Will Thorne Staff WriterPresident Trump attacked the NBA last week, saying the league is in “big trouble” and blaming its supposedly poor ratings on the players kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequality.“It’s been horrible for basketball.
Look at the basketball ratings. People are angry about it,” Trump said during an interview on Clay Travis’ radio show. “They have enough politics with guys like me.
They don’t need more. There was a nastiness about the NBA and the way it was done. The NBA is in trouble. Big trouble.”However, making a concrete assessment of the NBA ratings since re-start, or finding one single reason for their decline, is far from simple.
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