It’s a fact that we have no doubt about, but certain passions are real love killers for a couple! A survey commissioned by the online reservation site Hotels.com has just revealed that basketball matches are actually much more harmful to everyday life than we think! We’ll explain!
It’s quite rare for an NBA match to take place on French soil. For the third time, Paris will host a match of the famous basketball competition so popular across the Atlantic, the Brooklyn Nets will face the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday January 11. While generally the matches are broadcast at very complicated times being in one of the American time zones, this match will be one of the rare times where the French, including the famous Tony Parker, professional basketball player of French origin, will be able to enjoy broadcast at a time which corresponds to that of France.
A situation which pushed the online reservation site Hôtels.com, official partner of the NBA, to take an interest in the habits of supporters of this team sport which is played indoors. After questioning more than 2,000 basketball fans and their loved ones during the month of December 2023, the survey revealed some surprises! In fact, almost a third of them (31%) reveal that they wake up the person(s) living under the same roof as them to watch matches late at night, impacting their sleep for almost 17% of them.
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NBA matches have an impact on the quality of sleep of French fans
For 98% of them, the basketball matches of an NBA season undoubtedly harm the quality as well as the sleep rhythm of French supporters. A situation which is not surprising when we know that the matches are broadcast between two a.m. and four a.m. in France. A third of them even admit to staying up all night more than seven times a season to watch games. A figure that still concerns nearly 10% of fans when it comes to standing more than 20 times per season!
Some are also ready to do anything to be able to watch the matches, a third of those surveyed admit to watching the matches on their phone in bed, including 20% of them, in silent mode to avoid waking their partner. This is also a fact which pushes some of them or their loved ones to go to a hotel on the evenings of matches being broadcast (15% of respondents) either when it is a fan to watch their match quietly or when it comes to loved ones to spend a full and peaceful night.
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