NBA Finals, season on schedule thanks to replacement players

NBA ratings and playoffs have been up!

https://theathletic.com/3344098/2022/06/02/nba-tv-ratings-warriors/

For the NBA, this season has been a resounding rebuttal to years of criticism that the league has lost not only viewers, but customers altogether. Some of those maligning the league cited dipping TV ratings. Others used those numbers to make specious and bad-faith arguments about the league after its embrace of the social justice and Black Lives Matter movements of 2020; often those were lobbed by right-wing activists with little interest in the league’s failure or success and more in need of politicizing things so as to have another opponent. That has been harder to do this season as numbers have shot up.

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