Yea I do see that the NBA is promoting them all together now in their official announcements.

So it is a little bit of editorializing by Shams, but this is one of the rare instances where I think the way Shams reported is closer to the truth than the way NBA PR is representing it.

This is a game the NBA scheduled at lunchtime (west coast time) on a weekday, there’s a half hour break not typical of a “triple header”, and the matchup itself has much less juice compared to the other two.

It comes across to me as something that was forced by some other scheduling conflict or priority, not something they would have preferred to do especially if the goal is maximize ratings for all their national TV games.

Y’all over hating Shams. Not everything has to be a bad faith act

1 & 2 seed from East last season

Historically speaking Pistons was the Celtics third biggest rivals (since 08 Heat have passed them)

Historically speaking Pistons was the Celtics third biggest rivals (since 08 Heat have passed them)

They should have done Celtics/Sixers, Knicks/Spurs, and OKC/Minny

I will be joining you. The early weeks are so good, sometimes its bad basketball but everyone is usually healthy so lots of interesting things to see.

I’m going to be sick that day

Fuck ya I’m actually pumped about this.

City of Boston will all but declare a holiday for such a unique opportunity.

I was looking at another thread and I was like, my birthday cool, wish the stones played. This is better

Yeah but baseball plays like 200 games. I don’t think it’s possible for a baseball fan to watch every game even if they wanted to lol

In the evening of the 3rd week of March, it’s likely to be 30F or lower anywhere north of the Mason Dixon Line.

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we need an nba regular season game in rucker park

After all my excitement for Playoff P, I’m greeted with this. It’s not like a work some desk job either where I can just watch the game, I drive a truck man….

The Detroit Tigers have played 15 playoff games in the last two years and 9 of them were weekday games during working hours. Never understood it. It’s like they’re trying to sabotage baseball on purpose.

For baseball it’s far more understandable given its outside and they want to do it during the day. For this it’s just prioritizing what a spreadsheet says over catering to their actual fans

Wonder how many people have tried haha (it’s a reference to the tv show “the league”)

Don’t have cable, also have gotten these kind of things spoiled multiple times

Middle school is often down around 4 and u didn’t take into account people from different time zones.

It’s a good thing Fuck Boston

Baseball is constantly scheduled during normal work hours. NBA hardly ever does this. It’s weird when they don’t need to.

Baseball’s culture is more relaxed. A day at the park. Can kinda tune in any time and not feel like you missed much, lots of downtime. There are 162 of those suckers, it’s not that crazy to miss a little baseball and be okay with it.

NBA is constant action and missing parts of the game is a totally different vibe. Even the NFL doesn’t try to schedule weekday daytime games and the NHL scheduled 5 games opening night and wouldn’t go earlier than 5PM.

I don’t think the NBA had a weekday game before 5PM that wasn’t on a holiday last season until like Monday Jan 26 between the 76ers and Hornets. Not counting the overseas games in a different time zone. There’s a bit of a difference between the dog days of the season and literally the first game of the season.

They have 4 months between the NBA finals and opening night and decide they want to schedule the anticipated NBA’s return with a game while adults are at work. It’s certainly a choice.

Yea but nobody cares about the mlb