Coincidentally I have watched far less non-Rockets games so far this season. I think my enjoyment level for watching games I have no vested interest in, has been reduced drastically thanks to the subpar officiating.
I realllyy don't get what ppl are saying here. More exciting teams? Greater quality? Imo this year the NBA has been the most boring RS in quite a while. The quality has plummeted we are full of not even mediocre team that play ugly bball. East had always been bad, but now the West as well has become trash.
There are two good teams in the West and one good team in the East. I guess people really don't want parity. The nbas best rating were when mj was winning everything.
I'll speak on this. My first love growing up was basketball. Played it almost everyday in the streets. Grew up watching every rockets game. Then as an adult I started watching football. I could watch other teams other then the Houston team. But for me about maybe 5 years ago I started watching less n less of other teams. I hated the fact u got penalize for so much on the defense make game Less Fun. Now with basketball I have been watching more nba games other then the rockets. Like right now watching the Lakers warriors which is actually competitive. Like what someone else was saying it's just more stars in the NBA but I can watch a small-market team just to see what the greek freak is doing or check out the Pelicans and see how that two-headed monster Davis and cousin is doing or I can go and watch Dallas and see how that rookie doing or I can always see OKC lose or olidpo play good or the upstart 76ers it's just so many players you can watch just individual players. U have guys that are just freaks like Kristaps. Banging threes like dirk. Embid with a euro step being a 7 footer is scary. This is almost 90 levels basketball
Like.whats been said earlier nba has a brighter future. Nfl n the c.t.e. thing is real. I would never let my kid play football too dangerous. N kids are the future of any sport. More will be in basketball
This could been down 32% if the off season moves didn't happen. But glad it didn't go that way. As far as the NFL goes I haven't watched NFL in maybe about 5 years now and this was before the stupid protest. I just realized this season already at the end for them.
Why??? The NBA has never been this boring. In the west there are 3 teams who are interesting (unless you count watching OKC go up in flames fun, which I actually do, so make that 4 teams). In the east only Cleveland is interesting. The first time any interesting game will be played is in the western conference semi finals. When the spurs play against the second seed. But before that it is just boring. That being said I love the boring games of the Rockets. So I watch all Rockets games, but in the past I actually also watched other games, but now I do not want to spend so much time watching bad teams.
What are you talking about? How can viewership and competition be correlated when GSW was considered the best team last year and everybody knew they were better than everyone else? This thread is talking about how NBA viewership is up 32% in KD-GSW year 2 and you still saying its about competition? Look at ESPN's headline, are the Rox the Warrior's biggest threat? Its all about GSW this season which flies in the face of your post.
It’s all about stars and potential stars. And if those guys are generating storylines, then it’s going to capture interest. I think more top top to bottom parity would be a negative. 10-15 really interesting teams > 30 pretty good teams. Also factor in high scoring, faster pace, hyped rookie class, crazy offseason, individual rivalries, social media stars, the Ball’s, interesting LA, NY and BOS teams, and so on.
I hope the NFL goes up in flames. It's dangerous and league is run like the mafia. Basketball is a simpler game, and it's designed to show off the best athletes in the world.
Yeah I dont need to reread it, you are the one who need to edit your post. Its laughable you talk about "emperical evidence" and then say "when the league has one team that is unquestionably better than the other the NBA product suffers". *Golden State wins a ring with team consisting of an unprecedented 5 stars including 2 MVPs. *Viewerhip up 32% Your conclusion is parity and viewership are correlated? Wtf r u smoking. I like it when posters tell me to reread their post instead of rebutting my points. It means they don't know what they're talking about and want me to figure it out for them lmao.
Yeah, some posters in this thread make no sense. To me, in recenter years NFL Parity equates to 80% of teams being somewhere in the realm of mediocre to bad with no really interesting superstar players. It all just results in a pretty boring, ho-hum product. My interest in NFL is probably at it's lowest in 20 something years (that period after the Oilers left and before Fantasy Football became big).
Mark Cuban wasn't lying when said the NFL is in decline. I used to get so hyped for Sundays now I couldn't care less..and it isn't just because Watson went down. Basketball is a purer sport than football and much more enjoyable.
ESPN and ABC see massive gains for Christmas NBA games, including highest-rated primetime Christmas game since 2003 Thanks in part to a series of compelling games, the NBA and ESPN got a nice gift this Christmas. The good news keeps coming from the NBA and its television partners. ESPN announced Tuesday that overnight ratings for its five Christmas-Day NBA games (including the two that aired on ABC) were up 39 percent from last year’s slate, having increased from 2.8 to 3.9. The down-to-the-wire Thunder-Rockets game that aired at 8 p.m. ET on ABC drew a 4.1 overnight rating, making it the highest rated Christmas primetime matchup since ABC began airing holiday games in the early 2000s. OKC-Houston was the second most watched contest of the day behind the Cavs-Warriors NBA Finals rematch on ABC, which netted a 5.5 overnight rating, fifth highest ever among early window Christmas games. The NBA’s Christmas-Day viewership spike probably owed in large part to the quality of the games and the narratives that went with them. In a league dominated by star power, it doesn’t get much better than Kevin Durant vs. LeBron James, Russell Westbrook vs. James Harden, John Wall vs. Kyrie Irving, and Kristaps Porzingis vs. Joel Embiid. (Karl-Anthony Towns vs. um, Lonzo Ball isn’t quite the same, but you get the point.) ESPN and ABC had a Finals rematch, a clash of young stars, a battle of perennial MVP candidates and more. Overall, this year’s lineup was much more appealing than last year’s. The fact four of the five games Monday were decided by single-digit margins couldn’t have hurt, nor did the fact that three of the four games aired on ABC, compared to last year, when three of the five games aired on ESPN. Still, the 39 percent bump was likely about more than just intriguing matchups and an extra ABC slot. National NBA viewership in general is surging, with ESPN and TNT’s coverage up 21 percent this season as of last week, per an NBA spokesman. That spike comes after NBA Finals average viewership increased for the third straight year last June. America just can’t get enough pro basketball these days.
Vince McMahon may not be as dumb as everybody thinks he is, their was an NFL game on last night and it did not even trend on twitter
One of the gifts my 7 year old son got was a nice leather football for christmas. That is great and all, I will play with him outside like I have done with soccer and basketball for years now. He will never play football though. Not a chance in hell.
