davidholly
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Yup, most definitely not a league artificially propped up by the media never shutting the **** up about it.
I'm a casual NBA viewer.. I'm watchin' the Spurs, & will probably watch most of the late Clippers game. But the truth is, Christmas NBA has never equaled the pop-cultural tradition of Thanksgiving day NFL, or New Year's day Bowl games.
They've had a Christmas day lineup since the '40s, and it still seems irrelevant beyond the world of harder core sports fans & egg-nog guzzling DWFs; while everybody knows about football on Thanksgiving..
The NBA peddling 'special' Christmas Day crap & Jordans,.. Jalen Rose's moronic half-time commentary, 12 hours of thugs taking the rock to the hole.. it's a niche event. The idea of Grandma & Grandpa from the Norman Rockwell painting, @ home with the family, in their Lebron & Birdman jerseys is absurd.
Yea, I saw this as well. Is there any doubt that hockey would pass the NBA if they had a similar TV network deal as well as the endless promotion of highlights on sports recap shows? Also, NBA affletes get exponentially more commercials and product spokespersons deals than NHL players. Based on the popularity polls, advertisers are wasting their resources. Derrick Rose, Blake Griffin, Chris Paul, even John Wall etc are featured in commercials but yet Patrick Kane is not a household name or recognized face? More pro-black pandering and nonsense.A recent Harris poll shows NBA is the fifth most popular sport in America. ESPN makes it seem like it's 1 or 2.
1 NFL 35 %
2. MLB 14%
3. College football 11%
4. Auto racing 7%
5. NBA 6%
6. NHL 5%
7. College basketball 3%
ESPN talks about NBA more than they do the NFL. It's ridiculous.
Derrick Rose, Blake Griffin, Chris Paul, even John Wall etc are featured in commercials but yet Patrick Kane is not a household name or recognized face? More nonsense...
Yes, good point about insurance companies using blacks in their advertisements. The notion of blacks buying any form of insurance is a ridiculous premise whether it be flood, life, health, dental or car insurance. Sure blacks will buy the minimal mandated car insurance but nothing more. Health insurance they get from daddy Fed government. Life insurance? Ha, they don't give a hoot about their baby mommas or children anyway so paying for their well being if they should die must seem like an alien concept. Dental....well only if it covers gold, jewelry encrusted "grills". Of course there are the middle class exceptions but they make up such a minor percentage of the overall US population it's negligible.Free,
I've seen the loop of Chris Paul (State Farm) ads. Paul with his Urkel'esque fictitious alter-ego, and now Paul's young son has been cast & featured too.
I like Paul's game, but it's hard for me to understand how the guy is selling insurance. I get State Farm is probably trying to expand their customer base using an NBA player that would appeal to a young, urban demographic. But are guys in the 'hood buyin flood insurance(?) Earlier posters were talking about an artificial underwriting of the NBA's popularity by corporate interests.. Is that all this, some kind of corporate charity work ? I couldn't find anything online about State Farm's customer demographics.
And I agree, Kane & Crosby could & should be household names, but the NHL is lacking some corporate cultivation.