“We recognize that, in some ways, the decline of cable has disproportionately impacted the NBA,” Silver told Kendall Baker of Yahoo Sports AM. “Our young audience isn’t subscribing to cable, and those fans aren’t finding our games.
But there are still roughly 65 million homes in America that are consuming sports in a very traditional way, and even more people on network TV. Is that declining? Yes. Is that going away anytime soon? I don’t believe so. So we want to be on all of those platforms.”
I live in Saint Louis and it’s hard to justify purchasing league pass when two teams, the Pacers and Grizzlies, are blacked out despite living in a city without a team. For $100 or $149, no game should be blacked out.