Monster NFL TV Rating For Bills-Chiefs
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Piff Perkins
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That's just how the NBA markets itself which isn't good most of the times. Just like how extremely small market Green Bay is never trashed because of its size -honestly I don't think Goodell league allows it- as its hailed on the networks as "The Frozen Tundra" "The House That Lombari Built" and "We can't wait to get to Green Bay to work the game", etc... while the very next program -maybe first take- will lead off the show with SAS crying and bytching if he has to do a game in Milwaukee or Cleveland
They can't make every 82 game important as a 17 game NFL season but they could clean up a lot of the other bullshyt that hurts the product
Also the NFL protects and mythologizes their product. You don't see ESPN talking heads shytting on the PRODUCT. They may quibble over players and narratives but the brand is never touched. In the NBA you've got a media class full of bitter former players and guys who never played, who trash the league nonstop. TNT is insufferable. SAS and the ESPN dudes are insufferable. It's nonstop complaining about the league, how things were better x years ago, who is soft, who doesn't play hard, crying over 3 point shots, etc. NFL would have gotten Shaq and company fired years ago in a similar situation.
The other problem is too many games. I'm not talking about the season BTW, I'm talking the playoffs. The only reason the first round is 7 games is because of TV $$$. I remember best of 5 games on NBC...that shyt was tense. You either had a team smoke their opponent and get the extra rest, or you had a top seed taken to the brink thanks to some heroics or bonehead plays. Now everything goes 6-7 games and it feels meaningless because you can tell the better team is coasting. Win the first 2 home games, lose the road games, etc. Make that shyt 5 and if your mind isn't right, you're going home early. You should have to EARN playing a 7 game series...in the second round. First should be 5.
Divisions don’t matter in the NBA because that’s what players, fans & media all asked for.
Born2BKing
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"I'm so glad I decided to boycott the NFL, it's affecting their ratings." 
David_TheMan
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They dont matter because of the media talking heads not the fans.
There were a lot of fans, like myself, that were against it because it would devalue the regular season.
Just like silvers plan of expanding the playoffs with a play in and potentialy ignoring conferences and seeding outright based on record ig oring conference designation.
Silver has done everything wrong and taken the nba back a decade in progress with his want to make the nba international and soccer like.
Greenhornet
A God Among Kings
compare arenas that hold 20k people to 70-90k brehs
underestimate white people being 70% of the 579 million population and having football be their main sport
underestimate white people being 70% of the 579 million population and having football be their main sport
That's just how the NBA markets itself which isn't good most of the times. Just like how extremely small market Green Bay is never trashed because of its size -honestly I don't think Goodell league allows it- as its hailed on the networks as "The Frozen Tundra" "The House That Lombari Built" and "We can't wait to get to Green Bay to work the game", etc... while the very next program -maybe first take- will lead off the show with SAS crying and bytching if he has to do a game in Milwaukee or Cleveland
They can't make every 82 game important as a 17 game NFL season but they could clean up a lot of the other bullshyt that hurts the product
Absolutely. It's how the NBA allows itself to be marketed. Goodell gave ESPN Jags vs Jets Monday Night Football games for years as punishment for talking shyt. ESPN's current president basically apologized to get better games again a few years ago when he got appointed. Silver could absolutely do the same, but he refuses to. Instead, he's allowed his sport to become more about trade porn and tanking discussions.
At least Stern would pop up on a show and pop shyt back. People talk fly about Goodell, but he really has become the best commission in terms of the product and he makes sure all of the broadcast partners stay on code. They don't even play with it a little bit, SAS will pop fly about the Cowboys and Shannon will get into it about specific players, but don't nobody propose trades in the media. No one suggests star players should leave one city for a "major" market meanwhile Silver is letting EVERYTHING fly. It would be shytty to be a Sac or San Antonio or Portland fan and have to hear every single week you're trading a young star/multiple players for someone who doesn't even want to show up for the team he's on. Why would you be loyal to any team?
24 black mambas
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I'd probably watch the NBA if their playoffs were one and done
The NBA had the same division rules as the NFL. Division winners automatically get the top 3 seeds in the conference.
Then the 06 playoffs happened, and a 42 win Nuggets team got a higher seed than a 60 win Mavs squad because they won their division and it resulted in the two best teams in the West having to play each other in the 2nd round. People, and not just the media, complained that they shouldn’t have had to play before the WCF so they changed the rules so winning the division only guaranteed homecourt but not a top 3 seed.
Then the 2015 playoffs happened. The Blazers get homecourt because they won their division, even though they had the 6th best record in the conference. That results in the Spurs & Clippers having to play each other in the 1st round. Folks, including those on this site, complained that they shouldn’t have had to play that early. NBA listened and they changed the rules so that divisions didn’t dictate playoff seeding.
So again, divisions don’t matter because that’s what fans & media asked for.
Niccas was making exceptions for their home teams and all types of shytThe NFL boycott shyt on here a few years ago was one of the most unintentional funny things. In one threads nikkas wasabout not watching the NFL but you’ll see that same poster all in the game threads that same exact week
David_TheMan
Banned
Again the media talking heads pushed for it not fans as a whole again, there are many of us that were against the change because it was going to diminish the value of the regular season.
Also again look said before there were those of us who did not like the fact that they expanded the first round to reduce upsets, which also increases the value of seeding and regular season performance.
David_TheMan
Banned
shytty because the nba doesnt have enough teams to do single elimation.
