You gotta understand, these shows aren't trying to teach you, they're trying to reach you.
The human mind is built to consume story structures: beginning, middle, and end.
Beginning is the set up, the intro, the hook--they tell you why you should care.
Middle is the conflict, where you're on the edge of your seat.
End is the climax, where you get the conflict resolution, and it leads into a new beginning.
The Harden Saga is a great repeating story line:
Beginning: he wants out of philly
Middle: cold war in philly "ill never speak to morey again"
End: traded to the clippers, leading to a new beginning
beginning: he's in LA, will he continue his same play style
middle: were living this right now, tune in tonight to see how it goes
end: playoffs, how will he do
This happens on a micro level every night, or at least, leagues want it to: every game should have a narrative leading into it, which is what the announcers try to tee up at the beginning, the middle is the game, and the end is the final score--some form of conflict resolution that hopefully leaves questions unanswered to be answered next game.
Analysis, breakdowns, all that shyt--that is a whole different level than how a typical consumer engages with a product, or wants to, from an entertainment perspective, because there's no conflict... unless you have a ridiculously, long, nuanced runway into each topic.
Like, the Pistons coach is running too many of one set of plays or whatnot--ok, that's the set up... thats the beginning... then the middle, you're calling the game.. he runs too many of those plays again... and the resolution is.....? Join us tomorrow night to see if it happens again?
Nah, that's not gonna hook people.
The media exists to make money. And the way to make money is to sell stories. And the way to sell stories is to generate conflict. And the way to generate conflict is through pettiness and interpersonal drama. End of the day, you don't NEED any of these shows, the announcers, the play by play, none of it. If you buy tickets to a game, you go to the arena, none of that is present. That shyt doesn't exist to supplement the product, it exists as it's OWN product.
". Maybe if they focused on more teams they would have more stories. 
