[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/jldtsu Mavericks 1d ago

too expensive and convoluted to watch games for the average consumer. I pay a 17 dollar subscription to watch one team and 100% of the games aren't even available on it. The fact that I'm willing to pay that puts me in a small minority. Majority of people would scoff at it.

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u/creedbratton603 Celtics 1d ago

Same exact thing that happened to baseball. They are willing to “try everything to grow the game” as long as that everything doesn’t cut into short term profits. The internet age was supposed to make everything more accessible and it’s done the opposite. Everything is behind a paywall. I’ll continue to shout this until I’m blue in the face you should be able to watch your local sports teams for free with a damn antenna if you please. Our tax payer money pays for for the team and like ticket and vendor prices aren’t bad enough, to turn around a lock these games behind a million different streaming services is moronic. You reap what you sow

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u/limache Knicks 1d ago

Exactly.

The issue is SO obvious. It’s not 3 pointers killing the game.

It’s the fact that the nba and media networks etc want to gouge fans any way they can.

That’s why these multi billion dollar network deals are so laughable. Live sports is one of the last bastions of traditional TV.

The networks and the NBA are killing their own product by being too greedy.

They’ve restricted their own product to be so hard to buy because they want to charge the most amount of money they possibly can until consumers get fed up by either watching illegal streams or just don’t watch at all, which is even worse.

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u/Specialist-Fly-3538 1d ago

The cost of tickets to see a game in person is essentially theft considering how lazy players are in regular season

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u/OttoVonWong 1d ago

My wallet gets a rest day when the star gets a rest day.