I don't hate em 🤷♂️
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because we were bandwagoning the heatles!
Nah, nothing against the spurs at all idk
Are you really confused as to why Finals that had the Shaq/Kobe Lakers got better ratings than Finals that had the Big Fundamental?
Less marketable stars
Smaller TV market
That’s about it
Literally all of these finals are like "Why didnt the spurs have as many viewers as the Lakers or MJ?"
OP clearly has no idea how many goddamn people live in LA/California
Historically dirty team
Better than historically bad
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.
It’s more disinterest than hate for all the reasons people have already said. It would actually be better if they were hated, people who hate the Lakers would still tune in to see them in the finals if for nothing else than to watch them loose
Small market obviously, can not compete with LA. Also had small market opponents other than NY.
Viewers are fine vs Heat.
You're confusing hate with indifference.
The ratings were lower because less casual fans cared about the Spurs.
Hate actually INCREASES ratings because people will tune in wanting to see a hated team lose.
I hate them, I'm not indifferent
They tank 3 times and get the 1st pick 3 times? The Wolves have a long, proud history of being bad, and we only got the 1st pick TWO times (as the worst team in the league each time)
Not to mention they got generational talent with each of those picks.
San Antonio isn’t exactly a huge NBA market.
Tim Duncan has a boring personality.
As /u/grantforthree mentioned, the teams they played were also mostly small market teams without huge stars outside of the 3 LeBron matchups. Nobody was tuning in for Spurs-Pistons or Spurs-Nets.
Tim Duncan has a boring personality.
How can you say that? Do you know him?
Nope and that’s the issue right? He has basically zero public persona.
Not watching you means hate?
Cause of their big ole women
More apathetic than hate. If they hated the Spurs they would’ve probably watched.
Its not about hate. Its just being ignorant
Hate is not the same as apathy.
They were labelled as dull because of the uncontroversial star players of two consecutive eras - Robinson and Duncan (cue the Duncan Robinson jokes).
As a Spurs fan, I’ll take the championships over better ratings
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.
I hated them after 05 but then grew to like them because they were a just different version of my team.
Jesus fucking Christ. Which fan base doesn't have a "why does everyone hate us so much?" complex. I want to be a fan of that team.
Chicago
Love it. I'm a bulls fan now
Media didn't know how to sell them, and there are more Lakers fans than any other team, because of how big their state is, especially before the Warriors took off. Lakers will always have more views than any other team, Spurs have very few American fans and have to share Texas with two other teams who have fans that have experienced winning at the highest level.
Because the fans are either Europeans who of course decide to be Spurs fans and then obnoxiously dog-whistle about “culture” and playing the “right way” or Americans who decide to be Spurs fans and then obnoxiously dog-whistle about “culture” and playing the “right way”.
This may come as a shock to you, but most of the world doesn’t care about anything that happens in San Antonio, Texas.
Thank god for that
Robert Horry. Manure Gibobili. Bruce Bowen.
For me, as stupid as it sounds......I think the whole black and silver/white color scheme makes for a boring watch. The Spurs, Nets, Raiders are all super boring teams to watch. If I'm watching a sports event as a neutral fan.....I tend to enjoy more visually stimulating uniforms and logos. Kind of weird I guess.
The Duncan era Spurs is my favorite team of all time. Casual fans found them boring because they didn't play flashy. No alley-oops, very few dunks. Just tons of ball movement.
I think they just don't care
The media convinced everyone “they were boring” and it worked beautifully
Why do you equate viewership with hate?
There’s clearly a lack of fans if you are going by ratings. There’s no relation to hate. This post is dumb.
Fuck you, that's why.
I don’t know if I’ve ever met anyone who hates the Spurs.