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The NBA crew to the rest of this board (I know, I know, "there's nothing else to talk about...")

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Pretty much all professional sports has a problem on the horizon. Ratings are down and attendance is down, meaning interest is down. All of this contributes towards the costs of tickets, ads and of course, the revenues derived from TV contracts. If people quit watching or going to games, they aren't going to fork out their hard-earned cash for caps, jerseys and t-shirts.

Personally I feel like the NBA might take it harder than the others because of the unsolvable competitive imbalance. The other sports at least have a process for teams to rebuild and succeed, if they do it right. But in the NBA, you can do everything great and still see your young stars racing to get out of town. Then you try to do everything right all over again.

We might be witnessing the beginning of the demise of a bunch of golden gooses. The first step is acknowledging there is a problem. Seeing how the NFL ignored the fan backlash from the anthem protests for the entire season and the NBA is deathly quiet about the competitive issues that exist today, I'm not holding my breath expecting to see seemingly critical problems get addressed.
 
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WinginFlorida said:
Pretty much all professional sports has a problem on the horizon. Ratings are down and attendance is down, meaning interest is down. All of this contributes towards the costs of tickets, ads and of course, the revenues derived from TV contracts. If people quit watching or going to games, they aren't going to fork out their hard-earned cash for caps, jerseys and t-shirts.

Personally I feel like the NBA might take it harder than the others because of the unsolvable competitive imbalance. The other sports at least have a process for teams to rebuild and succeed, if they do it right. But in the NBA, you can do everything great and still see your young stars racing to get out of town. Then you try to do everything right all over again.

We might be witnessing the beginning of the demise of a bunch of golden gooses. The first step is acknowledging there is a problem. Seeing how the NFL ignored the fan backlash from the anthem protests for the entire season and the NBA is deathly quiet about the competitive issues that exist today, I'm not holding my breath expecting to see seemingly critical problems get addressed.
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Agreed. Professional sports in general is experiencing a rash of fan apathy. I was a huge NFL fan but I watched very few games last year and will probably watch fewer this year.


I watched zero basketball this year.
 
#2,980
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Glitch said:
Agreed. Professional sports in general is experiencing a rash of fan apathy. I was a huge NFL fan but I watched very few games last year and will probably watch fewer this year.


I watched zero basketball this year.
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Fantasy football is the only reason it hasnt went off the cliff.
 
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Glitch said:
I've scrolled past more basketball posts than VN could ever post. The entire NBA is garbage. I know it's the off season, but do we really have to do this again?
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You didn't scroll past that one though. :)
 
#2,988
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Glitch said:
The NFL will find a way to mess that up too. They are clueless.
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And it wasn't that long ago the NFL literally couldn't do anything wrong.

I'm sure the NBA is reveling in the fact that LeBron's free agency had put them front and center of page 1 of the sports section for weeks on end. Yet all it was really doing was masking the very real issues they simply can't face.
 
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WinginFlorida said:
Pretty much all professional sports has a problem on the horizon. Ratings are down and attendance is down, meaning interest is down. All of this contributes towards the costs of tickets, ads and of course, the revenues derived from TV contracts. If people quit watching or going to games, they aren't going to fork out their hard-earned cash for caps, jerseys and t-shirts.

Personally I feel like the NBA might take it harder than the others because of the unsolvable competitive imbalance. The other sports at least have a process for teams to rebuild and succeed, if they do it right. But in the NBA, you can do everything great and still see your young stars racing to get out of town. Then you try to do everything right all over again.

We might be witnessing the beginning of the demise of a bunch of golden gooses. The first step is acknowledging there is a problem. Seeing how the NFL ignored the fan backlash from the anthem protests for the entire season and the NBA is deathly quiet about the competitive issues that exist today, I'm not holding my breath expecting to see seemingly critical problems get addressed.
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I think that professional and college sports are about to price themselves out of market share. Ticket prices have skyrocketed and fans are just not willing to pony up as much.
 
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Fans suffer from all or nothing with most things, Hurd included.

FACTS: He was a very hard runner. He had terrible offensive lines to play behind. The scheme was not to his strength. He lacked great vision that elite RB's require. Not once did he display the alleged top end speed that was advertised... not once. He quit on everyone when the going got tough.
 
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nicksjuzunk said:
Fans suffer from all or nothing with most things, Hurd included.

FACTS: He was a very hard runner. He had terrible offensive lines to play behind. The scheme was not to his strength. He lacked great vision that elite RB's require. Not once did he display the alleged top end speed that was advertised... not once. He quit on everyone when the going got tough.
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Well said.
 
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drvenner said:
I think that professional and college sports are about to price themselves out of market share. Ticket prices have skyrocketed and fans are just not willing to pony up as much.
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And it's not just the ticket prices, it's $25 to park, $8 for a beer, $6 for a hot dog. You want a souvenir for your 2 kids? There's an ATM near the bathroom...
 
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When is this soccer doo doo gonna be over? Ain't nothing but a bunch of pencil necks kicking a ball around. Bring on SEC Media Days for crying out loud.
 
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WinginFlorida said:
And it's not just the ticket prices, it's $25 to park, $8 for a beer, $6 for a hot dog. You want a souvenir for your 2 kids? There's an ATM near the bathroom...
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Prices will stay the way they are until people stop going and buying that stuff.

When enough people do it, prices will drop. Until then there’s no incentive for teams to drop prices
 
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