Media, specifically those that own the broadcast rights for games, trying so hard to tell us what James Harden is doing it other worldly. Nobody give a fck. This is what you get when you hamstrung defenders.

One man switches coasts and ratings drop. No one man should have all that power

I mean the social media age changed everything for me.. I considered myself a huge NBA fan for the longest time but It's not really exciting to sit and watch games anymore, it's hard to even get excited anymore when you can see all the best bits online without having to sit through a whole game.

If something exciting happens it's up on social media like 30 seconds later anyway.. The new brand of basketball isn't all that exciting to watch anyway

NBA has lost a whole half of the country because of no household names in the East. I do think alot of guys will make their name these East playoffs and be must see next year. But that doesn't solve this year's ratings.

Additionally if the Knicks land Durant next year you'll be reading articles about how the NBA ratings are at an all time high.

Cuz these n*ggas be 6’11” missing layups n sh*t

They should change more rules to increase NBA scoring even higher!

Muthafu*kin teams out here scoring 140 in 4 quarters like this 1970 and sh*t. When they stopped letting grown men play grown men ball the NBA became WWE and boring to watch.

Sorry but not sorry. Keep enjoying your Harden's and Curry's, tho.

Of coarse. We all know Golden States All Star team is going to win again in a clean sweep. Westbrook and Harden will fizzle out again in the playoffs. Chris Paul will get hurt. Playoff P will fall off. The Lakers aint ready for primetime. Some victim in the east will get bodied in the Finals.

When the only thing to check out in any given NBA game is the last 8 minutes of the fourth quarter, including playoff games you know you have a problem. Can only watch so many iso plays, step back 3's and 'ole defense. Players are too friendly now. NBA BFFs

NBA viewing numbers have always dropped off for the late night games. The early games drive ratings. And there's no one in the East that people want to tune in and watch regularly now that LBJ went West.

Kawhi isn't interesting, Embiid seems to have quieted down a lot, no one's talking about the Celtics except as it relates to Lebron. Who the fu*k is on the Pacers?

There's no story lines out East and no one believes that any of those teams are going to beat the GSW so it's not even about seeing if they're championship contenders...they're not.

So why watch the East? And that's why ratings are down.

I watch the scoring plays on youtube.

why do fans care about ratings?

The world been on a bubble! The gig is up!

HANDCHECK!


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Vega said Nah the problem is literally cuz Bron went to LA. The east coast market doesn’t watch 1030 games.

n*gga we work in the morning

Moe Lester said This is the equivalent of talking about CD sales being down in music

Why? Because of streaming? People streaming basketball games online?

Young Fab said Half of "NBA Fans" aren't NBA fans, they just watch to hopefully see Lebron lose. That's all they care about.

who will be the next Jordan,Kobe , Lebron? I dont see any players with that it factor I mean game/marketability/personality ..they need one fast or once Lebron retires its over...Anyone who says 90's ball wasnt better than now product wise is bugging..the league is too friendly..social media is k*lling sports in a way

yousabi*ch said who will be the next Jordan,Kobe , Lebron? I dont see any players with that it factor I mean game/marketability/personality ..they need one fast or once Lebron retires its over...Anyone who says 90's ball wasnt better than now product wise is bugging..the league is too friendly..social media is k*lling sports in a way

Said this to a friend of mine. He couldn’t understand what I was saying. It’s nust sports, sure. But we need to hate the teams we’re playing. I hate how buddy buddy everything is now. But more so I think I hate that we get insight to who the players are off the court... literally just rappers who can hoop. They’re all dumb a*s kids fu*king insta models. This was always the case but we just didn’t know. It wasn’t in our faces.

Playoffs>>>>>

Tommy Bundy said Too many games are also on League Pass and NBA TV only.

Get a fire stick they're all free and every game comes on hd....you won't miss not one game

nik3 said I'm sorry until they break Warriors up, it's going to continue.... Super teams that always wins is k*lling the league

Super teams been winning majority of the chips for the longest

jay2cold said Get a fire stick they're all free and every game comes on hd....you won't miss not one game

Live games?

league needs to be 16 teams max

Hold That said Nobody really likes to watch the NBA when the Bulls are trash. That’s why Zion is going to Chicago. When the Bulls are good the league is popping

He’s going to Manhattan. The fu*k you talking about.

Tuned out of the NBA for two years now.

College basketball>>>>>NBA.

Until my Knicks make some splash this off-season (because of course, NYC is the Mecca of the world), then NBA will start going back up. Hopefully Zion is the new proven star in the East to replace Lebron and make the Knicks appealing.

Oh yea, and fu*k all them 135-128 games! I miss the early 2000’s and gritty 90’s NBA! #MyEras

Tommy Bundy said Live games?

Hell yeah bro literally every game that's live you can watch...you get all the NBA channels....it's like 15 of em I think on mines...

Basketball been boring for a while now

Cats claim NBA>NFL

This whole no defense, jacking 3's friendly era of basketball is fu*kin boring as sh*t

Harden has to be the most unwatchable "superstar" in history

I'd rather watch a preseason NFL game

Nobody cares until the playoffs and now with the Warriors the way they are, nobody even cares in the playoffs