How the NBA can solve its biggest problem | Colin Cowherd Podcast
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- Colin Cowherd & ‘Hoops Tonight’ host Jason Timpf discuss issues plaguing the NBA's ratings, potential solutions, and more.
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09:25 - Solution
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Adam Silver has completely ruined the league in almost every way.
He was trying to be a player friendly commissioner, which never works. Its each man for himself in sports.
@@KNByambro he said I’m a players commissioner but also said he works for the owners like how does that work???
I mean playin literally saved the last 2 months of the season? Back before the playin teams was just tanking like crazy.
@@KNByam Didn't they pass a rule that you have to play a minimum amount of Games to be elegible for awards? I thought that was a pretty good idea.
RATINGS ARE A DISASTER.EVERYONE SHOOTS A THOUSAND 3’S NOW
Teams don't run much pick and roll they don't pass much they don't have post up centers and the pf is dead...
Chuck & Duck
@@razkableThey don’t run much pick n’ roll?!😂 100% sign that you don’t watch modern basketball
Didn’t watch one regular season game
Same it’s too many lol.
Same.
Want a cookie? This season was amazing. Move on.
I only watched the In-Season Tournament surprising enough.
Congratulations 🍾
This is what happens when they cater to the players . This game is not what it once was. They let the players go after the people paying their salaries and that's what happens
Exactly. Adam Silver has completely ruined the NBA.
"Go after"?
Stop complaining and don’t watch
You mean players voice their opinion instead of being treated as slaves?
MLB is doing fine. Just because you don’t watch and think you can trade draft picks in MLB, doesn’t mean people aren’t watching. Ohtani just signed for $700 million.
MLB ratings are up and NBA ratings are down.
In season tournament was straight garbage and a sham to get Lebron another trophy. Ya, I’m not watching that crap
Facts. Even the play-in tournament was meant to give Lebron and other aging stars a shot at making the playoffs.
Was only Lebron allowed to play?
If he really believes this, then 60 games is just as arbitrary as 82. Don't have a regular season at all, just run a big double elimination tournament. Done.
82 games is fine. Just make the players play and actually enforce NBA rules, so it doesn't look like a glorified pick up game.
Expand the rosters, someone sits out, play the bench guys and have their contracts filled with incentives. Product doesn’t suffer as much and star players got a bench player gunning for their job. I know, I know, they won’t take the stars job, but there will be a level of competition within teams.
Players can now do a double stepback. The game is over. The rules aren’t enforceable.
@@elliotness11contracts are 100% guaranteed, there is zero threat of competition from some random on a day to day. Even if a star is outplayed they don't care, they are still owed 100s of millions and if the team is paying they will play you.
The 65 game rule has helped...less load management...
I'll click in for the last 5 minutes
82 games is too many and unnecessary. I literally renew my SlingTV sub for the playoffs. For most regular season games im perfectly content with watching highlights.
I feel like Cowherd has this exact same conversation every week.
His knowledge is very limited. That's why.
Everything numerically is fine. The problem is that players who have accomplished nearly nothing are making $22, $28 million a year. Commissioner needs to rise up and discipline teams/players and Refs!!!
Joker vs the choker
To combat the load management thing the NBA should add an extra 2 weeks to the beginning of the season and an extra 2 weeks to the end of the season to eliminate back to back games and give the players more days off between games
Shorter seasons would result in shorter pay days for every teams city.
CITIES MAKE MONEY FROM TAXES AND NOT SPORTS..TAX PAYERS FUND SPORTS
Think some of it too has to do with the fact that the NBA has so much parity, plus no definitive megastar that they can label as the face of the NBA to follow up LeBron.
Not sure if this is true but I heard on another show that every leagues postseason ratings are up except NBA. It's down 9%. Again don't know if true but if it is that's gotta be scary for the league
Someone made a comment the other day that 450 million people in the world play basketball but a very, very small fraction of that number play football--highlighting the international reach of basketball and the local dimension of the NFL. But how does the NBA make money off that? I think the league will be fine and I wouldn't try to out-ratings the NFL.
NBA's biggest issue is betting, and that seems pretty easy to solve.
Last hockey strike, there was a proposal to shorten the reg season to 50 games, A shorter reg season makes those games a bigger deal
Irrelevant. Colin had it right. Too many international players. That was the exact reason why I never got into hockey. I remember signing up to play fantasy hockey. Most of the names were international name hard to pronounce. I did not pay attention to my team all season and i finished in fourth place - which tells me other managers were not engaged in the hockey season either.
If these leagues want to keep American fans, then they NEED American stars. Period. It is why NASCAR has always done better than Indy/IRL racing and Formula One.
How does expanding the first round from best of 5 to best of 7 games equate to urgency?
I disagree with the load management take. Adding the 65 game limit to the awards and All NBA teams, forced star players to not skip games. But I agree that the regular season is way too long, and the widening gap between NFL and NBA viewership has only underlined that more. And the 3 ball has turned the product more and more into baseball, where a lot of the legacy features of the game (midrange creativity, physical play, monster dunks) have been devalued.
Should be a 3 game series.
Yep. Go up every series. 3 5 7 7
No. This is a horrible, horrible idea.
What about an entire calendar reboot -> NBA runs January thru August / Sept. Don’t have to compete with football and gives the viewing public lots to engage on during the boring (sports) summer months. Be creative NBA!
2:08 facts that's how I feel too. If they treat the regular season like it doesn't matter then it won't matter.
Biggest problem? Unwatchable games.....just blah.
I’ve got a few suggestions to solve the NBA right now
Start calling traveling and palming the ball.
Reinstitute hand, checking.
Flopping is a game rejection.
Colin, the beard is rockin. Keep it up.
Should consider doing something closer to European footbal structure. The season is crucial and dictates the champion to a certain degree. Perhaps only 2 top teams compete in a 9 game series.
Owners are greedy, and they are killing the game for profit.
Most owner are crooks and corrupt
Totally agree with Colin on the NBA downfall in ratings and competitiveness in the game.
I don’t watch any of the playoff games live. I just like watching the highlights of the lakers lose.
I think parity is a huge issue. Went to a pistons game and was bored because they were getting blown out from minute 1. Idk how to fix it but blow outs aren’t fun to watch
The NBA needs to take over June July and August
As the nfl gets more international do we think they hit some of the same issues?
how do you fix the NBA? The real question is how do you fix boring! The world has become too exciting in too many different ways. It's not the NBA's fault, it's just we are pulled to things more exciting!
I think the lack of fundamentals has ruined the NBA. It has turned into a 3 pointer or slam dunk show.
Still feels weird to see Collin in a podcast. He is too official and professional for a laid back podcasts vibes. I’ll still watch though 😊
NBA needs to adopt the 3 game series model from MLB.
No.
This year, I probably watched the least amount of regular games that I ever had in my life.
Well when you cater to one player for 20 years people start to get tired of the storyline…every year lose.. player X needs more help, trades team, rinse…repeat…
NBA in the summer is a brilliant idea.
Shorten the baseball season and teams by 25%. This would increase competitiveness. The minor leagues are more profitable than the major league teams in medium and smaller markets.
None sense, the attendance in the NBA and NHL and MLB and MLS soccer is very high and getting better and the global market for the NBA and NHL and MLB is great
Man F all that these players get paid millions to play basketball, they need to play .
My teams players did
The biggest draw they have is a guy closing in on his 40’s that’s a problem you can count on your hand how many teams are watchable on a night to night basis you go back and look at the 94 rosters every team almost had someone you would like to watch these days absolutely terrible
Also, restore the gameplay from the 1990s so teams can play more defense.
NBA have much more bigger problems... tanking for example, whole draft system is broken and regular season suffers.
Most players would not be okay with this lol. That effects records, and all time status. Every great player has gotten 82 games a season to achieve their career stats. The players are always more competetive than people realize and cutting games takes away stats. The NFL has an inverse effect by adding a game.
60 reg. Season games
Leading into All Star Games
Give out regular season awards
Go into Playoffs
Longer off-season
Collin makes a great point about why bother watching the entire NBA season when none of it counts until the end of the season when just about every team has a chance to get to the conference finals
Who wants to spend time money and energy using ur minds energy being distracted until the playoffs
Collin pointed that out how it's become like MLB and Hockey a dull and boring game after game after game after game watching the same same old game and it won't take long to lose interest
Particularly the cost to attend pay to play games
It's like can U at least find something new they can Create that is different than the last window Star Gate frame windows
Eye stopped watching all regular season games in every Sport
Wouldn't U rather watch a game when their Butt is on the firing order cursor line of flashing light sequences to go on or go Home 💜 Gold Heart
Imagine what it was like for Vin Scully the radio voice of the LA Dodgers network when eye grew up with the Brooklyn Dodger game and look how many games he called in Collin day in and day out for as many years as he did
How did he stay on for so long without getting burned out on Experiencing the same hamster wheel day in day out day in and day out breathing 9 upsyde down and inverted triangle consciousness feeding on Base 12 Spheres Mer Ka Ba Gyrodome Shield Core CPU EKKA Vecca coded Matrices
Do think that any future NBA star would crack the career top 10 in any statisical category every again if they only play 60 games a season? Skewing historical statistics with a dramatcally shorter season would be a disaster.
i don't start watching NBA until after superbowl, maybe they should move it back that far
Change the regular season to a proper season where every game matters like how soccer teams do it. You don’t need the playoffs, because every game becomes a playoff game.
Every game needs to mean something and everyone needs to play unless truly injured. Thats it.
I stopped watching the NBA when super teams and load management became a thing.
There are no more super teams clown
How is Magic Johnson/Kareem not a super team? The Celtics of old had how many HOFers? Rodman to the bulls? Shaq and Kobe? It’s only a “super team” when the players make the decisions.
so u stopped watching in the 80s?
@@LargeGrizzlyBear Correct actually
Then they should do it before the season tournament to test out new people in old people before the season starts in October for three weeks then the season starts after Thanksgiving
If players want to be “partners”, they need to think like partners not employees. They act like they are ducking shifts at McDonald’s.
Agree 1000% cut the nba season in half more playoff teams with single elimination in early rounds … baseball should start in may and end in sept. World Series should start first week in October .. would be awesome
Was a sports fanatic at one time, I would watch any MLB nba or nhl game I could and loved it. However as I’ve gotten older I’ve started to only watch the nfl and I’ll pay attention to the nba and mlb playoffs and now feel the nhl is unwatchable. As Colin is saying in the other sports besides nfl there is no urgency. When the Mets are playing the reds on a Tuesday in June…who cares. This year I even feel like I don’t care about nba playoffs either, I just have a lot of other things I’m interested in at this point in my life
Lebrat will always be a little brat nothing can SAVE the NBA but hey give credit to the mayor for actually saying something a little negative about that sport
more games like the knicks and 76ers please
Why would the NBA believe that millions would pay for NBA games on Peacock? Even playoff games? Gamblers? I don't get it.
Simple, with load..management they drilled into our heads that the regular season doesn't matter.
Play every team twice 58 game season.
Jason is looking at his boss like “How do I tell this guy he’s out of his mind?”
Load management? How cruel are you?
Load management is just a symptom of deprioritizing the regular season. Aka the actual product. But hey at least some team will have a banner after the season no one played in
They need to get rid of Adam Silver and get stricter on players playing every game. Also contracts need to mean something: there should be penalties for trying to strong arm a team to trade you when you have 3 years on a deal. And the league needs to start promoting the new stars in their marketing.
Not sure if you’ve noticed the new CBA has basically eliminated that. The incentives for guys to stay with their team gets greater every CBA. Now if you do that the cap threshold gets so high that teams don’t even had a mid-level exception, think Ray Allen to the Heat. They’ve all but killed the buyout market as well
Shorter season makes sense but say 60 games, no back to backs. But teams don't get the same revenue. So, what then? Players will want to get the same money as 82 games and they'll STILL want to sit out. So.....now you get LBJ or KL for 45 games but paying him as if it's 82. Just from a numbers perspective, it doesn't pencil out.
Less games just means ticket and commercial money will go up
Start calling traveling and carrying the ball. Make it actually basketball would help.
The product isn’t good. The quality is poor.
These players haven’t been sitting out games in almost the last 3 seasons. Colin just making up ish as usual
The slog is fine. Grind is part of it
Make them play and don't change the season?...
Good luck talking the owners into shortening the reg season to 60 games. Like everything in life - It’s about the money !
I WATCH THE GAME AND EMBID, JOKIC, AND GIANNIS ARE BEING GUARDED BY POINT GUARDS.THE GAME IS EURO LEAGUE NOW AND AMERICANS ARE CHECKING OUT
The NBA is all gimmick anymore. All 3s with no one allowed to play defense. Play in tournament, mid-season tournament. The worst All-Star game in history. Fire Adam Silver.
How can you say men's basketball college basketball is an awful product but then say the women's game is quality? I watched five minutes of the women's play and it was terrible. I see more athleticism at the local YMCA.
Agreed an avg man can avg 5 stls/blocks & 10+ rebs
AD needs more help.
The quality of the women’s game is excellent? I guess buddy loves watching 12 footers consistently fail to hit rim.
Everything else is second fiddle or worse compared to the NFL. Just get used to it, it's never going to change.
The problem with the NBA is that they play basketball. It’s a boring sport that’s best consumed in highlight packages. No one that has a life wants to sit through a few hours of garbage that the NBA puts out…
The NFL only wish to be as popular overseas market like the NBA since nobody play the game outside America and the quality of the game is really bad like the NFC west and AFC north are good and the rest of the divisions are unwatchable
YOU SOUND SLOW…NOBODY CARES ABOUT THE COLUMBIA DOLLAR,YEN OR ANY OF THOSE CURRENCIES..NBA BEING POPULAR OVERSEAS DOES NOTHING FOR THE NBA WHEN AMERICANS DONT CARE FOR THE GAME..RATINGS ARE A DISASTER
Adam silver ruined the league. Player empowerment has become entitlement.
The NBA season should cut to 55 games. First & second rounds should be the best of 3, the CF and Finals should be the best of 5.
There is of course an attitude problem in the NBA as well. I think most people love pro athletes with personality, but when it seems like they have a general disdain or at least an indifference to fans and audiences, then it's no wonder people are going to tune away.
No working person is going to take a multi-millionaire complaining about playing basketball. It's ludicrous.
What are players complaining about?
another option would be to shorten the amount of playoff teams
if we are being honest no 7 or 8 seed is gonna win it all
just make it top 6 teams
this would cause an ergancy to win games in the regular seed
Era if player entitlement, young generations with different viewing habits and more entertainment content in general. The 10 min CZcams highlights is a great product. Number of games has to drop. I think baseball is most resistant, because old school metrics are considered sacred (and the money loss). Even NFL is hard to watch. Comparing 70s CZcams games to today's, too many commercials and ref reviews. Basketball and baseball have had a drop in quality of play. The long ball brought chick fans in the 90s, but it makes baseball boring. Stop blowing arms out with every kid needing a 100 mph fastball. Football is stuck in Coryell, West Coat and/or Spread. Anything claimed to be innovative in the NFL is not. It was done in 1950, but fans don't know it. AFL brought in innovation, and Rozzelle embraced it, but there hasn't been a Rozzelle in a league since (most important man in NFL history). I notice the NFL doesn't change rules to open offenses, they just enforce them differently, like Stern/Silver. Everyone knew about the Mel Blount rule before 78, but the Ty Law rule, which allowed Manning to finally win the big game, didn't have the same awareness. People liked the CFB style of play, so the NFL tweaked itself to enable it (O-line allowed to get away with more to give QBs more time, max PIs). I feel NFL games are Groundhog Days, but the refs, like in the NBA, keep games close, so fans don't tune out in the 3rd quarter.
They goodness these guys don’t make decisions for the leagues
4:25 the quality of play in college basketball is awful. Yup. I'm in the minority, but I haven't watched that garbage for at least four years now. Sorry, I don't want to see it. Even if there's 'urgency'
Tanking kills ratings. Awful teams that are trying to be bad. Who wants to watch them? Solution: get rid of the draft. Stop rewarding mediocrity
Greed. It’s greed.
Michael Jordan never lost to a team 10 games in a row and never been swept in the playoffs. Poor LeBron that 🐐 claim is BS . Go NUGGS!!
Bs , MJ dodged an entire season to avoid the hou rockets in the finals, MJ never won without pippen and Hof coach Phil & MJ @39 wasnt even good & NEVER made the playoffs
Haha, just wait till College Football takes the little bit of attention the NBA gets in December.
NFL HAS TOOK OVER CHRISTMAS NOW..
Follow european football. Whatever games that is, make sure number one on the table get rings. Make regular season means something. Get rid of play off. That way you dont have load management, you have every stars putting their best on the line. the number of games dont matter because innately they only play for 1 extra home game as 1st seed, that’s the only prize? Why would you give your all 😂
The football is so amazing b/c every game counts. You can’t miss it. The NBA and MLB have MANY meaningless games. MANY
Lebron is such a baby when his team doesn't get their way!!! Wah wah wah!!!
All star players are stop this!
What about the forearm LeBron gave before missing the 3 point shot!
@@larsonsrud2518it wasn’t no worse than the push off mj gave in game 6. Superstar players get those calls
You'll miss me when he is gone
All athletes babies even coaches
The NBA is washed right now … too many players from the US are great athletes but have no basketball iq to grow and expand their games. Euro players find this league too easy, is why they are dominating now. Case in point, The Denver Nuggets, the most stable and the best chemistry in the league are on their way to back to back championships, if you compare them to prior NBA champions in the past who have won multiple titles in their run, these Nuggets would be very low on the list. Not impressive at all, despite the Joker being on the team. NBA is trash right now 🤷🏻
Nobody cares about Summer League on east coast
What about a few years ago when LeBron told half the audience that the NBA didn't need them. Maybe you should think about that.
He was right
White Americans and white westerners are a minority 92 percent of the world is non white…..the nba and basketball is going global for real China has most nba fans
The NBA's Chinese business is said to have 500 million fans and be worth $5 billion, per Sports Business Daily. “It's really hard for us in the States to imagine how big the NBA is over there.
Footbal( s word in Usa) get the champions league every year and is most viewed sport in the world
players dont care about regular. season games boring as hhh
People with the most money are bought into formula one….. typical Colin. American small minded media. ONE Formula one fine is the entire salary cap of one team. Look it up.