{"id":716961,"date":"2026-04-24T04:27:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/716961\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:27:55","slug":"the-nba-picked-money-and-paywalls-over-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/716961\/","title":{"rendered":"The NBA picked money \u2014 and paywalls \u2014 over fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s try to figure out how it happened and what they had in mind.<\/p>\n<p>We presume it was at a preseason meeting called by Adam Silver to determine the NBA\u2019s postseason schedule, emphasis on TV money.<\/p>\n<p>And so the NBA decided to sell a stack of playoff games to can\u2019t-DVR-them streaming services for some quick, short-run dough in exchange for minimizing national audiences during what should be the maximized TV audiences period.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, if the Knicks \u2014 representing the nation\u2019s largest TV market \u2014 made the playoffs, the NBA would sell at least two of their first-round games to a streaming operation, to maximize the minimization of viewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s try to figure out how it happened and what they had in mind. We presume it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[2214,7,7144,304,6,11,56381,1136,191,3810,3806,66,198,2086,196,40179],"class_list":{"0":"post-716961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-adam-silver","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-equal-time","11":"tag-knicks","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-playoffs","14":"tag-nba-playoffs-2026","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-knicks","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkknicks","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-sports-columnists","21":"tag-sports-entertainment","22":"tag-sports-plus","23":"tag-streaming-video"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116457799912057054","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}