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what piece of crap , one sided non journalistic crap is that?
Sounded like Mark Cuban.
Spurs play basketball the way basketball should be played.
People are just envious that their team doesnt play like the spurs.
a piece of sht!!!!
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The San Antonio Spurs must be considered a historically great team; after all, they have won four les in nine years. And while that is not debatable, the fact is that their success has been a detriment for the NBA, at least on domestic television.
The Spurs play in the #37 market in the U.S., automatically a strike against them in terms of television ratings. Add to that their lack of charismatic players, the fact that they play a methodical, unexciting style of basketball, and the fact that most of America could truly care less about them, and they become ratings poison each and every time they arrive on the big stage. Through the first 21 NBA Finals games played by the San Antonio Spurs, only five have drawn double-digit ratings: Games 1, 3, 4 and 5 in 1999 and Game 7 in 2005. In other words, sixteen NBA Finals games involving the Spurs have drawn less than 10% of the national audience. In fact, none of those sixteen games even drew a 9 rating. Seven of the Spurs’ 21 NBA Finals games have drawn less than a 6.7 rating.
The fourteen lowest-rated NBA Finals games involved the San Antonio Spurs – an amazing stat that does not count the rating for Game 4 between the Spurs and Cavaliers. In fact, one could venture to say that outside of the Spurs, the NBA is doing fine in the television ratings – unfortunately for the league, San Antonio simply keeps winning.
And if San Antonio continues winning, what will happen to the NBA? This series was proof positive – people will not watch the Spurs. While it should be pointed out that part of the reason why ratings were so low was because the games were uncompe ive, it is hard to imagine the numbers being any higher even if all four games were close as they were in Games 3 and 4.
Thankfully for the league, the Spurs have not won their four les consecutively. In 2000, 2004 and 2006, ratings increased for the Finals. That being said, how long can the NBA expect to simply recover from horrible numbers like the ones incurred this year? The league bounced back from a 6.5 to an 11.5 in 2004, but the increase from '05 to '06 was much smaller -- from 8.2 to 8.5. How long before apathy regarding the omnipresent Spurs turns into apathy regarding the league as a whole? How low will ratings for the Finals go if the Spurs continue making it to the championship round? How long before the league has to bounce back from a 5 average for the Finals? From a 4 average?
The NBA needs the Spurs to start failing, and fast. Unfortunately, Tim Duncan is young and healthy, and the team is set up quite well for the future. And by the time this dynasty is over, the NBA may be beyond repair.
what piece of crap , one sided non journalistic crap is that?
Sounded like Mark Cuban.
Spurs play basketball the way basketball should be played.
People are just envious that their team doesnt play like the spurs.
I see, now my question is this, would you watch a league that doesn't reward the best team, but the most popular one? This guy is either a re , or the Spurs beat his team along the way, and he can't get over it. Both seem equally plausible at this point.
Why would an average fan give a about tv ratings? It really has turned in to the weakest smack imaginable.
With Lebron being the media darling the rating are still low. Why?
It can't be all the Spurs fault.
Maybe the answer is obvious: The cavs didn't have a chance to win that series.
The East is soooo weak... the pistons and a out of his mind Wade have hide that the last couple of season but the truth is that the NBA champion is the team winning the WCF.
Another factor is the fact that the US team can't win anything for years, that the 2 regular season MVP candidate are a German and a Canadian, that the final MVP is a young french PG... that the NBA is international.
Whoever wrote this should be dragged out into the streets and shot!
I am amazed how TV's ratings rules the US' culture
Not only this piece of s...t, but mostly of the media pay attention to that, probably more than in another country, am I right?
He blames the Spurs for the low ratings of the Dallas/Miami series ?The league bounced back from a 6.5 to an 11.5 in 2004, but the increase from '05 to '06 was much smaller -- from 8.2 to 8.5.
as Pop has already said, these guys who can't find the beauty in watching tony and manu play, as well as pure team basketball, are just poor ignorant individuals.
its like american idol. popularity contest. Bull .
Whatever the that means. I dont even know. Im drunk.
If the Knicks or the Celtics were in the finals, the ratings would be through the roof.
If Kobe managed to (ha!) make the Finals against a Celtic team, it would probably draw record ratings.
I DESPISE this saying. It should be "couldn't care less", since "could care less" implies there is some positive there. The words contradict the usage, and it needs to stop. I refuse to pay attention to any writer who doesn't realize this.a piece of sh
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the fact that most of America could truly care less about them
good luck with that. anywho, i say screw it, embrace the ratings hit, embrace being about team instead of a media-concocted advertising machine. , they should actively look to kill tv ratings just to rub it into everyone's face "yeah, we know we kill ratings, but you kill our image by regurgitating nonsense without watching a game (methodical and nonexciting my tail, you try making a bounce pass for a dunk or dribbling between some guy's legs) so we're returning the favor. everyone, synchronize poker faces."
I guess David Stern needs to come to grips with the reality that the fans and media no longer think a level playing field for the league's teams is a good thing. They whine when the Spurs make the Finals. They whine when Portland wins the lottery instead of Boston. They whine when Houston gets Yao Ming instead of Golden State. They whine when the Spurs beat the Suns. They whine when the Jazz beat the Warriors.
In order to accomodate the wishes of fans and media, Stern needs to ins ure new policies that ensure that major-market marquee teams get preferential access to the best players. Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago should be winning the vast majority of championships, with the small-market untermensch sneaking in only occasionally to gobble up the odd le. And under no cir stances should a bunch of Mexicans be celebrating championships. The NBA is for corporate barons and hip-hop kings only.
In addition, the NBA needs to rig the officiating and bend the rules now and then to make sure the high-scoring teams with big Q ratings advance in the playoffs. Popularity should count for something, not just basketball prowess.
Ideas like equal opportunity and meritocracy are quaint 18th-century silliness. America wants aristocracy, and it wants it now.
Who gives a anymore. I don't even get angry at all this bull from the media. I just watch my team win
and win and win and win and win and win and win and win and .......
Anybody with any sense knows that the Spurs are what's right with the NBA.
Too bad Nielsen Ratings don't extend to cover the world viewing audience...
Otherwise half of these pseudo-beat-writers would have to eat their crow.
What a lop-sided article. At least people watch the big game 7's or the Spurs 1999 run probably helped with New York. I guess Lebrick couldn't attract the masses this year.
When it comes to ratings, we have earned another *.
What a pitty! What a shame!
Ok, where was I . . . ahh yes . . . I was about grab a cold one and re-watch the finals and laugh may ass off with respect to these pseudo-sport journalists
Why do people keep posting from "blogs" on here? Who cares what some idiot with a blog thinks? At least reserve your outrage for someone with credentials.
nba is not about tv ratings my friends.. it's about continuing what other legends in the past has built up.. if everything is just about ratings i think we should get duncan ginobili and parker a role in desperate househusbands instead of playin basketball
Mark Cuban was on "Morning Joe" on MSNBC this morning and was asked about this very topic. He said three things were at play here. One was that this is 2007, and for the last few years the options for viewing have multiplied. Yes, there are more people in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, etc, what there isn't more of in those cities (the East cities) are teams good enough to challenge the West, and thus make it interesting to watch.
Secondly, he said the NBA needs to do a better job with publicity in cities like Pittsburgh and other major cities where there are no NBA teams. In fact, all across the country.
I forget the third thing he said, and it may be because Joe Scarborough never allowed him to go on. Scarborough, like a lot of middle-aged white men, wants only New York, Boston, Miami, Los Angeles, etc. to ALWAYS play for championships. In fact, Scarborough predicted that if NY could land Kobe, then the viewing of the NBA finals would return to its former high figures. That kind of simple-minded thinking prevails with the same people who write these articles.
Cuban didn't mention the Spurs a single time.
IMO, Americans are so nationalistic that teams with "foreigners" simply are not worth watching. Why, they are just un-American. How dare they take over our sport.
Who gives a s****t what the ratings are? Name me one fan who is materially affected by what the ratings are. The only people who care are the advertisers and the stations. It has nothing to do with us.
People whose teams aren't playing.Who gives a s****t what the ratings are?
Good god this asshole needs to do some research. I must have missed the part where the finals ratings were huge last year when the Spurs were not in it. The reason they were bad this year was because the Cavs sucked and everyone knew it. How were the ratings in the 05 finals? Much better because it was a good series.
A weak attempt to hide a serious case of trophy envy.a piece of sh
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The San Antonio Spurs must be considered a historically great team.....................
Move to Phoenix, your blog is a......nonfactor.
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