Will NBA Finals Be Watched?

Boomer & Gio

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Sports, News

4.4 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Boomer said if the Knicks were in the finals it would get good ratings because people would watch to root against them. We talked about two smaller market teams being in the finals with Indiana and OKC. We talked about the lack of great nicknames in sports now, a discussion he heard talked about during a Barstool golf event.

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0:00.0	Knicks are out and the Pacers and the Thunder are going to face off in the NBA finals that
0:03.4	no one's going to pay attention to. And I really think I would be floored if this got a good rating.
0:10.3	Floored. And it would mean to me, because we've been talking about the NBA ratings as a whole
0:14.8	have been going down. And you had the NBA Cup that Adam Silver is trying to create, to create some regular
0:22.6	season buzz.
0:23.7	If this NBA finals outperforms the expectations, I would be absolutely shocked.
0:29.8	Because there's, we know sports fans, NBA, people watch the NBA, that Chey Gilgis Alexander is a great player, that he's the MVP.
0:40.8	Is anybody who is a casual sports fan putting that on to watch him play for Oklahoma City?
0:47.0	No. The answer is no. Tyrese Halliburton, okay, fun little story, his dad, whatever else, overrated.
0:55.1	Is that a storyline enough to drive the casual sports fan to the NBA finals?
0:59.2	You've got to be a hardcore NBA fan to watch this NBA finals or be a Pacers or Thunder fan.
1:06.8	So I think it's going to perform terribly.
1:09.2	Yeah, at least I know that if the Knicks were in the finals,
1:12.9	that people would watch hoping that they would lose.
1:16.0	Oh, yes, absolutely.
1:17.2	Because they hate us as a fan base.
1:19.1	I've hate watch stuff.
1:20.1	Yeah, they hate us as a fan base.
1:22.1	Yeah, I, so I'm, that doesn't count, though.
1:25.1	I was just about to say, though, I put in the worst rated NBA Finals, and it was the bubble finals, which doesn't count.
1:34.0	So the previous lowest rated game before the bubble finals was game two of the 2003 series between the Spurs and the Nets.
1:42.3	Yeah.
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