r/nba • u/Kimber80 • 2d ago

[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/nicehouseenjoyer 2d ago

The last CBA killed any hope of serious schedule, broadcasting or in-game reform and they cynically added a fake cup competition instead to just be able to package a subset of regular season games into a new streaming rights package. You are right about them eating their seed corn, I wouldn't even mind paying a decent number for a good League Pass package, I already do so for Fubo to get EPL games and Apple TV to get MLS games, I just don't want to pay for the four(!) different services I would need to watch all games in Canada, and then also have to sit through hours of ads and a last two minutes that takes thirty minutes to play.

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u/nawksnai Raptors 1d ago

It’s funny, because I’m Canadian and live in Australia, and I swear League Pass in Australia is EXACTLY what it should be.

I pay $180 AUD for the year, and I can watch any game, any team. There’s no weird rules or complications. It’s simple.

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u/HoyaDestroya33 Knicks 1d ago

League Pass is an amazing product outside of USA. No blackouts or whatever. In India, League Pass is like $20 for the whole year.

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u/Aless_Motta New Jersey Nets 1d ago

Thats the point, american sports are cheap to watch outside the usa because they dont really have a lot of people that would spend money to watch it, and they dont have a million regulations/financial obligations to some entities or whatever.. I used to get nfl games for "free" with my directv subscription in Venezuela, no extra pay or nothing, redzone included.

This also happens in the uk with the premie league, its Hard and expensive to watch locally, while in south América you get all games if you have a cable sub and all games are on streaming; most sports fuck the local market and try to use cheap tactics to grow internationally until it gets big enough to create a proper paid market outside the country.