This is fantastic, finally the Heat are getting the recognition they deserve. It's also good for the not-so-die-hard fans that just watch the nationally televised games and nothing else, it gets pretty boring watching the same couple of western conference teams over and over again. If there is a Spurs @ Lakers game on ESPN and at the same time there is a Hawks @ Wizards game on NBA League Pass, i'll watch the Hawks @ Wizards game. <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">It wasn't quite an FCC ban, but for the past two seasons the Heat essentially had disappeared from the nation's airwaves. On Wednesday, its level of play apparently no longer was deemed obscene. ESPN's decision to air the Heat's March 26 home game against the Dallas Mavericks ends a national blackout of nearly two years. The last time the Heat was given national exposure was an April 10, 2002 game in Boston on TNT. The last time a Heat home game was televised nationally was April 7, 2002 against the Lakers on NBC. "I think as much as you want to talk that that stuff doesn't bother you and everything else, I think as a franchise, your first goal when you've been down as far as we are, you want to matter," coach Stan Van Gundy said before Wednesday's game against the Hornets at New Orleans Arena. To accommodate the national telecast, the tip-off has been changed from 7:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. The game replaced ESPN's previously scheduled telecast of Nets-Celtics.</div> More here.
They also show the Rockets game on national TV too much. They show like 2 or 3 of the Rockets games on national TV a month.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Ming637:</div><div class="quote_post">They also show the Rockets game on national TV too much. They show like 2 or 3 of the Rockets games on national TV a month.</div> i was just going to say that. tonight was rockets vs. phoenix and then golden state vs. the spurs. why are those games any more worthy of national exposure?
Those games aren't more worthy of a NJ @ Miami game, it's just TNT has been advertising all season that they're the "home of the Western Conference Finals", so if there is a mediocre game in the east and a mediocre game in the west, they'll almost always show the one in the west because they want to build a larger fanbase in the west. Since the season is coming to a close soon, expect to see ESPN showing a lot more games in the east.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Ming637:</div><div class="quote_post">They also show the Rockets game on national TV too much. They show like 2 or 3 of the Rockets games on national TV a month.</div> That's good for any Rockets fan living outside of Texas. Like me! To get back on topic, I'd see Western Conference games rather than Eastern ones. If you live on the East without League Pass, you'd get tired of watching the Raptors all the time.
I'm tired of the Raptors, holy crap. I just wish ABC would put some games that I like, in the East, instead of all the games from the West...
They showed Heat on TV, and they got one hell of a ballgame! It all went down to an Alston game winning three. Whew!
