>basketball dying
>baseball dying
>hosting the Club World Cup 2025 and the World Cup 2026

America's soccer transition is almost complete.
Canada will follow them as they always do.

Maybe the fans are just using pirate streams or watching the game on sports bars?
I can't back this claim up though.

baseball has been on the up, hockey too, can't say the same for basketball, Adam Silver is incompetent

>>149085982
It's on broadcast television so there's no need to pirate.

>>149086047
>It's on broadcast television so there's no need to pirate.
Oh... then that's bad...

viewership is an outdated tool. All of the nba engagement stuff, most importantly gambling, is through the roof which is why they just got a ridiculous media deal. Baseball is similar. Using boomer metrics in an analytics world is stupid

>>149086047
Zoomers don't have TV antennas because they stream everything

>>149085885 (OP)
Long live the Holy Empire of Footy!

>NOOOOOOOO YOU HAVE TO CARE ABOUT POVERTYBALLL REEE

>>149086091
This.
Same everywhere, Zoomers watch sports mainly through tiktoks and youtube highlights.

Silver doesn't care, the NBA has got new contracts for like a decade

baseball is doing just fine, basketball is dying though

>>149085885 (OP)
Our team is already better than theirs, so if anything they're following us.

Everyone will die soon i will kill u bi lch nogger
I AM EUROPEAN

>>149085885 (OP)
we're still a baseball nation, seethe more raj

>>149086008
>baseball has been on the up
true
>hockey too
lmao

>>149086008
Hockey is so much fun. I wish more people liked it

>>149085885 (OP)
Basketball is a solve sport that revolves around shooting 3s. It's never a fun game to watch unless maybe if it's the last very minutes in a close game.

>>149085885 (OP)
Soccer is my third favorite sport to watch after MMA, and NFL Football.

>>149088970
It’s amazing it took them decades to figure that out, should have been crystal clear from the day the 3 point line was added

I bet many Americans will start to follow soccer depending on how well our team does in the world cup, because we are easily moldable golem

>>149085885 (OP)
Maybe don't split up your games between a million streaming services then?

>>149085885 (OP)
>basketball dying
being 6.8 isnt a generaational talent in a real sport

Meanwhile In reality

>>149085982
Nah the problem is that it's a bad watch. Shit pacing, constant ad breaks, corrupt officials, shit-tier announcers, shit-tier coverage in general, insufferably long regular season players openly admit they don't care about, playoffs so expansive they inevitably include multiple completely uninteresting lopsided blowouts and now it's the finals and...every other game is still a completely uninteresting lopsided blowout. They take multiple days off between games and then when they do play it's a snoozefest. Everything about the sport kinda sucks

>>149089652
zoomers don't watch sports, we only watch highlights
t. 1997 baby

>>149090090
At every single tier whether it's an individual game, series, or season, the NBA sucks the intrigue out to pad the length of the game and season. MLB and NHL do too but basketball isnt a luckfest game to game to weakly excuse some of it

>>149090208
>basketball isnt a luckfest game

>>149085885 (OP)
I warned y'all and you didn't fucking listened.
>small market teams = low viewership
Everyone wanted Celtics, Warriors or Lakers but they blew it.

>>149085885 (OP)
who wants to watch a black homosexual go to the free throw line 15 times and score 6-9 baskets with zero flair

lmao mls viewership is terrible

>>149088916
It just doesn't look good on TV, hard to follow the puck and when everyone's jammed at the net you can't see what the hell's going on.

>>149094512
football thrives cause they focus on parity and want the league itself to be the entertainment, not just certain teams. basketball and baseball still follow the old model where only the big cities matter and the rest of the league exists for them to beat up on.

>>149085885 (OP)
baseball is popular in Japan so they'll always survive because of weebs

Basketball is borderline the most popular sport in america for people aged 30 and under it's not going anywhere.

Baseball I agree literally the only people who keep it alive in america are boomers. It has zero appeal to the younger generation

>>149085885 (OP)
Lmao we're not trooning to soccer any time soon. Our national team and our domestic league is shit and our geographic rivals are even worse.

>>149095408
>Lmao we're not trooning to soccer any time soon.
this nigga

>>149086047
There's stream beggers everywhere even if it's on broadcast, zoomers just don't have TVs anymore.

>MLB TV Ratings Jump: Fox Up 10%, ESPN Hits Eight-Year High

>According to Nielsen, a combined audience of only 468,000 watched the LA Galaxy’s 2-1 victory over the New York Red Bulls on Dec. 7, down from the 890,000 who viewed the Columbus’ 2-1 victory over LAFC on the same platforms in the 2023 final.

>>149085885 (OP)
basketball isn't dying but the NBA is

>>149095397
Game 1 US viewership
World Series: 15.2 million
NBA Finals: 8.9 million (3rd lowest ever)

>>149085885 (OP)
Volleyball is the future of Canada

>>149085885 (OP)
Too expensive to watch

>>149096104
The NBA finals this year are two small market teams the last world series was the two largest cities in america

Go look at the tv viewership over the past 15-20 years for NBA finals vs world series than come back to me

>>149096113
No

>>149096128
the insecure ape leaf is mad lol

>>149096141
Nope just point out facts. The NBA finals have consistently beat out the world series in the modern era. Basketball is up there for being the most popular sport with younger people in america whereas baseball loses popularity each generation

I'm not sure what all the baseball cope is about. World series attendance is much lower than what it was in the 90s.
World series viewership is less than half of what it was in the 80s and America is a more populous country today.

>>149096170
Football is by far the most popular sport with every generation.

>>149096175
>attendance is lower
it isn't

>>149096205
Average attendance is lower. I checked for myself. Its been declining precipitously ever since the Red Sox ended their drought in 2004.

>>149094400
It's really not. As scoring chances increase, lucky outcomes decrease

I watch every nba finals and world series regardless of which teams are in it because i like sports. Big city fags only watch when LA or NY plays. Not real sports fans.

>>149096330
sports tickets in america have gone up in price like 300% the last decade. it costs $700 minimum to go to a world series game. world cup tickets will be astronomical next year. $1500 to get in the door for a usa game

>>149085982
I haven’t been watching these Finals, but uhhhh, don’t laugh! I’m a Knicks fan in California and I watch every game I can through streaming websites. I guess this is specifically talking about the Finals so idk

>>149096604
When's the last time a sitting president threw the first ball?

>>149097289
Gotta be w bush

>>149096330
Attendance has been rising every year since coof, and now is hitting 04 levels.

Hockey is the only worthwhile sport. also the whitest

>>149097523
>giving away tickets for free like $10 a piece
>stadium parking vouchers, restaurant vouchers
>still cannot fill the stadiums
baseball is a dead sport

>>149096175
Baseball is a massively inferior entertainment product to something like the NFL:
>fast paced
>lots of novelty in the way plays develop >short season
>every game counts
>every playoff game is win or go home
>guys aren't spaced out all over the fucking place, with the camera unable to keep the both the runner(s) and the fielder in the same frame

The real thing sports now have to contend with is the video game industry, regarding attention & money from younger men. Tencent's video games generate about as much annual revenue as the NFL & FanDuel combined.

>>149085885 (OP)
No one cares about the Pacers or Thunder lol chill

>>149098522
Baseball's just not a very good TV sport
A day at the ballpark however is max comfy and much more affordable

Sounds like a typical clickbait
Of course when you put in two less popular teams the numbers will be lower compared to other years
I dont even know where the Thunder are from
How were the numbers of the season and playoffs?

>>149095397
>Basketball is borderline the most popular sport in america
Chat is this true

>>149096170
>The NBA finals have consistently beat out the world series in the modern era.
Nope

>>149097924
What shit market do you live in?

>>149098678
Over the past 15 years the NBA finals have beat out the world series in tv ratings 11 times

>>149099815
Skewed methodologies are used by media research agencies to keep the price of ad time propped up

>>149096330
That’s also when teams were busy moving out of multipurpose stadiums, so capacity was dropping

>>149098575
fine, lakers, warriors, celtics and knicks had no problem pulling in great ratings.

>>149098522
Baseball is so slow that watching the highlights is far superior to a full game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMcfzTTKTaQ

>>149097289
obama had a really awful pitch that the libs tried to sweep under the rug, because they were currently pushing the "he's a cool dad with a great jumpshot, a natural athlete!" narrative

>hosting the Club World Cup 2025 and the World Cup 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfeVoGgVdI0

You will watch it and you will like it

>>149085885 (OP)
Soccer is not going to grow because MLS is locked to Appletv+. Nobody is subbing to Appletv+ to watch MLS. This is so fucking stupid. The league will not grow in viewership like this

But an even bigger problem is that 90% of the games take place on Saturday night at the same exact time. Which is so fucking stupid. But I guess you can argue this has to do with international competitions that players want to be available to play for their home country, so this gives them the option.

>>149085885 (OP)
>soccer transition
Nah, we're deporting them atm in case you haven't heard.

>>149086047
Nobody over 40 has a TV antenna.

the nba is the worst viewing experience of any sport so itsnot surprising the ratings have tanked. not even bringing up some racist aspect like /sp/ loves to do.

>>149114866
your birth year starts with a 2, doesn't it

Are you excited for the latest season of African Globe Trotters, goyim?

>>149085885 (OP)
Retard

>>149098589
NOPERS

>>149102547
I watched half of the twenty strike outs game. It was kino.
And the last baseball world championship was kino

>>149098589
No effing way

>>149085885 (OP)
i refuse to watch a *game* the Thunder play. fix the clear rigging for them and maybe. its disgusting basketball.

>>149098522
Football’s camera sucks too.
>Want to see where the wide receivers went? You know, those guys the quarterback is looking for?
>too bad lol

>>149090090
FIBA has its faults but you can't deny that the pacing is way better, it's way more relaxing to watch. No long ad breaks, no cringy mascot shows during breaks, players aren't forced to do shitty on-court interviews while the game is still going, no shitty music in the middle of the game, sometimes during timeouts there are no ads and you can actually see the players and coaches discussing things on the bench. I could go on. Thats part of what made the Paris Olympic tournament fun

the NBA is dying. not basketball. and people have been calling out the shitshow the league and its games have become for years.

NBA ratings are in the shitter because the media only cares about 4 teams and believes that everyone else has no other purpose besides being a farm team for said 4 teams
The issue is that those teams are all frauds who will never sniff a title again

>>149085885 (OP)

NFL is expanding. There's supposed to be European expansion teams and I've seen Brazilians simping for the NFL on sp

>>149085982

No one is watching it. The NBA is going to tank. Go see the NBA all-star cringe fest

I think Steph Curry and LeChoke being so soft hurt the league

>>149085885 (OP)
>>basketball dying
>>muh ratings
Basketball is more popular than ever

>>149129096
5 years ago it was at its peak, but it has fallen off

>>149129457
It was at it's peak when it was Lebron's Cavs vs Steph's Warriors. Then the Warriors bitched out and signed KD and ruined the league.

What do the Clippers do now? They had Harden and relatively healthy Kawhi with Norman Powell almost becoming a All-Star and they were a still a first round exit. Are they going to run it back or start a rebuild?

>>149090090
>constant ad breaks, corrupt officials, shit-tier announcers, shit-tier coverage in general, insufferably long regular season players openly admit they don't care about, playoffs so expansive they inevitably include multiple completely uninteresting lopsided blowouts and now it's the finals and

>>149119067
>. No long ad breaks, no cringy mascot shows during breaks, players aren't forced to do shitty on-court interviews while the game is still going, no shitty music in the middle of the game

>>149130041

You'd think they'd be richer