As all sports-attached TV networks are conspicuously working off the identical plan to take away the game from our sports activities, we surprise:
Who got here up with the plan? The place was the analysis and surveys that instructed community execs that the sports-minded public prefers the worst photographs from video games, the worst acts and actors of their sports activities, and the largest jerks within the reside viewers to signify each the sports activities and what we most get pleasure from upon tuning in?
Inside hours of that Tyrese Haliburton ugly and untimely reprisal of the ugly Reggie Miller choke scene, TNT had produced and aired a promo offering that picture as to why we should always watch the following Pacers-Knicks playoff sport on TNT.
Yeah, these guys act like uncivilized creeps! There isn’t a higher motive to look at their subsequent matchup! And NBA basketball — already pushed towards extinction by numerous episodes of neglect, pandering and self-destruction by the foresightless working from the within — continues.