The nba is going to have to become the Kardashians to survive

Right now, my grizzlies are the second in the west, with a budding superstar Ja Morant, and other intriguing players on the team — and I could not care less. I’d rather spend 40 minutes scrolling through Addison Rae’s TikTok account than to watch the game.

Part of the problem for me is that the nba and other sports have made basketball all about the star players rather than fostering rivalries between clubs.

Why should I care about a random game on Tuesday night when 3 quarters of the game is bullshit basketball anyway. Players are playing less hard for more of the game than ever before.

The regular season does not matter, and Adam Silver knows this, and this whole mid-season tournament mess, which isn’t going to bring any more excitement than the all star game does every year.

The nba needs to adopt the Kardashian/wwe type format. Me personally I want to be in the lock rooms, I want to have access before and after the games with refs. I need to see game film and listen to strategy and walkthroughs and also need to see scripted or unscripted commentary between players and I need to see players actually give a **** or the nba is going to be a dying league in my book.

I felt this way about the superbowl, that at the end of the day, it is just another boring football game and the fact that the game ended by the teams running out the clock was extra putrid in my book.

The one good thing about baseball is that there is no time clock and baseball games can and do have a lot of tension, but even in baseball they could be doing a lot more to get the casual fan to matter and not just stat geeks who follow the sport.

The one thing about social media is that it has made anything that wants to compete with it to have to have the same level of personalization.

Too long the nba and other sports just bank on the fact that they are the best this or that and so the audience is built in but I think that is probably going to be their downfall.

 

Pre-determined outcomes is more about fostering the hot star player than anything else, which is a depression-era mindset.

The nba is not ultimately about entertainment, such as the wwe, but more about hanging their league on a few star players and a few big markets.

Again, the nba (as fast as it is) is slow and boring to most kids these days. This isn’t the 80s anymore. And nobody cares about what MJ did.

To me, baseball is the least flawed sport, but they don’t have any marketing sense whatsoever. In baseball, every at bat is crucial. No other sport can say that. And I will be interested in seeing how the new rules pan out.

Most fans these days (or at least) when the playoffs roll around can get swept up in the hype if their team has a chance and the leagues will feel as if their sport is still massively popular, but when said team suddenly regresses back to mediocrity, crickets.
The only good thing about football that it has going for it is that each team only plays once a week. If it were anymore than that, and the stadiums would be empty.

College football has the right idea in that they have built in rivalries, and with the likeness rules and such we may see a change for the better.

But again, I have been a basketball fan all my life and I can’t really stomach watching the games anymore.

 

yup, it has come to that.