How bad is the product the NBA is putting on the floor these days? So bad that their reigning champion head coach from the Boston Celtics, Joe Mazzulla, would rather watch something else in his downtime.
And truly, it’s probably hard to find a graver insult.
Mazzulla, according to Fox News, was asked about the NBA’s declining ratings and admitted he personally is a part of the problem.
“I add to that, I don’t watch NBA games. I’m just as much of a problem as everyone else,” he admitted.
Mazzulla, who led his Boston Celtics to the NBA championship in just his second season as the head coach of the franchise, added he’d “rather watch something else.”
“I don’t like watching the games.”
He’s not the only one.
Joe Mazzulla Blasts NBA As Ratings Slide
Now maybe, just maybe, Joe Mazzulla is saying, ‘Hey, I deal with basketball 16 hours a day; why would I want to keep watching it when I get home?’
But surely he could have found a gentler way to word it other than essentially, ‘Yeah, I’d watch anything other than the NBA right now.’
Especially when the product gets ripped to shreds while ratings plummet. 95% of the league are now three-point specialists somehow, and only 5% of the league knows how to play defense.
Oh, and their biggest star is a serial flopper who held his team hostage in order to grant his son’s Make-a-Wish dream. I’m not naming names here, but that star’s name rhymes with DeBron Flames.
That makes for a garbage product. The only person who isn’t currently catching on to that is NBA Commissioner Adam Silver.
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Adam Silver Claims Fans Are Still Interested
Silver acknowledged the league’s recent dip in TV ratings but insists it does not indicate a lack of fan interest in basketball.
Silver attributes the ratings decline to broader trends in cable television viewership, suggesting that the shift towards streaming might be influencing traditional TV metrics.
“If you look at other data points, in terms of our business, for example, we’ve just come off the last two years of the highest attendance in the history of this league,” he claimed.
“We’re at a point where our social media audience is at the highest of any league and continuing to grow exponentially. So, it’s not a lack of interest in this game.”
Nah, bro. It’s definitely a lack of interest in the game. Because the players are soft. Even Shaquille O’Neal said so.
“I think everybody’s looking at the same thing,” O’Neal said, according to OutKick. “And Steph Curry and those guys messed it up.”
“Like I don’t mind Golden State back in the day shooting threes, but every team is not a three-point shooter, so why everybody has the same strategy, I think viewership will continue to go down unless we switch things back up.”
O’Neal said everybody in the NBA is “soft” and “it drives me [expletive] crazy.”
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