How many games a season & postseason do you watch?

[rawimpact]

maybe 1/2 game during the season
I try to watch the entire finals depending on who's there.

[SouBeachTalents]

I honestly just can't watch the regular season anymore. The product isn't good and load management plays a crucial role in this, but it's how statistically insignificant every individual game is. Even if it's a great matchup, who truly gives a shit who wins a random regular season game in December? 82 games is simply too many, you give me a 58 game season, I'd watch a lot more regular season games.

Playoffs, I'll tune in to every game if it's a series I'm interested in.

[Real Men Wear Green]

Close to 80 regular season Celtic games. Another 80 for the rest of the league but not the whole game. Every Celtic playoff game and a lot of other teams in the postseason although lead likely to watch the whole game. I will estimate at least part of 200 games and close to 100 whole games.

[Kblaze8855]

I intended to go back to my old ways of watching every day this season until so many games I intended to watch opening week had players sitting out. Once the players started coming around to the fan perception that regular season games don’t matter it felt like a waste of time.

I just set out to watch interesting matchups or when a player I feel I need more information about is playing and the number of times I tune in to find whoever I’m there to watch isn’t playing has me not even checking anymore. I just pulled up the next TNT game to see if it would fit my example and it will feature the magic without both Paolo and Wagner. So why am I watching that? I’m not saying it’s their fault but I am saying it isnt appointment television.

I didn’t miss a single nationally televised playoff game from somewhere in the late 80s until a 2003 mavs and kings game that ended up being epic in my absence and then I didn’t miss another one until 2011. I would go a decade without missing a big NBA game.

These days I get too consistently disappointed to keep track of games I should even check on.

every NBA game I watch now is just by coincidence. I don’t intend to watch any of them. Quite a few will just be on my TV when I scroll through league pass and check for one or I remember there’s a national game and turn to see who’s playing but I no longer just plan to be home and watching NBA games.

So I’ll probably see a piece of dozens of them. I’m not sure I’ll watch a single one start to finish by design.

[tontoz]

I record a lot of games and then decide which ones I want to watch. That way I am just watching good games, except for the times I watch a wizards game almost live.

I end up watching a few games a week most of the time.

[Real Men Wear Green]

I intended to go back to my old ways of watching every day this season until so many games I intended to watch opening week had players sitting out. Once the players started coming around to the fan perception that regular season games don’t matter it felt like a waste of time. Of you would just accept Jayson Tatum as your Lord and Savior you would not have these viewing problems.

[Kblaze8855]

Even if I enjoyed the Celtics play style(and I don’t) I couldn’t enjoy them doing it against broken opponents. Which is why I was out on the playoffs for the first time in my life. At a glance 17 teams right now have players I intended to watch who I’ve tuned in to realize aren’t playing or checked in advance so I don’t bother.

I would actually like to see some hard numbers on this issue versus 1020 and 30 years ago. No question star steel missed games but I’d like to know the rate they miss national TV games.

No doubt having access to so many more games gives me more opportunity to tune in to a game a player doesn’t care about instead of the big national ones, but I suspect there’s still a good bit of difference.

[Real Men Wear Green]

Even if I enjoyed the Celtics play style(and I don’t) I couldn’t enjoy them doing it against broken opponents. Which is why I was out on the playoffs for the first time in my life. At a glance 17 teams right now have players I intended to watch who I’ve tuned in to realize aren’t playing or checked in advance so I don’t bother.

I would actually like to see some hard numbers on this issue versus 1020 and 30 years ago. No question star steel missed games but I’d like to know the rate they miss national TV games.

No doubt having access to so many more games gives me more opportunity to tune in to a game a player doesn’t care about instead of the big national ones, but I suspect there’s still a good bit of difference.

The benefit to being a Celtic fan is that when they are facing an injured opponent you take a moment to feel sympathy for the player and then go on to enjoy the victory. I do still wish these guys were not hurt but I know that a lot of them could play if they wanted to and with the rooting interest of a Celtic fan I can still enjoy the result. Last season was like that all the way to the championship and this season is likely to be more of the same. I'm sure that there will be people on this site saying Embiid and Maxey are better than Tatum and Brown while they're waving from the Duck Boat but there is no number of doubters that can remove a championship.

[Kblaze8855]

Nothing removes a W. And in time nobody remembers. But nothing is sweeter than watching an opponent lose on the floor. I got to see Karl Malone get personally defeated. Those titles wouldn’t have been so sweet if he weren’t playing. I wanna see Ewing walk off knowing he wasn’t enough. I want to see Isiah know he lost.

I feel like as a Celtic fan I’d have been annoyed knowing Jimmy Butler watched the playoffs and gets to feel he’d have won if he played….because he’s already beaten a top seeded Celtic team.

Id wanna see him lose and have to take it.

To your point Piston fans still claim the ring when Magic was hurt and Bird was out before that.

So it counts. But it can’t feel the same.

[Real Men Wear Green]

Sure you want to see Butler get beat but if he can't play he can't play. Got to see Irving get destroyed in the finals by his replacements and nothing is going to top that short of beating the Lakers. It got to the point I was feeling bad for him.

[Charlie Sheen]

I have started watching the NBA like I do baseball the last couple seasons... meaning I have it on the tv while I am working on the laptop so I do not sit down and watch the full games but im paying some attention to it the entire time. Between the clippers and lakers I have 3 games a week at least.

[Airupthere]

About 1 or 2 games in TD per season. Most regular and PO Celtics games on TV. Other teams in the PO depending on my interest in the matchups

[warriorfan]

I have started watching the NBA like I do baseball the last couple seasons... meaning I have it on the tv while I am working on the laptop so I do not sit down and watch the full games but im paying some attention to it the entire time. Between the clippers and lakers I have 3 games a week at least.

I find myself doing this a lot too. It seems like last few years that a huge chunk of regular season is borderline unwatchable.

I still catch as many playoff games as possible though.

[ArbitraryWater]

Im not really watching regular season anymore, only playoffs.. at least im still tuned in there but reg season has become so insignificant for me, accompanied of course with the lame style.

I barely even watch highlights of games.

Maybe a shot or a single play I scroll by on Instagram.

Or Ill rewatch a 2nd half or 4th quarter if I bet on it and want some excitement instead of just checking the score.

Tuning into games at 1-4 at night when I was still up used to be common for me. Now theres so many other ways to spend that time. Id never do it now.

[ralph_i_el]

Literally, 60+

I watch every game on Christmas day. I watch most games a day late on League Pass, so I get the commercials cut out. I watch around and find teams I think are fun. That's how I was ahead of the curve on the Nuggets, OKC, and now the Magic. I can generally give you one up-and-coming team that I guarantee will beat their Vegas win-total line for the season (I don't gamble, but I can post my pick next year.)

[Airupthere]

As for the all star weekend, I don't think I've watched anything at all in the last 5 years or so. I just check the dunk contest highlights later on on youtube. Not even the ASG highlight videos on youtube is worth watching.

[90sgoat]

I'm pretty much done with the regular season, no need to watch the same lanky nappy haired types shooting endless 3s.

I'll watch the playoffs though.

[Nowoco]

Outside of the RS games I attend (about 3-4 a season), zero.

I'll watch all PS games I'm free for or thereabouts.

[west_tip]

The last few years (since COVID basically) I have only watched the Finals and the Final Four. So, between 7-10 live games a season.

Other than that spending two hours watching a game that is essentially meaningless is not a good use of my time. Instead I will just watch the free highlights on YouTube the next day if there is a game that I'm semi interested in. Watching highlights and checking the boxscore is my preferred way of following NBA.

It's nothing anti NBA it's just I'm not as invested in sports as I was when I was younger. I used to have a season ticket a few years back but the experience of just going to a live game just felt like more trouble than it's worth when I can just pull up the highlights on YouTube for free.

[Wally450]

I try to watch most Celtics games. When I "watch" other games, I usually put them on as background noise and do other things, occasionally checking the score and see what's going on. I try to tune in more for playoff games though. Finals also, depending on if its an interesting matchup. Denver/Miami and Phoenix/Milwaukee I couldn't care less about.