[ April 23, 2024 ]
Excellent. The NBA is just awful. It is shocking that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver allowed offensive social justice messaging to be plastered on NBA courts. How could Silver not have realized that insulting more than half of the country would be a ratings disaster? The NBA’s owners who have billions of dollars invested in these franchises must be dying.
Viewership for NBA Finals Finale Crash Nearly 70%, Beaten by Random Sunday Night Football Game https://t.co/RaDVRSE4ww via @BreitbartNews Maybe they were watching in China, but I doubt it. Zero interest!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 12, 2020
Viewership for NBA Finals Finale Crashes Nearly 70%, Beaten by Random Sunday Night Football Game
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On a night when the NBA broadcast its most important game, you would think that the league would own the night. That, once again, turned out to not be the case.
The viewership numbers for the sixth and final game of the NBA Finals are in, and they are atrocious. Game 6 drew, at its peak, 6.028 million viewers. To put that in perspective, Game 6 of the 2019 NBA Finals, which included a team from Canada and did not include LeBron James, drew 18.34 million viewers.
Those figures represent a 66 percent drop.
To put it in further perspective, last night’s edition of Sunday Night Football, a game which featured a losing Vikings team against the Seahawks, a non-major market team, beat out the NBA’s ultimate game by earning nearly twice as many viewers with 12.008 million.
The heavy viewership losses are consistent with disastrous viewership numbers from the first half of the series when games one through three drew consecutive, historically low numbers. Indeed, the low numbers are consistent with an entire season of bad television viewership performances.
The NBA restarted its season, after a five-month hiatus due to the coronavirus, by making social justice messaging and imagery a centerpiece of their television broadcasts. That messaging was greeted with historic drops in ratings, drops largely due to fan dissatisfaction with the overtly political nature of the games.
As Breitbart’s Warner Todd Huston reports:
This horrific collapse should not be surprising after polls have found that many fans now believe that basketball is far too political.
A September 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.
“Recently, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said that next year the NBA will likely not feature the on-court social justice displays that have become commonplace this season,” Breitbart Sports reported. “The commissioner also says he understands that fans just want to see a basketball game, and not by subjected to social justice messaging.”
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46 Comments
3 years ago
No one cares about the FREAK SHOW… I would rather watch my grass grow.
3 years ago
I would expect that most potential viewers are like me; we’ve seen WAY TOO MANY American Flag-draped coffins come home to DISPICABLY DISHONOR them by joining with Lebron to draw personal attention to himself! We DON”T NEED YOU!
3 years ago
Unbelievable! People are sitting at home under Covid lockdowns with limited entertainment options and they still would rather do anything else than watch those spoiled babies. I won’t watch football either so for me it was America’s Test Kitchen (PBS does have some good programming) and reruns of Stargate Sunday night.
3 years ago
Reply to
MichiganCPA
PBS? Surely, you MUST be joking(?).
If so, that was a very good one.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
LOL. NPR and PBS usually consist of propaganda programming — particularly islamic friendly propaganda.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
When I first read that comment I started chuckling, thinking it was a pretty good joke. Then, the thought crossed my mind that the commenter may have actually been serious.
So, I just didn’t know.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
On NPR, Casey Kasem, the old DJ, used to host a Mid-East in Focus kinda of show. When his muslum guests would slag off Israel (as they did constantly) and someone would call in to defend Israel and refute the muslum lies being passed off as truth about Israel they would get cut off real quick.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
It’s interesting that you mention this Casey Kasem thing. I was having a conversation with someone, on Saturday. They brought up that name. I had never heard of it. Or, if I did …. I surely didn’t remember.
Supposedly, this Kasem was very popular(?).
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
He hosted some sort of Top 40 type television show in the 1980’s(?). I never watched it. I believe he wasn’t a f’ing muslum but a Druze.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
I don’t know much about druze. I had heard that it was some offshoot of shia mohammedanism. However, that’s probably false, I have no idea.
One thing about “druze”, I had heard that before. On the other hand, until this Saturday past’s conversation, I don’t recall anything about this kasem thing.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
When Syria got badly beaten by Israel in the ’73’ Yom Kippur War one commander was held responsible for Syria’s defeat. He wasn’t a high level commander, maybe battalion level, but he was Druze and he was executed.
3 years ago
Reply to
MichiganCPA
amen, i’m one of those. i have loved watching good nfl and nba games for 50 years, but i will NOT turn on the tv to watch black racists give me and my country the finger. the nfl has lost its mind; october is now a month where the nfl celebrates sexual perversion and wants to shame its Christian viewers who are dumb enough to believe God’s word about the sin of sexual perversion.
3 years ago
Reply to
MichiganCPA
And so much WTA too, some Juiced up Gorilla Guy has been playing Woman’s tennis for twenty years,
And suddenly He wants to be a Women’s equality champion, and another is a BLM cheerleader.
Players make 10’s-100’s of millions dollars, and always present themselves as a victim.
3 years ago
Silver thinks by removing the propaganda fans will come back. What a fool.
3 years ago
Reply to
Bob
silver is a rich new york jewish democrat, no different than chuckie schumer, and like schumer, is totally blind to how real americans, the ones that don’t live on the democrat plantation, are repulsed by democrats. the nba is dead and will not return. the same fate happened with boxing when black men took over that sport and turned a gentleman’s sport of finesse and sacrifice into a vile spectacle of loud-mouthed, chest-pounding, dangerous black men who acted like gorillas, some of whom decided to really spit in our faces by becoming muslim and refusing to serve their country when drafted.
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
Joe Frazier and George Foreman were menshen. But I’m proud to say that I was never part of the politically-correct bootlicking of Cassius Clay. Thank you Joe, for calling him that. May you rest in peace Joe.
3 years ago
Basketball ceased to exist as a team sport back in the ’90’s. It’s been “entertainment” with spoiled, entitled brats all looking to hog the ball and earn a sneaker contract for a long time now.
3 years ago
Reply to
Bob
Blacks in particular, have been conditioned to believe they can only get “rich” playing in sports. Most get in through MERIT but that seems to escape them….
3 years ago
Reply to
Bob
It sounds so much like football or soccer in Britain & most other European countries. One of the few plus points of the covid scamdemic lockdown in the UK & other nearby countries has been to show how unnecessary & pointless those thick overpaid undereducated footballers really are…
3 years ago
We are getting sick of multimillionaires telling us what horrible people we are. We pay their salary too and it is coming to an end.
3 years ago
Reply to
Dave Jensen
That happens a-x the Atlantic here in Britain with overpaid footballers, (soccer players to you folks) with their self-righteous posing & posturing including the almost obligatory white self-hatred & guilt. I could also mention overpaid tv celebs inc. actors & actresses, but I could write a whole paragraph about them, so I’ll keep it short & straight to the point.
3 years ago
Reply to
Dave Jensen
That happens a-x the Atlantic here in Britain with overpaid footballers, (soccer players to you folks) with their self-righteous posing & posturing including the almost obligatory white self-hatred & guilt. I could also mention overpaid tv celebs inc. actors & actresses, but I could write a whole paragraph about them, so I’ll keep it short & straight to the point.
3 years ago
the democrat virus is far deadlier than the wuhan virus hoax, it truly does kill every host. the nba sold its soul to the dems, the democrat virus moved right in, and the host is now dead.
3 years ago
What I am waiting for is Affirmative Action to be enforced in the nba.
If it’s a requisited for colleges and universities, a requisite for corporations, and a requisite for government …. why not the negro basketball association?
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
amen. in a country where most people are white, the nba is obviously discriminating against white people if most of their players are not white.
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
From TV advertising, TV shows, films, and the demonstrations, one would believe that the US has more Spanish and Black citizens than White. An apartheid nation with the majority ruled by a small, “privileged” White minority. Surprise, the US is about 70% White.
In Africa Whites are under attack. Whites are being discriminated against and murdered because of the colour of their skin. The media cartel remain silent. Do White lives matter ion Africa? Not so much.
Oh yes, Christians, Black and White, are being killed in Africa mostly by muslims. Again, silence. But in North America the practicing witch lead Maoist Black Lives Matter supremest group is hailed as the cause celebre of the media cartel, “progressive” politicians and useful idiot Whites.
3 years ago
Reply to
stephen5970
We thought that would end under racist white hating Obama… it hasn’t…. Now they are sneaking in LGTQ+ in their ads…. They are determined to normalize this. They already are in K-12 and higher education….Forgot to add also in pre k!
3 years ago
Reply to
stephen5970
Brendin Horner’s murderer was arrested and released 16 (sixteen) times. The perps are usually released, and when the community gets hold of them, they give them the Winnie Mandela ‘kiss of death’ courtesy of a tire. I wonder how many will take a knee for this young man and the many others that die at the hands of criminals that are released under the police’s Arrest & Release Program.
3 years ago
Reply to
stephen5970
Finally, someone who sees and says what I do. TV commercials are now majority Black, and the Whites on them are often goofs or losers. And source of all this is Hollywood guilty White liberals who agree that Whites are evil.
3 years ago
I don’t care if the entire SJW NBA crashes and burns.
3 years ago
One of them… I don’t remember if it is the NFL or NBA, announced that starting next year they are moving away from political messaging on politics and banning it on uniforms etc..
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I think it’s the NBA [now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Black Riots Matter], but it’s too late for me. I know where all the thugs stand, especially LeBron, and I’ll never watch a minute again.
3 years ago
I would love nothing more than the NBA disbanding.
3 years ago
3 years ago
Throughout the NBA Finals, I protested, rather peacefully, by NOT watching even one minute of racist DumBron James and his quest to promote the oppressive Chinese regime.
TRUMP 2020
MAGA/KAG
3 years ago
Time for the nba (nitwits be athletes) to move to china, where they`ll be surprised to find it the most racist country in the world. I won`t miss you even a little bit, and, by the way, when you move to china, make sure that you get chinese citizenship, because you`ll be leaving your U.S. citizenship behind. Lots of luck….
3 years ago
Great! Lets punish the traitors and haters of the most amazing country in the world. The one that gave those illiterate guys so much wealth and comfort. Wealth that they couldn’t have ever got in any other way, in any other country. I hope they are truly punished. There is no way to state how evil and stupid they have been by not realizing where they live and how their lives have been blessed because they live in America.
3 years ago
Overpaid whiney twits that disrespect America got their just desserts…
3 years ago
Bye Bye . . . nba, I hear Md’s is hiring
