Popular Post RedDawg#8 Posted March 9, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 (edited) https://www.sportbusiness.com/news/atlanta-hawks-ceo-suggests-pushing-nba-season-back-to-avoid-clash-with-nfl/ Atlanta Hawks CEO suggests pushing NBA season back to avoid clash with NFL Quote Atlanta Hawks chief executive Steve Koonin has suggested pushing the National Basketball Association season back two months to reduce a clash with the National Football League and in turn boost television ratings. Koonin made the proposal at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston on March 6. Under his suggestion, the NBA season would begin in mid-December, rather than mid-October and thus avoid competing with much of the NFL regular season, which remains the most popular television property in the United States by a big margin. The NBA Finals would then take part in August, with the NBA Draft and Summer League shifting back in the calendar as well. “Relevance equals revenue,” Koonin said. “We’ve got to create the most relevance, and the revenue will fix itself.” Edited March 9, 2020 by RedDawg#8 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member sturt Posted March 9, 2020 Premium Member Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 Quote “It’s because at the beginning of the season, there’s very little relevance for the NBA. The relevance is now. That’s when people are talking about it” he said. I for one mainly agree with the premise, but not entirely... and I definitely do not agree with the conclusion/solution. Yes, people are much more aware of the start of baseball season than they are the NBA season; and so much more, then, the NFL over the start of the NBA season. And yes, that does indeed suggest there is some reason to consider some changes. New relevance would help, but then again, who really is watching the first week of baseball or football season because they're thinking those early games are critical, ie, of some significant relevance that people would be talking about it? The NBA's problem is bigger because the number of teams who conceivably might challenge for the championship is considerably smaller from day one of the season. The starting point for making the NBA more talked about, more relevant, more appealing such that people actually care about it from the very beginning of the season is to change some tectonics that make more cities' teams more plausibly competitive for the championship every single year. Playing with the calendar might even backfire... the NFL is all the more intensely popular in those weeks leading up to the playoffs. But regardless, it's the wrong lever to be fooling with. Give more fans more reason to more seriously conceive that their favorite team has an NFL-franchise-like chance from year to year to make it to the big game. That is the right lever. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedDawg#8 Posted March 9, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 I forgot all about baseball. It seems like the NBA season would encompass almost the entirety of the MLB season at that point. What I like about the sports schedule now is that there is a natural transition between all sports. The week after the Super Bowl, all attention turns to the NBA and the All Star game and the road to the playoffs. By the time Baseball really kicks off, you're in the thick of the playoffs, but if your team is out of it you are watching baseball.(maybe). And by the time the Finals are over, its the NBA draft, then the MLB all star game then a little bit of a lull before the NFL pre season, then rinse and repeat Starting in December would fill the void during the obscure College Bowl season, move the Allstar game back to April, around the time of the Master's and the NCAA Tournament, The Finals would be during the football preseason, I mean I guess it could work, Idk. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin capstone21 Posted March 9, 2020 Admin Report Share Posted March 9, 2020 Golf switched their schedule and moved majors around so they were not competing with Football either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedDawg#8 Posted March 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2020 3 hours ago, capstone21 said: Golf switched their schedule and moved majors around so they were not competing with Football either They mentioned that, its crazy how much football dominates in this country. However I think the NBA can take over a more global market. Futbol is their real competition in that regard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNorthCydeRises Posted March 11, 2020 Report Share Posted March 11, 2020 It's not just the NFL. It's college football too that they're competing against in November. I think one of the best NBA seasons, was the strike shortened season that started at Christmas, with them playing 66 games in 4 months. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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