NBA TV Ratings Are Tanking, Nine Games On TNT And ESPN Have Failed To Get A Million Viewers

[Justise M]

People having kids and jobs isn’t a new phenomenon for anyone other than the people who were young 20 years ago. The games didn't start airing later. You just found other shyt that takes up your time. When you were young you had exams, school, after school events, homework, and if your parents were strict, a bedtime. That didn't stop us from sneaking in a game.

True, the older I get the harder it is to stay up late and be able to be productive the next day. Fact of life. I hope the young kids are as into the NBA as we were back in the day, or the league is in trouble if they relying on the 30+ crowd

 

[nieman]

MJ’s 1995 “retirement” and automatic decline in numbers only to revive when he came back shows they made the same mistake. Those names you mentioned didnt mean shyt to help viewership.

But it's not like they didn't try. Whether or not it was a success on that level is a different argument, but the attempt was there. They marketed players, had entire campaigns & storylines around those players and their teams.

And MJ retired in '93. Shaq, Penny & Webber were all heavily marketed as those next up. That '93-'94 season was storylined as the Knicks vs Suns Finals for the "now that no Jordan, who wins" season. That season's top player push was all Penny, with rookie Grant Hill as the "next Jordan." You must not remember Penny's push. It was up there, one of the main reasons Shaq went into diva mode.

 

[YoungMoneyCashMoneyBoy]

But it's not like they didn't try. Whether or not it was a success on that level is a different argument, but the attempt was there. They marketed players, had entire campaigns & storylines around those players and their teams.

And MJ retired in '93. Shaq, Penny & Webber were all heavily marketed as those next up. That '93-'94 season was storylined as the Knicks vs Suns Finals for the "now that no Jordan, who wins" season. That season's top player push was all Penny, with rookie Grant Hill as the "next Jordan." You must not remember Penny's push. It was up there, one of the main reasons Shaq went into diva mode.

'93-'94 was penny's rookie season. Grant wasn't in the league.

 

[Edub]

America loves Bron AD and the Lakers.....what’s news here?