(“The TEN” is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in “The TEN”)
- Kawhi Leonard declined his $36 million option with the Clippers for next season but he is expected to sign a new deal with the team.
- The U.S. Men’s Basketball team beat the Czech Republic 119-84 Saturday at the Tokyo Olympics. Kevin Durant became the Americans all-time leading scorer in the Olympics during the win.
- Chris Paul declined his $44.2 million player option for next season allowing him to become an unrestricted free agent.
- The Chicago Cubs traded Anthony Rizzo, Kris Bryant and Javier Baez in separate deals at the trade deadline this past week.
- After a 13-0 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks Sunday, the Dodgers are 64-43 and in second place, three games behind the San Francisco Giants in the NL West.
- The Cleveland Browns signed running back Nick Chubb to a three-year, $36 million contract extension.
- U.S Gymnast MyKayla Skinner won the silver medal on the vault at the Tokyo Olympics.
- Current medal count Tokyo Olympics: United States – 59, China – 51, Russian Olympic Committee – 44.
- Former Pasadena/ UNLV/ NBA star Stacey Augmon turns 53 today.
- On this day in 1973 the Virginia Squires of the ABA traded Julius Erving to the New York Nets.
RE Nope
Most of Sports money is from TV contracts. And it is without question that viewership is dropping badly. So less viewer means less income. That is a fact.
Second to your comment, old guys not watching.. Well I hate to tell you another fact but the age of fans for all sports is old and getting older. The average age of a baseball fan is the oldest 57, then NFL50, NBA 44 and lowest age is MLS 40.
So even the NBA is aging out as kids go to other pursuits like social media and video games,
So you add old guys pulling the plug on the NBA with the young not being initiated into the crowd and you end up with declining revenues.
Question, do you support the league that makes money off Chinese slave labor and the players that take checks for royalties from the profits of same slave labor as they attempt to tear down our country. Remember the one NBA player that equated the NBA to a plantation and the players as slaves. Feel free to defend the NBA and players on profiting off slave labor.
Just because old guys stop watching the NBA doesn’t make it any less of a sport with worldwide appeal. Basketball is growing in popularity and is becoming a much more global game with tons of money to be made in the top leagues in other countries also.
With high school football a little over two weeks away does anyone know if attendance will again be limited to families only?
Trade deadline best deals
NYY got Andrew Heaney Joey Gallo and Anthony Rizzo and their old teams are paying their entire salary for 2021
I have not tuned my TV to an NBA game for years, and my NFL viewing is way down.
Go Woke Go Broke.
Hell the NBA makes money off licensing of slave labor produced merch, and players mostly African American make royalties off the same slave labor, and both are so addicted to the cash they cannot say anything least the faucet be turned off.
Nike who allegedly used child labor, now is accused of getting their products made in the Chinese forced labor camps.
If NBA ratings don’t soon rise above the levels of WNBA viewership, we’ll never again see the likes of a Leonard or Paul demanding these kind of salaries. The money has to come from somewhere, and most of America has tuned out.