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ESPN Sports Poll: Ten-Year Trend Of Interest In The NBA
Published October 28, 2008
The ESPN Sports Poll, a service of TNS Sport, surveyed 27,663 sports fans last year, and 50.8% said they were fans of the NBA. That is down from the 54.3% who said they were NBA fans 10 years ago. The following lists NBA fan and avid fan levels among sports fans over the past decade (ESPN Sports Poll).
|
YEAR
|
BASE
|
NBA FANS
|
AVID NBA FANS
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
'07
|
n = 27,663
|
50.8%
|
15.7%
|
|
'06
|
n = 27,886
|
48.6%
|
14.3%
|
|
'05
|
n = 29,444
|
49.1%
|
14.0%
|
|
'04
|
n = 24,998
|
50.7%
|
14.8%
|
|
'03
|
n = 21,741
|
51.0%
|
15.4%
|
|
'02
|
n = 21,783
|
51.0%
|
14.6%
|
|
'01
|
n = 22,930
|
51.6%
|
14.7%
|
|
'00
|
n = 24,203
|
53.8%
|
15.9%
|
|
'99
|
n = 24,102
|
50.5%
|
15.4%
|
|
'98
|
n = 24,177
|
54.3%
|
18.0%
|
|
TEN-YEAR +/-
|
-3.5%
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-2.3%
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