The Los Angeles Lakers celebrate their win over the Miami Heat after game six of the 2020 NBA Finals. Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports
The last game of the NBA Finals - arguably the most important game of any NBA season - posted ratings that were about 66% lower than last year's Game 6, according to Breitbart. It is the latest bad news in a stunning collapse in ratings for the league and, specifically, for the NBA Finals series this year.
For comparison, Sunday night's Seahawks versus Vikings regular season NFL game, featuring one team that hasn't won a game all year, had nearly twice the views of the game where LeBron James clinched his fourth NBA Championship, according to ShowBuzzDaily.
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WNU Editor: I am not a basketball fan, but I have watched every NBA final for the past 20 years. Not this year. Could not even be bothered. I am not surprised that the Sunday night football game had more viewers than this NBA final. Bottom line. If you go woke, you will go broke. The bottom survey pretty well sums up why some people are becoming more and more "turned-off" with professional sports.
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Maybe the players need profit sharing? When revenue and profits go down 66%, their income would go down 66%.
Their base salary is high enough and maybe not based on ratings. Before profits decline low enough and long enough that owners have to negotiate lower salaries for players, the league will fix the messaging, so that players never feel the brunt of their antics. So they will never "get it."
This is a mistake.
http://www.espn.com/nba/salaries
Maybe their salary needs to be 100K plus some amount based on profits? The players would want the fans to be entertained. They would want the experience to be great from the seating to the concessions (workers) to cleanliness and presentation (janitorial staff).
I'm hearing a dog whistle. Stick to sporps. I mean sprots.
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