“Steph Curry Destroyed The Game” - Shaq Blaming 3 Pointers For Ruining Viewership in NBA

[@summerbaby21]

Every shot is a 3point attempt, and good defense is a foul

[@nownow1283]

💯 💯

[@hihihihihello]

That's pretty much the problems, games soft defensively games soft offensively chucking 3s all game and to top it all off the league went woke and supported the scam of BLM which did nothing positive.

[@corsomagenta]

Personally I a disgusted by the traveling. 4 and 5 steps is routine. F ing idiots ruined the game. Only having 2 steps separates the true artists from the knuckle dragging slam robots.

[@DrD-ey6st]

Leoussys

[@jayegeecorporate8788]

The woke blm shit definitely turned people off as well. You alienate half the country with that. Not to mention NBA has the most pampered, diva athletes in sports

[@lamarodom]

Shaq ain’t lying. The strategy of some of these teams today is to jack up as many 3s and see who wins. They have no game outside of that.

[@unknownname3189]

Look at the Raptors vs Celtics, Raptors had about 27 3s while Celtics had 62 3s!

[@just.bricky7259]

It has gotten out of hand but that only makes fans on the game get bored. The problem is the nba has hit a cap. If you don’t really like basketball you won’t watch it. Even some people that play it don’t really like to watch. Literally everyone will watch football, generations of people will gather around and watch football and that will never happen with nba. Also because of the length of the season

[@phantomdancer3279]

or its the fact that the game had to evolve and has become a lot more efficient. every team now has 2 to maybe 4 players that can shoot 38 to 42 percent from the 3 point line and the averages for those percentages compared to 2s would be around 56 to 60 percent fg. the 3 point shot is allowing players that are not as athletic to be far more effective, the game has gone from being athletic or just straight up big to players actually requiriing skill to compete. i dont see anything wrong with that...like a decade or 2 ago there were barely any players that even shot off the dribble,nowadays alost every body can do it. players now can just do far far more stuff than back then, idk how that is a bad thing its basically comparing sword fighting to guns. yes one style might be more pleasing to the fans but it doesnt make it better.

[@clevisbernier8973]

@@just.bricky7259 If you really like basketball then you're not watching the NBA. Especially if you remember what good basketball is.

[@clevisbernier8973]

@@phantomdancer3279 not all evolution is good. The product now is worse than it's ever been.

[@nbarealtalker]

Steph Curry didn’t destroy it, every team trying to replicate the Warriors since 2015 destroyed it.

[@lf3rd210]

That's pretty much, what Shaq said.

[@BourbonInhibitions]

Steph Curry was the catalyst to all of that though. He rightfully should get a lot of the blame because no one could beat the Warriors without also emphasizing taking and making so many 3s.

[@biozio186]

Steph ruined the game

[@samohtsolacad229]

You mean everybody wanted/wants to be Stephen Curry.

[@sb-rn5ez]

@@biozio186 such a stupid and dump idea

[@luisdelafuente8562]

Don’t hate the player, hate the game. NBA encouraged this by calling way too many contact fouls

[@ardendragoon8792]

Only against certain (lebalco) players. No defense is allowed.

[@ValuableTrouble]

I agree. Even tho I hate it so much that players flop I don’t blame them for doing it. They flop because they know they can get away with it and as a competitor why not try to get any advantage you can get to win. I bet if the league wasn’t refereed so soft we’d see less flopping, more and better defense

[@helderl.5668]

And carries, travel and two step gather to shoot are allowed. The NBA is selling offense and highlights which translates to $$$. Bring back 80-90's basketball.

[@jonnybravvo4282]

Great point

[@rikers263]

I work with agents, the players cried so much. They want to get to the next contract so they want to preserve their body

[@jicalzad]

i agree w/ PBD. I actually enjoyed the debates between Max Keller, Stephen A., and Will Cain on ESPN.

[@t206kid]

NBA is unwatchable. Got a 7 foot 6 guy in Wemby shooting 10 3s a game. Unheard of even just 15 years ago

[@2funny4u95]

that's why Jokic is a real value of the NBA

[@blockbullyrecords5417]

​ @2funny4u95 No hes worse he has no post moves 😂😂😂

[@dariusthegreat3097]

@@2funny4u95 No he's not. He's a good playerbut it's still a bad product. He's rarely downlow.

[@clevisbernier8973]

@@blockbullyrecords5417 Jokic has the best post game in the NBA. He's unstoppable on the block,

[@rikers263]

Exactly and Towns like 330lbs hacking up 3s, like u 7 feet tall, what are you doing?

[@Rob_Batman]

Modern players are cashing in but don’t want to work for it. Entitled. No intensity, no genuine rivalry, no defense and everyone is of the same character. Where’s the Rodman, Bryant, Stark, Bird, Barkley, the Bad Boy Piston types?

[@ScoopingCelebrities]

Embid?

[@NSV610]

@@ScoopingCelebrities embiid don't wanna play B2B remember lol

[@prassassin2828]

Kawhi as well he wake up think my knee hurts I’ll sit. 😂😂😂

[@brentonbogan7326]

A lot of these players in the nba now get their entire salary on game one… they don’t care about the outcome because they already got paid…

[@Bleepbloopblappp]

I mean… Steph Curry is one of those! He cares about every win. He wants another ring or more. He definitely is not a complacent player, and as much as I despise Harden.. he isn’t either. He doesn’t sit or scrub. I hate his game, but he isn’t one of these entitled fucks

[@Jake-Day]

The UFC picked a political side and they’re doing fine. The issue is the NBA picked a side that the majority of people who watch sports don’t like.

[@jazzymitch5184]

Yup support the end of racism and practice equality. And majority of people will hate it. If that’s what you referring too.

[@thebizkit69u]

@@jazzymitch5184 1. Racism will never end and I think it's silly to think it can be ended. 2. Equality? The league is owned by billionaires and played by multi millionaires. Fuck all that noise

[@elephantom12]

​@@jazzymitch5184"Practicing equality" just the sound of that seems ridiculous especially in a league dominated by darker humans.

[@scottmitchell1974]

​@@jazzymitch5184They don't want equality, they want equity. HUGE difference.

[@jazzymitch5184]

@@scottmitchell1974 not really when the people are actually owed something.

[@dadbod12]

Michael Jordan retiring destroyed the NBA

[@SamS-ch6vj]

Rubbish. Jordan was a media creation. The golden age was the 80s. Starting in 1990 the NBA went down. This generation is the "I wanna be like Mike generation." Selfish and self centered

[@banksfranks775]

​@@SamS-ch6vjyou clown. The highest rated ever NBA games all happened in the 90's during the chicago bulls era.

[@RocketMan-vc8sr]

​@@banksfranks775I know right. Jordan's final game as a Bull got nearly got nearly 40 million viewers. 😆

[@Dejusticed]

@@banksfranks775 He is actually spot on. Jordan may have gained viewership, but most people who aren't biased and have a brain, saw the special treatment he got. Most of us just don't take the nba serious. Jordan isn't even top 5 al time, yet most fans think he is the goat. The clowns, are the people like you, jordan was never the goat and actually is overrated. When you overrate a star, it turns people off. Viewership was only peaking then because of the actual technology allowing for more viewership. IDK why this is so hard to understand. The increase came from magic and bird, it only had small increases during jordans era and had a steady decline since. I would argue the special treatment given to jordan, turned off many serious sports fans. So who you had watching were Fairweather fans who just watch to see someone with a big name. That will only get so many people watching, it wont bring in the die hards that want to watch serious competition with no special treatment. This is why baseball has and always will be greater than basketball. Balls and strikes have always been the same for all pitchers. Umps have never given special zones for players. I understand its hard for you to understand, but its the truth.

[@uprebel5150]

Jordon destroyed baseball not by retiring from basketball to play baseball. But because to “Be Like Mike” took kids off the baseball field to the basketball court. It is much easier to get a basketball pickup game with just a ball where baseball requires a lot more kids and mitts, bats, etc…

[@inbm2102]

The NBA was ruined because of it softness and the left leaning politics….Curry, Kerr, and Lebum

[@ValuableTrouble]

That plus it’s such a headache and expensive to watch games these days. Even if you pay to get NBA league pass you don’t get full access to watch all of the games like huh? How that makes sense

[@cyberft]

I agree on the politics piece. Kerr and Lebron more than Curry, but it hurts the product when the face of it openly displays their disdain for half the country’s politics.

[@rubyridge9484]

Curry is a woke ass buster …

[@deannabibbee4280]

@@cyberft BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@toddboutain9918]

You’re right. My basketball GOAT(Jordan)didn’t bring politics into the game. He understood it was a business and he understood that politics will be divisive. And like Mike said when he didn’t endorse a local NC Democratic candidate, “Republicans” buy shoes too. 😂

[@whips8]

NBA went down once the true competitive superstars like Kobe, Duncan, Garnett and Nowitzki retired.

[@raymondsmith2040]

I think when they got rid of the big man for the sake of the 3 that's when the league started to decline.

[@David-y8m9t]

Garnett started this with him leaving to make a Super team.

[@Ahilliard44]

@@David-y8m9t bingo!!!!! the fact that stars can just team up makes it feel rigged, couple that with how refs swing games and you got yourself a corrupted product. Not a lot of people like watching something like that

[@Havoc0606]

NBA needs dynasties. It's always flourished most when stars stack up chips and compete to be legends. Wilt vs Bill Russell, Magic vs Bird, MJ vs everybody, kobe vs Duncan, and most recently lebron vs curry. Right now because of parity in the league there aren't two stars representing the product. There are several stars who are dimming out the spotlight and it's hard to follow or care unless you are an avid super fan.

[@DillaDonuts]

​@@David-y8m9t garnett got traded to the Celtics... and the Celtics weren't even close to a super team that we know of now. All the stars on Boston were all past their prime

[@88smjls]

LeBron has definitely been toxic for the NBA. Jordan was a singular case of skill drive and magnetic charisma.

[@BourbonInhibitions]

He is like the guy in college who still shows up to high school functions because he thinks everyone loves him so much. He was the most hated athlete in the world for a long time I think someone just passed him up though 😂

[@coolbananas1803]

I agree. LeCon. If the refs didn’t let his crap slide he’d be nowhere.

[@slickwilly6868]

So when Lebron speaks his mind its a problem?!?!

[@jacob4183]

It's not Steph's fault that EVERYONE, including bigs, shoot 3s. Steph is a one-off, the problem is they think they can shoot 3s like him and can't.

[@tbjb009]

This is odd though. Steph gets all the credit for revolutionizing the game and how it's played today, but when someone brings up the negative effects of everyone now shooting the 3 at a high clip, all of a sudden, its not "Stephs fault."

[@jacob4183]

@tbjb009 go back and look at the stats. I think the Warriors have only led the NBA in 3 point attempts like twice since Steph got there. It was Houston that took the 3 to this level

[@BourbonInhibitions]

@@jacob4183Because they made more 3s. Didn't have to shoot so many. Steph deserves all the blame he gets.

[@jacob4183]

@@BourbonInhibitions 🤣

[@rickDArula]

@@BourbonInhibitionshater, if Steph was playing for your favorite team you wouldn’t be hating

[@camps1960]

Was diehard Lakers fan. Watched almost 50 games a season plus playoffs. Since LeWhine got there i won't watch any NBA. The wokeness killed it for me.

[@bigpoppa3999]

Good we won't miss you.

[@camps1960]

@bigpoppa3999 we? Are you on the team? 😆 🤣 😂 big suckaaaa

[@eatshityoutube3271]

@@bigpoppa3999right lmfao

[@biozio186]

You were never a fan. Good riddance

[@Wmikewtonytone]

@@biozio186 so you like queen James and the joke he made the lakers

[@sb-rn5ez]

when Stephen Curry is playing every one love to watch NBA , by the way USA winning Olympics gold medal because of Curry , don't forget that.

[@jokersmoker5450]

Black lives matter is definitely not what turned viewers off because nobody cared. The real issues are listed in some of the comments below.

[@BourbonInhibitions]

It definitely turned people off. I have been a lifelong NBA watcher and boycotted the NBA from 2020-2022. But it isn't one of the main reasons why the NBA has plummeted in popularity to either.

[@MiguelOcho8]

From LA, LeBron ruined the Lakers for me. Thank God for Ohtani

[@ruffgook]

Nah its not steph , the nba allowed this to happen by punishing the defense so he could succeed

[@fullmetal1766]

Curry has had the highest rated games since 2015 lebron has had some of the lowest rated games but nike and espn are in bed with lebron and the media only pushes him thats why viewership has steadily dropped the only promote one guy who hasnt been a great player since 2018

[@jamesrippy1161]

The NBA ratings peaked in 1998 and has gone down since. Why? That was MJ’s last NBA Finals. Flopping, load management & horrible refereeing has exasperated the fans

[@biozio186]

I can tell your favorite team has never won a ring

[@jamesrippy1161]

@ my favorite team is the SPURS 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

[@Pause_café_Avec_Dr_Djon]

The NBA went downhill when they lost the Chinese market … The viewership in China was crazy in the early 2010s . Games were broadcasted on national TV

[@airtobe]

blaming LeBron is nasty work from from V.

[@granthill24]

The NBA caught lighting in a bottle with MJ because there was a cant miss mystique to him. but even during his time the NBA did a excellent job of marketing their other stars. Everybody had nicknames that was connected to their personality and there was a ton of cross branding endorsements that connected the NBA to the wider culture. Wheaties, Mcdonalds, Hanes, Looney toons, these are some of the things that made the NBA of the 90's so special. Also there was no social media. The NBA peaked in the 90's and its not coming back.

[@Jm-Gonz]

Stopped watching the NFL and NBA when Kap started kneeling AND HAVE NEVER watched a game since. we watch sports to be entertained, not to have political opinions shoved down our throats

[@johnmoore2040]

The NBA hasn’t been the same since Kobe Bryant.

[@GoatJames23-hs5xq]

He done nothing

[@johnmoore2040]

@ come again?

[@ElJay2321]

The NBA is unwatchable because 1. Too many blowout games 2. Refs calling fouls like crazy. Flagrant fouls and techs for players showing emotions. If your call a tech on a player who shows emotions based on your wrong call, then the players won't care or play hard. 3. The NBA has made it hard for fans to watch the game. If you have a league pass for $16.99 a month, you can't watch your local games and Espn games ridiculous 🙄. 4. Load management and coaches sitting players once the team is down by 15 points with 3 minutes to go in the 4th. 5. When you listen to the players' address games the lose they always downplay it . Oh, it's just the beginning of the season, meaning the fans shouldn't care either. 6. I caught myself loving hockey way more than basketball now, and i think it's because of the loss of physicality in the NBA

[@charlesstokes1967]

I disagree with Lebron being the reason and I'm red

[@Brando90198]

It wasn’t a singular thing that ruined the game. Load management, too many games on tv, Adam Silver, refs, all star weekend, ridiculous contracts, no defense and minimal mid range.

[@michaelspringer4532]

Nah , James harden , lebron, Russel Westbrook and the likes . Joel embid Ben Simmons .Complete malcontents like that ruined the league

[@rr1046]

Yep. Westbrook alone ruined it for me. Driving to draw a foul instead of trying to get a bucket is trash ball.

[@Master-Debator]

Haha tell me you don’t know 💩 about basketball without telling me…oh wait 😂

[@vincentblea4285]

MLB also had two historic teams playing and a player that is a global phenomenon

[@smittypa6597]

The 3 point shot has turned the game into a 3 pt shooting contest. There are no fast breaks anymore cause everyone standing at the 3 point lead can get back on defense. Its a bad product. NBA has to make radical changes. Increase the size of the court and move the 3 pt shot back so only a handful of guys can make it. Let the players, with the bigger court and space, show off their athleticism with one on one moves to basket and more fast breaks.

[@mattsell2361]

Increasing the size of the court would make scoring go up.😂 the reason scoring is so high is because of the space of the court and 3 point shooting. Defenses are actually better today and more versatile but it’s near impossible to guard teams today. If anything they need to make the court smaller

[@smittypa6597]

@ i did say move the three point line back. but you make an interesting point. i dont mind the scoring but i want to see more fast breaks and dunks and less jacking up threes

[@mattsell2361]

@@smittypa6597 move the line back would help a little bit but I think teams would still shoot most the same amount of 3s unless the nba moves it back something crazy like 5 feet. I’m not sure why your missing fastbreak points and dunks. Both have statically been going up. There’s more fastbreak points and dunks then there was 20 years ago. The only thing that’s gone down is mid range shots since it’s the most inefficient shot and teams are smarter then they used to be so they shoot less midranges. It sounds like you aren’t a basketball super fan and are just nostalgic of the players you grew up with. Your speaking narratives not facts

[@smittypa6597]

@ i have watched every Knicks game for 35 years. probably longer than you have been alive. thanks for your take

[@mattsell2361]

@@smittypa6597 so I gave you objective facts about fast break points and dunks and you got mad? 😂

[@andysauro1500]

Social Media killed NBAs ratings. Basketball CRUSHES in short form content. It's just a less enjoyable experience over 48 minutes with the fouls and excessive 3pters.

[@mattsell2361]

This is not talked about enough. The nba is not losing popularity. It’s just shifting. The nba is very huge for younger audiences, people just don’t sit and watch the games, the look at highlights or watch videos about it. People who just look at tv ratings are dumb

[@mmfootynews]

The quarters should be 10 mins instead of 12 mins like in Europe. Also less timeouts would be nice

[@THEBENGALSBOOGY]

That's what happens when betting on sports. Boxing should have taught us that.

[@lextheking5431]

I think one of the biggest issue is the fragmented media rights

[@RocketMan-vc8sr]

Exactly.

[@NamBui-wu8vo]

Blame the protest and activist athletes. Kappedwhack started it all.

[@BrazaBryan]

NFL has all time high viewership dude

[@Ben2bwild]

So why is the NFL viewership still high? It has nothing to do with race or politics. It's about the product. Y'all always blame the left for making things about race when you're doing the exact same thing lol

[@jl4018]

@@BrazaBryan their viewership this year just finally passed where it was in 2015 after declining started around 2016. So it just recovered from something that happened to the game right around then. I believe that would be in reference to Kaepernick. Nearly 10 years of stagnation occurred.

[@Whitenugget23]

@@BrazaBryanmaybe find out what happened with Kapernick and the NFL before commenting, dude. Those ratings dropped like a mf- did u think it would help?

[@ebonywagner1682]

Oh really

[@jacob4183]

Shaq is also quoted as saying Steph is his favorite player because he does things that he's never seen.

[@ericsmithsportstraining]

In my opinion the ratings have suffered partly because none of the stars inspire us with their mentalities. The majority of stars either 1. Play no defense or 2. Self promote or play media mind games like lebron. Kobe Mj and Larry Bird captivated us because their will and mentality was something to behold.

[@thebizkit69u]

Several factors. 1. The over reliance on the 3 point shot. 2. Position less rosters. Why play a 7'0 beast with a dominating paint presence when you can just put a 6'7 guy who can shoot 3s? 3. Lack of competition. 4. Bad product on defense. 5. All Star showcase is a joke now.

[@semperick]

Yeah so basically it’s boring af now bc all teams play the same lol

[@Pswayze23]

As soon as Steph Curry retires, they have to push the line back

[@thebizkit69u]

​@@semperick I remember when most individual teams had their own styles of basketball. Heck I remember when the Phoenix Sun's during the Mike D'Antoni era were the exception a not the norm.

[@semperick]

@@thebizkit69u exactly bro.. remember the lob city clippers? The triangle offense lakers? The matchups would be so interesting because they played different but now it’s just five 3 and D guys outside of maybe the nuggets and Bucks but that’s only bc their superstars don’t play like Curry

[@thebizkit69u]

@@semperick I remember the OG triangle offense with my 90s Bulls! Remember how unique Boston was with Paul Pierce and Antoine Walker? Walker was a PF who played like a guard, now EVERYONE plays like a guard.

[@dirtyglo9284]

The politic take is weak considering the fact that the nfl dealt with a lot of political issues too in the past

[@NSV610]

SuperTeams ruined the NBA for many years-especially the KD Warriors.

[@johndurrer7869]

The issue is in the NBA the better team is far more likely to win than in the MLB. Everyone knew the C’s were gonna crush Dallas. It wasnt exciting

[@jeronemorodella2009]

He must not know good basketball if he thinks the Spurs. That was the best team basketball playing I've ever seen in my life.

[@mattsell2361]

Yeah and the Celtics play amazing team basketball as well. People just want to watch players go 1 on 1 ig

[@deni_OTF]

He has to make everything political which is what sucks about him. When he doesn’t bring politics into sports he’s actually funny. The actual reason is you have to buy like 3 different subscriptions to watch a game. So many people are streaming it.

[@eatshityoutube3271]

Precisely, it’s not Steve’s fault, it’s not LeBron‘s fault, it’s the fact that generally in your local area you can maybe watch one or two basketball games out of the 82 teams that are playing. And you have to have a bunch of different subscriptions to watch other games, I have ESPN, and still on most nights you can’t stream the game, you have to have NBA TV or league pass or some bullshit

[@paulwilliams2024]

Don’t forget Kobe carried the league after Jordan

[@coolbananas1803]

Exactly! Well said!

[@marinacabrera8293]

They killed The All-Star Dunk contest when they took the title from Arron Gordon and Handed it to Lavine. ❤Curry vs Sabrina Ionescu (from WNBA) 3pt contest was AWESOME.

[@Portuducks]

It was the ban of the handcheck/forearm check, the defensive three second violation, and the back to the basket five second rule that transformed the NBA into the pick-and-roll and shot chucking league.

[@thirdeyespy5503]

PBD is a front runner with his sports picks.

[@Kewrock]

Baseball viewership is up because they tightened up the game.

[@PjORourkeflyelyfe]

I’m back into baseball for the first time since I was 15/16 20 years ago, agreed.

[@PjORourkeflyelyfe]

As time goes on I admire THE GAME of baseball more and more.

[@t206kid]

Baseball has always been the thinking fans game. 100% the average IQ of an MLB fan is higher than an NBA or NFL fan.

[@RocketMan-vc8sr]

Baseball is up because of the pitch clock and the Yankees facing the Dodgers in the World Series. Heck, even the Mets being in the playoffs helped a lot.

[@Kewrock]

@@RocketMan-vc8sr Been watching baseball close to 50 years. I worked for the Mets in the 80s and 90's. That pitch clock is awesome. The balk rules and ghost runner is stupid and detrimental. A nice tight game coming in at 3 hours or less is nice though.

[@DonQuixoteSosa]

6:09 he started “quoting” Shaq… took about 3 seconds to realize he wasn’t quoting Shaq with those big words 😂💀

[@carolynferguson5940]

The ratings are highest when the face of the league is in the finals with a worthy opponent. Show the viewership over the last 10 years. The current style of play is skill based and beautiful. I like Shaq as a person but could not appreciate him as a player. Shaq was poor at making free throws, could not bring the ball up court. Steph does everything at a high level without being physically imposing, just pure skill...

[@bronsrivers2760]

This runs deeper than just "politics" The issue is, there is too much service and not enough demand. 82 game season, why would a casual fan want to watch a NBA game, when they can just scroll on tiktok or youtube or even just wait till later on in the season because its so long. I myself only watch lakers games because of the Lebron. Back in the day there were limited forms of entertainment, and one of the key forms of entertainment that society could lean on, was sports, heavily favoring the NBA because of Michael Jordan. The NBA blueprint wont work in this day in age.

[@mattsell2361]

This is not talked about enough. The nba is not losing popularity. People just don’t sit there and watch games like they used. But everyone knows about the nba storylines

[@markjsram]

Kap started the downfall of sports. Guys with money don’t want to be told they’re racist when they just bought $500 seats

[@yopappy6599]

While wearing a jersey with the last name of a B man and cheering for their favorite team made up of 60%+ B people.

[@brendonsheffield6372]

Football is more popular than ever. Sounds like a you problem

[@TurkeyCreekjackjohnson_]

@@brendonsheffield6372absolutely untrue

[@markjsram]

Football is still popular yes, and will be more popular than basketball always. What I'm telling you is, when you look in the stands, the guys that are paying $500/ticket are a certain color. They don't want to be told they're racist, yet come and support their team...

[@BrazaBryan]

@@TurkeyCreekjackjohnson_it’s literally a fact. So much cope 🤣🤣

[@KillahManjaro]

They should limit the number of 3-pointers to 20 per game for each team. You can use them as you wish: 5 per quarter or all 20 in the fourth to extend your lead or make a comeback.

[@ColinSushiboy-lz4rg]

Lebron is the current best of this era and he plays no defense. Players take a look at Lebron and think why bother playing defence if Bron doesn't seem to care. Also him forcing the team to take his son turn off fans.

[@Voltigern.]

You know who really destoyed the game it's D'Antoni and the Rockets. Curry, Thompson and Warriors took many 3's cause it's their game and playstyle. While Rockets made it about statistics only taking 3's or layup/dunks no in-between. In 2017 Rocket shoot more 3's than the Warriors that has KD.

[@enorth15]

NBA lost me when they went all in on the Black Lives Matter nonsense.

[@tvojamamaomg]

ive seen many suggestions how to fix NBA, the only one i believe would work is to put slightly smaller courts like the ones they use in Olympics because then you can actually defend... and remove 3 sec violation

[@ardendragoon8792]

Call the rules. The biggest problem are the refs, style if play, and the players themselves.

[@semperick]

That and or allow hand checking and tame down the foul calls it slows the game down so much and it is ridiculously annoying

[@tvojamamaomg]

@@ardendragoon8792 dont hate the players, hate the game defense in NBA needs a buff, all sorts of advancements in pick and roll department over last 20 years made many plays close to unguardable if executed correctly more and more focus on players with offensive skillset is put every year and games became very formulaic

[@mattsell2361]

@@semperickyour speaking narratives not facts. There was more fouls called in the handcheck era then there is today.

[@khutsomohale853]

As a South African that loves sports, I gave basketball (NBA) a chance to learn the sport and I can confidently say it is very boring. It's not about the athletes and their political ties, it is just a horrible product as a whole. The problem with American sports is that they aren't really competitive for most people outside the US/Canada. The lack of relegation, weird way fixtures are set up, and the sport only being relevant in a handful of countries makes it less entertaining. I'm a football/soccer fan, but I'd rather watch tennis than basketball. They need to restructure their competition and promote the sport outside so that other countries have professional leagues. The rules aren't helping the sport as well, it makes it less intense. Also you can't really bet on nba games because people can decide to just stop playing in the dying seconds of a quarter. That time you might need one point for your betslip to win😂

[@kellyallen8528]

If your team isnt jacking up 3's then you should be fired. 1990's basketball of defense was amazing to watch but it's all about analytics now in sports and basketball is no different. The 3pt % last year was 36.6%, the 2pt percentage was 47.5%. it's simply about the math of it. If you shoot 100 three point shots you would score 106.5 points if you went by the 36.6% average and likewise if you shot 100 two point shots then you would only score 95 points over the same amount of shots if you shoot at 47.5%. You're just scoring at a higher rate by firing 3s. It sucks to watch but it's technically correct strategy.

[@eb6505]

Everyone else thinking they could shoot as accurately as Steph and Klay are the ones to blame. I’ll make an exception for Buddy Hield lol

[@slickwilly6868]

I'm 42 years old so that means I grew up during the Jordan era. The thing is When I was a kid we watched the actual games on TV but with social media going on and these devices in everyone's hands, these kids today will watch the highlights instead of the game.

[@fwily2580]

Love basketball, played it my entire life. Loved NBA until LeFlop started tweeting.

[@properchr6s831]

lol Vinny Would’ve hated Muhammad Ali

[@YungChief]

Will Cain is 10000% right, Shaq couldnt say that though.

[@julianbryce31]

they didnt include league pass no one watch television anymore

[@albertmolina1781]

Haven't watched the NBA games since Kobe.

[@napu2652]

Shaq jus pissed he got a losing year with Angel Reece and he can’t & couldn’t shoot 3 pointers 😂

[@JDBluedevil]

Viewership is down in the NBA because fans are sick and tired of LBJ and most of the best players are now foreign born.

[@Lovlee33161]

Speak for yourself on that one lmao.

[@semperick]

Bruh why would you care where people are born if they’re way better? lol also LeBron playing at the level he is at his age is super impressive and I’m not even a bron fan like that

[@donttouchmebitc]

Lmao lame way to say you are a hater

[@alexvolkofbrunet6723]

your life must be shiet

[@jicalzad]

LBJ is prob one of the main reasons to watch the NBA right now. His story is probably most compelling since he's basically an old far who's still competing at a high level against youngsters who should be destroying by now.

[@jmac9731]

Nobody wants to watch Boston in the finals point blank period. I thought about this when the finals were going on. It’s just the truth.

[@akpolo-d8h]

you can’t blame Steph he is the best shooter we have ever seen, a generational talent, without him the NBA would be in a worst decline

[@yeetvr7755]

Pat is not a die hard fan if someone comes in tht u dnt like and u switch up teams cmon pat.!!! We in it even when its tough .!!!

[@AndreRitter-qp3vm]

Kind of a disingenuous argument by Pat, baseball is huge in Japan and Ohtani was playing so those ratings aren't surprising. Also World series had LA vs New York so kind of unfair to compare it to Celtics vs Mavs. If it was Lakers vs Knicks they would have destroyed the world series ratings.

[@thanduxolonelisiwe3265]

In the NFL No one says "is Pat Mahomes going to 3-peat"... they say "are the Kansas city Chiefs going to 3-peat".

[@KyleC11]

If the 3 point shot was ruining the NBA, Steph curry would not be so beloved and watched. Warriors dynasty with the splash bros would not have existed. And fans would be complaining or booing it. Adam silver would also have intervened to save the viewership and begin to limit 3 point shots in the game. But the opposite of that is true. People love Steph because he's a 3 point God.

[@mattsell2361]

How are they supposed to limit 3 point shots?

[@KyleC11]

They can say each team can only shoot X amount of threes per game or per quarter etc.

[@thomasj1026]

OK once again. Everyone is wrong. The reason the NBA viewership is falling has nothing to do with the product or racial division. It has to do with ACCESS TO GAMES. NFL comes on regular tv. You don't have to spend 100 a month to watch NFL games. However, every nba game is only on cable tv. Ppl no longer are paying for cable. So if ppl dont have cable how can they watch the games. The future of sports is on streaming services. If i could pay 5 dollars a game to watch the game i want....viewership and revenue will go up. I dont want to watch games of teams i dont have interest in. This is the issue. Not 3s not lebron not politics. The stands are full. So ppl want to watch. Its all about access.

[@funmaster4632]

It's like when Jordan quit. Steph and Landon carried the league for a long time and the NBA doesn't have a replacement

[@PeePeeMilk]

Jordan quit and Kobe, Shaq, and Duncan carried it. Then LBJ and nobody seen Steph coming the way he did.

[@damion1011]

Nba has a lot of problems. -Regular season became irrelevant after KD joined the warriors. - games are 3 pointers and fouls ONLY - stars sit out randomly for big games - Divisions are meaningless - no rivalries exist that are great - it’s a superstar league, most fans root for a certain player not teams.

[@donquique1]

Watched a couple of minutes of celtics last year run. 3 straight possessions and 3 three pointers in less than 10 seconds. Did not watched again.

[@dandandkl9048]

Don’t forget, they get three steps, and then another one and half to shoot, plus no three seconds in the lane, you can change your pivot foot after you stop….it’s a video game. Thank God I gave up watching seriously after they put BLM as top priority, plus the knee by Kap!

[@mazengwe28]

I'm glad you noticed the pivot foot change. That is why players get away with drop-step moves and up-and-under that should be considered a travel.

[@bfunk9572]

I never liked basketball. Shooting a ball into a hoop is boring.

[@Biggetitngo]

I would say the 3 point shot hurts the NBA . Took out midrange and post moves. And also players switch teams so much nowadays it's hard to keep up

[@gmenace-up7ml]

Nothing like watching a bunch of dorks that couldn’t make an NBA three if their life depended on it act like they know something

[@Vinny6288]

I remember telling my buddies before the season started "The NBA is boring until the playoffs start" and I got shitted on for that. Now they're barely watching the games and can't even tell me who did what on any given night. It's a different product now, I feel like it went downhill after the 2015-2016 season when the Cavs came back being down 3-1 against the Warriors. Coincidentally, it was also the final seasons for Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan and Kobe Bryant, which felt like the end of an era. Whether it's the 3-point shot, woke politics integrated in the NBA or just a lack of storylines from teams or players, it is definitely a different product and the viewership numbers speak for themselves.

[@A1Frizz]

I’m very similar with baseball. Grew up a Dodger fan. Moved to Atlanta 20 years ago. Now I love both teams and root for both. Until they play each other, then it’s all Dodgers.

[@afc2333]

Steph didn’t ruin the game!! LeBron ruined the league along with their woke agenda! Adam Silver is also to blame!!

[@sdaniels101]

PBD, part of being a fan is that you stick with your team even through tough times. How do you keep on switching teams?? You know what that's called right?

[@dreamcage1801]

I miss the NBA 90s n 00s when individual star players just focused on the game of basketball

[@tjxoom1]

I watched NBA for over thirty years. No more. I'm sick and tired of rich people complaining. The average person can hardly pay their electric bill. The last thing you want to hear is rich people complaining how hard it is live in America if you're black. What a joke.

[@paulmartin9070]

Sorry, but Curry's impact in soccer is probably zero. Really. Nice try, though

[@heroperseus007]

Easy fix for the NBA. Just limit each quater to a maximum of three or four 3 pointers per quater. Step Curry still remains relevant, but no longer dominates. Thus allowing other styles of play to shine aswell in the same match. You could have parallel stars on the same team sharing the limelight.

[@clevisbernier8973]

good idea

[@mattsell2361]

How do you limit 3 point shots? Tell players not to shoot?😂

[@heroperseus007]

You make a rule. Same as you have a rule for dribbling the basketball, or the player gets penalized for travelling. It's not that hard. You just need the willpower to enforce it. You could create drama where players pretend to take one of their limited 3 point shots then pass it to a teammate for a regular point. Well it might make for a less predictable and more exciting game. Have you seen how many peculiar rules baseball has. It still draws.

[@mattsell2361]

@ that’s a good idea in theory, but I’m not sure how well it would work practically. Imagine if a team is down by 3 points with just a few seconds left and they lose because they are out of 3 pointers. I feel like that situation alone makes limiting 3 pointers not possible in a practical sense. But maybe I’m wrong. I think they nba should experiment with something like that in the preseason

[@heroperseus007]

You make a valid point. Not all change comes easy. However, if a team kept their last 3 point shot for the end of each quater it could make for some seriously tense moments in the sport. Can you imagine one team is ahead by 2 points but have no 3 point shots left and their opposition have one 3 point shot left. I think the basketball commentators and the viewing public would be on the edge of their seats if this was a last quater in a playoff or any game. Question :- Do you use up your 3 shot limit early in a quater to get an early lead or do you play strategically and keep them in reserve for later. If you do not use your 3 point shot limit per quater you lose them. Keep a strict 3 to 4 limit of 3 shots per quater. That still amounts to 9 to 12 points per quater, or 36 to 48 points per game. Stephen Curry and other 3 point specialists are still very relevant, but other components of the game now make a comeback. I think it could lead to a more balanced and exciting game overall.

[@Kbabby12]

Listen , I've played basketball all my life. Love the game . However , in recent years I've noticed much more NFL consumption due to one thing; defense. No matter how many rules are in place to protect offensive players , it still is so hard to score the football. It makes watching a 20-17 game so sweaty and nail biting that you don't get to experience in the NBA . Refs protect NBA players on every single play with tick tack fouls that shoot the score up to these insane 140+ numbers . Baskets aren't as valuable anymore . If you want to save the NBA , let the physicality happen and bring down this scoring margin . The 3 point shot never destroyed basketball the defense or lack of has destroyed basketball. Nobody wants to see free throws all game

[@AntBanks1984]

Can we just admit that the popularity of the NBA isn't what it used to be, based on the way the game is played and not because of culture wars. Nobody hasn't said anything about "black lives matter" regarding the NBA, in years. The gameplay is what changed.

[@144Donn]

Shaq is correct and I am glad he said it! Back in the 70's it was called "Chucking".

[@fauxbro1983]

How is it currys fault that substandard 3 point shooters are jacking 3s?

[@thandekangangura5335]

People make it seem as if Steph told people to shoot 3s. Also coaches copied the Warrior way

[@clevisbernier8973]

It's not Curry's fault but that style of basketball is trash.

[@johnwestleydean]

I have listen to multiple podcasters addressing the decline of the NBA. I have the perfect fix for the issue. Bring back 90s style defense that the rest of the world is currently using, call traveling fouls, call carrying fouls, call the double dribble fouls, allow the hand checking back into the league, and add a 4pt line to the game. History will prove the recommendation I have laid out will bring back the golden era of the NBA. Lastly FIRE Adam Silver because he is to soft of a commissioner. There is no need to limit the 3 pointer if you allow DEFENSES to combat the problem. Have referees that allow players to play and call a foul when it really is a DAM foul. Oh yeah add a Foul call for flopping! I use to have the NBA package for years and now its been almost 10 years since I had the NBA package because the game today is a joke. On the announcement side of things bring back announcers that know the DAM game like popular coaches with a personality, and former players with a personality that are not afraid to say it like it is #KeePiTReal. In closing MJ is the GOAT & Kobe Bryant is head of #LbFlopNoHeartHavingJames! Almost forgot LBJ is on the JUICE father time is undefeated unless your cheating! Spending millions on you health/body per year is a lie he that his camp has been pushing. Example everyone thought Lance Armstrong was so great to do what he did in his sport and got away with it for over a decade. The USSR perfected the use of using the JUICE and how to beat the current test in place for over 25 years! You can put lip stick on a pig ,but it will still be a pig!

[@HumptyMcFly]

Too many 3s are a big problem. Load management is a big problem. The biggest problem is the NBA has become too expensive to watch.

[@bobbyburtonphotography]

Seasons are too long, so the players don't care about every game. This is what everyone misses with the NFL. EVERY week is important in the NFL. There are also too many teams in the NBA. You could remove four and then distribute the better talent around the league so you don't have so many terrible teams. You never know when star players are going to sit out because they have a headache, so why buy a ticket to go watch a game?

[@PeePeeMilk]

They get paid very handsomely, they can play 82 games. All the guys from the 00s, 90, 80s etc. played 82 game because they were super competitive.

[@neckboneschannel]

To be fair, NBA is bigger globally. More people in Asia and Europe, Africa buy NBA jerseys, player shoes, and play basketball than they do with NFL. But in USA yes foot all is bigger

[@ElJay2321]

I think for the first time I agree with the statement "Shut up and dribble" I don't need athlete trying to influence it's viewers politically or religiously just play your game and be good at it we come to watch to escape the crazy world of politics and religion.

[@nellyville69]

Will Cain honesty is refreshing