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Sports Illustrated
Jimmy Traina

The Playoff Schedule Shows How Little the NBA and Its Broadcast Partners Care About the Fans

1. It’s bad enough that NBA fans never know which network or platform a playoff game is airing on, but now they have to deal with crazy overlaps, prohibiting them from watching full games.

On Monday, NBC decided to air the Sixers-Knicks game at 8 p.m. instead of 7 p.m. That ended up working out: Because the game was such a blowout, it wasn’t a problem for fans to tune into the start of the Timberwolves-Spurs game, which started at 9:30 p.m. and aired exclusively on Peacock.

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