This is what happens when you spit in the eye of hard working Americans and embrace Communist China. Why should anybody watch a bunch of millionaires calling us racist and worse.
The NBA Finals tipped off a few months late in 2020, and boy do the earliest TV ratings reflect the affects of coronavirus. Game 1 of the 2020 NBA Finals settled for a 2.1 rating among adults 18-49 and 5.3 million total viewers. Now, those averages will rise significantly when final Nielsen data becomes available, but they are currently about half of what last year’s comparable preliminary data estimated for ABC. Mind you, that’s WITH the return of LeBron James to the Finals. (The 2019 NBA Finals were already down quite a bit in ratings with no LeBron and one Canadian team.) Also Read: Why ABC's NBA Finals Face Uphill Battle in TV Ratings - Despite LeBron James and the Lakers ABC finished first in the key adults 18-49 demographic last night in primetime. Fox is currently No. 1 in total viewers thanks to “The Masked Singer,” but that ranking will probably change when final, time zone-adjusted numbers arrive. For now, ABC was first in ratings with a 1.8 rating/10 share in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic and second in total viewers with an average of 4.8 million, according to preliminary numbers. Fox was second in ratings with a 1.4/8 and...
No fans, no cheering, no atmosphere exposes the game for what it is. It looks silly. It's a bunch of guys running around putting a ball in a hoop.
The illusion is gone. We've now seen behind the curtain. It's a bunch of racist idiots running back and forth, putting a ball in a hoop.
The excitement of sports isn’t the sport itself it’s the energy of the crowd.
This is what happens when you spit in the eye of hard working Americans and embrace Communist China. Why should anybody watch a bunch of millionaires calling us racist and worse.
FUCKING. DELUSIONAL.
How can they blame coronavirus? Everyone being locked at home with nowhere to go and nothing to do should mean more viewers
It's clear that half of NBA viewers dropped dead from COVID-19. Or something.
Get Woke...
Instead of focusing on making the sport more watchable, watch them spin this into "proving" their fans were racists all along.