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Swuul said:
Last time more than 200 million watched at least one NBA match during the season was in 2017-2018
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Swuul said:
Wow, I can guarantee you only a small miniscule minority of people in China can name what team LeBron or Steph play in; s Basketball is big in China, but less than one percent of chinese actually follow NBA
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So your guarantee still stands? Your guarantee was just proven by yourself to be way way way off.


First two articles I googled show 500 million from both SI and The Athletic. Even just glancing at wiki that quotes 3 different sources that each say NBA is the most popular sports league in China. I would be very interested to see the source for that CBA number. China lists their number is 10,000s so often the translation is very off. Tencent is the main app to watch these games on. I am looking and they have not released any info about viewership this year, but maybe I am just not seeing it. Ill text some friends that work there and see if I can get it. I will admit the CBA viewership numbers might be higher than I think since the games air on the main state sports cctv channel that is the only tv channels you can watch. That will also boost the numbers for NBA. Every tv in the entire country has CCTV on although there a bunch of channels, but a main one for sports. NBA watching has two options of the app Tencent and for popular games CCTV so viewership would be those combined. Which I dont see properly listed on any english website.

I also just see now that NBA is reporting today that they had a record 8 billion views across social media of the NBA finals, which is a record. Which I safely assume is cumulative. It is also reporting that Jokic popularity has sky rocketed due to this. He is now the #1 watched player where last year he was no 18. He just made himself a boat load of money in sponsorships worldwide and household name. Something that world cup would never do for him. His social media jumped to 540 million views.

theathletic.com

The NBA is still exiled from much of China's vast TV market

Nearly a year and a half since a tweet led China to stop broadcasting the league's games on CCTV, the impasse remains with no end in sight.
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en.wikipedia.org

Basketball in China - Wikipedia

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/...ted China,between seasons to promote sneakers. (more fans of NBA than population of USA)
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2023 NBA playoffs are most watched in 5 years

NBA playoff games account for 9 of the 10 most-watched programs across all of television since the beginning of May.
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Edit: my friend responded that 3x more people watched the NBA finals live than the CBA finals this year. 1500 wan vs less than 500 wan. Which is 3X more people watching live than USA. He did not have the numbers for people watching later. But its safe to say that is pretty high based on the time it airs.
 
Ron Mexico said:
I really wish Lauri wasn't playing in this. The injury risk and the extra wear and tear he'll carry into the season for basically pointless games worries me.
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Agreed.
 
Ron Mexico said:
I really wish Lauri wasn't playing in this. The injury risk and the extra wear and tear he'll carry into the season for basically pointless games worries me.
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Completely disagree. Barring some draft miracle the Jazz will probably suck next season. These are very meaningful games for players outside the US and this is another opportunity for Lauri to get more experience as “the man” under real pressure.

Sure helped him last offseason
 
Swuul said:
Goran Dragic won't play for Slovenia in World Cup, says he is too tired. That is a massive blow for Slovenia, as the past years he was together with Luka the reason Slovenia did so well in the competitions (Olympics 2021, Eurobasket 2022).
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Last I saw I thought he was dead
 
Swuul said:
So nobody competes for being the best? Last I checked USA was 7th best in the previous World Cup. Hurraah, I guess.

Somebody should also immediatly inform Jokic, Luka, Giannis et al they are tier two players.

It never ceases to amaze me how little pride people from USA have for their own country. Even in Canada people fight for the right to present their country, not to mention Europe, Australia and the rest of the world. But in USA? Nope, its more important to get to the beach than represent your country. You can bet your butt Jokic would immediatly trade his NBA title for the World Cup title, but I guess that is something you would expect for a tier two player.
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Maybe it's because the NBA games are played here every year. Those games for us are the most important in the world. Obviously the rest of the world doesn't see it the same way.

Or perhaps we are a bunch of arrogant jerks who are not interested in the rest of the world and don't care about these games. Unfortunately, this is true for many of us. The TV ratings will be much higher for NBA games than World Cup games.
 
JazzGal said:
Maybe it's because the NBA games are played here every year. Those games for us are the most important in the world. Obviously the rest of the world doesn't see it the same way.

Or perhaps we are a bunch of arrogant jerks who are not interested in the rest of the world and don't care about these games. Unfortunately, this is true for many of us. The TV ratings will be much higher for NBA games than World Cup games.
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it's just a cultural thing. Kids in the US grow up watching NBA year round. Here until more recent years we didn't get much coverage so for us and Europeans the World Champs and Olympics were our pinnacle
 
Got my ticket for 3 games in Jakarta, 2 for France ( Go Rudy), It's insane to think that 3 good tickets games+ ticket Bangkok-Jakarta + 3 night in 5 star hotel cost less that one single game in Adu dhabi for pre-season games ( Minny- Dallas) without hotel and plane...., i was hesitating as i wanted to see Mike but my choice was easy to make.
 
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