Playoffs NHL or NBA

[GryphonBrew]

Hockey Town... Go Wings!

 

[edie]

Thunder up!

 

[Revvy]

Too bad there's not an official poll at the top of this, but informally it looks like the NHL is smoking the NBA. Though Joel, I gave you a vote for each since you were flipping back and forth.

 

[bdeck02]

NHL all the way, I'm an original 6'er.
TTTTHHHHHEEEEE Rangers :rockin:
I'm taking an extreme chance this afternoon, I'll be watching the Rangers and brewing a Hefeweizen simultaneously, hope I don't puke in the wort :cross:

Sorry bud. The only Rangers worth watching are the Texas kind. What the F is a New York Ranger anyway?

 

[wildwest450]

NHL go Wings!

I must agree. Now go immediately and remove your avatar. Or I shall bust out a pic that NO one else on the internet has and put you to shame. The nerve of some people.


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[Revvy]

I must agree. Now go immediately and remove your avatar. Or I shall bust out a pic that NO one else on the internet has and put you to shame. The nerve of some people.


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Exactly, Wildwest had dibs on the AV, like for years.

 

[techyakker]

Sorry bud. The only Rangers worth watching are the Texas kind. What the F is a New York Ranger anyway?

Hmmm, what's that? Walker Texas Ranger

 

[Whut]

If it's a game (puck, ball, whutever) I'll watch it. Even golf (and I hate golf) just to see some numbnut blow it in the last round on the 18th hole.

Go (insert your favorite team here)!

 

[payton34]

nhl for sure. nothing better than watching luongo blow up against my blackhawks

 

[bob1852]

Too bad there's not an official poll at the top of this, but informally it looks like the NHL is smoking the NBA. Though Joel, I gave you a vote for each since you were flipping back and forth.

You should be a politician making such blanket statements with no data.

FWIW, I've been protesting hockey since the Brett Hull "goal" in Game 6 of the 1999 finals. A freaking triple-OT game ends with a blown call (where the refs could have and should have reviewed and disallowed), and the NHL response of "well, we were gonna change the rule anyway the following year, so we'll give the Cup to the Stars."

For that, and the failure that is the Coyotes, I say feck hockey.

 

[RiverBirchBrew]

+1,000,000

+1,000,001

There's nothing better than hockey playoffs...well, almost nothing.

 

[samc]

Last NHL I watched was the Islanders Championship run. I do enjoy Olympic Hockey but the NHL ultimate fighting matches suck.

I'll settle for Yanks - Rangers & Knicks - Celts.

 

[rjwhite41]

NHL by far. Go Wings!!!

 

[bowiefan]

NHL any day and every day!

LETS GO CAPS!

 

[techyakker]

Rangers win!!!!!!!!
Hefeweizen is in the fermanter!!
Founders Dirty Bastard, Weyerbacher Merry Monks, and a couple of Belgian home brews in me!!!!!!!!
Time to grill a Flank Steak with Dijon mustard\dry rub on the grill.
It doesn't get any better than this

 

[boo boo]

Rangers win!!!!!!!!
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Yeah, it was a good game.

 

[dabeers]

I will have to agree NHL>NBA...but that will change if my blackhawks can't come back down 0-2. Unfortunately I will be enjoying my homebrews with the internet audio...don't have Versus! Derrick Rose is a beast though, go bulls.

 

[SimBrew]

NHL all the way, god there's no such thing like pro basket around here in Montreal, I never watch a game.

Go Habs

 

[bob1852]

Grizzlies-Spurs, Hornets-Lakers, and Knicks-Celtics were all great game start to finish, and Thunder-Nuggest has been a great 1st half.

Plus the NBA doesn't have all of those really long breaks (intermissions) like hockey does so some off machine called a zamboni can drive around slower than a golf-cart while fans sit their twiddling their fingers or throwing around octipi.

 

[AlphaWolf-Brewery]

I must agree. Now go immediately and remove your avatar. Or I shall bust out a pic that NO one else on the internet has and put you to shame. The nerve of some people.


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I am sorry, change has been made.

 

[BrewKnurd]

Let's go Predators!

This.

 

[doctorRobert]

Hockey over Basketball any day. I mean basketball games really need only be 5 minutes long, since it's only the last 5 minutes that matters. And the rest of it is just plain boring. Just how relevant or important is a score when a game can be 100 points to 101 points just because some doofus sinks a basket in the last second?

Sounds like each basket is important then.

Surprised by how popular NHL is here considering how awful the ratings are. Maybe that's their problem, all their fans would rather be homebrewing.

NBA is poised to become the most popular american sport, if they can handle their lockout better than the NFL. Worldwide the NBA has a tremendous following, which the other sports do not. I'm sure David Stern will F it up though.

 

[jjward101]

NBA is poised to become the most popular american sport, if they can handle their lockout better than the NFL. Worldwide the NBA has a tremendous following, which the other sports do not. I'm sure David Stern will F it up though.[/QUOTE]

There must be something wrong with my television. Im lookinhg, but cant find the story on cnn about the govt. Legalizing crack....which would clearly have to happen for basketball to jump past both, football and baseball and become the most popular sport.

 

[doctorRobert]

There must be something wrong with my television. Im lookinhg, but cant find the story on cnn about the govt. Legalizing crack....which would clearly have to happen for basketball to jump past both, football and baseball and become the most popular sport.

The NBA is already more popular than MLB, both by viewers and sales of merchandise.

The 2010 world series ratings was the lowest ever - 14 million viewers. The NBA Finals got 28 million viewers - according to Nielson ratings - and that's just in the US.

There were probably more people in China watching than in the US. The NBA is very popular in Asia right now, which is something the other sports do not have. The NBA is becoming a global game with regular season games being played in London.

In the western world, Soccer is still the most popular. But if you look at it worldwide, Basketball has tremendous momentum and may very well catch soccer, not just in China but in Europe and South America.

 

[SpanishCastleAle]

Agree with Dr Robert. But I'm not at all surprised NHL gets more love in a thread titled "Playoffs, NHL or NBA'. Hockey fans seem to be way more passionate about their sport than NBA fans, even though NBA has way more casual fans.

The thing about basketball is with there being so much scoring you are more likely to have dramatic endings.

I actually like hockey for a few weeks every four years. Not sure why I can't watch NHL, the headhunting/fighting doesn't help at all for me but hockey fans have 'spoken' on that one and they like it and want it to stay a part of the game.

 

[doctorRobert]

To further support my point that the NBA is gaining in popularity, just 30 years ago it was an obscure league. The nba finals were on TV late at night on tape delay, if at all. That was in the 1980's. So the league has come a long way since then. A generation from now it could (but i dont think it will) very well surpass the nfl, especially if there is a canceled season. But my guess is that the NBA guys are just as selfish as the NFL, and both have f'ed up season next year.

The lock out a few years ago really hurt the NHL. I think the NHL playoffs get over shadowed by the start of MLB and the NBA playoffs. If they move the season a bit, so that the playoffs happen before the start of baseball, I think it would do much better as a sport.

 

[smakudwn]

If they move the season a bit, so that the playoffs happen before the start of baseball, I think it would do much better as a sport.

Completely agree with this.

And I'll watch as much of the NBA playoffs that I can.

 

[BrewKnurd]

The thing about basketball is with there being so much scoring you are more likely to have dramatic endings.

You think so? From a purely statistical perspective, the more scoring you have, the less likely it is that any game is decided by one score. i.e., if statistics were all that mattered, you would have fewer NBA games decided by a single bucket than NHL games decided by a single goal. I haven't actually done any research, so have no idea, but I would bet that this is actually the case

But then, maybe your meaning of "dramatic ending" would include things like a basketball team coming back from down 5 with 2 minutes to go. Certainly that is much more likely in basketball.

 

[wolverinebrewer]

Can I vote for neither? They both bore the hell out of me and Bettman has ruined hockey. Wake me up when college football comes around.

 

[FarmerJoe]

I rather be watching the NFL draft this Thursday than either lame NHL and redundant NBA