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Why do fans hate the Spurs so much? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by InkAddict718@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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Finals ratings prove it. Let’s recap:

1999- 29 million watched the year before and it dropped to 16 million. Though it was the first Finals after MJ retired so can’t fault the Spurs for that.

2003- 15.7 million watched the Lakers sweep the Nets the year before. Drops to 9.9 million viewers

2005- 18 million watched Lakers/Pistons the year before. Down to 12.5 million for this one

2007- 13 million watched Heat/Mavs the year before. Down to 9.3 million for this juggernaut

2013 and 2014- 16.9 million watched Heat/Thunder in 2012. 2013 actually went up to 17.5 million, but 2014 went back down to 15.5 million

So in essence, why do fans seem to loathe the Spurs? And I can only imagine how much the NBA loved having ratings drop whenever they made it.

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[–] bloodmuffins793@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

They were boring as hell for a long time. I think a lot of younger fans assume they played like the “beautiful game” 2012-2014 team their entire run. But most of the Duncan era they played slow, low-scoring games and ran their offense through Timmy in the post, which was just not that fun to watch.

They also eliminated more exciting teams like the Suns in the playoffs, which didn’t do them any favors.

They were also pretty dirty (especially Bruce Bowen) but would get treated like choir boys by the media. That was annoying.