This season's All-Star Game is actually still very good, James's difficult final, Curry's 16 three-pointers, these are all impressive. However, michael Mulvihill, executive vice president of Fox Sports, recently released live data on last Sunday's major sports events on social media.
He said the Daytona 500, which aired on Fox television last Sunday, was watched by 8.9 million people and is the top ratings for all primetime TELEVISION entertainment shows in the United States this year. Daytona 500 beat the NBA All-Star Game by 41%, and the Winter Olympics closing ceremony! And the gap between the Daytona 500 and the NBA All-Star Game is the biggest gap between the two events in the last five years!
For the NBA All-Star Game, his attention is indeed not as good as before, not only the audience, in the 75 big stars before the All-Star Game on the day of the All-Star Game, the basketball god Michael Jordan did not participate because he went to the scene of the Daytona 500, but fortunately, the 75 tributes at halftime eased Jordan to rush back!
Although the ratings of this All-Star Game have increased by 6% compared with last year, but the number of viewers is only 6.28 million, it should be known that last year's All-Stars were the lowest in history, and this season's All-Stars are still the second worst ratings in NBA history since record. This also has to make the NBA think about it, the original most anticipated dunk contest performance has become like that, it is not difficult to imagine that the ratings of all-stars have declined!
So the NBA really should think about how to pull back the view, is it really necessary to wait for Morant, a group of young players, to grow up to get better?