When social media becomes the only stat to hang your hat on, your sport is dying. You know who follows the NBA on social media? Poor mother****ers that can’t buy tickets and have too much ADHD to actually watch sports. I work at a site with over 1,600 people physically on-site every day. I have been involved in 0 conversations the last 2 years involving the NBA and I see literally zero NBA gear being worn. I hear and am involved in NFL and MLB conversations regularly and see fear from both leagues daily.

My other theory is that you're going to get more social media regarding basketball because you can see their faces. The biggest marketing flaw of football is that they all wear face-covering helmets, which makes it harder to turn players into societal sensations.

:clap: Nailed it!

Stereotype has been updated.

***I like watching the NBA and don't mind the idea of an in-season tournament***

The PHX Suns in-season court is so ridiculously colored that I can't see the ****ing ball move. Its like watching 10 guys with Tourettes doing an interpretive dance out there when you can't see the ball.

ROFL

The thing that I don't like about basketball is the bouncing.

You know where that came from. They started playing and it was too easy to just carry the ball down court and throw it in the peach basket, so they had to make it harder. They then made this nonsensical rule that you have to bounce the ball while you're moving. There's no reason you should have to do it. It has no metaphor for reality. You just have to bounce the ball to make it a little harder. And then everyone ignores the rule anyway.

Basketball should be more like football. You barrel down the court carrying the ball and other players try to stop you or knock you down or steal the ball from you. If you get down court then you can shoot. That, my friends, is a game. If people want the ball, they have to take it from you with violence. This bouncing thing is pathetic.

I guess I’ll have to continue my 20+ year streak of not watching

The fact that you've been involved with zero NBA conversations may speak more to where you live than the popularity of the NBA.

What do you mean? It's easy. Date Taylor Swift.

Problem solved.

Probably an age thing and a location thing. KC has no team. I've had many of conversations with people in their 20s and 30s about the NBA (even in KC) however for some reason people in their 50s and 60s have a strange hatred about the NBA except for the Jordan days. I get it. Its rooted in different political ideology. I just like basketball and I remove myself from any politics of it. Most people increasingly are not able to do that. Thats why they hate womens soccer and the nba. Its why others hate Nascar. It is what it is. Wish it would change.

Dumbest idea in sports history. Utterly ridiculous.

That all depends on what happens this week.

MLB regular season... largely pointless with 162 games.

NFL... no idea how they do it given so many awful, pointless games and the true fans just waiting it out for when the games matter between the 2-4 contenders each year.

NHL... the most watchable regular season, IMO, but games don't really get going until Feb or March... far too many back to back games, thus teams going through the motions.

NBA... does the regular season matter much? Something like 20 teams make the playoffs/play-in now?

Without really knowing anything about it, seems like a way to gain some attention while football is in peak season... anything to make shit more interesting for both fans and players while hopefully having the better teams meet more often seems like a good thing.

Its seems like a player motivator strategy which trickles down to a viewer motivator