NBA ratings are down 26 percent year-over-year on TNT, six percent on ESPN, and LeBron’s move west is a big reason why
It's been the early half of doubleheaders that's been hit particularly hard, and LeBron being in the West is a factor there.
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On First Take, Stephen A. Smith says “I would love to see my man Marc Stein back,” “I wish he was still here”
"I am incredibly happy to have Adrian Wojnarowski with us, incredible insider, does a phenomenal job, but there's room for one more. I would love to see my man Marc Stein back."
ESPN2 will feature a Game 2 ECF second-screen offering with analysis from Woj, Jay Bilas, Cassidy Hubbarth, Mark Jones and others
Full Court Press will feature a split screen of the game with Woj, Bilas and others watching and offering analysis, alongside special stats and graphics.
Doris Burke: “There are a lot of 60-year-old men who have wrinkles, no hair, glasses, and nobody gives a damn.”
"I promise you I'm not having plastic surgery. I'm 52. I've earned every wrinkle on my face. I actually like my wrinkles. And guess what? There are a lotta 60-year-old men who have wrinkles, no hair, glasses, and nobody gives a damn. It's about time that a woman my age or above, if she chooses to go into her 60s as an announcer, she should be allowed to do just that."
NBA national ratings are on the rise, and the league’s attracting tons of hard-to-grab younger viewers
The NBA is up big year-over-year, and younger viewers are a key reason why.
Raptors’ Masai Ujiri says it’s a “bunch of BS” they aren’t on U.S. national TV more, but they’re on more often than 10...
"We don’t play as many of the so-called ESPN games, why is that? We’ve had one of the best records the last five years in the league so I don’t understand why the NBA does not give us, I think it’s a bunch of BS if you ask me, that they don’t give us more games."
Kara Lawson is the new primary analyst for the Washington Wizards
Lawson is the third woman this offseason to be named as a NBA game analyst.
ESPN’s NBA Countdown went really political with criticisms of Trump
ESPN seems to be going further and further from its initial plan to stay politically neutral. From simulcasting...
Fan dribbles beer all over himself while photobombing ESPN NBA broadcast
We’ve seen lots of photobombs on sports television over the years, but Wednesday’s photobomb of ESPN’s preseason Knicks-Celtics...
