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[The 24th Letter]

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NBA App finally dropping some more content with every 90’s Finals game added

[ojandpizza]

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NBA App finally dropping some more content with every 90’s Finals game added

I’ve went down the rabbit hole and rewatched nearly all these a few years back (yes I’m a nerd lol) but will definitely be checking most of these out again.

I always like watching full games. Gives a completely different perspective on memory/highlights/what you read online and hear from old heads. Especially me being so young for a lot of these.

Wish they would get more content from the pre-80s years.

[MrDubya]

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I’ve went down the rabbit hole and rewatched nearly all these a few years back (yes I’m a nerd lol) but will definitely be checking most of these out again.

I always like watching full games. Gives a completely different perspective on memory/highlights/what you read online and hear from old heads. Especially me being so young for a lot of these.

Wish they would get more content from the pre-80s years.

I do too. I’m fortunate to have a lot of my dad’s old VHS and Betamax tapes though, so I can watch a lot of the older games he had at least. It’s weird looking back and seeing the commercials, especially for the cars being “new” at the time. lol

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Seems like yesterday when we used to have endless discussions about Wade, Dirk and Gasol on here and now they’re entering the HOF. We getting old, people.

[georgiafan]

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The NBA has a major ratings problem as the women's NCAA game between Iowa and Louisville was higher then any NBA game this season.

Also the 1st round of the NCAA men's tournament was 2.5 times higher than the early playoffs rounds last year (9.3 million vs 2.7 million.

[bigeastbumrush]

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The NBA has a major ratings problem as the women's NCAA game between Iowa and Louisville was higher then any NBA game this season.

Also the 1st round of the NCAA men's tournament was 2.5 times higher than the early playoffs rounds last year (9.3 million vs 2.7 million.

Because of gambling, these March Madness games are going to bring in more viewers.

But that women’s game should be an eye opener.

The NBA season is just way too long. The games don’t mean much and teams really aren’t fighting for home court advantage like they used to. They’re just trying to survive healthy.

I can’t remember the last NBA game I sat through start to finish.

I expect baseball viewership to go up with the new pitch clock.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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NBA been having viewership issues for a minute.

At this point I’m not sure what else they can do. I’m sure they’ll receive a slight bump once playoffs start

[illwill10]

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Because of gambling, these March Madness games are going to bring in more viewers.

But that women’s game should be an eye opener.

The NBA season is just way too long. The games don’t mean much and teams really aren’t fighting for home court advantage like they used to. They’re just trying to survive healthy.

I can’t remember the last NBA game I sat through start to finish.

I expect baseball viewership to go up with the new pitch clock.

I try to watch as many games as I can of my team. But with as long as the season is, I am quick to skip a game. I'm not staying up for a west coast game or the games that start 9:30p Eastern or later, even the big matchups. I wouldn't consider my self a hardcore fan, where I'm not watching any game that is on. If it's not the team I'm rooting for or a playoff game, I'm not watching other teams play.

Not much else they can do. Games are relatively short(outside of Free Throw fests) and there is enough star talent and scoring to attract casual fans. The NBA is just a long season. I do agree that since much of the focus is on playoffs, that it diminishes the regular season. At the end of the day, people are willing to not watch marquee games in November-March. Even now, seeding isn't as important as just getting to the playoffs healthy. If anything it is just matchups that can decide regular season awards

[J_Posse]

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I'd love to know the viewership numbers outside the US and the game's popularity overall (overseas). I think people hyperfocus too much on US viewership - yes, it matters with the massive TV deals but that is an NBA + TNT + ESPN/ABC problem - forgetting that the NBA is a global entity/brand.

Can they do better viewership-wise? Yes, but that probably has a lot of factors of why viewership is "down" year-to-year (or whatever is being stated).

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[DamnYanks2]

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Sometimes it's not worth watching NBA games till about the 4th Q. It's gotten harder for me to watch full games honestly. Because of the lazy defense. Guys just trading baskets. Wide open guys in the corners, Stars sitting out. I get it.






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[ojandpizza]

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Can they do better viewership-wise? Yes, but that probably has a lot of factors of why viewership is "down" year-to-year (or whatever is being stated).

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A lot of this is the article and how it's written too. I think viewership is actually up some this year, but even in that example given Iowa/Louisville game I think that is only referring to just ESPN games. And this was record audience at like 2. whatever million, NBA had a finals games of over 12 million last year.

[georgiafan]

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A major problem with NBA is the length of the games and the 20+ minutes a game thats spent at the free throw line. When I watch the hawks, I always record it so I can skip the FT's and commercials. The obvious move is to make 1 FT count as 2 and help speed up the game.

[illwill10]

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Sometimes it's not worth watching NBA games till about the 4th Q. It's gotten harder for me to watch full games honestly. Because of the lazy defense. Guys just trading baskets. Wide open guys in the corners, Stars sittimg out. I get it.






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Plus the embrace of foul baiting/flopping. It's been around for a long time. But it gets old seeing these star players try to make offense out of drawing fouls. Because of that, we see so much bad/sloppy basketball because guys are trying to draw fouls instead of execution. It gets frustrating seeing so many wasted possessions, especially at the end of games, because players are going for fouls. Then you see players throwing fits because they aren't getting foul calls on every single drive. Which leads to poor transition defense.

As a Sixers fan, I see this every game lol. When Harden got there last year, his entire offense was driving to draw fouls or stepback threes. At least this season, he incorporated the occasional mid range shot. Then, I'm not really trying to see Embiid get 8-15 FTs a night lol. It feels like he gets at least 2-3 turnovers a night because he's trying to draw fouls

[Master Live 013]

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Or or or, they could call less fouls. Like they did for about 5 seconds at the beginning of last season.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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We already know the sport is global, that’s nothing new.


Ratings are constantly going down for their bigger games(aka Finals)every year, during a time where they’re not competing against anyone else. Hell, they had the perfect matchup last year and they still weren’t nothing to brag about.

The issue is that how is it that they’re are a global sport(behind Soccer obviously)yet domestically, it struggles to maintain eyeballs throughout the year. A big part of that is how the league markets it’s product but that’s already been discussed plenty of times with how good of a job they’ve done(not that great).

But I guess as long as they’re trending on Twitter, getting likes RTs.