In a new interview, the NBA commissioner believes the NBA's poor early-season ratings are owed to factors very far removed from his control.
If the NBA was looking to score a big ratings windfall to kick off a new season, this wasn't it.Viewership for NBA games has dropped by double-digit percentages through the opening weeks of the regular season, according to Sports Media Watch. Compared to the same juncture in the 2023-24 NBA calendar, NBA ratings on ESPN are down 28 percent year over year. Ratings for the 2024 Boston Celtics-Dallas Mavericks Finals were reportedly the lowest the league has seen in three years.
So I don't think it has anything whatsoever to do with the style of play on the floor.'Ratings for the World Series on Fox were the best MLB has seen since 2017. The Los Angeles Dodgers' five-game series victory over the New York Yankees was just the tip of a month-long iceberg. Fox said its coverage of the 2024 baseball postseason averaged 7,485,000 viewers in all — a 42 percent increase compared to last year's average .
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