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NBA/ABC post-mortem.
NBA/ABC post-mortem.
Game 6 of the NBA Finals marked the last game under the NBA's current television deal with ESPN/ABC and TNT. And while all three networks will continue broadcasting games in a similar arrangement for the next eight years, it is worth noting that it took ABC until the very last year of the initial television contract to finally get a hang of broadcasting NBA games. The good. Consistency: This
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