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Utah Jazz have lost 44% of its viewership since a year ago.

Yeah, I've watched pretty much every game from the 97 season (first year my family got cable) till now, but haven't been able to bring myself to watch any games this year at all.

I understand and don't necessarily disagree with the tanking efforts. When I watch I want to cheer them to win. In my head I understand its best if they lose. Can't reconcile that enough to enjoy watching. Plus, really, at some point the Jazz are going to be involved in a major trade. I have a hard time trying to watch for player development when I don't really believe there's a great chance the young guys currently on the team will still be on the team when we are good again.

I'm still following the team, lurking here, paying attention to trade rumors and draft prospects. They don't have to necessarily be good for me to watch. But they need to be trying and winning needs to not be detrimental before I'll do that again.
 
I started following the Jazz during the 1988 playoffs when they took the Lakers to 7 games in the conference semi finals. I was 21 years old. IMO, LHM was a great franchise owner. After his death, it seemed to me the team just kind of went through the motions.
I spent about 30 years watching almost every game (live or recorded). Finally, in the past few years, I gave up on the Jazz and stopped buying what management was selling. I still watch the business side of the Jazz & NBA. I still look at stats, listen to a few podcasts and read articles but Danny Ainge and Ryan Smith are going to have to put a real contender on the floor before I spend any time watching games on a regular basis. I hate to say it, but the Utah Jazz and several other teams in the league are irrelevant.

When the league gives players, agents and a few major teams (Lakers & Celtics and a few others) the ability to control who plays where, it is a bad look. When contracts are guaranteed and players only play when they want, it is a bad look.
 
jope said:
This is the first season in 36 years that I haven't watched a single game (to be transparent, i was and have stayed on the anti-tank side of things). the numbers hold up though, I'm not paying for this type of product, life's hard enough.
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Paying for? Why would you ever pay even if they were in first place in the nba?
 
idiot said:
Don't know if you're trying to be sarcastic, but there may be something to this (though I would put it differently).

The Utah Hockey Club came around at the time of increasing Trumpification of Utah, and it seems some number (really not sure how many) of Jazz fans made loud announcements that the style of the NHL fit with their social views better than the NBA did. So, for the time being at least, their migration to the NHL is as much of a social-political statement as anything to do with the team (in NBA terms, at very nearly .500, the UHC is in the no-man's-land mediocre middle).

I don't know if this sorting of conservatives in Utah away from the NBA is a long-term real trend, or just a short term phenomena that's loud on social media. But, I suspect that support for the Jazz overall will pick up when they start winning again and it's easy to see their promise.
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Maybe not trying to be sarcastic as much as pointing out what a huge dumb**** Donald Trump is.
 
Listen…
1) The product sucks leaguewide. It’s why ratings are down as a whole and Draymond made the comment he did.
2) There is no one to carry the league. No one cares about 35-40 year old players and the best players are all foreign. The league sorely needs a few players who are marketable as hell.
3) Specific to the Jazz, they stink. Why would anyone watch a terrible team for an already terrible product?
4) Utah now has a hockey team. Be careful what you wish for.
 
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