Peter King's stat of the week

[Vercingetorix]

You know that is the weird thing. I don't know and I bet their are a lot of fans they have lost that feel the same way. I love college basketball so it is not a disinterest in basketball. I heard Rick Barry on ESPN this morning and he was ripping the Cavaliers head coach for not teaching LeBron anything. He basically said they just throw him out there and tell him to rely on his talent, he kind of accused the whole NBA of this. I don't watch the NBA anymore so I cannot say if this is right or not. But my perception from when I started losing interest is that the game and officiating is sloppy.

I have several friends who are huge college basketball fans but loathe the NBA, and their biggest reason always seems to be that they think it's destroying the college game. Apparently for a lot of fans, the NBA is more the enemy of college basketball than just the next level.

(I assume that's mostly because the players leave so early now. You don't hear college football fans complaining about the NFL, and I'd bet that the difference is because the players can't leave until much later. If college football were like college basketball, Darren McFadden would probably have gone pro after his promising freshman season, and his huge year last year wouldn't have happened. It would be a different sport -- which of course is what's happened with college basketball.)

 

[BigPapaVol]

Any drop in domestic TV will be offset by the continued growth in the Chinese and European markets. Stern is going to turn the Beijing Olympics into his own private marketing nirvana.

good point, but it's sad that the product has become so poor that we can't sell it in the US.

 

[jakez4ut]

Yeah, that's why league revenues are through the roof.

I'm not real familiar with NBA profits, but if they are doing as well as hat claims, why mess with a good thing? It's a business and if they're making a bundle, they're doing well.

Internationally, the NBA is doing wonders. That is the only market that it's growing in, and it's growing quite nicely abroad.

at home, it's regressing.

and i don't root for it to fail, as some others have said, actually, quite the opposite.

but right now, it doesn't do anything for me personally, and based on what the ratings have shown, it's not doing much for anyone else outside mainstay NBA markets either.

 

[jakez4ut]

Any drop in domestic TV will be offset by the continued growth in the Chinese and European markets. Stern is going to turn the Beijing Olympics into his own private marketing nirvana.

:yes: :thumbsup:

 

[jakez4ut]

I have several friends who are huge college basketball fans but loathe the NBA, and their biggest reason always seems to be that they think it's destroying the college game. Apparently for a lot of fans, the NBA is more the enemy of college basketball than just the next level.

(I assume that's mostly because the players leave so early now. You don't hear college football fans complaining about the NFL, and I'd bet that the difference is because the players can't leave until much later. If college football were like college basketball, Darren McFadden would probably have gone pro after his promising freshman season, and his huge year last year wouldn't have happened. It would be a different sport -- which of course is what's happened with college basketball.)

there may be some credence to some of this. in large part, these kids that come out of high school direct to the NBA, you may never had heard of them. or if they did go to college, which i guess they now have to for one year, they aren't in college long enough, in general anyway, for them to become a household name.....

granted, that's changed of late with guys like Brandon Wright, Kevin Durant, Greg Oden etc...but the talent level in the NBA for many of the supposed start rookies is yet to be developed in to NBA level performance....

i don't know, i know enough about this to make a very limited opionion.......i just know that for me, a pretty avid sports fan, just doesn't care about the NBA right now at all....there's nothing there that interests me at all.

and i used to love watching the lakers, bulls, celtics and pistons in the 80's and 90's......now, not so much.....