[Rankin] ... Kevin Durant continuing to address #NBA viewership being down. "I take this serious. I'm locked in as to why people don't want to watch us play."

https://x.com/DuaneRankin/status/1872176949801504956?t=sOlhzun3lYo5ImePn8Xpwg&s=19

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u/Forgboi Knicks 1d ago

Viewership is down because the NBA has decided their viewers are to be exploited rather than catered to.

Viewership is down because the NBA has decided to scrap analysis/serious basketball talk in favor of sideshow personalities who don't care about the game.

Viewership is down because the NBA is the worst officiated league in American sports. It is quite apparent that there are often agendas carried out by officials for personal and/or executive motivations.

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u/Old_Duty8206 1d ago

Your second point is such a huge thing to me it's why I hate the tnt team.

Clunky analogy incoming

Imagine sitting down to watch a movie and before the movie comes on someone is telling you watching movies suck it was better 30 years ago

then in the middle they are saying why are we even showing this movie when we could be showing a better movie. No one even knows who the stars of this movie are

Then at the end of the movie they can't even tell you what the plot of the movie was.

That's inside the nba

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u/_Hollywood___ Lakers 1d ago

Literally anytime someone asks me about the lakers and they aren’t hardcore fans, they ask how the lakers are doing in the playoffs 😂. They have no idea how long the regular season is, but they know the playoffs are all that matters because that’s what they’ve been told forever. I don’t know how you recover form that. It’s obviously not just this one thing, but it adds up.

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u/bartjenkins 1d ago

I think Inside the NBA is losing its balance. Years ago you wanted the segments to be longer. Now it feels like they're just filling time for the network.

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u/Diqt 1d ago

Your first sentence is everything. As a fan for decades this is how I’m staring to feel. Like wringing a towel for its last drops of water, the league has gone overboard in so many ways to monetise every last cent. Streaming, all the jerseys, gambling ads, everything. Basketball is just a piece of whatever this business has become, instead of being about basketball.