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No Fun Anymore: What’s Happened to the NBA?

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Why have NBA ratings dropped by half over the last decade? How has the game changed in recent years and what does the proliferation of legalized sports betting have to do with it? Jeff takes a break this week from questions of history and politics and looks at a slice of our public life with author and journalist Oliver Lee Bateman and addresses these weighty issues.

Or is there more to it? Is the creep of the HR department mindset to standardize, systematize, and optimize everything having an impact on one of our beloved sports?

Read Oliver's article on the topic, from RealClearBooks: https://tinyurl.com/4umhyujf

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Executive Producer: Jeremy Gypton

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