About 1/3 actually


Congrats to the NBA on getting higher TV ratings for the Finals than than a middle of the year PGA tournament. Maybe next year you can do better than NFL Draft round #2 and #3.

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From ESPN: As for the NBA Finals, ABC brought in an average of 11.64 million viewers -- a decrease from 2022, when a six-game series between the Golden State Warriors and Boston Celtics averaged 12.402 million.

I believe the 5.47M may be TNT ratings for the conference finals.

Either way, NBA Finals have been in a decline now for awhile. I don't think they have done 15M-20M in years.

this discussion is not fun without LTG

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They didn't do themselves any favors with the schedule. It seems like they took about five days off between every single game. If I remember correctly, there used to be one day off, maybe two max, between Bulls games when they were in the Finals.

According to Dan Bernstein, the NBA had surprisingly strong ratings for the Finals.

lol dan bernstein is probably the only who still thinks people get together and actually watch nba basketball lmfao

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The women's version of a niche sport (by American standards) draws more viewers than some NBA playoff games, and 50%-60% the number of viewers The Finals gets.

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Head to head, NFL wins with a nearly 5-1 margin in Christmas Day TV ratings.

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GO BEARS!!!

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Duh, the NBA sucks

Watch football, 4 NBA games or spend time with my family. Football wins this challenge.

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You cannot make me care about the WNBA.

Pretty clear.

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The explanation is simple, the NBA fucking sucks

yeah but those summer league games get big numbers

I thought the NBA had great TV ratings? The hosts on the Score seem to think so.

Seeing more of the European influence, guys like Luka and Jocic flopping around and then whining like bitches when they don't get a foul called, slows the game down, league obviously coddles and protects the "superstar" players, games almost seem rigged at times.

Did you just start watching NBA games recently? Some of the greatest floppers of all time were in the 90s and 00s. Laimbeer, Divac, Ginobili, Horry, Kobe, Chris Paul being among the most well known.

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I would also add Reggie Miller to that list. There were times I wanted to reach through the TV and punch that guy.

Bad take #2. Are games being rigged for the T-wolves, Magic, and Thunder? Are they going out of their way to protect the lackluster Lakers, Suns, and Warriors?

NO ONE EVER cried more than the '80's Celtics

New rule: Flopping gets you an unsportsmanlike technical.

This is crazy.

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Well lots of women watching football, at least 47% of the audience pre-Taylor.

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Let's see how the T-Wolves, Magic, and Thunder do in the playoffs, did you just recently start watching the NBA? Do you pay attention to it at all, the Jokic 18 free throws? Maybe you watching a different TV than everyone else.

Here is a homework assignment for you, will fully explain in crayon what you need to do, go to the magic google machine, it will take a bit for your Commodore 64 to load everything up, and the video will be a bit wonky, but watch the Dallas Mavericks, they have a kid from Slovenia named Luka Doncic, you likely do not know that Slovenia is a country, but it is and they do have a ton of very tall white guys there that are good at basketball.

Ok lil' fella, you found the video, now press that triangle thing so it will play, now watch how Doncic looks at the ref after every play, then compare that to the old Celtics/Lakers where they did complain, but did not stop playing to berate the ref as the guy they were supposed to be defending was running the other way down court, compare and contrast the two approaches.

Next you will go to a Denver Nuggets video and watch a very, very tall and awkward looking guy named Nikola Jokic, now this will undoubtedly confuse you as he does not look very athletic, but trust me his is a good player. You will also be confused that he is from Serbia, it was likely a part of Yugoslavia the last time you were perusing your Funk & Wagnalls or Encyclopedia Britannica, or maybe you never got past Weekly Reader, but anyway the country of Yugoslavia split up into several places that produces very all white guys. You will notice the same type of thing from Jokic, he even makes a praying type motion to the refs from time to time, which again slows the game down and makes you watch him bitch.

Well, you have a lot of work to do and with the limited capacity of you Commodore 64 it will take hours to load stuff, so go forth and conquer young knight!

LeBron is flopping and crying that he has not been included amongst the greatest floppers and criers.

Good luck in the playoffs to the Lakers, Suns, and Warriors.

I'm sorry your takes were bad and felt you had to go nuclear on me because of it.

Takes were solid, sorry to have exposed your lack of NBA fandom.

However, you will be much more informed after you complete all the research I gave you, so your welcome as always, thanks for your call.

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