Now we just need the Mavs to finish the Clips, and we will be on to our lowest rated playoff in probably the last decade. Adam Silver must be sweating 🤣🤣🤣
I feel like I’m missing the joke here. Why do we want low ratings/why does this matter? Did Adam Silver take someone’s mother out for a nice seafood dinner and never called her again?
The only teams I'm still rooting against that's left in the playoff are the Clips and the Nets.
Everyone else, I'm happy to see shine, and looking forward to seeing who comes out on top, especially if it's at the expense of The Nets.
Looking at Suns or Jazz v the Bucks... that would be ideal.
as for the low rating joke and Adam Silver... I think it was covered sufficiently already, but the league thrives on the TV contracts, and if the only team left (
after tonight) that gets a national tv buy for regular ass games is the Nets, then the networks may be nervous about getting their money back in viewership which may affect the next round of negotiations... therefore Adam Silver must be sweating knowing that the golden ticket Lakers are out in the first round.... the Warriors got Play'd-out in the Play-in (as I'm sure wasn't expected*), the Knicks blipped into the wrong reality for a brief moment (
and then snapped back out), the Clips about to join the Lakergirls in having no one to root for this off-season, and all that's left are the Nets.
This is the first play-off in over a decade that will not have Steph and/or Lebron in finals.
and * Warriors season ending run, if I read correctly, was the highest TV draw for the whole season so far. For Adam Silver... this isn't going as planned.
For me, I like the drama, and even though I would have loved to see Steph's run continue, I have no doubt Warriors would've got bounced in the first round regardless of if it was Suns or Jazz.
I'm hoping the smaller markets get their spotlight, but there's no doubt viewership will be down as almost all the larger market teams have already been eliminated. So unless something crazy is happening, like Dame going into double OT, most people are passively watching at best.
Everyone loves to "hate" watch Lebron in hopes he loses, and everyone loves to watch Steph just make crazy shots. you have them both in playoffs and that equals guaranteed ratings.
We eliminate them and you lose alot of the passive watchers and the big market fans too. that's just the reality.