[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/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/mindseye1212 1d ago

Then why did fans used to watch at high rates? Weren’t there a lot of meaningless games in the past too?

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u/Tel3visi0n Spurs 1d ago

Less content options back then. The game for your regional team or the nationally televised game may have been one of the only things to watch just a few years ago. Now we have access to more content than a person could ever watch on demand at all times.

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u/mindseye1212 1d ago

So the games didn’t matter then either… people only cared about the popular teams during the regular season as well…