I don't understand why. But Utah is a fun team to watch, with a solid inside-outside game, and they play intense. All the things you need for entertaining basketball. Oh, and the Spurs are good too:
False. You can even see hockey on TV.
I saw women's lacrosse on tv for chrissakes.
I remember in the 80's they would even blackout the road games on national Tv.
Is a Cleveland fan really posting things about ratings.
Please go watch your game 5 vs. Jersey.
The issue is seeing it consistently, and at good times. Sure, they would be available somewhere (internet) but probably for pay (bad), and probably not at times that are conducive to watching those said games.
Not low enough. Come on, Casualfan, you can do better than that! I want NHL-bad ratings!
Disney shot itself in the foot on this one. They spend the last series trashing San Antonio on ESPN as "boring" and "dirty." Meanwhile they ignore Utah for the entire season. So you've got a team that's been wrongly painted as boring and another that no one knows anything about because they were ignored. What did you expect, Disney?
Nah, it would at least be on the vs. channel.
sure thing buddy
I think next year the league should skip the playoffs and just have fans vote on which two teams should play for the le. That way, the best interest of the fans -- so often cited during the suspension talk surrounding Suns-Spurs -- would be satisfied while ensuring that the networks don't have to apologize to their viewers about not being able to show bright shiny objects and, instead, having to show two excellent basketball teams play games of huge significance.
I understand why ratings are important, but I don't understand the willingess by some to suggest that low ratings makes a team an unworthy participant in late round games.
Just further proof that this country is chock full of mindless drones. This shouldn't be too surprising when over half of the country tunes in to watch someone dance with Mario Lopez.
So basically, what they are saying is that mainstream America doesn't know about good basketball. Basically they don't mind getting a turd for christmas as long as it comes in bright, shiny packaging!
We get the trophy even if no one watches, right?
I mean Slater
That's only US viewers, remember to add the global viewers . With the Spurs and Jazz that will add quite a few.
the average american TV watcher likes to watch Nascar. yes, they enjoy watching cars go around in a circle, over and over and over.
and I agree Cavs vs. Nets series was the ugliest piece of trash series in years.
That can't POSSIBLY be true...they have LeBron James!!! The savior of the NBA!
It would actually be funny if the Cav's miraculously scraped by Detroit and they got Spurs/Cavs in the finals...
I don't know why ANY mention by sports writers is made of the RATINGS that a certain series gets. So what if the Jazz-Spurs WCF is the lowest rated WCF in history? The NBA playoffs aren't here to tell us which team draws the highest television ratings, the NBA playoffs award the BEST TEAM in the NBA at PLAYING THE GAME, not the best team at drawing ratings.
So the fact that idiot writers have to insult the NBA, insult hard-working teams like San Antonio and Utah and their fans by writing pointless articles about how many ratings points team are drawing or are failing to draw just shows how much people care about real basketball these days.
The fact is that the Spurs and Jazz couldn't give a about how many people watch their series on at TV. They're after that trophy.
It's the same usual scenario every year: A certain team(s) gets hyped as the "best in the NBA and favorite to win" (Lakers in 03 and 04, Pistons/Mavericks in 06 and Mavericks/Suns in 07), that team doesn't make it, and the teams that do make it get credit taken away by sports writers talking about how it's the lowest NBA Finals or such in 20 years. Bull .
Hey, atleast the Conference Finals in the East has LeBron. He's the next Michael Jordan, right?
The Cavs have probably the worst offensive execution in the history of the ECF.
Give LBJ the ball and everybody else spread the floor and get out of the goddamn way.
But you probably didn't notice since you've been drinking the LBJ coolaid that the league's been pimpin' all this time.
I don't give a what the TV ratings are...I'm not an advertiser...I just want that trophy!
We are dealing with people who are more interested in that piece-o-crap paris hilton going to jail. That is the attention span of a "casual fan"
The comment about the team colors is stupid. Black and Silver are a powerful colors. gay ass orange?
Spurs better win the le this year cause we probably won't see it again if ABC has their way.
But these numbers are misleading, as the NBA numbers as a whole have been on the decline for quite some time.
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