NBA Ratings Down But Salaries Up

Boomer & Gio

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

NBA TV ratings have been bad for years, so how are the salaries still going crazy? The league seems to be on the decline, and the Lakers were just sold for $10 billion. How is that happening? A caller thinks the deals with the gambling companies are keeping the NBA alive.

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0:00.0	So I got to ask you a question.
0:01.0	You're a huge money guy in sports.
0:03.7	It could be your favorite thing to talk about, honestly.
0:06.2	Other than like straight up hockey, like strategy, your favorite thing to talk about, I think, is money in sports.
0:15.8	So I...
0:16.1	The business of sports.
0:17.2	Yeah, so explain to me.
0:18.7	Okay.
0:19.7	Now, the NBA ratings have been horrendous for like a couple of years, and they were bad this
0:27.6	year again.
0:30.1	You've got a guy who was the star of the league who played an NBA finals that nobody
0:35.4	really watched.
0:36.8	I watch game seven. Okay. really watched. I watch game seven.
0:38.7	Okay.
0:39.3	Sixteen million people watch game seven.
0:41.2	All right, because it's a game seven.
0:42.4	But I mean, come on.
0:43.6	But nobody watched the previous six games.
0:45.5	Well, not nobody, but not.
0:46.7	But it was way down.
0:48.1	I mean, it's just not.
0:49.7	So you got a guy who, not even Peter Schwartzartz who's been in sports his entire life can pronounce his name
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