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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
But that was before the dawn of satellite TV and 600 channels.
The NBA will never return to the ratings of the 80's but rights fees continue to ascend.
Basketball, like baseball, has too many games and too many teams to get the kind of ratings each did back in the 70's and 80's.
Personally, I think the game has improved both in the arena and on TV. Theses guys are just so ****ing big and so ****ing graceful in person. It's like they're a different species of human beings, altogether.
Seriously.
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Good points, I'll defer to what I assume is your industry knowledge on the workings of the ratings.
What I do know is that I don't see any kids in any of my 3 boy's circles wearing NBA jerseys anymore, no posters of NBA players on their walls, they don't talk about the games or even care about going to them.
I'm glad you enjoy today's NBA. I get nothing from it. And I used to love the NBA. Would sneak downstairs past my bedtime to watch playoffs when I was a kid. For me the game has lost it's toughness, lost it's credibility, lost it's mystic. Now it's just a bunch of grunts running up and down for a few months until playoffs start.