play everyday even hurt. Its the overpaid Americans of a certain demographic like Embiid, Kawhi, Paul George, and just to name a few that dont play.
There was a Nuggets game where a bunch of players including Jokic were thrown out with ridiculous techs. They asked Jokic about it after the game and he basically said “Thank God this game wasn’t in Serbia because the people would riot if they paid that much money and this is what they got.”
@@mattdeluccia153 Those refs would find out that they need to buy a new car
@ Literally. It’s crazy to see the refs thinking they’re the main characters. I watched the Celtics game the other night and the refs blew the whistle then took like 10 seconds to say WHY they blew it. Coach Mazzulla was pissed and the ref gave 3 techs out for Celtics players complaining. Absolutely ridiculous
@GilArenas
Embiid has probably played through the most injuries in nba history, stop being a clown and try to think before just repeating everything you see on twitter
People don’t point out the undeniable issue existed in NBA. Not worth getting red flag on this…
Most racist league on Earth
Lmao rofl and how do you fix that problem
Them hanging the in season cup banner (Milwaukee aint exempt from this either) instead of focusing on championship banners is gonna be a top 3 moment of the NBAs reason of decline.
I don't think there is the option to not hang it as that would basically be a big F you to the league and no team is gonna do it. There could be fines attached to it as well, i don't know
Instead of in season cup, should do a champions league style competition between euro teams...
I hate that they did it in LA too.
@@mariomillsfiba already has that with the gleague teams but I think its every years
Won’t ever forget my Rockets missing 27 3’s in a winnable game 7 against the Warriors. I also won’t ever forget how worthless Harden really was when it counted in the playoffs. Here’s to him never ever winning a ring 🍻
Greatest video I’ve seen on You tube. Well informed. Insightful, and truth that isn’t be spoken mainstream. Great job.
Jokic is literally the only man that makes me watch the NBA. i am more attracted by european basketball
Giannis to. The Greek Freak
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Luka is the best player. Not Jokic
Agreed. American basketball is really shit nowadays.
@@eaglesrule89 good joke
Adam Sliver KNOWS the views is going down AND STILL NOT DOING EVERYTHING TO SAVE THIS LEAGUE. These players started to not give a fuck about the game but want to have "superstar treatment" this is BS
As long as he gets his monthly pays until his retirement. NBA is just an ATM for this non-basketball player 😂
This shit has been coming for a LONG TIME now. For at least 15 years. The league just sat back and watched it unravel, NOW they are talking about fixes. Its too damn late, unless they want to lock the league out for, probably a full calendar year.
Its a complete crap
@@skap_attackthat would be a great start. The players won’t care unless they get hit hard financially. They’ll probably shorten the season and still struggle to get players to play.
The NBA got politicized. Some of the "stars" aren't very likable or relatable. Ultimately the problem lies at the top. Who signs the guaranteed checks? The NBA just signed an 11 year TV rights deal worth 76 billion. ESPN and ABC will pay 2.6 billion annually versus 1.4 billion for the last deal. Nothing will change. But someone got taken to the cleaners on that deal. I just watch the highlights on RUclips and of course the Skap attack channel!
Adam Silver will go down as maybe the worst sports commissioner of all time.
The NHL commissioner in the 50's/60's is the worst.
Get rid of LeBron. Get rid of flopping and traveling. Get rid of load management. Get rid of guaranteed contracts. Get rid of handing entitled idiots championships and mvps. Get rid of 40 3s a game. Get rid of corrupt refs who don't call the game properly. I could go on but that's a good start.
Players don't want to compete. Audiences don't want to watch. 🤝
Skap always distracting me when I’m at work.
I’m always looking for distractions while at work lol
Real
BRB be in my "office" for 17 minutes rq.
LOL I appreciate all of you guys! 🙏❤
When you've watched more Skap than hours worked in a day lol
Since Kobe left the NBA it hasn’t been the same
Couldn't agree more!
He was the last of that kind. Really does feel like the league died with him.
I legit watched Kobe's last game instead of the Warriors going for their 73rd win against the Grizzlies lol
The NBA died when Kobe retired.
Kobe was the last true genius worth watching.
It's funny, people who watched both almost ALL say Kobe was better.
If it wasn't for LeBalco PAYING ESPN pundits to diminish Kobe/MJ while glazing him every 3 seconds, this current generation wouldnt be so propagandized.
LeBalco is a cancer to the NBA.
@@ludvigwittgenstein6469 11B revenue last season 5x more than 2000 season. colorado kobe needs refs help to win a ring. they even fired a refs because of blatant cheating.
kobe is far from genius he just shoots and bricks it thats why no one really put him in top 5 all time.
The NBA decline started when Kobe retired and no one could fill his shoes..
Couldn't agree more! We lost an alpha competitor and a TRUE ambassador of the sport for the Clown King that came in after him. Historical downgrade. This all should have been expected...
This is what I told everyone. The thing about Kobe was he was able to take the torch handed to him from Mike and keep the game exciting. LeBron's style and skill level was just never on par and it's why he was never actually admired the same way mj and Kobe were. Both of them had style and finesse and competed. They played defense. They didn't try to be friends with everyone in the league the way Lebron does. He's destroyed the league unfortunately. I don't think it can recover because the next generation of players are alive now and emulating this trash. Unless some new alpha on both sides comes along and completely takes over this is pretty much the end of the NBA.
I actually told my friend a decade ago when Kobe retired that the NBA will decline until it's no longer being watched much-kinda like boxing and baseball compared to what they once were. Perhaps this is the nature of sports in general though. They eventually fizzle out to some degree and always have a peak, plateau and dip. I think what wasn't really anticipated though was how quickly the NBA has dipped.
Caitlin Clark proves that drama and excitement brings in fans and that it's not necessarily basketball that's the issue rather it's the NBA and it's players.
Lebron games after Kobe’s retirement and even while he was playing have been some of the most highly rated games in the nba I think he’s filled his shoes quite well but now he’s getting old I think the NBA is struggling to find a new star to elevate
Definitely not in terms of money, when you try to go for mass markets the product gets watered down for appealing to the common denominator. Problem is when you get more money more corporate leaches get attached that have no clue what they are doing, and you end up with commercial break every 2 minutes and Bron embracing himself by yelling 'taco Tuesday' like an idiot.
@@FilipCordas I do agree with the corporatization and another issue we’ve seen is a crazy increase in prices but I don’t get the dig at lebron lol 😂
I was looking at the scores this season and every team scored 100+ points sometimes 130 each. I remember when getting 100 points was a big deal. That proves there is too many 3s with no defense
"I can tell you without fact...I mean with fact the league is more talented..." No, JJ, you had it right the first time.
the league is ass
It got boring once the players started thinking they were more than just entertainers. Suddenly they wanted their ideology shoved down our throats. I love NBA when there were no agendas but now I feel they're trying to convey a message rather than just playing a game. We get that athletes have opinions but Im trying to see someone get dunked on, not how you feel about the social climate.
The truth is basketball players are disconnected to the fans. Inflated wages, half asked attitudes, entitlement and now they believe they have a platform to portray their views and lecture society. Sport is sport and people are sick and tired of all the other noise. From the UK i rather watch the team from inside the NBA talk about basketball than watch a game itself. In no other sport i watch, do i prefer the analysis to the game. As a massive sports fan from UK who watches any sport on TV even lawn bowls and wheelchair curling that is a sad indictment for the NBA. The All Star game is a farce and i haven't watched one of them in over 10 years. Last point the gambling adverts also doesn't help it's annoying especially for me who doesn't gamble and sees the harm gambling causes families.
Most annoying thing is that players are not loyal to their teams
One year the team with the best names is beating everyone, next year the same players are playing for a different team
Like Jordan or Kobe playing 2 season max with every team, who would keep watching to see the Bulls or the Lakers?
Every year the season starts I can't understand anything
The last time things were good was when SC/KT Warriors - LJ/KI Cavs - RW/KD OKC - JH/EG Rockets
Players can shuffle their feet for threes. Threes aren't defended because the offense never gets called for traveling and offensive fouls, so the defense is scared of the drive.
The gambling takeouts are also too big. You don’t even recover your losses when you hit that random parlay.
Inmates running the asylum, no defense, bad ref calls and too much money.
To fix the NBA requires going back to getting players in high school and college team environments and away from AAU situations that focus on individual over team,
Bring back defensive rules of the past like handchecking.
Make the game more difficult and competitive.
The stars will have to try harder to fill up their stat sheet.
They'll be forced to EARN their money.
Fans would love that.
Not mentioned in the video is the impact on competitiveness of having 82 games in the regular season. Fans, as well a players, understand that the only games that really count are in the playoffs. So, how to make each regular season game more consequential? Reduce the number of games substantially, possibly to as low as 62 per season. I can hear people saying: "Ooh, wouldn't that reduce revenues?" Of course it would, but at least players would be incentivized to try harder all the time, meaning that fan interest would rebound. If the NFL regular season had 40 games instead of 17, individual games would seem much less important. (I understand that few players could survive such a long season, but the point is still valid.) Again people might say: "But the league had 82 games per season in the 80s, 90s and the 2000s, and players tried hard then." True, but those were different times, and there's no going back. Shortening the regular season is only one of the changes that would help the NBA become more interesting.
J.J. Reddick just broke the stupid meter.
He’s a pretty good basketball coach
He didn’t just do it. His stupid quota has always been high.
@@001lui He's terrible.
He coaches a team with a VERY high payroll and cant beat the Pistons twice in a season lmaooo.
He sucks.
@@ludvigwittgenstein6469 lol watch the games payroll doesn’t mean much anymore we have guys like Zach lavine on 50million dollar contracts the lakers have limited personnel and somehow found themselves #1 rated in defense in their last 6 games, he’s a pretty good coach
Strong agree. If the players don't care, why should we?
If the players don’t seem to care why would the viewers care?
Thats what I said too
Get rid of LeBron.
Get better Jerseys.
Allow some emotion on the court.
Reel in the refs.
Ditch load management.
Watch viewership and revenue boom.
How tf are jerseys the problem what?
@@D-s_productions😂😂😂
You forgot a few…
Stop scamming people with League Pass
The play reviews that make the game last two hours or more when there’s like 10secs left in the game.
@ the NBA is a business but supposed to be entertaining. When the jerseys suck, people don’t buy them as much. Then merchandise revenue drops and the overall product suffers.
Gil is a fool and LeBron is the biggest part of the problem….Lets take care of this: LeBron retired and Gil shut up
You think they know who you are that your opinion means anything?
Arenas is a complete moron, guarantee he has an iq of like 70
I feel like the viewership dropped off once the league got political.
Yup. Id say that also falls under player empowerment
I stopped watching around 2010. only came back for Jokic and watching him crush all the media narratives has been the only enjoyable part of the NBA for me.
reasons I stopped watching:
1) 2002 game 6 Lakers-Kings and other "questionable" officiating
2) Seattle having their team stolen because a billionaire didn't want to pay for anything (hate OKC to this day and I wasn't even a Sonics fan)
3) Lebum 'taking his talents to south beach' (that was the final straw, and again I wasn't even a Cavs fan and I was neutral on Lebron at that point)
tl;dr NBA killed the spirit of competition. until that spirit is revived, nothing else matters.
Hmmm, you gonna talk about the "questionable" officiating in 1992 Finals or does MJ get a pass? If you think the "questionable" officiating started in 2002 Game 6, then you weren't paying attention.
Also Kobe was BOX OFFICE. If you missed that, then you're not a real hoops fan. MJ is the undisputed GOAT but Kobe was ART and there's a reason Kobe (and Iverson, and occasionally Durant) are the only 3 players MJ seems to respect after he left the game.
Forget stats, Kobe's aesthetics were magical to watch. Kobe made me an NBA fan because his skill level was so advanced (and he DID NOT TRAVEL). It was like he made it harder on purpose JUST to show how talented he was. MJ's true heir.
Seattle getting robbed is a legit point, and I hope OKC NEVER wins anything because of that scumbag Bennett.
LeBalco killed the competitive integrity of the NBA. And they also nixed the CP3 to LA trade "because of competitive integrity" which is such an LOL moment given how LeBron, Wade and Bosh broke the CBA's rules on player collusion.
Guaranteed contracts, unguaranteed motivation
That’s the real problem. Hunger to win just isn’t there like then.
Haphazardly stumbled on your vid, good take. Never knew this “NBA”, or whatever that stands for, was even a thing. A ball going into a net is fascinating. Thank you! 🙏
That 60 point games stat is crazy 🤯🤯
When the NBA got into politics in 2017 when Trump was in office and when your two best players in LeBron and Steph trash him you lose half your audience. How can you ever expect them to come back?
💯
Someone once said "Republicans buy shoes too."
I guess the organization he worked for left that memo behind to time
The NFL got into politics too. You’re just complaining because you don’t like their opinion.
100% Correct. Politics and wokeness has destroyed the NBA. All the other stuff that Skap is talking about is CRAP!
@@dorino9057yup but there’s still competitive in the NFL
Lefraud is the reason the NBA is failing.
Zero respect, competitiveness ,flopping, traveling and the non stop propaganda about king loser being the goat.
1:07 This is what you came for.
I hired a superstar sales guy who made a living off a small allowance and mostly commissions to head my sales force. I gave him a big salary, an even bigger commission %, a car, and made him an executive.
Guess what happened the next six months? He forgot how to sell. And came up with all kinds of excuses to explain why.
The problem is overpaying players and giving them too much before they’ve proven themselves. Spoiled rotten.
Do what I do. Just watch the old Magic, MJ, Shaq and Kobe games. If they want to fix the NBA then the thing they should do is play with FIBA rules. Keep the game at 48 minutes and three point line as it is right now.
That is a great idea. Though it will also ensure LeBron keeps all of his undeserving records.
Facts, if I ever want to watch basketball, I’ll watch Kobe highlights (Mamba Forever). ♾️
@@skap_attack A little bit of sacrifice for the benefit of the game.
@@skap_attackthose records will never make him the GOAT, cause that's more than stats, it's a mentality. So let him have it, I just want real basketball back.
This is kinda dumb. One of the best part of sports is seeing who’s going to win and what’s going to happen.
The heart and soul of the league has died. I don't see it returning until we have a Larry Bird type player. Someone skilled, hard nosed, no BS, and relatable enough to want to watch.
Yeah, the deck is stacked with the same old, tired cards, we need a Joker to make the game exciting once again.
That reminds me of a certain player right now…
He’s saying he needs a white boy to cheer for 😂😂😂
@@SamuelBlackMetalRider Yeah, Jokic.
@@OkieHomie-g5n Exactly lol
Dude I appreciate your videos. You are hitting every point right on the money
Lebron is the biggest CLOWN🤡 in NBA
Some changes I'd like to see.
- Have ref's crack down on travelling, including on step back 3's.
- Bring back hand checking and update rules to encourage defensive.
- Reduce the Max contract amount by 25% if the player is leaving their draft team. If the player is staying with their draft team, then the extra 25% does not count towards the salary cap.
- Make Max contracts 50% guaranteed, 50% tied to the number of games played. The more games players sit out the less they earn.
What if the player is injured for that game? Would they only get 50% of the pay for that game or 100%?
@michaelbme1983 they would have 50% of their contract paid regardless of games played. The other 50% would be paid pro rata for the 82 games of the regular season. It would be to entice players to play more games and not rest. It's effectively a performance incentive. If they are ruled out the entire season due to injury, they still have 50% of their contract guaranteed.
GREAT ideas actually ngl. Those are practical.
Oh and force LeBalco to retire. (no sarcasm, im dead serious).
Keep it coming Skap. This is the type of Christmas present I can appreciate, THE TRUTH in a factual burn!!!
The NBA feels like a parody of itself at this point.
They have devalued 30 point games, 40 point games, 50 point games. look at the amount of 20 pt scorers now compared to say 2005
Its this - if teams throw 40 x 3pt attempts they only need 10 to go in = 30pts. So only need 25% conversion. Where as midrange, dunks, layups they need 15 shots. Thats 5 extra ends and need 50% shooting just to match. Teams all play the same because its the only way to match pace. This aint going away.
The question I have is this: Is this just an issue in the US, or is it worldwide. What is global engagement like?
They only count the viewership for the US, China iirc gets more NBA viewership then the US but they only track US
Watching Jokic carry the Nuggs & Skap’s commentary are the only worthwhile things about the NbA.
Lol Jokic was the Main reason Nuggets were down the whole game he's a Walking Cone on Defense nobody sees him as a threat when they take it to the paint , Murray Sent The Game to OT Btw n yall stil wanna trade him
🤡 @@jugg7621
@@jugg7621 it’s true he is utterly abysmal on defence if anybody see’s him in there it’s like an open ticket to the lane.
@@jugg7621one good game wow. Murray was ass the whole season so far
I feel like Basketball got worse when Kobe retired. 2016 was the best year and every year it’s gotten so much worse
FACTS. Even when Kobe was COMPLETELY washed, he still captivated. The league has been on a slow descent to crap ever since he AND his era of players left.
For Real. Never forget Kobe’s final game - 60 POINTS! That’s a farewell performance that’ll never be topped.
Agreed, that felt like the convergence of the eras, led by a competent, organic, and entertaining three-point shooting team that actually played defense in the Warriors. Silver's tenure started off so easy for him those first two years; it's been a steep downhill slide since 2016
100% FACTS. I stopped watching after Kobe retired.
Nobody has come close to his skill level. NOBODY.
It’s not about the skill, but his generation of players all retired around the same time and the new generation got softer and don’t want to compete
Remember when Larry Bird said "leave the game how you found it" yeah well LeBron obviously didnt hear that. Or Steph
the lack of defense is definitely the #1 reason it's not fun to watch. and the frequency of fouls called is insane. too many stoppages.
While I agree on the fouls I think the lack of defense is an overplayed idea a lot of the teams in the nba play great aggressive defense like the Thunder bucks and even recently the lakers
@001lui naw...real defense hasn't been played in decades. freedom of movement is garbage. the over inflated scoring is a result of the lack of defense.
@ I don’t think it’s a result of the lack of defense I think the 3pt evolution and players getting better on top of rule changes all contributed to the explosion of scoring I’ve had the pleasure of watching a few full games and see lots of great defense with great defenders like ad, and even up and comers like Dyson Daniels
@@001luinah man…. it’s the defense. The NBA has incentivized scoring, and an increase in pace. . . because they know that their core audience (younger millennials and gen z) have shorter attention spans. And they don’t really appreciate defense and fundamentals
The three is not the issue, it's hand checking. You watch games in the 90s and 2000s you got big strong athletic defenders like mike, clyde, scottie, bruce bowen, meta that are allowed to not only put theirs hands on you but literally push you around and steer you. There were great shooters in that era...certainly many that would've been better than steph...but you just cant get to spots or even get your feet set if people are allowed to push you. That's why you needed high percentage shots like the midrange and to be able to bang inside.
Well said. Also 90% of the high skilled "stepbacks" are travels.
Nailed it.
Fully agree.
not that much hand checking wasn't the only thing. Giving dumb fouls to stars is also a big issue because the refs just let star's get away with a lot to boost the stats. Impeding offensive movement rule change had bigger effect on scoring then the hand check rule.
@@alanlee67 🤣🤣🤣 no one back then would’ve been better than Steph bud and Michael Jordan was an average defender with inflated steal stats
@@001lui You must be born after 2000.
MJ > LeBalco
Kobe > LeBalco
at least 9 more names > LeBalco
As a once big basketball fan.
Biggest problems in my eyes:
Ticket prices
No physicality
Stars sitting 20 plus games a season
Tv contracts no longer on local broadcast
Euro step and traveling
NBA could renegotiate to empower the owners - and if the players don't like it, they can walk away - owners can hire players who actually want to compete. The Players Association Union can take a hike.
We need a lockout to teach the players a lesson then
The owners don't want to hire players that compete. The league is turning record profits, so they're not going to lift a finger to change anything.
the rules will change as soon as Bron retires and no one will catch all his padded stats
Bruh when jokic pad his stats y’all say he needs help but when Bron does y’all say he’s such a stat padder 😂😂
@@thefunguy5069 How many ALL STARS has Jokic played with?
How many ALL STARS has LeBalco played with?
I rest my case your honor.
@@ludvigwittgenstein6469 LeBalco? Grown man calling names you insufferable, how many all star prime Westbrook had?