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NFL Dominates NBA in Viewership: Insights & Trends
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12/27/2024
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I've got to get your thoughts from Wednesday. The numbers have come across. Viewership,
00:07
NBA stacking up against the NFL. Two games in the National Football League, a five-game
00:11
slate in the Association. Some of the best basketball that we've seen all week, but it
00:16
still wasn't enough. Taking a look at the average viewers here, we had right around
00:21
what, 5 million for every NBA game, 24 million on average watching both football games. Is
00:28
that a sign of the times? Is it all about the NFL? Does that move the needle just a
00:33
little more than what we've seen from the basketball?
00:35
Well, we know. I mean, the NFL is king. It always will be here as opposed to the NBA.
00:43
But the NBA has done themselves absolutely no favors. Although, I mean, kudos that Golden
00:49
State Lakers game was, right, one of the most watched NBA games that we have seen in a very
00:54
long time. But, you know, that coincides with the fact that the football games were
00:59
both duds and that was the next thing on that day there, Dubs. I think that was the Golden
01:05
State Lakers game was on right after that, whatever that was with the Ravens and the
01:11
Texans, where a team scored two points the entire game. They actually scored less points
01:16
than the Bears did last night, if we can believe that. And so it would make sense that people
01:21
are flipping the channel, too, while the game that would be on, which would have been
01:26
the Lakers and Golden State. But all things being equal, it's not even close, the NFL
01:31
rules over the NBA. And it always will at this point, because the NBA game is getting
01:36
worse. And if it wasn't LeBron James on the screen, I don't know how many people would
01:42
have hung around and watched that. I don't think the NBA has anything, any clue as to
01:47
what they're going to do when LeBron James, who's, what, 40 years old now? How long do
01:51
they think he's going to play and draw eyeballs here, Dubs? At some point, they're going to
01:56
have to pass the reins to the next face of the league. And the problem is, Dodgick don't
02:02
want it. The Joker don't want it. Wemby doesn't want to be. So who's the face of the league
02:07
once LeBron steps down? They got a big problem here.
02:11
Yeah, it's a good point. It's a similar struggle to Tiger Woods and the PGA Tour. They're still
02:17
trying to hold that torch. You've got to get some, some bigger profiles coming into
02:21
this thing. Maybe some young superstars. And I guess Anthony Edwards certainly looks like
02:25
maybe he could be the one.
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