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Old 09-29-2011, 12:55 PM  
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How will you react if the NBA cancels its season?
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It doesn’t necessarily matter what NBA commissioner David Stern meant when he said on Wednesday that the upcoming weekend of negotiations between players and the league would determine “whether they can either have a season or not have a season.” Maybe it was a threat, as it sure seemed to be—a grand warning that if they did not accede to a deal, players would miss out on an entire year of salary. But the league is insisting it was not a threat, so maybe it wasn’t.

It’s not really important, though, because we don’t need any pronouncements from Stern to notice that the pages are slipping away on the NBA’s calendar, and with both sides reporting on Wednesday that no progress had been made, at the very least, the beginning of the season is in jeopardy.


The sides will meet again on Friday, and considering it will take about two weeks to iron out the details of a collective bargaining agreement, it’s clear that without significant movement this weekend, the season won’t start on time on Nov. 1. During the 1998 lockout, the league started canceling regular-season games on October 13, and that timeline should hold up this time around.

Canceling the season is still an option, but it’s on the back-burner. There are some who believe that once some games are missed, owners will be willing to axe the whole season, as the NHL did in ’05. But bear in mind, losing an entire season would not just be a hit to the players. It would be a big hit to the owners, too. There is a provision in the league’s television contract that pays the league even in the event of lost games, something that surely increases the owners’ bargaining power in the early stages of a lockout. Owners will still be feeding from their deepest trough, while players miss paychecks.

There is a catch, though—if the entire season is canceled, the owners will have to return the television money, plus interest. The threat of the season being canceled can be arrived at just by looking at the calendar and noting the lack of progress the two sides have made. But there would be no point to a preemptive canceling of the season on Stern’s part.

SI.com’s Sam Amick reports that Stern has laid out a Jan. 7 drop-dead date for cancellation of the season. That was the same deadline in ’99, when a scattered and shortened 50-game season began on February 5—with very negative results. Attendance fell by 2.2 percent, television ratings fell sharply and NBA Finals ratings went from 18.7 to 11.3. That was largely because of the retirement of Michael Jordan and the breakup of the Bulls, but still, it took a long time for the NBA to recover its popularity.

The league last season regained its relevance among fans. Players have a lot at stake in the case of a canceled season. But while owners might be in a better financial position to withstand a long lockout, they saw the NBA finally climb out of its post-Jordan doldrums, and they have a lot at stake here, too.

A canceled season is still a possibility. But we’re a long way from that point.
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Old 09-29-2011, 02:10 PM   #91
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Old 09-29-2011, 02:10 PM   #92
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NCAA bball has a much bigger fanbase IMO.....fanbase will not suffer. NBA is still trying to repair it's image from the retirement of MJ.
Bullshit. Maybe to you it hasn't but last years ratings and interest were higher than it's ever been. 2010 free agency stirred up a ton of interest as well. NBA never received coverage in the offseason like that.

That's why this lockout is so stupid. The NBA is going to kill all of its momentum that is has built up the past few years by locking this season out.

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Old 09-29-2011, 02:10 PM   #93
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Old 09-29-2011, 02:11 PM   #94
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Oklahoma city is closer than Chicago? I know it's only about an 8 hour drive.
OKC is about 350 miles away and Chicago is a little over 500... and I-35 to OK has a 75mph speed limit, while Illinois is like 45 (or, maybe it just feels like that).
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Old 09-29-2011, 02:18 PM   #97
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Something else no one around here watches: hockey.
Without the NBA around, I am going to start watching the NHL more. Since I get most of the Blues games and they are basically like every other team I root for it - should be an easy transition.
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lol that is crazy. They had one of their more successful seasons this past year.
We've been through this before. You go ahead and pull the ratings for the NBA during the MJ years then pull the ratings since then and let us know what you find.
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College basketball is an absolutely abysmal product with a great tournament.
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I get that but what do you watch in April, May, and June? Next year will have a decent Royals team for the first time in forever, but in years past April-July would be a sports desert without the NBA.
April thru July it is light out until like 9PM man. You don't watch basketball. You do shit outside then go to bed. Pro basketball blows.
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Bullshit. Maybe to you it hasn't but last years ratings and interest were higher than it's ever been. 2010 free agency stirred up a ton of interest as well. NBA never received coverage in the offseason like that.

That's why this lockout is so stupid. The NBA is going to kill all of its momentum that is has built up the past few years by locking this season out.

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Mainly. There are some mexicans and whites scattered in there too.
Are you pretending that the black population is not the demographic to which the NBA appeals and targets?
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We've been through this before. You go ahead and pull the ratings for the NBA during the MJ years then pull the ratings since then and let us know what you find.
No doubt during MJ years the regular season and Finals ratings were better but this past season the NBA as a whole had their best season ever.

The NBA finals ratings were the best in 10-12 years.

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Coming off a record-breaking regular season in terms of television ratings, the NBA continues to surge in the postseason, with TNT announcing more record-breaking numbers for the first round.

According to a fact sheet released by the network, TNT, through the first round, has delivered the “most-watched and highest-rated postseason to date in cable television history.” TNT averaged a 2.7 Nielsen rating, up 29 percent from last year’s 2.1. And TNT claims 4.179 million total viewers per broadcast, up 32 percent from last year’s 3.174 million.

The regular season saw TNT garner its most viewers in 27 years of broadcasting the league. TNT averaged a 1.6 rating during the season, up 45 percent over last year, and brought in 2.453 million total viewers per broadcast. The second-best season in Turner’s NBA history was 1995-96, when 1.885 million average viewers tuned in.

This comes on the heels of ESPN/ABC’s announcement last week of its own big increases in viewership. For ABC’s first three playoff broadcasts, the average audience was 5.844 million, up from 4.601 million last year. ESPN averaged 3.582 million viewers for its first seven playoff broadcasts, up from 2.914 million last year.



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No doubt during MJ years the regular season and Finals ratings were better but this past season the NBA as a whole had their best season ever.

The NBA finals ratings were the best in 10-12 years.
Like I said, the NBA ratings went downhill after MJ and have never gone back to the level they were.
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