The second most popular answer — selected by 28% of respondents — was “too boring without fans.” Maybe you’re one of those who would qualify that and say it’s boring all the time, but some find it boring because fans aren’t in the arena, even if they are watching from home.
If you look at “What is your favorite sport to watch?” it’s been flat over the last 15 years. The NBA selects 300 fans from the “home” team and their virtual images are broadcast onto the seats of the arena in real time. That seems reasonable. It’s reminiscent to me of the conversation around NFL ratings going down during the Colin Kaepernick kneeling controversy, and that being attributed to Kaepernick when at the same time ratings for NASCAR were going way down.
If you add in the fact that a lot of the star power in the league is in the West. If you add in the fact that Zion Williamson was hurt all year. Which likely means playing amid the coronavirus pandemic. If you add in all of these other factors, maybe it doesn’t get you all the way up to 45 percent, but it gets you some distance of the way there. For three former BYU football stars, Sunday’s NFL action brought about positive results in team wins. Bill Simmons, Zach Lowe discuss Utah Jazz trade ideas, A young Jazz fan finds some big shoes to fill, High school football: 6A/5A/4A/3A/2A state tournament scores and schedules, 2 jailed men charged in 2019 West Valley murder investigation, Utah’s Intermountain Healthcare to merge with Midwest system Sanford Health, BYU basketball picked to finish second in West Coast Conference, Mitt Romney says Amy Coney Barrett up to task amid mistrust in government.
Here’s the video, Reports: NBA aiming to start next season in December, Kamala Harris joins Donovan Mitchell, other NBA stars for roundtable discussion, Rudy Gobert for the No. Why should I? If you value our work, please disable your ad blocker. So if Occam’s razor is that the NBA is declining in popularity domestically, then how do you explain the fact that on this metric of literally whether the NBA is more or less popular, it seems to either be flat or increasingly popular? You could look at ratings for NASCAR going down, if you didn’t know anything about NASCAR, and be like, “Well, they must be protesting. Neither does the bank teller and the pharmacist and the vet. • The sheer number of games. Thanks for signing up! Some 38% of respondents said the league is too political. Considering, for instance, that Trump failed to respond to the coronavirus in a timely way because he said that he didn’t want to piss off China because they were working on some great trade deals. Rumor: NBA could delay 2020-21 season if fan attendance becomes foreseeable originally appeared on NBCSports.com, HBO Sports Boards Antoine Fuqua, Brian Grazer & Chris Paul Doc ‘The Day Sports Stood Still’ About The Impact Of The Pandemic, HBO Lands Doc ‘The Day Sports Stood Still’ From Antoine Fuqua, Brian Grazer and Chris Paul (EXCLUSIVE), Report: NBA wants to hold play-in next season. That’s what it is. The NBA stated a plan to begin next season Dec. 1.
Jordan retired in 1998 and viewership fell dramatically the next year and has never come close to returning to its former heights, even more than two decades later. And it seems like for Jordan, that was a PR crisis that was handled and kind of went away. You can cancel anytime. I think it makes sense for people to discuss matters that are close to their heart, that are influencing their communities, I certainly wouldn’t tell them not to, but there are players who make a tremendous amount of money off of business with China, specifically. I don’t think that’s everybody in the league. Among the ones he cited: that players, coaches, and broadcasters have been highly critical of the United States and its government while remaining mostly silent about China. The NBA audience is younger than in some of the other sports that you’ve cited, and also more nonwhite than for other sports you’ve cited. On this week’s episode of Hang Up and Listen, I spoke with Strauss about the ratings decline, what evidence he sees that politics are a factor, and whether criticism of the NBA’s stance on China is sincere. On one hand, the NBA would like to have as many of its games as possible when fans can attend. Respondents were given 10 choices and allowed to select more than one of them. They don’t have to be MAGA-heads to necessarily see it and be put off by it. Find out the 2019-2020 attendance numbers for every NBA team. And I guess I would say to you, why wouldn’t it have an impact? The league shut down March 11, then returned to finish a shortened season at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando. newsletter, TV ratings have been downtrending for years, Harris poll reveals that 38% of sports fans are watching fewer NBA games, Extensions on the horizon for Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell as Jazz evaluate how to further improve the team, Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert named to fourth straight NBA All-Defensive First Team, Utah Jazz mailbag: Trading Mike Conley for Al Horford and discussing the best use of the MLE, Donald Trump once got dunked on by the Utah Jazz Bear in Salt Lake City. That just seems kind of ridiculous to me. Get all the sports news you need, direct to your inbox. If they want to continue to conduct business with China and not ever talk honestly about the other rival superpower in the world, that’s their prerogative, but it appears to have a domestic cost in the United States that’s fairly intuitive. Some 38% of respondents said the league is too political. NBA mock draft: Where will Michigan State's Cassius Winston, Xavier Tillman go? “There seems to be a taboo against acknowledging certain factors versus acknowledging other, “There’s a contingent that’s legitimately put, A Dream Inside of a Dream Wrapped Inside a Chalupa, been lower than those for pre-bubble games, World Series Hero Brett Phillips Is Living His Best Life, Daniel Jones’ Whoopsie-Daisy Pratfall Was a Gift to America, Why I’ll Miss Daryl Morey, the Loser Who Always Won, I Have Found an Error in the New York Jets’ Playoff Odds. The problem is worse now that superstars are allowed to collude to create super teams. But certainly some players are bigger reapers of rewards through the sneaker companies. But what does that have to do with the pre-pandemic drop? It’s a sky-is-falling routine — the league isn’t going anywhere, despite its many glaring flaws and missteps and a declining product — but there is evidence that it’s losing interest. This facilitates to the next issue ….
Sign up for the That’s what I don’t understand. I think it’s fairly easy to believe. I mean, the superstar players go there every offseason and do a tour of the country, which is why it was so funny to hear so many people in the NBA saying, “It’s far away. The NBA stated a plan to begin next season Dec. 1.
The NBA’s peak years for TV viewership were from 1987 to 1998, when Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan were running the court. Which means no fans in attendance.
I think it’s basic, it’s Occam’s razor. You’re saying that there are a lot of small things that don’t matter, or that don’t explain the drop.
Yeah. Because this is a league where Thabo Sefolosha and Sterling Brown have both been victims of police brutality, where this video just came out of Masai Ujiri being assaulted by a law enforcement official at the moment of greatest triumph for him and his team. It’s laughable, which is why James has been the subject of YouTube videos that show his lack of interest on the defensive end of the court. Adam Silver did not say, “We need to fire Daryl Morey.” Daryl Morey is still the GM of the Rockets, and China’s government appears to badly have wanted him fired. Let’s face it, the vast majority of teams have NO CHANCE of ever winning the championship. Unfortunately, coronavirus leaves no easy answers. What is the argument, or what is the evidence, that this is causing a decline in viewership? Now, do I want to morally be presiding over the NFL? I just think that there seems to be a taboo against acknowledging certain factors versus acknowledging other factors. Why are we avoiding this? The league shut down March 11, then returned to finish a shortened season at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando.
I don’t care. Please try again. But this current thing is getting at something, I think, beyond morality.
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One rumor is that the 2020-21 season start will be pushed past December if there’s a date when it’s known fans can attend — and thus provide gate revenue for teams again.
A new Harris poll reveals that 38% of sports fans are watching fewer NBA games. Like, what are we doing? I think maybe something in between would make a little more sense. And you said the thorniest one is “the political component.” The theory is that some segment of viewers might be turned off because of things players say off the court, or the social justice messages on their jerseys. The third most popular answer — coming in at 19% — is the NBA’s close business relationship with China, which struck a lot of Americans as blatant hypocrisy since the league postures for human rights at home but actively rejects criticism of China, its cash cow. The TV ratings for the 2020 playoffs have been down from the start, and they’ve been worse since the players’ brief boycott.
A new Harris poll reveals that 38% of sports fans are watching fewer NBA games.
After walloping Texas State 52-14 on Saturday night at LaVell Edwards Stadium, BYU rose in the national polls and turned its attention to Western Kentucky’s first-ever visit to Provo.
I don’t deny that it’s possible that what you’re saying is true. What I’m saying is that I don’t think that you saying that it’s obvious means that it’s obvious. There must be people pissed off about these drivers talking about social justice.”.