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I don't "get" these huge NBA contracts. Nobody actually watches the sport
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:24 AM Author: Cordovan native People in media discuss it and people talk about roster moves etc but few people actually watch games. This bubble has to burst. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066068) |
Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:27 AM Author: poppy parlor giraffe Some random guy no one's ever heard of gets 5 years, $150M (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066076) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:28 AM Author: Cordovan native Yeah a lot of these guys are bums, play some defense and shoot corner 3s and get paid 25 million, the game is unwatchable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066081) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:38 AM Author: poppy parlor giraffe And then you have SGA who is supposedly the best player in the league getting 4 years $285M (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066111) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:28 AM Author: Razzle kitchen really tough guy and on top of that the second one of the players throws a tantrum and wants a trade they do it so a lot of times the teams dont even really have the rights to them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066078) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:36 AM Author: Cracking Chapel the NBA is definitely a massive bubble
nobody irl cares about the NBA either. even the jews and nigs and azns who actually follow the NBA are almost entirely Online. it's become an Online/reddit subculture that's totally divorced from irl |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:06 PM Author: Cordovan native (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066198) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:37 AM Author: Cyan flatulent garrison espn is already regretting going all in with the nba and is begging to get a new mlb cocntract (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066101) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:37 AM Author: contagious aquamarine base its all online & flame now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066102) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:38 AM Author: marvelous casino corn cake They play 82 games a year plus retardedly long playoffs and have only 12 guys on the roster. Math works in their favor. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066107) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:41 AM Author: Jet temple The modern NBA is literally unwatchable. I watched (or rather, tried to watch) a few playoff games this year. Every team defaults to the three point shot with minor variation. No defense because slightly grazing someone is a foul. It's not entertaining; it's frustrating and lacks creativity. I have no idea how they manage to make all this money with such a trash product. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066122) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:10 PM Author: Cordovan native I made myself watch some of them with, because we were already getting together watching the NHL playoffs every night, most games were terrible, only the Pacers were decent to watch, mostly because Halliburton had an interesting style, the Thunder are the worst "champions" I have ever seen, Chet Holmgren wouldn't play 2 minutes a game in the 90s (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066206) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:18 PM Author: Jet temple I watched like six different teams play, and literally every offense had guys running to the corners waiting to shoot those corner threes. It's so formulaic. I had to stop watching after the "MVP" was obviously intentionally trying to get to the foul line as much as possible. Infuriatingly unentertaining trash. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066230) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:54 AM Author: Sickened vigorous heaven I have never in my entire life managed to watch a whole game of niggersqueakball from beginning to end and I LOL at people who are "fans" of this dumb "sport" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066162) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:57 AM Author: poppy parlor giraffe You've never watched Michael Jordan? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066167) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:01 PM Author: Sickened vigorous heaven highlight reels sure but not a whole game (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066181) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:05 PM Author: poppy parlor giraffe Damn daddy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066195) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:08 PM Author: Sickened vigorous heaven it's so fucking boring I'll watch baseball all day long and love it, but niggerball bores me after 5 minutes |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:13 PM Author: Aphrodisiac home useless brakes if you breathe on someone it's a foul. If you block the ball it's a foul. If you stuck your hands up by the net it's goal tending. Players can carry the ball and double dribble with impunity. It's unwatchable trash. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066216) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:16 PM Author: Cordovan native (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066227) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:13 PM Author: Topaz low-t friendly grandma sports betting is driving all of this lately (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066217) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:25 PM Author: irradiated hospital turdskin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066246) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:15 PM Author: glittery lake bawdyhouse karate You have to give the NBA credit for seeing what sports fandom would become in the Current Year. It’s just people talking on the Internet or poasting highlights or gossiping about players personal lives / roster moves. No one actually watches the games (this is true for every sport now except the NFL). The NBA just started a huge new TV deal so it doesn’t even matter that the ratings suck. The money has been booked for like a decade.
I do think there is something to the bubble theory though. A lot of owners have gotten out recently…Cuban, the Buss Family, the Timberwolves guy, etc. Seems like people in the know sense the franchise values are peaking. |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:17 PM Author: Cracking Chapel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066229) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:20 PM Author: Cordovan native (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066235) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:21 PM Author: Cyan flatulent garrison celtics guy sold too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066237) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:28 PM Author: glittery lake bawdyhouse karate Yeah I forgot that. So two of the biggest franchises sold in a very short timeframe. Like imagine if Jerry Jones sold the Cowboys and the Rooneys sold the Steelers like a few months apart. Something is up with that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066249) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:32 PM Author: Cordovan native And the blazers are for sale (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066264) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:25 PM Author: sable diverse associate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066247) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:32 PM Author: beady-eyed hominid players get 50% of league revenue and of the 12 players on a roster maybe 6 matter / only 2 really matter. it's set up to have the most obscene contracts. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49066263) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:40 PM Author: Thirsty address 1) Ratings are down, but are still meaningful - which is important when overall TV ratings are down even more 2) Games generally sell out nationwide, and there are 82 of them. Owners get massive gate, concession revenue 3) NBA rosters are small 4) The sport also has significant international growth levers |
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:41 PM Author: Ebony Motley Half-breed If you asked most NBA "fans" if they were more interested in finding out who won the NBA champioship between OKC and Indiana, or who traded for 36-year old Kevin Durant - almost everyone would pick Durant.
This is backed by the sports podcasts i listen to.
Not sure how that is sustainable longterm. |
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 8:42 PM Author: Cordovan native NBA players will forfeit more than $480 million from the escrow fund after the league's basketball-related income fell short of projections for the 2024-25 season. The NBA pegged BRI at $10.25 billion, according to someone familiar with the accounting who was granted anonymity because the details are private. Players will retain just 90.9 percent of their salaries from last season. The collective bargaining agreement requires the league to withhold 10 percent of player salaries to ensure the revenue split stays at 51 percent for players. Top Earners Hit Hardest: Stephen Curry, the NBA's highest-paid player at $55.8 million, will forfeit $5.1 million from the escrow fund. Other star players facing significant cuts include Joel Embiid ($4.7 million), Nikola Jokic ($4.7 million), Bradley Beal ($4.6 million) and Kevin Durant ($4.5 million). A player earning $20 million would net $18.2 million before taxes and agent fees. The 10 percent escrow was split 91 percent to teams and 9 percent back to players https://www.sportico.com/leagues/basketball/2025/nba-player-salaries-cut-escrow-system-1234858905/
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Date: July 3rd, 2025 8:46 PM Author: translucent razzmatazz mexican idiot The NBA is 180 and is the only currently watchable pro sport (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2...id#49070428) |