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If the was a championship for hype, Cleveland would be on a 4 year championship run.
And remind me again exactly what has the city of Cleveland ever won? Well I guess if there was a championship for water catching fire, you would win that.try to repeat for once then you can talk about 4-peats
If the was a championship for hype, Cleveland would be on a 4 year championship run.
And yet all those teams are done and we are still playing what does that say about their brand of exciting basketball.
Its for losers
According to your chart people don't want to watch the Heat and Mavs either. Essentially same ratings as the Spurs and Pistons.
She's just tired of the spurs being a dominant team. What can we say...........I guess the whole world would be watching if the Kings ever made the Finals huh.
I imagine if they held Jordan to 4-16 shooting and 6 turnovers, that would indeed be a real buzzkill for the bandwagon fans.
it's probably being watched worldwide in record #'s. My friend in Paris says people are waking up at 3am to watch the finals.
Let morons and es boycott the finals all they want! Does it change the fact that the Spurs are going to win the le?
No.
Do you think any player on the Spurs really gives a about ratings?
No.
And I still haven't seen anything about why, even with "the king" in the finals, it was still a ratings flop. If he is so great and such a draw, and if the Spurs are so bad and boring and evil, then why aren't people watching in droves to root for their new baby boy and root against the Spurs?
Anyone? Anyone?
When the Cleveland "give the ball to Lebrons" win ANYTHING back to back, then you can talk, .
WHY THE AREN'T PEOPLE WATCHING YOUR BOY HEAD????????
unless you're abc executives, who cares about nba finals ratings?
if kings fans find the spurs boring, who cares? we're in the finals. they're bad and getting worse.
Try to win anything more than once every 50 ING YEARS YOU ING DOLT.try to repeat for once then you can talk about 4-peats
Fillmoe got the internet going nuts!
Cleveland and Sacramento, major media markets.
Sacramento must be speaking from experience from the finals
oops......
Obviously the Jazz had a lot to do with that. Apparently America is not buying James as the next Jordan. Based on what the Spurs did to him in Game 1, I can't say I disagree.1997 BULLS VS JAZZ 16.8
1998 BULLS VS JAZZ 18.7
Before I forget, I'll take 3 "boring" les and being 3 wins from another boring one anytime. Certainly beats not making the playoffs and having to look back to the 1887-88 Rochester Royals as your only championship team.
we are boring ... so f...k that TV
ratings are down because everyone knows spurs are going to win... duh
west>least
http://www.nba.com/global/finals2007_itv_070607.html
-The Finals Will Reach Fans in 205 Countries and Territories in 46 languages-
NEW YORK, June 6, 2007 - When the San Antonio Spurs tip off against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday, June 7, a record 128 television broadcasters, will provide coverage of the 2007 NBA Finals for a growing NBA fan base around the world. This breaks last year's record of 112 telecasters. Overall, fans in 205 countries and territories will be watching in 46 languages.
Also, more than 250 international media from 23 countries and territories will converge in San Antonio and Cleveland to bring the action back to fans around the world. There will be 36 television and radio networks and websites on-site including 20 who will be in commentary positions.
For the first time a TV station from the Middle East (ART - based in Jordan) is sending a commentary team to cover the NBA Finals live in Arabic for NBA fans throughout the Middle East. Other NBA television partners coming on-site to provide live coverage for the first time are from Albania (Telesport), Argentina (Canal 7), Bosnia (OBN) and Brazil (TV Esporte Interativo).
"The NBA Finals is no longer just an American event, it is worldwide. We at Arab Radio and Television (ART) are very excited to bring the NBA to our neck of the woods,” said Mustapha Tell, ART Head of Sports. “While we have been showing NBA games on ART for years, this year for the first time we are attending the game and are right in the middle of it all and can share that excitement with our viewers.”
"OBN TV is broadcasting The Finals live and Bosnian fans are thrilled to have the opportunity to watch the best basketball league in the world on their TV screens,” said Mirza Vilic, Executive Director, OBN TV, Bosnia. "The NBA Finals promises to be very exciting and OBN is proud to broadcast all seven games live, in addition to being on-site at The Finals for the first time.”
A record nine international players will be competing in The Finals and there will be television coverage in all of the players home countries. The San Antonio Spurs have six international players: Tim Duncan (U.S. Virgin Islands), Francisco Elson (Netherlands), Manu Ginobili (Argentina), Fabricio Oberto (Argentina), Tony Parker (France) and Beno Udrih (Slovenia). The Cleveland Cavaliers have three international players: Zydrunas Ilgauskas (Lithuania), Aleksandar Pavlovic (Montenegro) and Anderson Varejo (Brazil).
Eleven international NBA television shows will shoot behind the scenes at The Finals, up from five last year, including Hoopark (China, CCTV), NBA Lin Ju Li (China, GDTV-Guangdong), NBA Zhi Zao (China, 32 telecasters), NBA Magazine (NHK, Japan), NBA Jam (RPN, Philippines), Basketball Tonight (ESPN Star Sports Taiwan, Pan Asia), NBA Time and American Dream (Canal+, France), Espanoles NBA (Canal+ Spain) and NBA Timeout (US, AZN Television). NBA.com/China will also be on-site to capture video for daily videoblogs.
NBA team rosters featured a record 85 international players, approximately 20% of the NBA, from 37 countries and territories at the end of the 2006-07 season. When the 2007 NBA Playoffs tipped-off, a record 60 international players from 28 countries and territories were on Playoff rosters.
Along with recent MVP winners such as Dallas’ Dirk Nowitzki (Germany), Phoenix’s Steve Nash (Canada) and San Antonio's Duncan, players such as, Chicago’s Andres Nocioni (Argentina) and Luol Deng (England), Cleveland’s Anderson Varejao (Brazil) and Aleksandar “Sasha” Pavlovic (Montenegro) and Sixth Man of the Year Leandro Barbosa (Brazil) made significant contributions during the Playoffs and helped make this a coming out year for a number of international players.
NBA.com continues to reach more fans around the world than ever. Among English language sports league Web sites, NBA.com draws the greatest number of users outside the United States with more than 50% of traffic to the site coming from outside the U.S. The Finals will be no different as NBA fans can log on to NBA.com and listen to live audio of the games in 15 languages: English, Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Mandarin, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Tagalog.
The NBA was the first U.S. professional sports league to offer live, language specific web casts internationally. In the NBA’s continued quest to utilize technology to reach NBA fans through new media platforms, The Finals will be available via live web casts to fans in Brazil in Portuguese, courtesy of NBA partner Globo.com. The NBA Finals will also be available on a live streaming basis to 20 international markets via NBA.com/broadband.
^^^^ NICE!! ratings may be down with the casual re ed so called fans in the US but the NBA is making up for it nicely around the world.
Legitimate, so the Spurs are a bad team. America does not want to see the golden boy tested in this finals. The Spurs being seen as bad guys was suppossed to help the ratings because Lebron was in the role as savior and America would be cheering him on all the way. The idea that this is not about Lebron is laughable. You can't promote him as this beloved player and then when he is in the finals ignore that the ratings are bad. in 1996 MJ could have played the finals against a JV girls basketball team at 3 AM and the ratings would have been better than what they did in game 1.
I think a reason the American public at large isn't tuning in, besides the lack of a team from a major media market, is that the American public is largely ignorant of the game. It takes a transcendent star(s) from a major media market to pull in the public (which, let's not forget, is the same public that tunes in droves to American Idol and other crap). It's no surprise that the Finals in the last 10 to 15 years that garnered the largest shares featured a Magic, Jordan, Bird, or a combo of Shaq and Kobe.
Also, the league in general has lost some of what it used to be in the 80s. Just look at the following:
The league has to compete with a lot more in the way of entertainment nowadays. 500 or so channels on cable plus the internets. Gone are the days of just 3 major networks with 3 major professional sports leagues. Anyways, take a look at the ratings for last year's Finals:1988 LAKERS VS PISTONS 15.4
1989 PISTONS VS LAKERS 15.1
2004 PISTONS VS LAKERS 11.5
Two new teams to the Finals, one with arguably the most dominant bigman of the era and the other with a flashy high scoring team from a large market. Another way to look at it is you move Shaq out of LA and team him with a relative unknown guard like Wade instead of Bryant and you have a 30% or so drop in the ratings.2006 HEAT VS MAVERICKS 8.5
In any event, I'll leave it to the goobers of middle America to disparage the game based on popularity while I watch my favorite team march to yet another championship.
Plus America is losing interest in basketball.
NFL is where people's passion is nowadays.
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