[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."

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u/Tel3visi0n Spurs 2d ago

All of you are answering as basketball fans. The real reason is the games don’t matter. There are no stakes compared to the NFL where every game matters for playoffs and division standings.

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u/DrWindupBird 1d ago

This is the main reason I quit watching. I started to watch English soccer, where not only does every game have the chance to make or break a season, but the stakes are real. The bottom 3 teams drop to a lower league entirely. You can’t afford to tank a season on purpose, let alone 3 or 4 seasons running like some bball teams do. After watching that, the NBA feels more like pro wrestling or something: just theater. And by the time the games do actually matter in the playoffs, half your favorite players are out anyways because they got injured in meaningless regular season games.