Cris Carter reveals why fighting is hurting the NBA: ‘I do not tune into the NBA league pass to watch the UFC!’

– This fight comes one day after Martin Luther King Day, where all these games are highlighted. You got 20 technicals. You got five ejections.

And I brought it up in the meeting yesterday. And let alone, I’m watching League Pass last night, and this breaks out. So for me as a fan, as a consumer of their product, there is a problem ’cause I do not tune in to NBA League Pass to watch UFC. That’s not what I’m interested in.

– Here’s the thing, though, CC, every other sport allows a level of fighting. And so you can say that–

– Where they fighting in the NFL?

– Man, we see not that type of punching. But we see guys hit– slap face– slap someone’s face mask or do, like, an open-handed thing to the helmet and get a 15-yard penalty once every other game.

– Yeah, and two of those gets you thrown out of the game.

– Right.

CRIS CARTER: And you do have protection.

– Correct. Agreed. But there is–

– So but that’s not fighting.

– Well–

– That’s not fighting.

– That’s the level of fighting most–

– That’s a level of fighting I ain’t heard of.

– Well, most NBA fights don’t get to this level. Most NBA fights get to about the level–

– It gets to where– they’re not fighters, though.