Is the NBA Going the Way of Bud Light?

[GURPS]

The sports world is notorious for embracing wokeness in recent years as well. Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League have recently been under fire for pride month antics, and let’s not forget how MLB moved the All-Star Game from Atlanta based on lies about Georgia’s voter integrity law.

But the godfather of wokeness in both sports and business is the National Basketball Association (NBA). The NBA embraced wokeness when embracing wokeness wasn’t cool, and Outkick’s Clay Travis asserts that the NBA’s downward slide over the past few years is a slow-burn version of what’s happening with corporations like Bud Light.

Last month, Travis outlined the dips in the NBA’s fortunes over the past few years.

Is the NBA Going the Way of Bud Light?

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[SamSpade]

I think it's a stretch to put the blame on woke politics. I think some forms of entertainment took a huge hit during the pandemic, and people began to realize they could do other things besides go to the movies or watch sports. Or maybe, they just got a little too much of it. I can't see a pattern except that viewers REALLY tuned in back in the 90's when they were watching Jordan.

 

[herb749]

ESPN is going the same way. Removing their higher paid people with more who want to talk about social issues and not sports.

I know NBA free agency is going on but the only sport going on now is baseball and they still spend more time on the NBA than MLB.

 

[vraiblonde]

At some point they're going to start forcing us to watch their propaganda and buy their products.

I presume sports fans tune in to ESPN to see the games or the scores or discussion about games and scores. They don't tune in to see political propaganda. So when you turn your sports channel into a political propaganda outlet, you will naturally lose viewers. When sports players become political propagandists, people will stop being interested in them.

Only a Democrat can look at an illiterate hood rat making 100s of millions of $$$ and consider him oppressed.

 

[Kinnakeet]

Who watches basketball anyway

 

[stgislander]

Who watches basketball anyway

The Chinese.

 

[Kyle]

The Chinese.

One would think, as short as they are, they'd be more interested in Soccer, Gymnastics and Table Tennis.

 

[spr1975wshs]

Who watches basketball anyway

I have not since John Havlicek retired in 1978, the last of Bill Russell's teammates to do so as I recall.
My dad took me to Boston a couple of times during what was Mr. Russell's last season with the Celtics.

 

[black dog]

Who watches basketball anyway

Who watches pro anything?

 

[Monello]

A high school graduate calling an MIT grad uneducated.

The Chinese.

 

[black dog]

I have not since John Havlicek retired in 1978, the last of Bill Russell's teammates to do so as I recall.
My dad took me to Boston a couple of times during what was Mr. Russell's last season with the Celtics.

Ive never been to a pro basketball game, I was given a few tickets for a box to see the Caps years back. The buffet was worth the ride downtown. Ive never been to a pro football game and the last pro baseball game I went to, Frank Howard was still playing at RFK. Last concert I recall was Eagles Hell Froze Over Tour.
I go to a few dirt track car and motorcycle flat track races each year and thats about it.

 

[Hijinx]

As expected I haven't watched N-ball since Larry Bird retired.
Did I say N-ball? Sorry I was supposed to say B -ball. But it is N-ball.
Well it does help them have diversity in college, but that's about all it's good for.

 

[herb749]

At some point they're going to start forcing us to watch their propaganda and buy their products.

I presume sports fans tune in to ESPN to see the games or the scores or discussion about games and scores. They don't tune in to see political propaganda. So when you turn your sports channel into a political propaganda outlet, you will naturally lose viewers. When sports players become political propagandists, people will stop being interested in them.

Only a Democrat can look at an illiterate hood rat making 100s of millions of $$$ and consider him oppressed.

Disney owns ABC & ESPN. They let go the higher paid former player commentors and are bringing in sportswriters they can pay cheap. When are they looking into cutting Whoppi & Joy for the money they make .?

 

[vraiblonde]

When are they looking into cutting Whoppi & Joy for the money they make .?

Nielsen ratings says pretty much nobody watches that show, and yet there they still are.

 

[herb749]

Nielsen ratings says pretty much nobody watches that show, and yet there they still are.

Social media likes to talk/complain about them. Then there's Yahoo News that has multiple links about Whoopie farting or why Joy was off today. But you know they were doing the same for Today a month ago. How's Al Roker doing, where was Hoda this morning, etc. Just filling space.