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Annnnnnnddddd your point is?
ABC record rating for game 1:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ba...8351--nba.html
Interesting excerpt:
They forgot to mention Spurs/Cleveland which was the record low (beating out Spurs/Nets and Spurs/Pistons) but no matter. In one game OKC proved that in this day of global media, local market sizes have nothing to do with national interest.Several of the NBA Finals matchups during that time haven't been great for ratings — Spurs/Nets in 2003 and Spurs/Pistons in 2005, to name two — but there were also two Lakers/Celtics matchups, the sort of marquee matchup typically identified as the ideal for the NBA and its TV partners. For a matchup between Miami (16th-biggest market as of 2010) and Oklahoma City (44th-biggest market) to do this well says a lot about the stature of the NBA in this moment.
Annnnnnnddddd your point is?
taking quotes out of context is awesome.
Ummm...what?
hmm Spurs notorious "boring" small market team ....
Thunder nationally not considered boring...
remind me of who is on Heat roster again...
That Spurs have been in denial for a freaking decade.
Not the spurs fault networks decided not to market them and label them boring. Then when spurs were in finals surprise surprise nobody watched them.
The only Spurs fans who care about national TV ratings are the ones with an inferiority complex. Who gives a what everyone else thinks when your team has won 4 les and is still winning?
So you are right it isn't a small market thing. It's about spinning your product in a good light and marketing it so people will buy into it.
Also, the answer is media promotion. The NBA and the national media choose who they want to promote and market as the faces of the league, and two of the biggest fish in the pond are KD and LeBron. It shouldn't be a surprise that exciting superstars draw the best ratings, although exciting has nothing to do with winning.
Exactly.
Market sizes mean nothing. Exciting teams and players do.
It'll be exciting to see lebr
Good post, OP
The Thunder have exciting, transcendent players, as do the Heat.
Yeah, the Spurs broke the record year after year for lowest ratings because the league didnt promote it well enough.
LebrOn fail 3rd time in f
Lebron James.
The same guy the Spurs faced in 2007 when they broke the record for lowest rated finals of all time.
Stupid iPhone
That, and the fact that they're boring to everyone else except for Spurs fans. Make no mistake, the rating for the Finals would've been much higher if the 7 seconds or less Suns could make it past the Spurs into the Finals...but they didn't
Yeah, the Spurs broke the record year after year for lowest ratings because the league didnt promote it well enough.
I honestly couldn't give a about national TV ratings, just look at the rings
Exactly because ABC (host of the finals) affiliate ESPN doesn't mention the Spurs even though they have 4 Championships and a large group of International players. If only the league would realize such, they could have marketed the Spurs on a global scale.
Yeah, the Spurs broke the record year after year for lowest ratings because the league didnt promote it well enough.
What are the spurs in denial of?
It's the media that created the narrative that the Spurs were boring based on the personality of Tim Duncan. Because he doesn't talk or scream after every dunk he's not marketable. Take a few weeks ago the article on the front page talking about the Spurs winning it this year with "...Yawn" after it. I'd rather have rings than ratings though.
...and beating your asses, gladly.
Nonsense.
The Spurs have consistently gotten 20+ national tv spots every season on TNT and ESPN for the past decade.
You honestly think people dont watch because they dont KNOW about the Spurs?
The league didnt promote Lebrons first trip to the finals back in 07? I seem to remember differently.
Didn't realize Spurs faced the "Not 1 Not 2 Not 3 Not 4 Not 5 Not 6 Not 7... les; post decision; post 3 time MVP" LeBron James back in '07
Pretty sure Duncan created that narrative on his own.
Dont believe me?
I CHALLENGE you to find me your favorite Tim Duncan highlight. Find a REALLY good one and then pretend youre not a Spurs fan and watch it again.
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