Could NHL surpass NBA?
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Not a chance. Hockey is tremendously more expensive to play and will pretty much always have a more regional and niche appeal. Basketball is the second most popular sport in the world, I believe (after soccer) and I don't see that changing. That will pretty much always be reflected in the relative popularity of the NHL and NBA.
Another one who has to bring race into the conversation. Care to explain the white people that are nba fans? Or the huge nba following in China?
The Gr8 Dane
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Zero chance , it's already surpassed Hockey at the youth level in Canada
PanniniClaus
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It is at the very least an interesting question. I do follow the NBA, play their fantasy drafts etc. While I don't know that hockey will ever touch basketball, the NBA has a problem. Paying fans/sponsors/TV are taking note of the product. You simply have no idea what a team will throw on the floor any given night.
Almost no one plays through anything which would be bad enough, but clearly healthy players just do not take the floor.
So they have issues they need to fix.. overall, the game has some great young stars.
Almost no one plays through anything which would be bad enough, but clearly healthy players just do not take the floor.
So they have issues they need to fix.. overall, the game has some great young stars.
BraveCanadian
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No chance. Hockey is inaccessible and increasingly expensive and exclusive. Nepo babies everywhere.
NBA is 70% black yet there’s huge interest from white fans, so I don’t know if that’s necessarily the reason
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LOFIN
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That doesn't really say anything lmao. On a global scale, Basketball is not that much more relevant than hockey. It probably has a better growth platform though, just because of China.
Not even close.
??? What? It's FAR more relevant. Hockey requires ice, and gear. Basketball requires a hoop.
...actually, it says a lot...it says that cheaper sports to play are more popular...it says that Branding matters...take China out and basketball is still probably more popular worldwide...
You can reverse it as well. The most popular sport in the most populous country (India) is cricket, and cricket is still a niche sport worldwide.
LOFIN
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So? Running requires nothing but your legs, but does that make it a popular sport in the way we are discussing it here?
My point here was not to really argue about if basketball is bigger than hockey. My point was rather that it matters f*** all if basketball is #2 most popular sport in the world, it might as well be #99 because it's still so much smaller than soccer. It was merely making a wise ass remark on @Summer Rose 's earlier comment.
Terry Yake
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...what @Summer Rose said was on topic and a valid assessment of the topic...so you just wanted to chirp??...picked the wrong issue then, I'd say...
Fair enough. I’ll admit that the humor was lost on me.
That said, hockey could become the third most popular sport in the world (hypothetically speaking, I’m not saying this is realistic) and it would still be more than a few parsecs behind basketball.
Machinehead
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I could go around the office right now (you know, instead of working lol) and ask everyone who Connor McDavid is. Like, one of them would know. Wayne Gretzky is probably 30/70.
Every single one of them would know who LeBron James is.
Every single one of them would know who LeBron James is.
No Fun Shogun
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Only if the NBA crashed and burned and was replaced by a different basketball league that was still more popular than the NHL.
Fair enough. I’ll admit that the humor was lost on me.
...it was just lost, period...
