What ails the NBA

Is the NBA too woke and/or hypocritical for America? Or is the absence of Steph Curry and Kevin Durant and the youth of the next crop of superstars to cause of falling ratings?

Good morning. Let’s basketball.

The Sick Child, Edvard Munch

If you have a subscription to The Athletic, you might have read Ethan Strauss’s thesis on why NBA ratings are down substantially over the course of the last eight years. Strauss (as always) writes beautifully and convincingly. He spends a whole lot of time on suggestions that the NBA’s more poli…