Speaker 1: Headline from Front Office Sports reports NBA All Star Game
Speaker 1: ratings second least watched ever, down thirteen percent. Misseasons Showcase
Speaker 1: averaged four point seven million viewers across TNT platforms, down
Speaker 1: thirteen percent compared to last year. According to Front Office
Speaker 1: Sports media and entertainment reporter Ryan Glasswiegl, It's the second
Speaker 1: least watched NBA All Star Game, ahead only of the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three All Star Game, which drew four point
Speaker 1: six million viewers. The last three NBA All Star weekends
Speaker 1: have all averaged under six million viewers, the only three
Speaker 1: in NBA.
Speaker 2: History that have not breached that threshold. This is bad,
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen. This is not good, it says.
Speaker 1: The league also competed against SNL's SNL fifty, the special
Speaker 1: fiftieth anniversary episode of Saturday Night Live on NBC, which
Speaker 1: by the way, owns the rights of the NBA All
Speaker 1: Star weekend start next season. That drew fourteen point eight
Speaker 1: million viewers for SNL fifty, two hundred and two percent
Speaker 1: more than its usual viewership this season, and obviously fourteen
Speaker 1: point eight million on NBC, yet only four points you know,
Speaker 1: was it four point seven million on TNT. Also keep
Speaker 1: in mind, not only does SNL fifty beat NBA All
Speaker 1: Star weekend ratings, you know what else beat them? Do
Speaker 1: you know what else beat them? NHL's Four Nations faceoff
Speaker 1: match between the United States and Canada. All right, they said,
Speaker 1: which drew four point four million viewers on ABC, so
Speaker 1: it almost beat them.
Speaker 2: Didn't beat them, but it overshadowed them. Why is this
Speaker 2: so bad?
Speaker 1: It's so bad because we're talking about players who have
Speaker 1: been accused of being entitled in their bag and don't
Speaker 1: give a shit about the product. We're talking about stars
Speaker 1: that don't care. We're talking about effort. See, if it
Speaker 1: was anything other than effort, then the product is a
Speaker 1: product than it is what it is. But when it's
Speaker 1: because of effort, there is no greater indictment than that.
Speaker 1: There's no greater indictment than that. And that's how we
Speaker 1: have to look at this. Anthony Edwards sick couldn't play,
Speaker 1: got it. He came there feeling good, didn't feel good
Speaker 1: for the game, understood Lebron James. A lot of people
Speaker 1: have been getting on them because they don't believe he
Speaker 1: just knew at the last minute.
Speaker 2: He knew he wasn't gonna.
Speaker 1: Play, but he told the NBA league late because he
Speaker 1: wanted to inconvenience stuff. That's what people are saying. I
Speaker 1: don't know whether that's true or not. I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna accuse Lebron James of that. I will say, however,
Speaker 1: I find it very hard to believe he didn't know
Speaker 1: until it was too late for them to bring somebody
Speaker 1: else to All Star Weekend. And when you consider some
Speaker 1: of the things that are transpired and some of the
Speaker 1: ways he's handled things over the years, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: very interesting to see Lebron James whether or not he's
Speaker 1: gonna get to own an NBA team. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: very interesting to see if the NBA is gonna allow
Speaker 1: that to happen, because you got a lot of people
Speaker 1: that are salty about him. I'm just letting you know
Speaker 1: what I know. Either way you slice it, you know
Speaker 1: what I believe. I believe one or two things should happen.
Speaker 1: I believe there should be a nationwide slam dunk contest.
Speaker 1: ME and a few sponsors and others who want to
Speaker 1: get in on the mix to make sure something like
Speaker 1: this happens. Go throughout the country and find the best,
Speaker 1: the ten best slam dunkers in the country, and then
Speaker 1: bring them all the All Star Weekend. And when you
Speaker 1: bring them all the All Star Weekend, then what you
Speaker 1: do is you turn around. He say, you know what
Speaker 1: a million dollars for the first prize, half a million
Speaker 1: dollars for the second prize, one hundred thousand for third place.
Speaker 2: We got people dying in the streets, so less.
Speaker 1: You know what cats would do to put themselves in
Speaker 1: a position to win a million dollars, half a million dollars,
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars, you have any idea and get
Speaker 1: the players to sponsor them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're an All Star.
Speaker 1: I got this guy, I got this guy, this who
Speaker 1: I'm supporting.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna win. I think he's gona win.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna win. That's how you do that.
Speaker 1: That way, the players don't have to dunk themselves, They
Speaker 1: just sponsored dudes who do.
Speaker 2: It would be a good, good feel.
Speaker 1: You have a lot of people out there that have
Speaker 1: the potential, a lot of people who need the money,
Speaker 1: who could use the money.
Speaker 2: It would be beautiful to watch.
Speaker 1: And I promise you as impressed as I was with
Speaker 1: Macol McClung, mister g League himself a three time champion.
Speaker 2: You'd have dudes that do an even better job than that.
Speaker 1: Outside of that, the All Star Game itself, it wouldn't
Speaker 1: bother me at all if it was done away with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they showed a little more effort this time, but the
Speaker 1: fact that all of that had to be done just
Speaker 1: to get you to show effort bump it. Just name
Speaker 1: an All Star a limb going vacation, because clearly we
Speaker 1: can find better things to watch on television. If God's
Speaker 1: gonna lill the gag around and I give effort, That's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying.