CBA/Lockout Discussion Thread

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Nobody wants to watch them right now, but there was a time when they were fun to watch

So essentially im saying you dont have to be LA or NY to be watchable on Christmas Day but obviously the NBA doesnt feel that way and for some reason they only push who they want to

They have a golden opp to get people more interested in Memphis but will they?

Why couldnt they have a Memphis OKC game on that day? Id rather watch those guys scratch and claw at eachother than watch Kobe ignore Mike Brown for 4 qtrs

[Jasong7777]

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Winning teams get tv exposure. Nobody wants to see two scrub teams on tv, let alone Christmas Day.

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Both of those teams advanced farther than LA did this past year and the games were much more exciting at that

I guess you werent around when they were playing into those OT's

Thats the problem, they arent scrub teams but its definitely something the NBA has put into the fans heads

[Jasong7777]

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I would watch OKC and Memphis because those are two good teams.

[da ThRONe]

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Nobody wants to watch them right now, but there was a time when they were fun to watch

So essentially im saying you dont have to be LA or NY to be watchable on Christmas Day but obviously the NBA doesnt feel that way and for some reason they only push who they want to

They have a golden opp to get people more interested in Memphis but will they?

Why couldnt they have a Memphis OKC game on that day? Id rather watch those guys scratch and claw at eachother than watch Kobe ignore Mike Brown for 4 qtrs

Hopefully we get this hard cap and all those teams are awful @Christmas. Clearly I'm different from your casual fan I want to see as much of the league as possible, but if you don't have league pass basketball makes it damn near impossible to see the Kevin Love, Rudy Gay, Danny Granger of the NBA.

[Jasong7777]

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A well run NBA team will win no matter if its a hard, soft, or fitted cap. Lol, it doesn't matter.

[da ThRONe]

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A well run NBA team will win no matter if its a hard, soft, or fitted cap. Lol, it doesn't matter.

Seriously?

When you have some teams spending twice as much as some other teams and it doesn't matter? Really?

When a players can be on tv all the time, get paid more, and live in a big city ofcourse they will have an advantage. You take the money out of that equation and then talk to me about being well ran.

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I would watch OKC and Memphis because those are two good teams.

but the nba would rather put on LA not because theyre good, its because theyre LA

Didnt Smush Parker get face time on Christmas a few years back? Yeah thats exactly what I mean

[Jasong7777]

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I guess we'll see then. I don't think having a hard cap will make a world of difference.

[The 24th Letter]

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we will see indeed, its a hard cap, not a fantasy draft.....I dont think the changes will be AS drastic as suggested...

[Drewski]

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but the nba would rather put on LA not because theyre good, its because theyre LA

Didnt Smush Parker get face time on Christmas a few years back? Yeah thats exactly what I mean

LoL, gotta love Smush Parker.

PS As a Lakers fan, them losing every Xmas severly hurts my holiday spirits. I'd be happy to have LA bow out of XMas day games. Always thought it was funny how the NBA milked the hell out of blasting LA every xmas, whether it was Kobe/Shaq or Kobe/Bron.

[yankeesgiants]

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Nobody wants to watch them right now, but there was a time when they were fun to watch

So essentially im saying you dont have to be LA or NY to be watchable on Christmas Day but obviously the NBA doesnt feel that way and for some reason they only push who they want to

They have a golden opp to get people more interested in Memphis but will they?

Why couldnt they have a Memphis OKC game on that day? Id rather watch those guys scratch and claw at eachother than watch Kobe ignore Mike Brown for 4 qtrs

The networks demand higher ad rates for larger markets. A 0-10 Lakers team will command a higher ad rate than a 10-0 Grizzlies team. Winning & losing has little to do with it. The networks not the NBA set the national TV schedule. Why? Because ABC/ESPN has a 485M investment and TNT has a 445M investment annually. They want to recoop that money, the best way to do that is to show large markets teams the majority of the time.

[Drewski]

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The networks demand higher ad rates for larger markets. A 0-10 Lakers team will command a higher ad rate than a 10-0 Grizzlies team. Winning & losing has little to do with it. The networks not the NBA set the national TV schedule. Why? Because ABC/ESPN has a 485M investment and TNT has a 445M investment annually. They want to recoop that money, the best way to do that is to show large markets teams the majority of the time.

Right, but the mindset of these "small" market teams not being able to hold over and audience is generated by the marketting strategy of the NBA, which caters to letting the rich get richer while the poor get thanked for spicing up the playoffs (Grizzles, Thunder for example), yet don't get the full marketting any team selling in the top 5 of jersey sales gets. I'll say that Stern pushed the OKC Durant's a bit this year, but even then.

[da ThRONe]

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Right, but the mindset of these "small" market teams not being able to hold over and audience is generated by the marketting strategy of the NBA, which caters to letting the rich get richer while the poor get thanked for spicing up the playoffs (Grizzles, Thunder for example), yet don't get the full marketting any team selling in the top 5 of jersey sales gets. I'll say that Stern pushed the OKC Durant's a bit this year, but even then.

This is what we're been saying all along. You can't say all the people want is big market teams when the rules are set up in the favor of big market teams.

[Drewski]

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This is what we're saying all along. You can't say all the people want is big market teams when the rules are set up in the favor of big market teams.

I know I been agreein most the way through lol, opinions here in regards to that situation generally all seem to be close to the same page and well thought out. Just responding to that specific post.