Not enough games on television these days

[L.Kizzle]

So Tuesday and Wednesday seem to be the TV nights. All other nights are streaming. That's crazy.
ABC games don't start until next year
There is a pickleball game on ESPN right now.

[1987_Lakers]

It's NFL Sunday.

[L.Kizzle]

It's NFL Sunday.

What that mean?
NBA would usually play games on Sunday om ESPN.

[Kblaze8855]

Nothing wants to oppose the nfl. It’s the whole reason they moved tnt games to Tuesday. The nfl crushes everything else to such an extent it would hurt future negotiations for rights.

[SouBeachTalents]

What that mean?
NBA would usually play games on Sunday om ESPN.

All your takes are unbelievably antiquated.

"What that mean", like the NFL hasn't been dominating the sports landscape for at least 2 decades

The NBA even ditched having games on Thursday to avoid the usually shitty NFL Thursday night game, and you're acting surprised they don't have games in direct competition with them on Sundays?

[GOBB]

All your takes are unbelievably antiquated.

"What that mean", like the NFL hasn't been dominating the sports landscape for at least 2 decades

The NBA even ditched having games on Thursday to avoid the usually shitty NFL Thursday night game, and you're acting surprised they don't have games in direct competition with them on Sundays?

Relax, he lives under a rock.

[Jasper]

agree tv time is based on stupid football for 5 months ... here in wisc Brewers could lead the MLB and Bucks could be playing super , and they talk about stupid Packers that never go any where in the playoffs


You would not believe how many people in Wisc. where hats ,sweatshirts , jackets of the packers .... merchandise monguels must be making a fortune over these idiots

[Jasper]

agree tv time is based on stupid football for 5 months ... here in wisc Brewers could lead the MLB and Bucks could be playing super , and they talk about stupid Packers that never go any where in the playoffs


You would not believe how many people in Wisc. where hats ,sweatshirts , jackets of the packers .... merchandise monguels must be making a fortune over these idiots

[Hey Yo]

All your takes are unbelievably antiquated.

"What that mean", like the NFL hasn't been dominating the sports landscape for at least 2 decades

The NBA even ditched having games on Thursday to avoid the usually shitty NFL Thursday night game, and you're acting surprised they don't have games in direct competition with them on Sundays?

While only one game was scheduled last night, I don't think it has to do entirely with not wanting to compete with the NFL. Don't think Silver wants teams playing the 2nd of a b2b when it's a tournament game. I could be wrong though.

[Kblaze8855]

While only one game was scheduled last night, I don't think it has to do entirely with not wanting to compete with the NFL. Don't think Silver wants teams playing the 2nd of a b2b when it's a tournament game. I could be wrong though.

The NBA is definitely ducking the NFL like everything else does. The only things that don’t duck the NFL are things that know there is virtually no overlap and who might be watching them. Even a random network sitcoms don’t go against the NFL when they can avoid it. They can get 40 million viewers for a regular season game.

Jordan’s 98 game 6 vs Utah is the highest rated NBA game of all time Game seven of the World Series they just happened was the most viewed baseball game in 35 years and both got less viewers than A regular season cowboys packers game from a couple years ago.

competing with the NFL simply depresses ratings too much. They don’t need the ratings for individual games to make money but the networks do and they don’t wanna run a multi billion dollar investment up against a machine it can’t compete with.


including last night’s bum ass game Thursday night football behind a pay wall and strictly streaming averages almost 16,000,000 viewers a week, which is almost the same as last year’s NBA finals game 7 which was free over the air.

The NFL is an absolutely unstoppable juggernaut. I remember years ago on here being told they wouldn’t be around more than five or 10 more years because they made an enemy of Trump. The NFL might be the only entity in America that can shrug off literally all outside criticism. Gotta remember to ask Johnnysic about that. Told me to check back in five years when they were beefing with Trump in 2017.

Those people legitimately thought the NFL could be defeated by politics.

[Hey Yo]

The NBA is definitely ducking the NFL like everything else does. The only things that don’t duck the NFL are things that know there is virtually no overlap and who might be watching them. Even a random network sitcoms don’t go against the NFL when they can avoid it. They can get 40 million viewers for a regular season game.

Jordan’s 98 game 6 vs Utah is the highest rated NBA game of all time and it got less viewers than A regular season cowboys packers game from a couple years ago.

competing with the NFL simply depresses ratings too much. They don’t need the ratings for individual games to make money but the networks do and they don’t wanna run a multi billion dollar investment up against a machine it can’t compete with.

While true... last night's NFL game is still shown on pay channel Prime, but NBC is pretty much free and think having a game on wouldn't draw awful ratings depending on the match up.

Kind of useless to compare the 98 Finals, considering a Dallas Packers game is a huge rivalry and Im assuming that game was free also just like the Bulls game. Put the Cardinals vs. Seahawks on Thursday night on pay Prime against free Lakers vs Celtics game I'm sure it wouldn't be as lopsided for the NFL as you'd think.

[Wally450]

Thank you! I've been saying that everything going to streaming hurts. Tuesday night double header back on TNT was both games on TV. Now on NBC? First game is on NBC, second is on Peacock. Wtf is that shit?

Also, Friday night games being on Prime? What happened to ESPN? Its a joke.

[Hey Yo]

Thank you! I've been saying that everything going to streaming hurts. Tuesday night double header back on TNT was both games on TV. Now on NBC? First game is on NBC, second is on Peacock. Wtf is that shit?

Also, Friday night games being on Prime? What happened to ESPN? Its a joke.

Yeah NBC trying something new... putting the 8pm east coast on NBC while on West coast it's on Peacock only. Then it's the opposite where 11pm game on Peacock and in the West it's on NBC. It's a prime time thing they're doing.

Before if you had cable snd ordered league pass you'd be set to see the games. Now you gotta pay 15 bucks for each peacock and Prime. Luckily when Peacock first came out, it was automatically added to my cable line-up. Im not paying for Prime. Ill pick a month with some good games and use their 30 day free trial

[tpols]

Thank you! I've been saying that everything going to streaming hurts. Tuesday night double header back on TNT was both games on TV. Now on NBC? First game is on NBC, second is on Peacock. Wtf is that shit?

Also, Friday night games being on Prime? What happened to ESPN? Its a joke.

Theyre diversifying subscriptions a bunch of different ways to extract max profit. You need to have 4 or 5 subscriptions now to watch. Netflix model has taken over everywhere now.

[Kblaze8855]

While true... last night's NFL game is still shown on pay channel Prime, but NBC is pretty much free and think having a game on wouldn't draw awful ratings depending on the match up.

Kind of useless to compare the 98 Finals, considering a Dallas Packers game is a huge rivalry and Im assuming that game was free also just like the Bulls game. Put the Cardinals vs. Seahawks on Thursday night on pay Prime against free Lakers vs Celtics game I'm sure it wouldn't be as lopsided for the NFL as you'd think.

There’s nothing useless about the comparison. It’s literally the highest rated NBA game in history. And yes, they were both on free TV. But when is the final title game of the most Famous basketball player in history in a time where readings in general were easier to get to the less competition.

If anything, the comparison is especially apt because it should favor the NBA game. It just doesn’t.

if I was trying to make an apples to apples comparison, it will be to an NFL playoff game like last year’s conference championship game that had $58 million for the Chiefs and bills and 44 million for the Eagles game.

The NFL routinely trounces the all-time NBA record. It’s not even noteworthy if the NFL gets 30 million people. They had 34 million in week two.

Unfathomable NBA numbers are awful week for the NFL.

it’s just a monster, and if you have good sense, you don’t put your sports against it.