03-31-2024, 11:59 AM
(03-31-2024, 06:32 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: Attendance is an interesting viewpoint. Touche there.
The local ratings are based from last year. Overall NBA viewership has decreased compared to the 90s and 2000s.
However can you blame Silver? Or has cable cutting caused the majority of this decrease? Hard to separate the chicken and egg in this scenario whenever we're talking about viewership numbers but either way it has gone down.
Does this really matter in the grand scheme of things? Not really. The gravest sin Silver has done in my mind was promote gambling going so far as to include it in the NBA app so people could make live bets. https://awfulannouncing.com/gambling/nba...tting.html
The ads on jersey's also are such a sticking point with me cause it shows how Silver has/had no respect for the history of the sport.
The ads are all about $$ Companies pay big marketing fees to advertise on jerseys as well as putting their name on arenas for naming rights. Baseball has joined the fray, as they have added them to their uniforms. Could the NFL, and NHL be next?