Steve Covino

I mean, you can keep going, I'm sure.

But I'm going to say, most people are like me in that they realize in the last handful of years, the NBA regular season holds such little weight and significance, and the product isn't there, and that's a problem.

We keep making that silly analogy of vacation sex versus a random Wednesday at your house.

When you see what someone's capable of, the NBA playoffs are delivering where the casual NBA fan that watches highlights like me, in the playoffs, you're locked in.

It's a different game.

There's no other sport where the postseason and the regular season

The juxtaposition, the difference, it's drastic to me.

People used to say that about baseball.

Baseball somehow fixed that, I think.

What's up, Sam?

So NBA playoff viewership usually does pretty well.

But this year, actually, regular season viewership of the NBA is up a huge amount.

I think it's because of NBC, ABC, and then on Amazon Prime.

But if you look at the regular season numbers, they're up like I'm seeing 86% from last year.

which is pretty impressive.

I'm surprised to hear that because I feel like the buzz doesn't match those stats.

I didn't feel like the regular season buzz was all that.

Did you, Rich?

I feel it's NBC getting back into it because we had weeknight games in primetime that we would see.

We'd have doubleheaders.