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Why do fans hate the Spurs so much? (alien.top)
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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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[–] Infinite-Material-97@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As a Spurs fan, I’ll take the championships over better ratings

[–] Thunderhorse74@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

This is a much bigger factor than people realize. Of course, who wants to be in Minneapolis on a Tuesday night in February either? A number of teams and their cities fit this, but with the Spurs being so good for so long, they had more nationally televised games and more compelling reason to be included in discussions, features, and interviews...except with that, people in the media thought they already knew all there is to know about them, so there were fewer fresh stories, new insights into the team.

When they returned to contention in 2012 a completely reinvented team with an updated style of play but with the same faces, I think the tendency was to retread the old narrative and "hey, its these fucking guys again." Roll some highlights from 2003 and a six year old interview where Tim Duncan says 7 words and never changes expression.