LeBron as a freshman

[Waldo Geraldo Faldo]

Bron, cold for having all that hype at an early age and never letting it get to him. Dude, has exceeded all the hype surrounding him and to my knowledge has never been caught in any fukkery. No distracting friends, solid life partner (Savannah) and he battled through not having his father, clap for that man.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

When you not only meet, but exceed expectations, you cant do shyt but give props

 

[kdslittlebro]

So glad I got to grow up watching him play when he hangs em up, he'll have the greatest career I saw all of

 

[Born2BKing]

Momma did a good job

 

[Born2BKing]

They called him the Chosen One for a reason it transcends hoops.

It’s the character and personality, the humility and humbleness, the wholesomeness, the charisma and showmanship, the upbringing and story son of a teenage mother in a economically deprived rust belt city.

He’s the total package for a superstar athlete.

He’s just a marketing dream you don’t get kids like that able to articulate themselves in those interviews and having the personality to cut these types of commercials...


@^c^tXwn^° son is just different

These commercials were hilarious.

 

[Guess Who]

Sometimes people have a hard life and turn out wrong and sometimes they turn out with the kind of character and mindset Lebron got. ​

 

[ISO]

The 2016 Finals featured the 73 win Warriors going for history. That was the major draw that year not LeBron. Hell you could argue Steph was the face of the league then not LeBron. If Bron was such a big draw then every finals in the last decade would have had monster ratings considering he was in everyone of them. Instead you just cherry-picked the one finals where he wasn't even the main showcase.

Just face it. Bron is more in the Shaq/bigman lane when it comes to appeal than the Jordan/Kobe lane. He's not a showman like them. His game isn't as aesthetic or as appealing. Its why the NBA is freefalling in popularity under his watch.

Lol. I ain’t going back and forth with your delusional hating ass.

 

[KingCairo]

Some of yall gone die haters smh

 

[No..Money..Mo..Problems]

I would not be shocked if the league changed their logo or renamed the larry o'brien trophy after Bron when he hangs it up.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

The 2016 Finals featured the 73 win Warriors going for history. That was the major draw that year not LeBron. Hell you could argue Steph was the face of the league then not LeBron. If Bron was such a big draw then every finals in the last decade would have had monster ratings considering he was in everyone of them. Instead you just cherry-picked the one finals where he wasn't even the main showcase.

Just face it. Bron is more in the Shaq/bigman lane when it comes to appeal than the Jordan/Kobe lane. He's not a showman like them. His game isn't as aesthetic or as appealing. Its why the NBA is freefalling in popularity under his watch.

Bro, shut up:

NBA Finals television ratings - Wikipedia

Look at the consistently high ratings the NBA finals did in the 2010s compared to the 2000s. Even the least watched LeBron finals in the 2010s did better than all but two finals in the previous decade.

shyt 2011 almost matched 2010 without a game 7

LeBron was the ratings King for the last 10 years.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

 

[Man On Fire]

Lebron is the GOAT

 

[IllmaticDelta]

The 2016 Finals featured the 73 win Warriors going for history. That was the major draw that year not LeBron. Hell you could argue Steph was the face of the league then not LeBron. If Bron was such a big draw then every finals in the last decade would have had monster ratings considering he was in everyone of them. Instead you just cherry-picked the one finals where he wasn't even the main showcase.

Just face it. Bron is more in the Shaq/bigman lane when it comes to appeal than the Jordan/Kobe lane. He's not a showman like them. His game isn't as aesthetic or as appealing. Its why the NBA is freefalling in popularity under his watch.

nah, the current NBA money increase doesn't happen w/o LBJ. he was getting those ratings before Curry was a thing

2011 Heat-Mavs Finals had higher ratings than 2010 Lakers-Celtics through 6 games; thunder vs heat had better ratings through 5 games

ABC averaged a 10.2 household rating and 17.339 million viewers for coverage of the Mavericks/Heat NBA Finals, down 4% in ratings and viewership from last year (LAL/BOS: 10.6, 18.144M), but up 21% in both measures compared to 2009 (LAL/ORL: 8.4, 14.347M).

Keep in mind last year’s NBA Finals went seven games. Compared to last year’s six-game averages (9.7, 16.433M), ratings and viewership for this year’s series increased by 5% and 6%, respectively.

The last time the Heat and Mavericks played each other in the NBA Finals, the series averaged an 8.5 and 12.972 million viewers — solid numbers during the league’s mid-2000s doldrums.

2011 NBA Finals Down From 2010, But Third-Best on ABC (UPDATED) — Sports Media Watch



NBA Announces 9-Year Extension With ESPN, Turner, Through 2025

The massive increase in TV money is a direct result of the NBA’s recent resurgence. The current contract was signed in 2007, with the league coming off the lowest rated NBA Finals ever. The $930 million annual rights fee marked ‘only’ a 22% increase over the previous deal ($765M).

In the seven years since that contract was signed, regular season and playoff ratings improved dramatically. The NBA Finals averaged a double-digit rating each year from 2010 to 2013, topping the World Series in five of the last six years. The conference finals set records in 2011 (on TNT) and 2012 (on ESPN). ABC’s coverage of the shortened 2012 regular season was the most-watched on any network since the shortened 1999 regular season.



The players were principally responsible for that seven-year resurgence. Kevin Garnett‘s 2007 arrival in Boston rekindled the Celtics/Lakers rivalry, which started the league on its path back to relevance. Then, LeBron James‘ 2010 decision to sign with the Miami Heat kicked off four years of an unhinged media and fan backlash that sent ratings soaring.

The new TV deal comes nearly three years after NBA owners successfully engineered a massive redistribution of wealth that reduced the players’ share of basketball-related income to 50 percent. That was predicated on claims that the league was in dire financial health with most of the teams losing money. The players or owners can opt out of the current collective bargaining agreement in 2017, and another lockout is widely expected.

NBA Announces 9-Year Extension With ESPN, Turner, Through 2025 — Sports Media Watch

Guess what player was featured in 2011 and 2012 conf finals that broke TV records?




I don't see much Kobe on there

also

The legacy of LeBron's 'Decision' one year later

Record-Setting NBA Ratings

The NBA was must-see TV during the 2010-11 regular season. Ratings were up across the board as basketball fans were glued to their television to see how Miami’s Big Three would impact the rest of the league. The NBA on TNT averaged 2.45 million total viewers during the regular season, up 42 percent from 2009-10 and the largest regular season audience in network history. It remains to be seen if the NBA can keep up the strong ratings following the current lockout.

The legacy of LeBron's 'Decision' one year later

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Stfu LeBron has kept the league afloat when he came ratings were in the tank

Nope, LeBron has been the ultimate showman since 2003, one of the most entertaining players in league history bar none.

U are citing a lobsided Finals featuring the Cavs and fukking Spurs and the Finals that took place in a bubble during a year of pandemic and social turmoil where ratings are down across all sports and entertainment in another lobsides series in the cord cutting era.

LeBron was part of the highest rated Finals since Jordan retired
NBA Finals has most watched Game 1 since 1998

In fact this sub forum would be dead if it wasn’t for LeBron. Skip Bayless would be a lot less richer. PTI and Around the Horn wouldn’t have as much to talk about.

This nikka was literally the economy of Cleveland while he was there
Cleveland has 300 million reasons to want LeBron to stay

Most of his career he’s been a small market player not in Chicago or Los Angles or New York

What’s all this pornhub shyt you talking got to do with Bron’s Bam Bam Bigelow style of playing ball?

 

[ISO]

What’s all this pornhub shyt you talking got to do with Bron’s Bam Bam Bigelow style of playing ball?

Us LeBron fans enjoy seeing flashy passing, 30 footers, explosive tomahawk dunks and posterizations, post fadeaways, muscling lay-ups through contact, chase down blocks, and top flight end to end speed going coast to coast.

LeBron has undoubtedly been one of the biggest draws in the history of the sport.

I’m not sure wtf you talking about but go on with that bullshyt