NBA Ratings Crash by 68%, Least Watched Finals Game in History

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NBA Finals Game 2 Ratings Crash by 68%, Least Watched Finals Game in History

Both Game 1 and Game 2 of the NBA Finals between the L.A. Lakers and the Miami Heat have suffered the worst ratings crash in the league’s entire TV broadcast history.

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Breitbart, October 5, 2020:

Despite the matchup including two of the league’s biggest stars (LeBron James and Anthony Davis), Game 1 of the Finals on Wednesday was a huge ratings disappointment for the NBA.

Game 1 averaged only a 4.1 rating and 7.41 million viewers on ABC, “comfortably the lowest rated and least-watched NBA Finals game on record (dates back to 1988),” Sports Media Watch reported.

But if the league thought things might improve for Game 2, it had a bitter pill to swallow because the second in the series did even worse than the first.

Game 2 cratered with just 4.5 million viewers and a dismal 1. 9 in the ratings. This embarrassing showing was down 68 percent over Game 2 in 2019.

The 2020 Game 2 event now rates as the lowest ratings ever for an NBA Finals game. Until Friday, Wednesday’s Game 1 was the lowest-rated in league history. So, it seems the Finals keep going down.

This horrific collapse should not be surprising after polls have found that many fans now believe that basketball is far too political.

A Sept. 2 Harris poll found that 39 percent of respondent who identified as sports fans felt that the league was too political. And another 19 percent said that they had turned off pro basketball because of the NBA’s deep links to China.

The 2020 post-COVID season launched with the heavy-handed presence of the anti-American Black Lives Matter agenda.

For his part, OutKick’s Jason Whitlock thanks LeBron James for personally destroying the NBA’s popularity.

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Servite Omak
Servite Omak
3 years ago

with their long reach the nba players will be able to wash my mercedes very well since i insist on hand washing

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

They are such incredibly, dumb, useful tools. Do they really think when the NBA is bankrupt they will still get those huge salaries? Do these people ever THINK about that? The whole idea is to destroy American sports – football, baseball, and basketball. These are iconic sports in our country. They want to destroy anything considered American.

I wouldn’t include soccer in that ….

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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Democrats and socialists are poor at consequential thinking. Of course their ratings were going to crash if they alienated 1/2 the USA population.

Rule # 93: Jerks aren’t very interesting to watch.

Trevor Fortune
Trevor Fortune
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

half the population = 99% of their fan base

Michael Goldman
Michael Goldman
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

If there are no sports anymore, there will be lots of time for rioting. There is basically nothing to watch on TV right now. There won’t be any movies for months. Do they really think that we are just all going to sit home? White Lives Matter, and if it means burning down liberal scum cities to get that point across, I think it will happen.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago

Luckily, for me, I have for many years put together over 300 DVD movies and series….I still have 5 books I recently bought that I haven’t had time to read.
And during the Wuhan virus….I’ve been loaning them out to neighbors…..especially the kids who aren’t in school.
I’m good.

Michael Goldman
Michael Goldman
3 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

I also have tons of TV shows on DVD that I haven’t watched. I also have movies on VHS I’ve never watched or things I’ve only watched once, or even things I would like to watch again. I was just thinking today how I should discuss with my Dad about buying a generator. My sister and neighbor have ones that go on when the electric goes out. I have no doubt that if the President is reelected, these lunatics would have no problem trying to take out the electric grid to plunge this nation into chaos. It would be difficult to watch things without at least a gas powered one.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago

When I moved to TN from Vegas I unwittingly leased a house from a Slum Lord.
So many people moving here from other states they’ve driven prices sky high. All the affordable houses were snapped up….I’m just stuck…..doubt I could have a generator here.

Michael Goldman
Michael Goldman
3 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

I’m sorry to hear that. It sucks when you get duped unwittingly. It’s happened to me with other things.

Michael Goldman
Michael Goldman
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

If there are no sports anymore, there will be lots of time for rioting. There is basically nothing to watch on TV right now. There won’t be any movies for months. Do they really think that we are just all going to sit home? White Lives Matter, and if it means burning down liberal scum cities to get that point across, I think it will happen.

CreoleGumbo
CreoleGumbo
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

They are incapable of thinking.

Christopher Watson
Christopher Watson
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

No. It wouldn’t happen to Football or ‘soccer’ as you call it. The owners would never allow it. The sport is too big. You are talking about a fan base of 5 BILLION +. Any ‘star’ who demanded politics in the sport would be out immediately.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago

Wouldn’t “allow it”…..did you read the article…..it’s already happening.
It wasn’t “too big” to get the “68% less……

joe shmoe
joe shmoe
3 years ago

ya mean to say people dont want to watch communist propaganda? whodathunk?

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

They are such incredibly, dumb, useful tools. Do they really think when the NBA is bankrupt they will still get those huge salaries? Do these people ever THINK about that? The whole idea is to destroy American sports – football, baseball, and basketball. These are iconic sports in our country. They want to destroy anything considered American.

I wouldn’t include soccer in that ….

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Kuffar
Kuffar
3 years ago

I stopped watching the FREAK SHOW years ago… Who cares about the POS.

tituspullo
tituspullo
3 years ago

“far too political” is just a stupid thing to say. here’s what is really going on. white men will no longer watch a bunch of filthy rich black racists bash us and our country, and support an organization (blm) funded by and run by foreign enemies. those black racists and their disgusting white coaches and owners can go stuff themselves

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

AMEN!

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
3 years ago

basketball is fixed like professional wrestling

Fount
Fount
3 years ago

Let’s also boycott all anti-American corporations that support this Marxist scum. Make sure where your dollars are going. No more Nike, NBC, google, Facebook, etc.

We need to crush these Marxists economically and start up companies that are aligned with OUR interests.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago
Reply to  Fount

Some former military have been doing that….creating companies…
But you left out At&T and other big communications companies…

gfmucci .
gfmucci .
3 years ago

That photos shows several black racists.

Maranatha
Maranatha
3 years ago

The richest largest group in the world–the NBA players—claims racism…
Go figure…

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago
Reply to  Maranatha

….so…shouldn’t they be happy about “racism”.?…after all…it made them rich. LOL

Anthony Silvio
Anthony Silvio
3 years ago

Hardcore fan base will never leave them ………….

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MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago
Reply to  Anthony Silvio

Bruce was annoyed when all the boys called him a sissy at school, but it was only made worse when he hit them with his purse!

ed
ed
3 years ago

LOL !!!

patd
patd
3 years ago

I’m still hoping ALL of the pro sports clubs go BROKE!!!!!!!!!!

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
3 years ago

Oh the humanity, the NBA and other professional sports are reaping what they had sown. My better half, once an NBA fan is no longer. She, as have copious fans, has switched-off from these self-righteous bigots. The NBA, in particular, is no more than a front for the radical-Left, Democrats bent on converting this Republic into the Peoples Republic of China. The latter to which panders without regret while it incarcerates citizen dissidents. There is no liberty, egalitarianism in Red China, the identical blueprint embraced by the Democrats to overthrow America and its Constitution.

Nor does the NFL differ, it, indeed, has the same game-plan as the NBA, social-discord via racism. After all, every white person is a bigot, the latter which, as the NBA and others profess, hold a monopoly on racism. If one were to call a Black or other minority, a racist, swift persecution or prosecution would follow. The narrative remains the same; everyone, not Black or a minority, is a hate-monger.

Football/soccer has gone the same course, and fans in Britain and elsewhere are not amused. We all know these sports of overpaid, revered athletes are no different than the Hollywood elitists who adulate, sponsor the BLM, ANTIFA, radicals bent on a similar autocratic government as Communist China.

Michael Goldman
Michael Goldman
3 years ago

Next season won’t start until at least February. Will they allow people into the arenas? Will anyone want to go to the arenas? The Owners are taking a pounding this season. How will the Chinese subsidize the NBA next season? I’m guessing every team will need at least $20 million dollars. It should be interesting.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
3 years ago

I don’t care if the NBA goes bankrupt — and I’ll never buy any merch endorsed by NBA stars or their rotten league of social justice charlatans.

ed
ed
3 years ago

Get Woke = Go Broke

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
3 years ago

I hope they all lose their jobs and work at McDonald’s!

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
3 years ago

The Owners deserve it….they forgot where their money actually comes from…IT’S THE FANS, you jackwaynes……
So go ahead, pamper the idiots you pay millions of dollars to play…..well…at least until the money runs out and former fans find some other pastime….like taking their kids camping….bowling….fishing/hunting….
On the flip side….you may have just brought the parents and kids back to the good old days when families actually engaged with each other.

Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
3 years ago

Wait a minute…..they still have something called NBA finals?

Michael Goldman
Michael Goldman
3 years ago

I notice that the NBA hasn’t said a word about the Game 3 ratings, and Game 4 is tonight. Were Game 3 ratings even worse? What will tonight’s ratings be? Does anyone really care?

Jim Boob
Jim Boob
3 years ago

Angry multi-millionaire negroes complaining of racism.

Splish_Splash
Splish_Splash
3 years ago

This is a start ~ but it needs to continue to down. Another 50% of the 32% so then the rating will be about 16% of what they used to be~ same needs to happen to the NFL and any other sport who continue to tell us what and how and when and where to think!

Roland
Roland
3 years ago

I guess the players forgot for whom they are playing, kind of like the politicians forgetting for whom they are working. The difference is that we can refuse to pay the NBA by not watching their games but we can not refuse to pay our taxes.
Just get your rich asses on your respective field or court, shut up and play the game we are paying you to play. We could care less how you feel about anything, much less politics.

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