Posted on 10/05/2020 3:53:21 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
Instead of a methodical seven game march towards an NBA championship, the 2020 NBA Finals have turned into a methodical march to the historic depths of television watching futility.
Game 1 of the Finals brought with it the lowest viewership since 1994, and Game 2 was the lowest ever on record. But wait! That was before Game 3, which beat out Game 2 by becoming the least watched Finals game in NBA history.
Game 2 earned a paltry 4.5 million viewers, while Game 3 submarined that number by peaking at 4.395 million. Mind you, this is a nearly 70% decline from last year’s Finals numbers which included a team from Canada. Not only that, unlike this year’s audience, last year’s audience was not on lockdown and did not include the game’s best player, LeBron James.
As Breitbart’s Warner Todd Huston reports:
This horrific collapse should not be surprising after polls have found that many fans now believe that basketball is far too political.
A Sept. 2 Harris poll found that 39 percent of respondent who identified as sports fans felt that the league was too political. And another 19 percent said that they had turned off pro basketball because of the NBA’s deep links to China.
The 2020 post-COVID season launched with the heavy-handed presence of the anti-American Black Lives Matter agenda.
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How low can they go?
I don’t even know (or care) who’s playing.
It’s a social justice shxt show so I expect it will go pretty low !!
I guess basketball fans rather watch basketball or Little House on the Prairie than BLM/NBA propaganda.
Most accurate poll on where folks stand politically. This actually warms my heart!
“A Sept. 2 Harris poll found that 39 percent of respondent who identified as sports fans felt that the league was too political.”
Too political my Aunt Hattie.
Too many of the players hate whites, America, and our way of life. They are welcome to hip hop straight off into Hell, but they’ll never get another penny from me.
Sweet that Tucker Carlson has more viewers than an NBA final game.
No one but the hard left can stand China La braun James now.
The guy’s too big a knucklehead to understand how much he put his foot in his mouth.
NBA ratings sink! I offer this as a real “poll” as the true state of this election. Like gun and ammo sales... what REAL people think, shown by their actions not some unknown media “sample.”
“..How low can they go?...”
All the way to very bowels of hell would work.
Let’s hope even lower.
Funny you should say that. I watched the pilot of Little House yesterday. I hadn’t seen it since it originally aired.
Don’t forget the huge enthusiastic crowds that meet Trump wherever he goes for his campaigns, even as nobody bothers to turn up for Slow Joe’s campaign stops.
This is true! A bunch of privileged Blacks who are racist against anyone who isn’t Black. Throw Oprah and Michelle in there too....
I am not going to watch them play street ball and crap on my color and my country.
#boycottNBA
Social Justice as a form of entertainment does not seem very popular.
Nonessential Basketball Association
Yet they will continue to push politics & suffer for it and not admit it!
The pain was self inflicted.
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