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Apparently NBA Commissioner Adam Silver does not understand that insulting much of the country is a terrible business practice. Look for NBA revenues to tank again in 2021. “The awful Christmas Day ratings strongly suggest that fans have neither forgotten the NBA’s business relationship with slave-labor loving China, nor the league’s hypocritical social justice stances of last season.”
People are tired of watching the highly political @NBA. Basketball ratings are WAY down, and they won’t be coming back. I hope football and baseball are watching and learning because the same thing will be happening to them. Stand tall for our Country and our Flag!!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2020
Humbugged: NBA Christmas Day Ratings Tank ‘Massively’
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The NBA put its best and shiniest presents under the tree of the American television viewer on Christmas Day and America said, no thanks.
The NBA, which uses Christmas Day to showcase their best games and talent to jumpstart their season, had their gifts returned by viewers who were less than enthused.
According to DEADLINE Hollywood:
The National Basketball Association’s day-long celebration of sports led the demos, scoring a 1.1 and 3.74 million total audience for its hours-long programming for ABC and ESPN. That’s the good news – the bad news is that’s down massively from past performances. In a season where the NBA is trying to lure back fans who were turned off by last season’s overt politics and the less-stimulating bubble version of the sport, it shows there’s a lot of ground to make up.
ShowBuzz Daily reports that viewership for the Lakers-Mavs game peaked at 3.959 million. As a point of comparison, last year’s Christmas Day headlining matchup between the Lakers and Clippers averaged just under seven million.
Needless to say, that’s a humbling result for the NBA.
That poor performance reverses what had been a strong opening showing for the league during their first week back.
As Breitbart Sportss reported:
Notably absent from the Association’s Opening Night games was the dramatic and obvious social justice messaging on the court and uniforms. It also appears as though many players stood for the national anthem.
In the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, the NBA cloaked their summer restart with all types of social justice messaging. The courts at the NBA ‘bubble’ in Orlando had Black Lives Matter written on them, and the players wore jerseys with personalized social justice messages.
The awful Christmas Day ratings strongly suggest that fans have neither forgotten the NBA’s business relationship with slave-labor loving China, nor the league’s hypocritical social justice stances of last season.
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91 Comments
3 years ago
Have these brilliant basket ball players realized yet, they are being played?
If ratings keep tanking so will their inflated salaries! They will be out of work!
If they have ANY brains they’d be distancing themselves from politically correct crap and China!
3 years ago
LeBron James faked a hate crime
https://www.outkick.com/los-angeles-police-no-info-six-months-later-lebron-racist-graffiti/
3 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
The press is always so quick to react, and are always fooled. By then, the riots have started.
They get away with this every time.
3 years ago
NBA players are free to play in Communist China. Any takers, Lebron??
NBA PLAYERS DON”T MATTER
3 years ago
Reply to
Worsethanitlooks
Maybe they can give up their millions for a life of labour among the proletariat of Communist China or the DPRK.
After all, the DPRK is self-described (from their official website) as:
‘The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a genuine workers’ state
in which all the people are completely liberated from exploitation and
oppression. The workers, peasants, soldiers and intellectuals are the
true masters of their destiny and are in a unique position to defend
their interests.’
Who can argue with that kinda marketing?
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
They have an advantage over most when it comes to picking peaches.
Just, no slam dunks.
3 years ago
People watch sports for entertainment, not to be b^tched at.
Surprising these folks haven’t figured that out. Well, stupid is what stupid does, er, something like that.
3 years ago
I never got it.
Fun to play. Boring as hell to watch.
3 years ago
Reply to
WadeBaker
It’s more fast action than any other sport, but yeah, more fun to play. Kind of like hockey, without the ice.
3 years ago
Reply to
Bill
I won’t be watching practically any hockey either. 56 games, only division play, and my team plays in the toughest division.
3 years ago
Reply to
ed
I don’t get the NHL channel anymore. They took it away the last time I renewed my cable package. I don’t need to see the Flyers constantly losing 1 goal games. They used to make something called a media guide for all the hockey teams. The Flyers stopped making one about 10 or more years ago. I used to buy it every year. Now I have no clue who everyone on the roster is unless I look it up. Bruins fan, eh? I consider Ratelle, Park and Zanussi for Esposito and Vadnais one of the biggest steals of all time. That trade led to Middleton for Hodge, and that was a doozy for the Bruins.
3 years ago
Reply to
Michael Goldman
I was 9 going on 10 years old growing up just north of Boston when Bobby Orr scored…”The Goal”. So yes…a proud, life-long Bruins and hockey fan. Those trades made the Bruins back then. These days, the minute a player wants more $$ from the Bruins, they are traded away, or they leave….most recent example, Torey Krug.
I’ll watch this year, but just like last year’s “playoffs”….it just won’t be the same.
3 years ago
Reply to
ed
Bobby Orr really was amazing. Way back then, they had famous “Hockey Lines” and they used to have names, and the same 3 people would play out there at the same time almost all the time. Cashman, Esposito and Hodge were the big line for Boston. My Flyers had Barber, Clarke and Leach. I think the Canadians had Lafleur, Beliveau(I think later Lemaire) and Shutt. Buffalo had Robert, Perrault and Martin. They really don’t have things like that anymore.
3 years ago
Reply to
Michael Goldman
For years after Orr retired, the Boston TV station WSBK-TV that aired the Bruins’ games would show at least a few times per season a highlight clip of all things Orr, set to Streisand’s “Memories”. The clip showcased Orr killing a 2-minute penalty all by himself, skating all over the place, the other team trying in vain to take the puck away. Memories, indeed,
Now THAT was some hockey back then, with those teams/those lines !!! The Bruins top line these days of Bergeron, Marchand and Pastrnak is arguably the best in hockey, in my totally biased opinion, of course !!!
3 years ago
Reply to
Michael Goldman
For years after Orr retired, the Boston TV station WSBK-TV that aired the Bruins’ games would show at least a few times per season a highlight clip of all things Orr, set to Streisand’s “Memories”. The clip showcased Orr killing a 2-minute penalty all by himself, skating all over the place, the other team trying in vain to take the puck away. Memories, indeed,
Now THAT was some hockey back then, with those teams/those lines !!! The Bruins top line these days of Bergeron, Marchand and Pastrnak is arguably the best in hockey, in my totally biased opinion, of course !!!
3 years ago
Reply to
Michael Goldman
I was 9 going on 10 years old growing up just north of Boston when Bobby Orr scored…”The Goal”. So yes…a proud, life-long Bruins and hockey fan. Those trades made the Bruins back then. These days, the minute a player wants more $$ from the Bruins, they are traded away, or they leave….most recent example, Torey Krug.
I’ll watch this year, but just like last year’s “playoffs”….it just won’t be the same.
3 years ago
All these communists millionaires should move to China and leave America. The caveat being to renounce their American citizenship and never return. They can take all the treasonous Hollywood celebrities and scum with them.
We Americans need to use our power and reject those who denigrate our great Nation. We have the power of turning the channel and not watching or paying those who have no appreciation of their audience. I have turned off Foxnews. They can go to hell. I will get my news from the internet and other sources.
Stop supporting the enemies of our great Nation! America has nothing to be ashamed of. We are the greatest force of good in the world EVER.
3 years ago
Reply to
Fount
I AGREE, but once you tell them THEY MUST LEAVE AND LIVE IN CHINA, THEY WILL CHANGE THEIR MINDS. That is what true COWARDS do. They seldom follow their own ideologies because AMERICA IS FREEDOM and they KNOW they can say what they want UNTIL THEY ARE FACED WITH THEIR OWN HYPOCRISY.
3 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
Like the celebs that vowed to move out of the country when PDJT was elected. No one did.
3 years ago
AND, I bet the NBA STILL has to pay these clueless fools. I HOPE IT ALL GOES BANKRUPT, JUST LIKE CNN, AND THE MSM.
THIS IS DELIGHTFUL!
3 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
Can someone please tell me the names of LeBron’s LA team and Curry’s SF team? I seem to have forgotten, it’s been so long.
3 years ago
Good bye, and good riddance …
… patriotic sports-fans need new leagues – or new alternatives …
*** … everyone have a lovely last week of 2020!
3 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
Professional basketball and the NFL can go bankrupt for all I care, although I don’t really watch any professional sports anymore.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
You’re right …
*** Happy New Year, MM!
… and happy last week of 2020 to everyone passing by …
3 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
Happy New Year to you and yours too Mr. Knight — including your knightly feline!
3 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
Happy New Year to you and yours. Hopefully, the NBA continues its slide down. We will know how much trouble they are really in if the pedophile gets in office and tries to bail them out.
3 years ago
Reply to
Lyle Hartman
;-))) … good thing I wasn’t drinking any coffee …
*** Happy New Year to you and yours, Lyle! and ..
… and happy last week of 2020 to everyone passing by … 😉
3 years ago
I got no use for them, over paid and racist,
3 years ago
anyone else notice the china wish sticker on the jersey?
3 years ago
Watching, literally Bloods and Crips members play basketball? Not for 25 years now.
3 years ago
Reply to
justmewhoelse12
The players next will be pulling out their nines before they drive on the basket.
3 years ago
Reply to
justmewhoelse12
The nba went the way of boxing when the rules were changed to allow gorilla ball. Those black guys would foul out in 5 seconds if high school basketball rules were enforced.
3 years ago
white privilege is having an IQ with more than 2 digits
3 years ago
Used to love watching basketball, until the mouth Steve Kerr and his flunky Steffi Curry made their political views known. They were trained by Popovich and Don Nelson. Curry the biggest fake hypocrite of them all pretending to be down with the fight when he knows dang well he is privileged growing up in the burbs in country club setting. Used to have season tickets to the Warriors during Run TMC. The old school players left their politics at home when they came to work. NBA can go to hell and make them suffer more by boycotting their sponsors. And make them suffer even more by contacting their sponsors and let them know you will bad mouth their product as long as they support the NBA. Try it pay back feels good.
3 years ago
Reply to
YesHemp Cbd
One of the organizers of the Mizzou BLM riots a couple years ago is the son of a railroad executive. VERY privileged. That makes him just a hateful bigot. Just like Curry.
3 years ago
Used to love watching basketball, until the mouth Steve Kerr and his flunky Steffi Curry made their political views known. They were trained by Popovich and Don Nelson. Curry the biggest fake hypocrite of them all pretending to be down with the fight when he knows dang well he is privileged growing up in the burbs in country club setting. Used to have season tickets to the Warriors during Run TMC. The old school players left their politics at home when they came to work. NBA can go to hell and make them suffer more by boycotting their sponsors. And make them suffer even more by contacting their sponsors and let them know you will bad mouth their product as long as they support the NBA. Try it pay back feels good.
3 years ago
thank kappie boy for all the shat that he has started in the sports realm.
3 years ago
What do you expect of entities that answer to the Communist Party of China. They have sold their souls to the Devil. Now they should all just go to Hell.
3 years ago
They have been spared ravages of intelligence.
3 years ago
They have been spared the ravages of intelligence.
3 years ago
3 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
that finger point is acknowledging his ”god — moo ham head” !!!! blatant display against the Christian GOD !!!
3 years ago
Reply to
Joy Ann Roberts
*** Happy New Year to you and yours, Joy!
… and happy last week of 2020 to everyone passing by … 😉
3 years ago
N o
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A nymore
3 years ago
Now report on how ratings have died for right wing hillybilly favorites professional rasslin’ and Nascar.
3 years ago
Eventually money will decide everything and these dumbasses will have to do what fans want them to do: to stand under flag and anthem, stop officially supporting BLM etc.
3 years ago
Reply to
Black&White
I don’t agree. It will take the formation of a white-only league to save professional basketball. Look what boxing did to itself when cassius clay was allowed to turn the sport into an all black affair.
3 years ago
As much as I can’t stand even looking at that POS Lebron James, I must admit he’s doing quite a job on the NBA and I give him credit for that.
3 years ago
canno fathom any white american man in 2020 and beyond watching these america-hating black racists play a kid’s game
3 years ago
What a shock, fans don’t like being called a piece of crap just because they’re white
3 years ago
Black athletes have dominated most of the spirts franchises except the NHL. BLM is BS and with their disrespect for their flag and nation I say screw them.
3 years ago
Those filthy rich black basketball players hate you and your country. You are beyond stupid to watch them
3 years ago
Black on white crime! The biggest problem in America hands down! Remember that blacks have declared war on whites since the mid-60s and there has been no let up since then. Always protect yourself white man/woman and never and I mean NEVER support the NBA NFL or any mostly black businesses!
3 years ago
Reply to
Scooby Doo
Dear Commentator – your line of reasoning means that humans act like ants or wasps.
You are a fool.
If not worse.
3 years ago
3 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
Au contraire. I think they are alarming and important. But, if someone brings them up to you, you accuse them of going “there” . That would be your danger zone, I assume. You hate the subject of the Hunter laptop, and have to turn away to your safe space.
3 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
You hate the Biden laptop story and accuse people of going “there” when they bring it up. It makes you head for your safe space.
Look, Jaster –
http://b1ff5939f6.nxcli.net/2020/10/report-second-hunter-biden-laptop-seized-by-dea.html/
3 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
Look Jeeter It’s the laptop and (eek) Tucker Carlson. Don’t hurt yourself running to the safe space.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/flashback-bobulinski-tucker-hunter-carlson-biden
3 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
So, what was the reason you don’t want to talk about it again? Is it because it makes you uncomfortable?
3 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
So, what was the reason you don’t want to talk about it again? Is it because it makes you uncomfortable?
3 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
But, I am not sexually aroused by it. I am very concerned by it, and wondering why you aren’t. Is it because it makes you uncomfortable?
3 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
Because it is a window into the Biden crime family. You know Joe Biden is mentioned several times on the laptop as the “big guy”. Don’t you know that? Why don’t you know that? Is it because it makes you uncomfortable?
3 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
He was taking a cut. Hunter Biden had no business on the Burisma board other than to receive money that the “big guy” got a percentage of. Bobolinski testified that he met with Biden as part of the operation. Once again (eek) Tucker Carlson. https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fflashback-bobulinski-tucker-hunter-carlson-biden%3Ap0xPtM9neaAFTq4aHiqXu-5JRm4&cuid=2597323
3 years ago
The NBA has gone form being skilled athletes to becoming “Moronic Men Who chase an Orange Ball” and now demand that you respect the rioters of BLM, and ANTIFA and hate America like they and the Chinese do.
And those indentured enslaved NBA players doing what their leftist masters demand. The NBA and NFL business plans are for useful idiot losers.
My sons were all football players – none of us watch football anymore.
Since when do Athletic FOOLS become roll models?
3 years ago
Go woke, go broke. Let the multi-millionaire hypocrites play in China.
3 years ago
“NBA” = NASTY BOOGERS ASSOCIATION
3 years ago
NEVER AGAIN will I see pro sports in the same way if they can disrespect the flag then they can throw the game for points/. Those that disrespect the lost limbs and lives of veterans who sacrificed for our flag have no honor and cannot be trusted
3 years ago
the patriots work is not complete till they are slashing the sht out of player saleries
3 years ago
“NBA Christmas Day Ratings Tank …”
Excuse me while I bathe in the schadenfreude.
3 years ago
Let BLM, Antifa, and the Chicom dems, support the NBA. I hope they go broke. Same for MLB, and the NFL.
3 years ago
how can anyone support a group of people who trash our country, where they are being made rich, every day? i will not support this programming ever!
