NBA choked on Christmas Day scheduling.
Two best teams are idle today: Cleveland and OKC.
Instead, we get major markets, “meh” teams, and fading superstars (Lebron, KD, Curry, etc.).
NBA only has fading legends at this point, most of whom have changed teams at least twice to chase a title. It can’t build its product around Euro players like Luka or Jokic, due to skin color. Wemby is still part of team tank (alongside a third of the league’s teams). Boston is boring with its 60 3s per game. Antekumpo (how ever its spelled) and Embiid are part of the “workload management” crowd. The officiating has become atrocious in its inconsistency. And the regular season is so meaningless that the league had to create an ‘early season tournament and trophy’ to entice players (and fans) into pretending to care about games in November.
There is a reason why ratings are down, and that was before the NFL decided to usurp Christmas day.
All excellent points. But right here in Oklahoma, we have a rising superstar (SGA) and a professional team that actually plays hard.
I agree with you FD. The problem is that OKC is just a ‘humble’, blue collar, hard working team (kind of like the Tim Duncan Spurs), and that’s the antithesis of what the NBA media wants to promote.
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