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NBA: Injuries aren’t up; Who you gonna believe us or your lying eyes?
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New year, same story.
They came out and said they weren’t up as u recall. Same ratio with the Drowning ratings. More Bullshit than fact
And fans may ask: Who cares about TV ratings?…
To quote the Great Gazoo: Everyone should to a basic level dum-dums…They’re tied directly to how much your team spends on the team both on/off the court…it affects the salary cap, it affects collective bargaining…pretty much every boring machinations we take as gobbledygook. It matters…a lot.
The numbers are the numbers..I’m not gonna dispute that. But I’m not sure they take into account the seriousness of these injuries and how many high-profile players have gone down. The 24/7 nature of social media makes us much more aware of every injury and it makes it seem worse than the past. Some of these injuries can probably be blamed on the short off-season & compressed schedule but that ain’t what took LeBron out..that kinda contact will put you on the shelf no matter the circumstance. Then you look at rookies like Wiseman & Melo..they got hurt but had plenty of off-season. Lotta factors to this stuff and if it was easy to figure out then you’d see a drop in injuries.
Good points conditioning can break the cycle of soft tissue injuries the big deal on top of that two practices a month 3 games in 4 nights plus the travel? That’s a cocktail for getting the moneybag 💰💰💰 but dropping the ball 🏀🏀🏀🏀
You’ve talked about the steaming numbers in the past MS and I remember you said pretty much any young person you knew streamed it…I think the traditional tv data is flawed anyway this pandemic 😷 changed so many things including our viewing habits. Industry needs to adjust the way it does the numbers.
I got rid of Directv a few months ago and don’t miss it a bit. Watched our final game on a streaming feed from Australia! Burger King is called Hungry Jack’s down under..lol. Thing is, they still got that commercial in front of my eyes and that’s the ultimate goal and the reason why you’ll never see these TV contracts decrease in cost no matter what the neilsen ratings are.
Live sports is still one of the few ways to ensure that the ads get seen.
Well said. And I learned something new. 👍👍👍
The training thing is such an inexact science and what works for one guy could be totally wrong for another guy. LeBron famously invests a ton of his own money into his training & fitness and it shows in his injury history. But even he made a misstep that one year he severely cut his body fat and then had stamina issues in the playoffs. But that vegan diet seems to have worked well for CP3.
I don’t doubt that AD works hard on his strength & conditioning but based on his injury history it might be time to try something different. KG said the same the other day. I was kinda joking about Kareem & the yoga but it’s hard to argue the results he got from that and some other things he did back in the day.
Another thing we have to look at when talking about traditional ratings is the international market. That’s the real growth sector and the NBA taps into it better than most any sport other than soccer. That’s why they’re pushing so hard for Luka and Giannis and now even Joker to be the new faces of the league. It’s hard to overstate how much Yao did for the league in delivering the China market. Made billions for the league and the Chinese are still a huge fan base even though there’s no Asian superstar at the moment. Look at what the league is also doing in Africa right now…huge untapped market
No doubt, emerging markets don’t get the by-lines.