{"id":624528,"date":"2026-04-24T01:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624528\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T01:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:33:12","slug":"the-nba-picked-money-and-paywalls-over-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624528\/","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":624529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[23867,49,48,5236,459,2699,231245,2901,82,2091,1276,2089,234200],"class_list":{"0":"post-624528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-adam-silver","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-equal-time","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-playoffs","14":"tag-nba-playoffs-2026","15":"tag-new-york-knicks","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-entertainment","19":"tag-sports-plus","20":"tag-streaming-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}