NFL Interest is Down. NBA Interest is Up. Why?
Five On The Floor: Miami Heat/NBA
Five Reasons Sports Network
4.6 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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5R14: Ethan and Chris examine NBA national TV ratings being up 15% year over year while NFL ratings have gone down the last 2 years and why that's happened. Among things discussed: the NBA having many more marketable stars like LeBron James and Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry, the NBA skewing younger, how politics have affected both in the Trump era, the neverending transactions and storylines in the NBA, and the NFL's ongoing issues with concussions.
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| 1:04.6 | Welcome into episode 14 of the Five Reasons podcast. I'm Ethan Skolnick here along with Chris Winningham. Thanks for finding us. Again, |
| 1:12.4 | we're always on iTunes if you have Apple or Stitcher. Today we're going to tackle, no pun intended, |
| 1:17.8 | a topic here that's related to the NFL, but also to the NBA. And Chris, you and I talk about |
| 1:23.7 | this a lot. We used to do this on the radio show when we would argue about whether or not South Florida was a football town or a basketball town. I think that that's an argument we can have |
| 1:33.6 | for another day. But I guess the question that we wanted to tackle today was, is this becoming more |
| 1:38.7 | of a basketball country than it used to be? And is the NBA, and we just saw the NBA play, it's All-Star |
| 1:45.5 | game, which drew a lot of attention. They changed the format, a little bit more competitive |
| 1:49.0 | this year. I know you're not a big fan of All-Star games, but it did command some |
| 1:53.9 | attention this weekend. But is the NBA gaining on the NFL? And if the NBA is gaining on the |
| 2:00.0 | NFL, what are the reasons for that? |
| 2:02.2 | Because I think it's a lot more varied than sometimes the public talks about. |
| 2:06.3 | Yeah. And I think that people try to, frankly, use their own sensibilities, their own |
| 2:12.3 | reasons why their behavior has changed as the overall reason the entire country is doing |
| 2:17.4 | something. So I think |
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