What percentage are hate watching OKC praying on their downfall?

Switching off TNT was probably one of the smartest recent decisions by the league

They need to recheck these numbers, r/nba assures me that the league is coming to an end because of sga’s radical assault on our beautiful sport.

I was told the Thunder are unwatchable

It’s going to 7 games surely, the Extender doing Adam Silver’s dirty work yall

Baseball bros lost their arguments from last year about down viewership

Putting your product in national broadcast leads to higher ratings? No way

Most watched unwatchable team ever

I keep seeing people say the thunder are ruining basketball and killing the game. When nothing supports that to be the case. 🤷‍♂️

But every five minutes we see a new post in here still peddling the “dying NBA” narrative.

Sorry Russians, find a new slant.

“I’m done with the NBA!”

Unwatchable lol sureeeeeeee

“Yo Mike, you gotta turn on the Western Conference Finals on Peacock/NBC. You won’t believe how bad these refs are!”

And Peacock contributed 60 of those viewers

Can we get another boycott the finals thread I don’t think your guys e-tears are working

Every story needs a hero, and every story needs a villain.

This is the best basketball I’ve seen in many, many years.

Well, if we don’t get a Game 7, then that’s gonna be a serious dent to the “NBA is rigged” crowd.

But the thunder are unwatchable, why are people watching? Are they stupid?

I mean yall gotta admit, the supposed most unwatchable team having the most watched WCF is pretty funny

The whole world is tuning into see a freak athlete light it up. Alex Caruso.

It’s accessibility. I’ve watched more basketball legally this year because of Prime and NBC. Over-antenna basketball is clutch (especially when your town can’t get ABC due to regional issues)

I mean I don’t hate the thunder I just watch to watch the game can be a bit un fun to watch but I have no reason to hate the thunder SGA is a great player

It’s Wemby, his videos have way more views across all platforms. 

Is it a right of passage in the digital age, to not realize that Reddit or internet in general doesn’t represent a vast portion of the population?

I think Wemby is the main draw. But style obviously isn’t turning fans off. The NBA is thriving right now with these new platforms.

2 small markets to boot mix of hate watching and Wemby being a huge ratings draw.

How many people were watching the WCF on NBC in the 90s when the NBA got bigger ratings?

If OKC gets in. You will see a lot of Blue and Orange on your screen. 😆

Im watching because i love basketball but the quality of games has gone down drastically. Way too much influence by the refs and flopping, that its affecting the game. Basketball is by my favorite sport, but the way its played and called now is awful.

But im watching anyways because its the only professional bball i have. If i had a fiba style league, with a detroit team, i would gladly watch that too.

People saying “oh well people are watching, there cant be a problem”, really misses the point.

Every game has been worse than the last, game 5 was a snooze FT contest fest.

Sooo many Thunder fans in here trying to take credit for Wemby’s fame 😭

They say this shit every year. I don’t buy it at all.

Sga, Wemby us a draw 

I haven’t watched, but it sounds like a lot of the people complaining have been watching

I’m not going to lie I usually stop following when my team is out of contention but I’ve been watching the games past two weeks so I can rage at the foul baits. 

Makes for good entertainment. 

So that’s game 7 locked in.

It’s a combination of people hate watching the Thunder and people tuning in to experience the growth of this young Spurs team.

Hence it’s going 7 games - vet the house on Spurs in game 6

All I see is this is going to 7 no matter what lmao 🤣

That’s crazy, I am a pretty die hard fan and have given up completely lol

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…sports need a great successful villain to hate watch. I’m sure the Finals with the Warriors in them were highly rated. Last season’s Dodgers vs Blue Jays World Series was considered one fo the best of all time and the viewership and ratings were sky high even though most people around the world were rooting for the dodgers to lose.

This sub - Sooooo UnWaTChAbLE

Also this sub - I watched every second then watched it again in slow motion so I could capture and clip every play to post it on r/nba with 23 other clips exactly like it then spend my entire day commenting on all of them over and over again.

What crazy to me is the illegal stream I watch on averages like 50,000 viewers as well. I wonder what percent of viewers don’t pay, how massive are the streameasts really?

Is this just the US ? I’ve seen guys commenting on here from China and France

This series is legitimately the first “good ratings” news I’ve seen from the nba in like 8 years lol

Lmao being a villain sure is great for the league. Best rating for the league is when there is a dominant team. Maybe the conspiracy theories are all true

Turns out not hiding the Conference finals on dying cable channels increases the ratings.

u/walterwoodiaz ur a genius lmao

Half of that 9 million people watching said that OKC were unwatchable lol

I was told this was unwatchable…

Sport = Ruined

The unwatchable hate watch rolls on!

Hate us or love us - you’re gonna watch

Game 7 means more money. 

Oh look the WCF will have a game 7

This is OKC vs SAS, people. Stop it with all this “the league needs stars in City X” talk, what the league needs is high quality of play.

“unwatchable”

wait but so many redditors declared they not gonna watch any more 😭😭😭

The WCF is OTA for the first time in 30 years and Thunder fans are showing off that education they lack by thinking this number proves something for them lol?

And there you have laddies and Gentlelads why they’re going to make this series go to 7 games.

The league is petrified of losing this viewership with two quick series and a week off the air waiting for the finals, people losing interest in the meantime.

The reffing in this series has been all over the place, swinging to each team game to game. Last night was one of the most obvious examples of rigging to keep a team down 8-10 points at all times.

This series has already been messed up with injuries to both sides, it didn’t need this bullshit going on as well. Just let them play a balanced game and get on with it.

Well we know why mainstream media is feeding the hate. If the Thunder make it to the Finals them shits about to break Viewer records. It’s smart tbh.

This is the most talent we have seen in a series in a long while and it’s even more insane because of how young the teams are. If we weren’t so hell bent on arguing over who is getting a better whistle, we would be appreciating an actual great series.

There’s a reason the NBA is scripting the series to go 7 games.

Nice to see the Thunder flairs come out it hiding.

How much of this is contributed by sports betting?

Got 9 million people watching free throws and flops

The messed up part of it all is I found myself rooting for OKC somehow in all of this.

I think the flopping stuff with deep dives into %s on floor, reviewing tape and taking heads spouting it all is funny. To really bring change it needs to be done in MSG for the world to see.

It has been an entertaining series to me. Too bad it’ll be over tomorrow night⚡