Declining Excitement for NBA Season Opener: A Deep Dive

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00:00Am I alone in this Scott?

00:04Are you fired up for the return of the NBA?

00:06And I don't say this like, you know, I don't, I don't say this, like I'm not taking a shot

00:11at the NBA here in a central, I guess I am in a way, but nobody cares.

00:16Like this is like the least anticipated start to an NBA season ever.

00:20Right.

00:21It's not like it crept up on us either.

00:22I've been playing preseason forever.

00:24So it's like, oh yeah, okay, fine.

00:26And all you need to know is like, before the season even starts, they announce, yeah, Joel

00:30MP and Paul George won't be ready to start the season.

00:34What a shock, shocking development that is.

00:37Now listen, I'll bet the NBA, I'll get into it as the season goes on.

00:42But I think I say whole Scott, the NBA does have a problem.

00:46You know, listen, I talked to sports fans.

00:47I got my finger on the pulse of this thing for years.

00:49And I used to fly around man, to like the NBA games, like travel, I'm going here to

00:54see this and this and that.

00:56I paid like nearly a thousand bucks to go to the all-star game before.

01:00Like I used to love, love, love the NBA.

01:03So I'm not one of these people that, you know, oh, the NBA load management and this, I haven't

01:08watched in years.

01:09No, I watch all the time, but it's slipping, Scott.

01:12Like the product isn't as good.

01:14Nobody, it's easy to, I don't want to sound like an old man, oh, nobody plays defense,

01:18but it's not about like so much the defense.

01:21It's about trying.

01:23It's about the competition level.

01:25Everybody drops big stats and yeah, because nobody plays defense.

01:29Defense in the NBA now is putting your arm up and they think that's, oh, I play defense

01:34coach.

01:35I put my arm up like nobody grinds, right?

01:37So it's sort of entertainment.

01:39And I think Scott, the media, I'm sure you would agree with this too.

01:42The media is to blame for this.

01:44The mainstream media who basically only talk about LeBron James and Brawny James and OKD

01:51is unhappy.

01:52And Kyrie Irving is unhappy.

01:54It's rinse and repeat.

01:55Oh, Draymond Green got ejected from a game.

01:59They only talk, the Knicks, they only talk about like three or four teams over and over

02:05and over again.

02:06And it's finally just tune people out where they don't care anymore.

02:10So I think you'll see this reflective tonight.

02:12I'm curious to see what the NBA ratings will be, but they'll be anticlimactic, right?

02:16It'll just sort of be there and you know, while the NBA doesn't start until Christmas.

02:22And differently, Scott, like you just opened up with the hockey.

02:26There was a buzz about hockey, right?

02:29There was that.

02:30Oh, yeah.

02:31And the NHL is back.

02:32Let's go.

02:33And teams come out flying right away, two games into the season.

02:36People are panicking in cities and hockey cities.

02:39Oh my God, the team is 2-0.

02:41There's an intensity to it.

02:43The NBA is just sort of entertainment.

02:46Go see the superstar player when he decides to play.

02:49And it's built around a couple of TV games and a couple of TV teams.

02:53And the rest of the league can suck it and go to hell.

02:57And the players won't bother playing in your city for the most part.

03:01It's hard.

03:02I mean, how do you get into this if you're a Philadelphia 76er fan when they tell you

03:05before the season starts?

03:06Yeah, Paul George and Joel Embiid will never play back-to-back games this year.

03:12So that's like going to see like buying tickets to a Metallica tour and you get a Metallica

03:18cover band.

03:19Right?

03:20Sorry, James and Kirk can't do back-to-back shows.

03:22Come to see them when they play in Vegas in three nights because they care about that

03:26city.

03:27You know, that's where we're at right now with the NBA, Scott.

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