The Ratings Are In: NBA Gets Absolutely Embarrassed During Christmas Games

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The National Basketball Association took a drubbing in the TV ratings on Christmas Day as its games didn’t even pull in one quarter of the viewers the National Football League’s games earned.

The NBA is likely furious over the ratings because in years past, basketball was the big game on Christmas. But, even going back to the 1990s, whenever the NFL scheduled a game for Christmas Day, football won the ratings game, according to Sports Media Watch.

This year, the NFL scheduled three games for Christmas Day against the NBA’s five-game lineup, sports site AS.com noted.

Christmas did not used to be a football day. Before 2016, the NFL had only ever played 15 Christmas Day games in its entire history.

But between 2017 and 2022, the league has played nearly as many as before 2016 — 13.

In fact, 1989 was the first time the NFL ever scheduled a Christmas Day game.

By contrast, the NBA has played a series of Christmas Day games every year since it was founded in 1947.

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