My family at least my moms side cares so little about sports it is amazing. They didn't watch any NFL or any NBA on XMas and the only player they even knew from either league was Michael Jordan, Mahomes and Kelce. Had no effing clue about anything. I kind of admire it. They just spend hours talking about cars and motor oil though.

Only Jordan could come possibly close to competing with the NFL

Jordan drew 15 million Christmas Day in 93 which would be about 25 million today based of the percentage of the world’s population then and now.
But hey, congrats to Curry and LeBron on getting 20% of the way there.

You’re not seriously comparing TV ratings from 1993 to now, right?

The top network shows averaged 20-30M viewers an episode back then. Bit of a different media landscape 30 years ago LMAO

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">NFL and NBA viewership numbers for their Christmas games: <br><br>NFL (Netflix):<br>- Chiefs-Steelers: 24.1M <br>- Ravens-Texans: 24.3M <br><br>NBA:<br>- Knicks-Spurs: 4.9M <br>- Celtics-76ers: 5.1M <br>- Timberwolves-Mavs: 4.3M <br>- Lakers-Warriors: 7.7M <br>- Nuggets-Suns: 3.8M <br><br>Numbers weren’t… <a href="https://t.co/xx7DUkcTt4">pic.twitter.com/xx7DUkcTt4</a></p>&mdash; Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) <a href="https://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1872445231771025841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I’m comparing the amount of people that watched. What’s wrong with that?

Hong Kong LeBron will never admit being wrong.

The NFL owns Christmas Day now.

The distinct media landscape now compared to 1993 making it an apples to oranges comparison?

I'm not sure what you are getting at. NBA ratings suck compared to years past. Every other sport is up. What's your point?

You can't grasp that network television ratings are way down across the board from 30 years ago for reasons that have nothing to do with which NBA players are playing?

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/nba...lion%20viewers.

Yeah, definitely gotta be a LeBron-Steph issue there.

Haven't you been shitting on the NBA and the ratings all the way up until the last Lebron post?

I shit on the NBA product when I think it is lacking, yes.

I don't make bogus comparisons to TV ratings from 30 years ago as if people are watching television the same way they did in the 1993 anymore.

I guess I'm not still following.

The 2024 NBA Finals, featuring the Dallas Mavericks and the Boston Celtics, averaged 11.3 million viewers across both TV and streaming platform. The 96 NBA finals averaged 29 million per game and we have added a few billion people to the worldwide population since then.