{"id":938898,"date":"2021-10-29T19:28:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T23:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=938898"},"modified":"2021-10-29T19:28:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T23:28:51","slug":"nba-surrenders-thursday-night-to-the-nfl-moves-games-to-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nba-surrenders-thursday-night-to-the-nfl-moves-games-to-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Surrenders Thursday Night to the NFL, Moves Games to Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnba-surrenders-thursday-night-to-the-nfl-moves-games-to-tuesday%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=938898&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The NBA pitched its tent on Thursday night with a primetime doubleheader showcase on TNT and the sports world\u2019s best studio show, but the association has now struck its tent and surrendered that real estate to the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>According to a tweet from NBA reporter Marc Stein, the association has bowed to the ratings dominance of the NFL\u2019s <em>Thursday Night Football<\/em> offering and, basically, run away.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.52\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thursdays will look and feel different for NBA fans for the rest of the calendar year \u2026 with no Ernie, Shaq, Kenny and Charles on Thursday nights until 2022 to avoid trying to compete with the NFL&#8217;s Thursday Night Football.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s expanded analysis: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/13hPvDuIC8\">https:\/\/t.co\/13hPvDuIC8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mlRunukHhc\">https:\/\/t.co\/mlRunukHhc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/1453782933714706436?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI duly consulted TNT\u2019s schedule and learned that they will be a Tuesday Nights Only operation for the rest of 2021,\u201d Stein wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou read right. The network known for its Thursday night broadcasts and the best studio show in sports won\u2019t have a basketball game on Thursdays again until January 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/center-fielder-dexter-fowler-of-the-st-louis-cardinals-joins-tnts-picture-id631067010\" alt=\"Center fielder Dexter Fowler of the St. Louis Cardinals joins TNT&#039;s Inside the NBA team, NBA analyst Shaquille O&#039;Neal, host Ernie Johnson Jr.,...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>LAS VEGAS, NV \u2013 JANUARY 05: (L-R) Center fielder Dexter Fowler of the St. Louis Cardinals joins TNT\u2019s Inside the NBA team, NBA analyst Shaquille O\u2019Neal, host Ernie Johnson Jr., wearing an iGrow laser-based hair-growth helmet, and NBA analysts Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley during a live telecast of \u201cNBA on TNT\u201d at CES 2017 at the Sands Expo and Convention Center on January 5, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world\u2019s largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs through January 8 and features 3,800 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to more than 165,000 attendees. (Photo by Ethan Miller\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As Outkick\u2019s Bobby Burack notes, this is quite a reversal for the NBA after ESPN personalities spent months talking the league up and even predicting it would one day surpass the NFL in popularity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a time when NBA PR reps disguised as sports pundits \u2014 people like Jalen Rose and Bomani Jones \u2014 said the NBA would soon surpass the NFL in national popularity,\u201d Burack <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/nba-will-run-scared-from-nfl-on-thursdays-move-games-to-new-day\/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1635495870\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cThat was two years ago. These schmucks were so wrong that the NBA is now breaking tradition because it is too cowardly to compete with the NFL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NBA has seen a catastrophic drop in ratings that began with wholesale sellout to Communist China and Black Lives Matter. In addition, the league has also been marred by its #1 superstar, LeBron James, increasingly behaving more like a Democrat pundit in gym shorts than a professional athlete.<\/p>\n<p>All of this has resulted in the NBA getting booted off its signature night and moved to Tuesdays where they will remain until (hopefully) college football decides to do a primetime feature on Tuesdays and chases the association off to some other night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA pitched its tent on Thursday night with a primetime doubleheader showcase on TNT and the sports world\u2019s best studio show, but the association has now struck its tent &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}