The Sporting Class: The Truth Behind the NBA Ratings Decline

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Sure, fewer people are watching basketball games these days. But the NBA has 76 billion reasons why that doesn't matter. John Skipper, David Samson and Pablo do the math on Adam Silver's real State of the Union — and why a rival, LIV-style league would never succeed. Plus: the goosing of Super Bowl numbers, the ballad of Monty the Giant Schnauzer... and the untold origin story of a certain award-winning sports business podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.7	I'm not going to eat at Little Caesars because I love Eugene Levy's eyebrows right after this ad.
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1:03.6	Different, different vibes I'm getting from you guys right now.
1:05.4	John has been singing.
1:11.3	David is frantically trying to disentangle himself from a coil of wires.
1:14.5	Well, no, I have a system before I start recording something,
1:18.5	and I was unable to do it because I got distracted prior to recording,
1:19.6	so I'm not on my spot.
1:21.2	My chair isn't the right level.
1:26.3	My IFB is in the wrong side of my jacket, and there's no table for my water.
1:29.6	So I'm not feeling great at the moment but I'm gonna and someone's forced you're going to soldier through because that's the kind of guy you are
1:35.7	well when you're award winning you got a soldier through are we celebrating ourselves here I think it's
1:40.0	worth mentioning we are the know if John knows because I sent him a text and he didn't even respond.
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