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08-04-2020, 09:40 PM | #2177 |
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08-05-2020, 10:35 AM | #2179 | |
George Brett shit his pants
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The way the NBA is reffed highly favors floppers and less physical players that are crafy. LeBron is very physical, and gets punished for it. The amount of fouls LeBron should get called on his drives and post ups is way way too low if you compare them to guys like Harden. |
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08-05-2020, 12:10 PM | #2180 | |
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08-05-2020, 12:34 PM | #2181 |
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NBA doing it right so far
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08-05-2020, 12:45 PM | #2182 |
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So glad the NBA is back. Every bar and restaurant here has a Chinese Basketball Association game on in the background and it looks like a shitty rec league game.
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08-05-2020, 01:30 PM | #2183 | |
George Brett shit his pants
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Muscly guys like LeBron (and think of Shaq in the old days) don't ever get enough calls because defenders bounce off of them more and their intimidating stature just creates human bias in calling fouls. |
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08-05-2020, 01:30 PM | #2184 |
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08-05-2020, 03:28 PM | #2185 |
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08-05-2020, 03:35 PM | #2186 | |
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Yeah, it's totally fair to compare ratings back when there were 4 over-the-air networks and only a few cable channels as competition. I mean, holy shit, the NBA rarely broadcasts their games on ABC during the regular season, with the overwhelming majority of games broadcast on ESPN or TNT, so who in their right mind would even compare then to now? Also, teams have locals deals so as an example, I can only watch Lakers games in Los Angeles if I'm a Spectrum Cable TV subscriber (which I am not). Most all of the ESPN and TNT Lakers broadcasts are blacked out in LA, which is home to more than 22 million people. Yeah, totally the same as the 80's. |
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08-05-2020, 03:48 PM | #2187 | |
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The Warriors were actually a God send for the NBA but for the most part ratings went to shit after MJ's Bulls, no matter how much you try to justify it didn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_Fi...more%20rows%20 |
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08-05-2020, 03:57 PM | #2188 | |
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But the Super Bowl's ratings seem to be an exception to that rule. The Super Bowl has remained pretty constant in ratings since the early 70s. However, I imagine that is due to the NFL's increasing popularity balancing out the decrease in sports ratings in general. I bet 50M people watched the Super Bowl last year on some bootleg online stream that the ratings can't account for. Last edited by BWillie; 08-05-2020 at 04:07 PM.. |
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08-05-2020, 03:59 PM | #2189 | |
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And if you are talking at a rest of the world level, the NBA is #1 and far ahead of the NFL and MLB in popularity. |
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08-05-2020, 04:03 PM | #2190 | |
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JFC, you CANNOT compare TV rating from an era in which ALL SPORTS were broadcast on Over-The-Air networks to 2020, when nearly every game competes with 300 channels, phones and other devices. That's like saying "No TV show will EVER match the ratings of I Love Lucy in the 50's". Yeah, no shit, Sherlock. |
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