The NBA is unwatchable. A heartfelt thread by your friend, MM

Goddamn there are a lot of you who dedicate time to one team's out of the 30 in a league that you are contending is an unwatchable product.

 

Interesting take all things considered. Do you ever take a step back and consider how much time YOU dedicate to analyzing (and over analyzing) one team out of 30 in a league that we contend is an unwatchable product? It's a question that has to be asked in light of your observation of the rest of us.......

 

I find the games to be watchable. By itself, I think I've watched Shaedon Sharpe's dunk from last night about 100 times.

 

I love the NBA. I talk basketball with family and friends a lot. They love the game. Sure some things could be improved but the league is very watchable for myself and a lot of people I know.

So I don't find it strange that I spend a good amount of time on my favorite team's official forum. I think it's weird that people would spend time complaining and I mean a lot of time, instead of just not paying attention to the sport at all anymore, if it is so unwatchable.

No, I think all of you saying it's unwatchable are being hyperbolic. You likely find it less watchable or maybe you really aren't watching and for some crazy reason still come to this forum to constantly discuss the sport, that you aren't watching.

 

We're all entitled to our opinions. As a much younger man I immersed myself in the Blazers, riding out some incredibly boring and predictable losing seasons until Paul Allen bought the team and we were viable again. Then the landscape changed (Thanks to David "Only Big Markets Matter" Stern) as I pointed out. The NBA literally gamed the rules to handcuff small market, deep pocket owners like Paul Allen because those owners had no problem spending for talent. I'm glad you are surrounded with Blazer (and NBA) fans. But that doesn't make those of us who aren't impressed with the current product any less wrong. I'm just tired of watching a less than entertaining style of basketball (by an entire league) and waiting for a literal miracle to occur before the Blazers will ever be relevant again. And at my age, if I don't have a team in the mix, there is no point even watching.

 

Once (regardless of the subject) a certain poster weighs in on a topic being debated is all the fault of those damn Commie Libs, that thread has pretty much jumped the shark/swirling the drain.

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If I’m not mistaken before David Stern only about 30% of games were even broadcast. And there was a shit national TV deal. Games were tape delayed or not shown at all. Not to mention a really bad cocaine problem across the league. I don’t things were ass glorious as some on here think.

 

Still could be me…. Ah fuck it, my life is too short to care. I love almost all of you

 

This Wolves vs Lakers game is fantastic. Definitely watchable.

 

I'm not saying those days were glorious. Just saying that Stern threw the small market teams like Portland under the bus because the sad truth is that the small market teams are ratings losers......unless they hit the Powerball multiple times like San Antonio. I am a Portland Trailblazer fan first. The rest of the NBA is pretty much white noise.....

 

Regular season the NBA is better than MLB in ratings, though the distance between the NFL and even College Football to the NBA is massive and the difference between NBA and MLB is pretty small. The playoffs are a different story as MLB is higher than the NBA as far as I could tell as the early rounds are tough to get great numbers for. The World Series vs. Finals is pretty much a dead even heat over the years with MLB in 2016 drawing more viewers than any Finals series since Jordan capped off his 2nd 3 peat in 1998.

The facts seem to be that aside from the NFL and to a lesser degree College Football, no other sport is a 'national sport' but instead becoming very regionalized. MLB has a bit of a head start on the NBA in this but hoops is following closely behind because of a number of factors like too many games, the sport radically shifting from what it has been because of analytics, and quite honestly the drama/off season part of the sport is a lot of times more interesting than the actual games. Personally I know what's going on the NBA but more from reading online and listening to podcasts. I think I've watched maybe two games all season and neither was start to finish, hell I've watched more college hoops than I have NBA.

 

Again with the TV ratings. MLB and "Football" BETTER get good TV ratings because their audience is people in old folks' homes with no access to the internet.

Meanwhile, you KNOW the NBA is the top US sports league outside of the US (except maybe in Japan and parts of South America). Nobody anywhere else gives a flying fuck about "football" because IT'S A STUPID SPORT. (Losers will have Superbowl parties in Europe but that's mainly about the halftime show, and those are the people who dream of coming to Disneyworld.)

 

I honestly believe Stern has passed down his grudge against us because of the Sports gambling fiasco from the early 90s! Shit, he took our state to court over it.

 

Yeah, the NBA wants to be the only one who controls what games the refs throw.

 

Did you watch the NBA growing up? Not JUST the Blazers? Maybe that’s what is going on here. This might be a collection of BLAZER fans, not NBA fans and that’s cool, I understand that.
I used to squeeze 3 NBA games onto VHS and rewatch em in the summer. CBS games of the week back then on the weekends…always either the Bucks, Celtics or Sixers and then a western conference game. TBS games. My mom still has all those VHS tapes in boxes in their basement. 100s of em. In my neighborhood if we weren’t PLAYING basketball every day, we would all come over to my house and WATCH. Even games we knew the scores to. So maybe that’s where I fit…..

 

Well that I don’t believe in. The whole “refs have it out for us” thing, I just don’t roll with.

 

I was joking more than anything. I don't think the refs have it out for us. But the Lakers have been given too many questionable calls against small market teams for me to believe there's not SOMETHING to it.

 

Do you where your tinfoil hat at your daughter’s games or leave in the car?

 

I keep it on. It really brings out my eyes.