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Originally Posted by KC_Connection
Sport viewership in general was way down across the board in 2020. Check any sporting event you can find from that year and you'll see a similar effect. With respect to the NBA specifically, I remember some trying to blame it on the BLM stuff at the time, but of course that had nothing to do with anything. Everyone was just watching less stuff during the pandemic.
My suggestion would be to go look at the ratings in 2016 and 2017 (and then the significant dropoff in 2019 when it was Warriors/Raptors instead of Warriors/LeBron).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_Fi...vision_ratings |
I know that the pandemic argument was coming... but if lebron was such a draw don't you think he'd get more viewership than the lowest in the modern era. Oh, that just doesn't fit your narrative.
As for your significant drop off to the raptors/Warriors series. You do realize that one of those teams was in Canada and doesn't count toward the numbers you are referring to, right? And the drop off was only about 2 mil from Curry and Durant v lebron to Curry and 12 mins of Durant v kawhi?