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Robert Patrick posted:it's almost like no-one outside of America cares about American sports I get your point, but it's still funny when the guy is inescapable in my own country. Plus, he's personally really popular in Asia (specifically China). The NBA also has a strong presence in countries like Australia, Brazil, and India, so it's not like he's soley an American phenomenon. The league are going to make a big push into Europe too, so we'll see how that works out.
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T. Finn posted:late but this is the best thing itt
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Robert Patrick posted:it's almost like no-one outside of America cares about American sports The NBA is very popular in continental Europe
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Robert Patrick posted:it's almost like no-one outside of America cares about American sports In fairness, most people know who LeBron James is.
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Is he that guy with HIV?
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TyChan posted:I get your point, but it's still funny when the guy is inescapable in my own country. Wait what? Sport popularity in Australia goes: AFL = NRL > Rugby = Cricket = Football > Netball = Basketball The interest in basketball here is tiny to the point of it getting similar crowds to netball.
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Could you break down the popularity of sports in other countries too? How about New Zealand?
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Byolante posted:Wait what? Is that interest in domestic basketball or NBA? Maybe the article I read was blowing smoke. Fine. I'm all wrong. No one watches basketball except Americans.
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^^^ Edit: I can't answer any other country but basketball as a whole in australia had a media presence made up entirely of a 30 minute magazine show on a sunday morning for 2 years recently. NBA games are shown on FTA tv at about 10am in the morning iirc.TomSellek posted:Could you break down the popularity of sports in other countries too? How about New Zealand? New Zealand is the same as Australia but replace AFL with competitive sheep loving. Byolante fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Apr 8, 2011 |
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Apr 8, 2011 00:45
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TyChan posted:Is that interest in domestic basketball or NBA? It's the number 2 or 3 sport in a lot of continental Europe, but it's entirely a minority sport in Britain - the NBA is probably quite a bit less popular than the NFL.
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the real tragedy is that your average Australian has never even heard of one of their greatest modern sportsmen, Luke Schenscher
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delicious beef posted:It's the number 2 or 3 sport in a lot of continental Europe, but it's entirely a minority sport in Britain - the NBA is probably quite a bit less popular than the NFL. The interesting thing is that roughly as many people in the UK play basketball as they do rugby, it's more popular in that sense than tennis, cricket etc by a long long way - it's just that nobody gives a poo poo about the professional game here or in the NBA where it's actually of a good standard.
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Iggy Pop Barker posted:The interesting thing is that roughly as many people in the UK play basketball as they do rugby, it's more popular in that sense than tennis, cricket etc by a long long way - it's just that nobody gives a poo poo about the professional game here or in the NBA where it's actually of a good standard. Well why would you want to play rugby anyway, you'd have to spend time with utter utter scum and might get hurt too! Plus no one knows the rules, basketball is simple and fun.
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Ras Het posted:Well why would you want to play rugby anyway, you'd have to spend time with utter utter scum and might get hurt too! Plus no one knows the rules, basketball is simple and fun. this is entirely correct. Rugby is the worst sport enjoyed by the worst people, basketball owns. Problem is that the Worst People are good at getting sponsorship and general investment in the sport they like, one which literally got invented because toffs started  ing about poors in Preston, Blackburn etc taking up football.
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Iggy Pop Barker posted:The interesting thing is that roughly as many people in the UK play basketball as they do rugby, it's more popular in that sense than tennis, cricket etc by a long long way - it's just that nobody gives a poo poo about the professional game here or in the NBA where it's actually of a good standard. Yeah, this is true. I suspect this is mostly a kit/equipment thing - basketball hoops are everywhere, especially in cities, and all you need after that is a ball, not even a racquet each, never mind all the bullshit required for cricket. It's interesting that media coverage hasn't really caught up with people playing, maybe cricket and rugby just hold a lot of dominance over scheduling.
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TomSellek posted:Could you break down the popularity of sports in other countries too? How about New Zealand? rugby union, rugby league, cricket, netball, football, and there's like one random kiwi in the baseball minor leagues hth
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delicious beef posted:Yeah, this is true. I suspect this is mostly a kit/equipment thing - basketball hoops are everywhere, especially in cities, and all you need after that is a ball, not even a racquet each, never mind all the bullshit required for cricket. It's interesting that media coverage hasn't really caught up with people playing, maybe cricket and rugby just hold a lot of dominance over scheduling. I would say the lack of TV coverage is down to the sheer amount of games that take place. Terrestrial channels couldn't go near it in any meaningful way. ESPN do their bit, but are relatively new and I don't know what their subscription figures are. American Football is much easier to cover as it only last from September to January in terms of the regular season and teams only play once a week. Also, most of the games are on at reasonable times in the UK, unlike basketball.
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These are bad posts and all, but they arent about football and they arent from other websites. I think you guys are bending the rules
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Mickolution posted:In fairness, most people know who LeBron James is.
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http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/new...icle721114.htmlmirrorfootball posted:Chelsea target Neymar sent off for masked celebration. Ahahaha wtf.
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Mickolution posted:In fairness, most people know who LeBron James is. never heard of the oval office
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Iggy Pop Barker posted:this is entirely correct. Rugby is the worst sport enjoyed by the worst people, basketball owns. Problem is that the Worst People are good at getting sponsorship and general investment in the sport they like, one which literally got invented because toffs started Rugby might be a posh sport in the south but it's not true in the north. At least where I've lived a lot of people follow the super league. Places like Wigan are similar that's why their football team is a waste of space. Pissflaps posted:never heard of the oval office Why the gently caress has his first name got two capitals?
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Turtle Soup posted:Rugby might be a posh sport in the south but it's not true in the north. At least where I've lived a lot of people follow the super league. Places like Wigan are similar that's why their football team is a waste of space. That's Rugby League, though. Rugby Union is for toffs.
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I hate all rugby just to be safe also stop talking about it itt, cheers
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People saying Rugby Union is for toffs clearly haven't ever been to Wales (not that you'd want to). edit; just seen above post, ignore this poo poo and continue posting examples of terrible internet posts thanks heliovich fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Apr 8, 2011 |
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If you seriously think basketball is an American only sport, then jesus christ, I don't know what... A handy guide: American football: America Baseball: America, some parts of East Asia, Latin America Hockey: America and Canada Basketball: Literally the entire world aside from the cricket playing countries.
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No one gives a gently caress about Basketball in England.
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Quasimango posted:Hockey: America and Canada You mean ice hockey.
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I did, my apologies.
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c0burn posted:No one gives a gently caress about Basketball in England. It's still probably the third biggest sport in the world.
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Mickolution posted:It's still probably the third biggest sport in the world. Football, cricket and rugby are all bigger.
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Pissflaps posted:Football, cricket and rugby are all bigger. Rugby isn't, I would say.
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these are certainly some bad posts about football
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Apr 9, 2011 19:11
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Mickolution posted:Rugby isn't, I would say. You can say that.
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India shouldn't be included in world sport popularity because they are poo poo at sports as a whole and can barely win gold medals imo this way cricket would be where it belongs, below Handball
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 I'm taking this as conclusive proof.
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Pissflaps posted:You can say that. And I'd be right.
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Quasimango posted:
That's racist.
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argh get murdered, shut up!!!!
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T. Finn posted:argh get murdered, shut up!!!! don't post Alex Ferguson's twitter in here
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