One thing that makes NBA media coverage bad is the disdain for where the finals are played

[DonB90]

You must not remember this scathing article about Jacksonville when it hosted the Super Bowl

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But you're right the NFL nipped that in the bud you never hear shyt like this anymore from NFL media

 

[Long Live The Kane]

It's not that serious

It’s really not…they’ll mention it literally a couple times and is presented as tongue in cheek…unless you’re sitting around consuming hours of peripheral content (podcasts, radio shows, long form articles etc) where these dudes just go on tangents because they literally have hours of time to fill, you’re likely to never hear this…at which point you’re a hardcore fan that’s watching regardless…no effect on the casual viewer

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

You must not remember this scathing article about Jacksonville when it hosted the Super Bowl

Sports Guy: Return of the Super Blog

Bill Simmons heads to Jacksonville with open arms and the hopes of watching the Patriots ascend to greatness.

www.espn.com

But you're right the NFL nipped that in the bud you never hear shyt like this anymore from NFL media

Even this was more about the city lacking the infrastructure to make it work with how spread out everything is and another issue being the lack of hotel rooms as opposed to just being “I wasn’t a bigger flashier market”. I think they had to bring in cruise ships for people to rent rooms to have someplace to stay.

 

[Rasille]

The discussions around the sport is toxic in general. It needs an overhaul and hopefully NBC and Amazon will provide that.

 

[pete clemenza]

Did SAS say anything this time around? He normally does, but they were just in OKC last week and I don't believe he said anything out of pocket, unless I missed it.

 

[Collateral]

We not going to LaLa or South Beach this year?

 

[jdubnyce]

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[Bigwhite2498]

NBA media wasnt nowhere near as toxic in the early 2000s, I didn’t hear anyone in the media bytching about New Jersey, San Antonio, Detroit Cleveland hosting finals and guess what them shyts are still the lowest rated of all time. Y’all overstate how much the media impacts viewers

Stephen a smith wasn’t around then I’m sure he was annoyed back then too

 

[bl2k8]

In the social media era the media absolutely impacts viewers watching teams. You have whole social media accounts talking about they not watching teams because of locations including one of your Lakers fan accounts

These social media accounts aren’t going to dictate the actions of millions of potential casual viewers. This is all bytching within the active nba watchers

 

[hood b. goode]

 

[The_Sheff]

Trust, we are gonna hear Stephen A. Smith complain about spending 2 weeks in OKC & Indianapolis. That's not your job to voice your displeasure. Cover the damn games and stfu.

The NFL conference championship games can be in Green Bay and Indianapolis, but the ppl covering it wouldn't be on that bullshít complaining stuff.

Stephen A job isn’t to cover the game. It’s to give his opinion to people who find him entertaining and drum up clicks.

Once you understand that you will understand what he is doing.