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I don't "get" these huge NBA contracts. Nobody actually watches the sport

People in media discuss it and people talk about roster move...
Thriller Slimy Dopamine Stag Film
  07/02/25
Some random guy no one's ever heard of gets 5 years, $150M
Insane theater dysfunction
  07/02/25
Yeah a lot of these guys are bums, play some defense and sho...
Thriller Slimy Dopamine Stag Film
  07/02/25
And then you have SGA who is supposedly the best player in t...
Insane theater dysfunction
  07/02/25
and on top of that the second one of the players throws a ta...
galvanic amethyst faggot firefighter heaven
  07/02/25
the NBA is definitely a massive bubble nobody irl cares a...
chestnut soul-stirring national mexican
  07/02/25
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Thriller Slimy Dopamine Stag Film
  07/02/25
espn is already regretting going all in with the nba and is ...
balding transparent roast beef field
  07/02/25
its all online & flame now
Electric Know-it-all Chad Native
  07/02/25
They play 82 games a year plus retardedly long playoffs and ...
chest-beating hunting ground
  07/02/25
The modern NBA is literally unwatchable. I watched (or rathe...
Purple very tactful stain
  07/02/25
I made myself watch some of them with, because we were alrea...
Thriller Slimy Dopamine Stag Film
  07/02/25
I watched like six different teams play, and literally every...
Purple very tactful stain
  07/02/25
I have never in my entire life managed to watch a whole game...
180 blue shrine
  07/02/25
You've never watched Michael Jordan?
Insane theater dysfunction
  07/02/25
highlight reels sure but not a whole game
180 blue shrine
  07/02/25
Damn daddy
Insane theater dysfunction
  07/02/25
it's so fucking boring I'll watch baseball all day long and...
180 blue shrine
  07/02/25
if you breathe on someone it's a foul. If you block the bal...
shimmering school cafeteria
  07/02/25
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Thriller Slimy Dopamine Stag Film
  07/02/25
sports betting is driving all of this lately
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  07/02/25
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unhinged associate
  07/02/25
You have to give the NBA credit for seeing what sports fando...
Milky Sick Stage
  07/02/25
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chestnut soul-stirring national mexican
  07/02/25
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Thriller Slimy Dopamine Stag Film
  07/02/25
celtics guy sold too
balding transparent roast beef field
  07/02/25
Yeah I forgot that. So two of the biggest franchises sold in...
Milky Sick Stage
  07/02/25
And the blazers are for sale
Thriller Slimy Dopamine Stag Film
  07/02/25
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Bipolar athletic conference
  07/02/25
players get 50% of league revenue and of the 12 players on a...
Contagious cordovan cuckoldry pit
  07/02/25
1) Ratings are down, but are still meaningful - which is imp...
charismatic volcanic crater school
  07/02/25
If you asked most NBA "fans" if they were more int...
Apoplectic Windowlicker Partner
  07/02/25
NBA players will forfeit more than $480 million from the esc...
Thriller Slimy Dopamine Stag Film
  07/03/25
The NBA is 180 and is the only currently watchable pro sport
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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:24 AM
Author: Thriller Slimy Dopamine Stag Film

People in media discuss it and people talk about roster moves etc but few people actually watch games. This bubble has to burst.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066068)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:27 AM
Author: Insane theater dysfunction

Some random guy no one's ever heard of gets 5 years, $150M

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066076)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:28 AM
Author: Thriller Slimy Dopamine Stag Film

Yeah a lot of these guys are bums, play some defense and shoot corner 3s and get paid 25 million, the game is unwatchable

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066081)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Insane theater dysfunction

And then you have SGA who is supposedly the best player in the league getting 4 years $285M

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066111)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:28 AM
Author: galvanic amethyst faggot firefighter heaven

and on top of that the second one of the players throws a tantrum and wants a trade they do it so a lot of times the teams dont even really have the rights to them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066078)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:36 AM
Author: chestnut soul-stirring national mexican

the NBA is definitely a massive bubble

nobody irl cares about the NBA either. even the jews and nigs and azns who actually follow the NBA are almost entirely Online. it's become an Online/reddit subculture that's totally divorced from irl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066097)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:06 PM
Author: Thriller Slimy Dopamine Stag Film



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066198)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:37 AM
Author: balding transparent roast beef field

espn is already regretting going all in with the nba and is begging to get a new mlb cocntract

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066101)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:37 AM
Author: Electric Know-it-all Chad Native

its all online & flame now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066102)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: chest-beating hunting ground

They play 82 games a year plus retardedly long playoffs and have only 12 guys on the roster. Math works in their favor.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066107)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Purple very tactful stain

The modern NBA is literally unwatchable. I watched (or rather, tried to watch) a few playoff games this year. Every team defaults to the three point shot with minor variation. No defense because slightly grazing someone is a foul. It's not entertaining; it's frustrating and lacks creativity. I have no idea how they manage to make all this money with such a trash product.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066122)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:10 PM
Author: Thriller Slimy Dopamine Stag Film

I made myself watch some of them with, because we were already getting together watching the NHL playoffs every night, most games were terrible, only the Pacers were decent to watch, mostly because Halliburton had an interesting style, the Thunder are the worst "champions" I have ever seen, Chet Holmgren wouldn't play 2 minutes a game in the 90s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066206)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:18 PM
Author: Purple very tactful stain

I watched like six different teams play, and literally every offense had guys running to the corners waiting to shoot those corner threes. It's so formulaic. I had to stop watching after the "MVP" was obviously intentionally trying to get to the foul line as much as possible. Infuriatingly unentertaining trash.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066230)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:54 AM
Author: 180 blue shrine

I have never in my entire life managed to watch a whole game of niggersqueakball from beginning to end and I LOL at people who are "fans" of this dumb "sport"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066162)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 11:57 AM
Author: Insane theater dysfunction

You've never watched Michael Jordan?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066167)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:01 PM
Author: 180 blue shrine

highlight reels sure but not a whole game

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066181)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:05 PM
Author: Insane theater dysfunction

Damn daddy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066195)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:08 PM
Author: 180 blue shrine

it's so fucking boring

I'll watch baseball all day long and love it, but niggerball bores me after 5 minutes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066202)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:13 PM
Author: shimmering school cafeteria

if you breathe on someone it's a foul. If you block the ball it's a foul. If you stuck your hands up by the net it's goal tending. Players can carry the ball and double dribble with impunity. It's unwatchable trash.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066216)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:16 PM
Author: Thriller Slimy Dopamine Stag Film



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066227)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:13 PM
Author: exciting hideous deer antler indian lodge

sports betting is driving all of this lately

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066217)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:25 PM
Author: unhinged associate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066246)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:15 PM
Author: Milky Sick Stage

You have to give the NBA credit for seeing what sports fandom would become in the Current Year. It’s just people talking on the Internet or poasting highlights or gossiping about players personal lives / roster moves. No one actually watches the games (this is true for every sport now except the NFL). The NBA just started a huge new TV deal so it doesn’t even matter that the ratings suck. The money has been booked for like a decade.

I do think there is something to the bubble theory though. A lot of owners have gotten out recently…Cuban, the Buss Family, the Timberwolves guy, etc. Seems like people in the know sense the franchise values are peaking.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066221)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:17 PM
Author: chestnut soul-stirring national mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066229)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:20 PM
Author: Thriller Slimy Dopamine Stag Film



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066235)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:21 PM
Author: balding transparent roast beef field

celtics guy sold too

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066237)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:28 PM
Author: Milky Sick Stage

Yeah I forgot that. So two of the biggest franchises sold in a very short timeframe. Like imagine if Jerry Jones sold the Cowboys and the Rooneys sold the Steelers like a few months apart. Something is up with that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066249)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:32 PM
Author: Thriller Slimy Dopamine Stag Film

And the blazers are for sale

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066264)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:25 PM
Author: Bipolar athletic conference



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066247)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:32 PM
Author: Contagious cordovan cuckoldry pit

players get 50% of league revenue and of the 12 players on a roster maybe 6 matter / only 2 really matter. it's set up to have the most obscene contracts.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066263)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:40 PM
Author: charismatic volcanic crater school

1) Ratings are down, but are still meaningful - which is important when overall TV ratings are down even more

2) Games generally sell out nationwide, and there are 82 of them. Owners get massive gate, concession revenue

3) NBA rosters are small

4) The sport also has significant international growth levers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066289)



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Date: July 2nd, 2025 12:41 PM
Author: Apoplectic Windowlicker Partner

If you asked most NBA "fans" if they were more interested in finding out who won the NBA champioship between OKC and Indiana, or who traded for 36-year old Kevin Durant - almost everyone would pick Durant.

This is backed by the sports podcasts i listen to.

Not sure how that is sustainable longterm.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49066294)



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Date: July 3rd, 2025 8:42 PM
Author: Thriller Slimy Dopamine Stag Film

NBA players will forfeit more than $480 million from the escrow fund after the league's basketball-related income fell short of projections for the 2024-25 season. The NBA pegged BRI at $10.25 billion, according to someone familiar with the accounting who was granted anonymity because the details are private.

Players will retain just 90.9 percent of their salaries from last season. The collective bargaining agreement requires the league to withhold 10 percent of player salaries to ensure the revenue split stays at 51 percent for players.

Top Earners Hit Hardest:

Stephen Curry, the NBA's highest-paid player at $55.8 million, will forfeit $5.1 million from the escrow fund. Other star players facing significant cuts include Joel Embiid ($4.7 million), Nikola Jokic ($4.7 million), Bradley Beal ($4.6 million) and Kevin Durant ($4.5 million).

A player earning $20 million would net $18.2 million before taxes and agent fees. The 10 percent escrow was split 91 percent to teams and 9 percent back to players

https://www.sportico.com/leagues/basketball/2025/nba-player-salaries-cut-escrow-system-1234858905/



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49070418)



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Date: July 3rd, 2025 8:46 PM
Author: Sinister trailer park legal warrant

The NBA is 180 and is the only currently watchable pro sport

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5745300&forum_id=2)#49070428)