The NBA is Crumbling...

Creator: @SRSMike

There has been a growing feeling in recent years that the NBA has noticeably slipped in quality. But now as viewership has experienced a steep decline to start the 2024-25 season, it's time for an overview of why that feeling came to be...

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#nba #basketball #sports

[gouldingsteve]

"Fans really feel like they can skip the regular season" Yeah, the players do, too.

[Dixon_Cider]

Just look at the fact that Paolo Banchero was the number 1 draft pick and made the Magic into a playoff team yet he's had ONE televised game in his career and that was only because Shaq was being honored

[Joseph-tcnk]

The league's obsession with only marketing "big-market" teams has killed it. The NFL doesn't sabotage the Packers just for being in Green Bay

[illmilfinestke]

NBA in the 90s and 2ks were like watching superheroes do things you could never do. Today is shoot threes😢

[glovs]

NBA media is a joke.

When you have jokic being the best player by a wide margin putting up historic numbers every game is getting less coverage than bronny. It's a complete crap.

[LeftCross_]

The players don’t care about the season or the league so neither should the fans. I didn’t leave the NBA, the NBA left me.

[ndrocca]

I firmly believe the NBA and NBA media has done this to themselves. Brushing off the regular season, not marketing new stars, making games a pain to sit through (especially all star weekend), EVERYTHING is on the NBA (including the players) and NBA media.

[Komo]

They fucked up by not marketing the young players years ago. They stayed on the LeBron curry hype train for too long.

[brokenclock]

Soft overpaid divas trotting up the floor hoisting threes and bitching at the refs the one time in twenty they get called for traveling

[jason]

1) Players are too rich.
2) ESPN their main media partner is unwatchable to more than half the country.
3) Have to change the defense. Hand check or whatever. Way too many 3s.
4) Every play is iso or pick n roll if not a 3. Believe it or not fans like to see a good offense work.

[Hellcat]

Shooting 55+ 3’s a game, zero and I mean zero defense is boring. The nba is corny now

[chillDude_chills]

stop calling bullshit flop fouls, and start calling blatant traveling, double dribbles and palmings. nobodies watching the nba cause of this horse shit

[andrebarker]

The game isnt physical, players switch teams every year, theres no rivalries, no defense, they chuck up threes, they cry and load manage, players making 50 million dollars a year, super teams, the game used to be watched on tv, now you have to pay for streaming. People prefer not too. Sad I used to love the game now i.prefer to watch college players or wnba!!!😢

[wesleyjazz]

American sports have too many timeouts and ads. More breaks than actual play

[Oldthanos]

You made this whole video on why the NBA is crumbling and didn’t even bring up how now every team just wants to shoot a 3 on every possession. “C’mon man”

[Thenameisboosta]

It’s simple why NBA viewing numbers are down… here it is…No Defense, No Mid Range Shots, Too Much Lebron and his excuses 😂

[jerrypastrana]

One of the things that doesn't get talked about enough is the lack of a team identity. No matter how bad the team was, every team had their own approach & style towards playing the game. Every team plays the exact same now. You had the 7 seconds or less Suns, ball movement heavy Spurs, Defensive Pistons, Triangle offense Lakers, you get the point. Not only that, you didn't have teams stacking themselves up with 3-4 stars only to suffer an early playoff exits. Teams built around one player whether it was a PG or C. Positionless basketball is also hurting the product. I hate the idea that a Center is expected to be able to effectively guard a guy that's half his size & twice as fast or a guy that's 6'3" playing the PF. It's absolutely ridiculous. There needs to be a balance between entertainment & fundamentals also. So many things to list off.

[surferxblood]

It’s rigged, soft and half assed. No one takes the game serious now. This generation literally talks down on their elders that played the game and got the game to where it is today. It’s a mess & doomed.

[pindajung]

ESPN has a lot to do with it too. Firing Zach Lowe whilst employing clowns like Kendrick Perkins and Malika Andrews who scream 'racism' at every opportunity is a really big turn off.

[dennisdezarn]

No one is romanticizing Jordan's Prime, dude. The entire world objectively agreed that we were witnessing something very special. But you weren't there so it didn't happen.