Who cares
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nba-c...or-next-season
Take that pop !
LOL. If Pop is really committed to his beliefs, he'll quit in protest of Silver's decision.
So i guess they saw the ratings eh? lol
If it really bothers you that much you issues
it's long since been established that ducks has issues.
Not much of a story here. I will only be back if Forbes and Marco are gone or limited to 12 man status. Can't suffer through another season of their crap basketball.
lol maybe the nba should have a commissioner that actually looks like he's played bball before. this goon ain't nothing more than a lawyer.
Strange how nba missed so badly “reading the room”
I mean, was this supposed to be a permanent thing? I think if it were, it'd be even less effective than it already was. My guess is that the NBA wants to go back to normal next season. No bubble, regular jerseys, what not. Conservatives keep overestimating their power to change services they don't typically use. The NBA isn't hurting because random dudes like ducks aren't watching (or rather are watching but crying about it). It's crazy that the same folks ing about "cancel culture" have no issue trying to cancel or celebrating the perceived cancellation of things they don't like.
If you went to HEB to get your groceries and their employees kept giving you lectures on political matters, you'd likely tell them to **** off and just shop elsewhere. And rightfully so because you don't go there for that.
No different with sports. We watch it to be entertained, not to be lectured by spoiled athletes.
Lastly, many of us on the conservative side very much agree that some police reform should take place. Black lives matter - no sh1t, Sherlock, every decent human agrees with that. We don't need lectures on it in any form or fashion.
Who cares im not watching the finals cause the lakers are boring and Miami doesn’t have what it takes, they’re a cinderella team and it just struck midnight.
Anyone who thinks China is leftist is a ing idiot. I can agree to disagree with conservatives civilly. I can even caucus with them on things. But anarchy is leftist. Totalitarianism is far right. Know the ing difference and stop saying stupid .
Oh horse . Silver said himself: “And I understand those people who are saying ‘I’m on your side, but I want to watch a basketball game.’”
It's a response to people who aren't watching because they don't want politics blended into their sports. You're right... the NBA isn't hurting because "random dudes" aren't watching. They're hurting because "Game 1 of the NBA Finals saw only 7.1 million viewers, which is the lowest figure for any Finals Game 1 this century."
"Dudes" Hold onto those platform shoes, Barbarino. Disco will be back any day now.
That's because you have the historical perspective of a goldfish. The term started in France, and it wasn't about anarchy, it was about revolution. (Not all revolutions are anarchist.) Later the Bolsheviks fell in love with the French Revolution and wanted to take the left wing's ideology to the next level. So "left wing" became associated with socialist/communist revolution. Words and ideas evolve. ing troglodytes like you don't.
The irony of you telling someone else to stop saying stupid is almost too much.
Most of these idiots don't know what communism is. It's just a defense word they will use when they disagree with any social or economic policy that the left supports.
You think you're countering my point, but you're reinforcing it. China isn't meaningfully communist, which is why they aren't leftist. Basically for it's whole existence it's been a far right ethnostate which practiced aggressive ethnic cleansing and a strong central authority (or authorities when talking about the various civil wars).
I bet you also think the DRC is also leftist because they have the word "Democratic" in their name.
I'm not going to go in on the point of BLM (the phrase, not the movement) or police reform in this thread. That wasn't my point. My point was that the folks who are triggered enough by the "lecturing" aren't enough to meaningfully affect the NBA's bottom line. That's even more true because many of the most vocal nay-sayers still watch the games. The NBA's emphasis on BLM was always going to be temporary. If it's just part of the games from now on, people will tune it out like breast cancer and the NFL.
Did you look at the NHL ratings? My guess is no, because you're stuck on this ty narrative that the NBA's social message explains a meaningful part of their decline in ratings.
Like I've said many times over... they wore out their welcome by a mile!!!!! In a tiny way it really isn't the players fault. They have ZERO business in politics. Players are pro's at hoops while these old ass DC folks are pro's at politics. STAY IN YOUR LANE! How quickly they forget what Stern pulled them out of. But that's what happens when the "oppressed" get their time in the spotlight... they overdo it and in the end become as ty as what they supposedly were fighting against! NBA may have just ed themselves. I'll still watch like the core fans watched in the 80's and early 90's. The casual fan, the paying fan is OUT!
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Yeah.. their ty rules of soft-ass defense and the emphasis on the 3-ball has a role. But largely it's this bull BLM stuff and these players faking their assess off by pretending to be just an average, everyday guy.
BTW the NHL still sucks and their popularity has steadily and consistency been compared to other sports.
NHL and MLB have both struggled this year in comparison to previous years. It's not just an NBA problem. It's not largely to due with BLM or anything like that. That's because the die-hard conservative NBA fan -- which is already a rare thing anyway -- didn't stop watching the games behind this. They, like their more liberal counterparts, either watched or didn't based on a lot of factors that had nothing to do with politics. The decline in cable ownership, the weird schedule for most of the bubble, and the basic depression hanging over the country right now were much bigger factors.
Personally, I only watch the NBA while the Spurs are playing. I agree with a BLM message, but that isn't nearly enough to get me to care about basketball after the Spurs are eliminated. My guess is it's basically the same for my conservative counterparts. They might have different lines that me, but I doubt any but a handful of posters here would not still be watching the games if the Spurs were in the Finals, BLM/SJW slogans or no.
War is being waged through the internet net waves that we can not see. How will we make our enemies come out so we can vanquish them is the real question.
If we are being honest all of sports are dead outside of the NFL. NBA,MLB,NHL,PGA,Nascar all have had terrible ratings.
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