Nba Finals Ratings Social Justice

The nba and its advertisers are still very active on the social justice front.

Nba finals ratings social justice. The 2020 season played in a bubble because of the coronavirus pandemic prominently featured black lives matter. Adam silver the commissioner of the nba had during past months insisted in promoting a pro black lives matter to support the leagues overwhelmingly african american players. By christopher brito october 7 2020 7 23 am cbs news.

Ratings for the nba finals game one hit an an all time low as the la lakers lebron james continues to put social justice before basketball. Mark cuban fires back at ted cruz after senator blames low nba finals ratings on social justice messaging. Also as sports media watch noted the ratings for the 2020 2021 opener could have been even better had the games not been so lopsided.

Many of the commercials have an overt or subdued political or social justice tone to them. Game 3 of the finals marks lowest viewership yet. However the league seems to have stayed.

Amid news that the nba is clocking record low ratings for the 2020 nba finals league commissioner adam silver told nba countdown that professional basketball will leave social justice messages off the floor next season. The 2020 nba finals have seen an enormous drop in ratings compared with last year and the league s vocal support of social justice issues has been suggested as one of the factors behind it. Tellmenow published on oct 2 2020 at 5 54 pm.

Via the washington examiner nba ratings continue to sink. Sunday s game three of the finals was another disaster pulling a wretched 3 1 rating and an audience of 4 395 million viewers making it the least watched nba finals game in history. The nba has a ratings problem it has for a while.

The nba continues to double down on its commitment to social justice causes after pausing play following the police shooting of jacob.