What’s up with local NBA broadcasts showing shots of fans in the crowd after something exciting happens on the court? Seriously. I want to know what they’re thinking because I know what I’m thinking:
There’s a reason these people aren’t normally on TV.
Is the viewing experience enhanced by the broadcast showing a group of three bros awkwardly exchanging high-fives? Or a different group of three bros whooping in the cheap seats while one of them does finger guns at the camera ala Brandon Jennings? It just makes me feel sorry for them. Average people attending an NBA game don’t know what do when a camera is shoved in their face, so they end up putting on the most phony displays of enthusiasm ever.
I know that if I was at a Bucks game and Giannis did an alley-oop dunk and there was a television camera pointed at me, I would scowl and point to my basket of chicken tenders as if to say “this thing cost me eighteen bucks and all I got was three scrawny tenders and one little cup of ranch dippy sauce and I didn’t even get a soda”. Either that or I would do an awkward hip-gyration dance that would be more suitable for the “dad dance cam” than the immediate aftermath of a sick play.
I’m not going to go so far as to say that this entertaining highlight video of Terrence Ross scoring 26 points has had all of its entertainment value stripped from it. You can still ignore the high-five bros to just focus on the buckets that Ross is bucketing. And I take full responsibility for not just editing out the awkward fans, which would have been easy for me. But I needed to make a point! Who’s running these broadcasts anyway? Can I find them and give them a stern talking-to?