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mikal
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Really though. Disastrous start. And then 12-3 since then. Interesting team. Probably not NBA Championship level but at least fun to watch again.
i feel that Giannis has finally started posting up more and just, ya know, being the dominant physical specimen that he is instead of jacking up threes and crazy runners and what not. kinda started right around the time they began winning.
mikal
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Yep. It's great when he remembers he can do that. That's why they won the Championship in 2021. And now they are NBA Champions once again. Not even going to tune into the other playoffs this summer now.
NBA Cup needs an atmosphere boost, and Las Vegas might not have the answer
The second annual NBA Cup proved something more is needed. It’s not terrible. It’s just not enough.
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like - yea - no shit.
the Cup has been fine - it's added some interest and intrigue and it actually has accomplished the goal of getting more players to play (outside of Joel Embiid and Kawhi Leonard).
but nobody's just getting up and heading to Vegas for a Tuesday night game in the middle of the holiday season to see their team compete for a trophy you made up 2 years earlier. the buzz ain't there.
so fake it until you make it. pay for fans to go. pay for season ticket holders, super fans, kids, etc. to go to the games in the same way the NCAA helps fly students out to the final four.
mikal
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I saw someone post that it would be cool if the winner of the cup received an entry in the draft lottery or something to add extra incentive. Not sure how that would work but I thought it was a cool idea.NBA Cup needs an atmosphere boost, and Las Vegas might not have the answer
The second annual NBA Cup proved something more is needed. It’s not terrible. It’s just not enough.
like - yea - no shit.
the Cup has been fine - it's added some interest and intrigue and it actually has accomplished the goal of getting more players to play (outside of Joel Embiid and Kawhi Leonard).
but nobody's just getting up and heading to Vegas for a Tuesday night game in the middle of the holiday season to see their team compete for a trophy you made up 2 years earlier. the buzz ain't there.
so fake it until you make it. pay for fans to go. pay for season ticket holders, super fans, kids, etc. to go to the games in the same way the NCAA helps fly students out to the final four.
i don't think getting the teams and/or players to buy in is a problem.
getting the fans to buy in and travel to vegas? quite another issue.
could also very well just need time. it's year two. it's a made up thing. everything is made up at some point - so might just need to artificially create atmosphere.
doing it on a tuesday night in december also isn't going to do that.
mikal
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It's funny because I was at a local tavern while it was on, and I was asking people how they felt after the Bucks won, and only one person was ecstatic. The rest of us were like "well it's cool I guess but we're just happy that we are playing better". So that's where the buy in is at from a group of pretty intense Bucks fans that just experienced a "championship" lol.
phanan
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It would also be nice if fans had more time to prepare to go to Vegas. You aren't getting a lot of turnaround time with the championship game played merely days after the semis. Give it a few weeks, after the holidays, and have it set up for early January.
Exactly. It's not like the final four where it's all college students who would happily drop classes for a free trip to wherever the hell it is.
NBA: Ratings are down, we need to do something.
Also NBA: Let's run out the same aging stars and their mediocre basketball teams on Christmas Day and leave 4 of the 6 best records in the league home because they aren't "draws"
(or, maybe, we've done an awful job of selling the next generation because we've gone to the well on the same old dudes over and over again)
Also NBA: Let's run out the same aging stars and their mediocre basketball teams on Christmas Day and leave 4 of the 6 best records in the league home because they aren't "draws"
(or, maybe, we've done an awful job of selling the next generation because we've gone to the well on the same old dudes over and over again)
Hewson
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To be fair, schedule is set before start of season and at that time nobody would have expected Houston and Memphis to be in that top 6. OKC and Cle are a different story.
Yet the NBA delivered with some pretty damn good games yesterday, showcased the star of tomorrow (Wemby) in the "Mecca" (The NBA's 2nd best Garden), and had a prime-time showdown between the 2 aging stars (LeBron and Steph) in what could be one of their final duals on a big stage that really delivered.
The NFL by contrast fucked with their schedule to get games on a Wednesday, on a streaming service no less, and delivered 2 noncompetitive garbage games.
And will of course win the rating battle, but the NBA product yesterday was 100x better than the NFL product,
Yet the NBA delivered with some pretty damn good games yesterday, showcased the star of tomorrow (Wemby) in the "Mecca" (The NBA's 2nd best Garden), and had a prime-time showdown between the 2 aging stars (LeBron and Steph) in what could be one of their final duals on a big stage that really delivered.
The NFL by contrast fucked with their schedule to get games on a Wednesday, on a streaming service no less, and delivered 2 noncompetitive garbage games.
And will of course win the rating battle, but the NBA product yesterday was 100x better than the NFL product,
Hewson
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Also F Philly.
well they had Beyonce.
and i don't necessarily disagree with a lot of what you said... and yes, LA vs. GSW was a good game.
but we can't keep rolling out washed up old names on shit teams and then wonder why ratings are low.
it's a part of it. if the league doesn't think OKC is worthy of a primetime matchup and wouldn't be a ratings draw - and they're probably right btw - then that's a failure of marketing. the KD / Russ / Harden OKC teams didn't have issues with ratings. SGA is a stud. that team is loaded. they should have been there.
it was also very predictable that LA, GSW and Phoenix would be mediocre at best. Memphis? Last time they had their full team with Ja they were a top 5 team. Shouldn't have been too hard to see that as a possibility. although i get why they also might not want Ja to be in the national TV game - which is another issue.
but NBA has a young star issue. they SHOULD be pushing SGA more. Zion is a dud. Ja is lucky he isn't in jail. Anthony Edwards was supposed to be "the guy" but he's struggling this year and, let's be honest, is kind of an asshole. Tatum's boring. Brown doesn't necessarily WANT to be marketable. And all of the other young stars, frankly, aren't American. And while that shouldn't matter - well, it does.
Toss in way too many threes and a system that encourages teams to be as bad as possible if they want to get good and you get what you have now.
And i get that people aren't that worried at the League Office because non-TV engagement is through the roof, international engagement is as high as it's ever been, and the TV contracts are signed. but the alarm bells should be ringing quite loudly.
Hewson
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I know.
But it's the long term problem of having to constantly rely on dudes in their late 30s to draw ratings that troubles me.
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Kings with the longest winning streak in the league at the moment. Dominant win over the Celtics without Fox. Sabonis with the most rebounds ever in a game.
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