More people complained about their "SJW" stuff then they did basketball yet in the need to spin basketball became their great undoing. What will it be next? Drinky's sex life.

I forgot in your rather convoluted way of thinking "NBA" and "SJW" are synonymous. The only reason people watch the NBA is because they wish to be "Awakened". It can't be because they love the sport itself. Nah they want to be on the cutting edge of Social Justice movements.

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Game 7's have the advantage of being built up for a few weeks with added storylines and intrigue. That's why ratings in general go up towards the end of the series and they don't go down because people get bored after the first few games.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Ok. It just gets better with time. Man I loved that song.

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Yes, of course, but that doesn't mean that an NBA sudden death tourney would "crush" college basketball. There are a lot of college sports fans out there, and one of the reasons the tournament is popular is because college basketball is just popular.

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Game 7 in 2016 had 31 million viewers watch.

This year's college basketball championship game had 16 Million viewers.

I only use that because it was a sudden death situation. If the same thing occurs this year we can use the numbers from this year's game.

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Yeah. There are millions of people called alumni who have an interest in the tournament as way to get together with old friends through a shared history.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

This, and in rural areas, college bball is just more popular than the NBA. People in central Illinois generally cheer for UofI even if they didn't go there.

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That sounds like Drinkys life story. Rooting for something you could never do yourself. Root for colleges cuz he didn't go to a college. Root for professional teams cuz he never played sports. Root for job opportunities he could never get. He was born to watch better men do things he wanted to do. Cuz he's a dumbass.

2016 was also the most that have watched since Jordan retired. To compare that to a blowout this year is laughable. At least compare it to the year before that had 23 million on cable instead of network tv.

The Final Four this year wasn't competitive which hurt ratings but in 2017 when the games were good they did 14.7 million for the first one and 18.8 million for the second one with a total average of 16.8 million. The Cavs Game 7 averaged 13.3 million on the same network. The Warriors Game 7 averaged 14.8 million. This is the best comparison as they were both semi-final, winner take all, competitive games on cable.

So, there is no reason to think they aren't pretty close in interest level and you aren't going to talk college basketball over NFL very much whether in season or out of season in Chicago.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

i could use the excuse that NBA ratings were lowered because the games were held over a holiday weekend but I'm not. You can continue to spin this into another discussion but I'm not. The mere fact that no one wants to discuss the actual issue (NBA vs Out Of Season NFL) talk is all I need.


The next time that McNeil gives one of his patented "wake me when the Finals are over" speeches remember this as you remember the Alamo. Heard him say he is actually into the NBA playoffs so maybe he is evolving. Or maybe he has money on the game?

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I'm open to the idea I'm wrong here but it seems to me college basketball has one of the largest disparities between postseason and regular season ratings. To me that indicates the format of the postseason is a factor.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Yeah, no one watches television when there is a holiday.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

So you are mad that Dan McNeil doesn't appreciate basketball enough? He posts here. PM him.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

You may not have noticed Brick but television viewership is severely depressed during Warmer seasoned holiday pds. I'm sure that fact is lost upon you though.

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You seem to be mad that I have an opinion about it.

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and the fact that people who have no interest or knowledge of college basketball whatsoever still like to fill out a bracket

I don't think that is really true.

ESPN averaged 1.62 million for regular season NBA. College basketball is harder to judge as you get a range that includes smaller conferences along with the big boys. If you combined ACC and the Big Ten you'd likely see a higher average rating than the NBA does. ESPN routinely has games that get above 2.5 million viewers for those contests. For instance, the Champions Classic in November averaged 2.8 million over two games. Duke-UNC and other featured games normally do around the same. Now, I'm sure if you include the Wichita State and Memphis games they show that it lowers it significantly.

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Well then the NBA was stupid to plan to have both Game 7s during that time. You should let them now how they had ratings be "severely depressed" by doing that.

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are you interested in discussing why the NBA conf. Final ratings are higher than the NFL draft or not? I know it is a rhetorical question but I felt a need to ask anyway

Are you interested in why the NBA finals will be rated higher than the NCAA championship or not?

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Of course you have to include all the games. Or else let me single out Houston/GS and Cleveland/GS games and compare them.

I agree if you exclude all the shitty rating games the ratings look better.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Right. I think you’d get at least a fraction of that same thing happening with a NBA tournament.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Ok, but then I get to pick 4 teams too. There are probably 100 teams that play on ESPN in a given season. That's why it is better to use two conferences since it at least gets the number of teams to a more comparable number.
If the NBA had 100 teams and 4 times as many games on ESPN then those average ratings would go far lower too.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I'm gonna start dropping this in every argument, holy shit.

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You already have. You had to reiterate just in case they glossed over it aye?

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Another thorn in the proverbial backside of NBA bashers?
Popularity is actually on a major uptick. Oh shit.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradadgate ... r-the-nba/

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I'll take "Things LTG has none of" for $1000.

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But I mean, who started this topic, really?!

Also: NOBODY IS SAYING THAT ABSOLUTELY NOBODY CARES ABOUT NATIONAL NBA DISCUSSION.

The point of the thread seems to be that Mac is stupid to not like and talk more NBA.

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I assumed it was LTG trying to make the point no one liked Goff talking NBA and he got fired for Mac but somehow the NBA is popular?

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Elections have consequences.

...and ltg wouldn't listen if he did.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!