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How NBA TV Deals With The Lockout

by Tom Ziller
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2011 NBA Lockout: Full Coverage Of League’s Labor Dispute
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ESPN is dealing with the NBA lockout by replacing huge games with, uh, Temple football. What’s NBA TV been up to, what with the lack of training camp coverage and preseason games to check in on? The indispensible Twitter feed @tvsportsratings presents a telling tally.

↵↵Since start of lockout, NBA TV has aired [The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh] 16 times, One on One (Robby Benson) 14 times & Teen Wolf 8 times.

↵↵So basically, Bill Simmons has taken over programming down in Atlanta. Cool.

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