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PACERS WIN!!!

They found a formula! Imagine winning "without a superstar".
 
julius said:
For the good of the league, the Pacers should win.

Tho honestly, they'd probably be the weakest title winner since Denver (beating a fluke team in Miami).
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I don’t understand the comparison. OKC is a fluke team?
 
JFizzleRaider said:
Kinda want KP and the Pacers to win.

That way OKC and Presti might go ham with their riches of assets to improve which would be interesting to watch.

I just can't believe the nba rigged this year so hard that these two markets made the finals.
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Isn’t Indiana a big market? They’re a whole state.
 
KingSpeed said:
Actually, SF is the 6th biggest TV market in the NBA. Minneapolis is 12th. Indianapolis is 19th.
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I think reference was to Golden State. If you take entire state it is #1.
 
Does anyone know why there are three days from game one to game two?

my thought is the nba sees two small market teams and predict low viewership to start, so they don't want to have the game on Saturday when its tough to get people to stay inside. Instead, they went for Sunday, which I think has the highest percentage of fans at home to watch the game?

Odd game two isnt today.
 
SharpeScooterShooter said:
Does anyone know why there are three days from game one to game two?

my thought is the nba sees two small market teams and predict low viewership to start, so they don't want to have the game on Saturday when its tough to get people to stay inside. Instead, they went for Sunday, which I think has the highest percentage of fans at home to watch the game?

Odd game two isnt today.
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Schedule for Finals was made long before the NBA knew who was playing in it.
 
Really looking forward to tonights game. Still dont know why such a delay, but what an awesome matchup to face off. Game one will be remembered fora long time. Even longer if the pacers can pull off the upset.

Best matchup in a long, long time if you ask me!
 
OKC still being heavily favored in overall markets. The Pacers winning game 1 is being ruled as a fluke, and the consensus among oddsmakers is that the Thunder will easily handle this game and still win the series within 6 games.
 
PDXFonz said:
OKC still being heavily favored in overall markets. The Pacers winning game 1 is being ruled as a fluke, and the consensus among oddsmakers is that the Thunder will easily handle this game and still win the series within 6 games.
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I see OKC crushing them this game and taking three in Indy, but I see Indy taking game four, tying it up heading back to OKC for game 5. I can't say yet if OKC wins two more in a row until I see how it plays out, but based on what Indy has done so far in the playoffs, I think it goes 7.

Im as excited for tonight as a Blazers playoff game. lol!
 
SharpeScooterShooter said:
I see OKC crushing them this game and taking three in Indy, but I see Indy taking game four, tying it up heading back to OKC for game 5. I can't say yet if OKC wins two more in a row until I see how it plays out, but based on what Indy has done so far in the playoffs, I think it goes 7.

Im as excited for tonight as a Blazers playoff game. lol!
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I will definitely be shocked if the Thunder lose this game, and if the Pacers win the entire series might as well have been flipped upside down. Have to seriously talk about how the Thunder are going on the road down 2 games.

Can also see OKC winning on the road, but yeah, idk about winning two on the road.
 
PDXFonz said:
I will definitely be shocked if the Thunder lose this game, and if the Pacers win the entire series might as well have been flipped upside down. Have to seriously talk about how the Thunder are going on the road down 2 games.

Can also see OKC winning on the road, but yeah, idk about winning two on the road.
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OKC is going to win today. If they don't they'll win two in Indy.

It's not what I want, it's just what I see happening.

If this doesn't happen it will just be because they are young. They will learn from it and take it next season.

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Actually, one other consideration could be that Indiana just has that much better of a coach. Rick Carlisle really is a fantastic coach.
 
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KingSpeed said:
Actually, SF is the 6th biggest TV market in the NBA. Minneapolis is 12th. Indianapolis is 19th.
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Great stories, but none of those cities have an NBA team.

Golden State, Minnesota, and as you said the state of Indiana have NBA teams.
 
SharpesTriumph said:
Great stories, but none of those cities have an NBA team.

Golden State, Minnesota, and as you said the state of Indiana have NBA teams.
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Weren’t the Warriors probably making majority money from SF residents long before they went from Oracle Arena in Oakland to Chase Center in SF?
 
SharpesTriumph said:
Great stories, but none of those cities have an NBA team.

Golden State, Minnesota, and as you said the state of Indiana have NBA teams.
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In all fairness,
Oakland is visible from SF and vice versa. Its essentially the same metro area.
Gainbridge fieldhouse, where the Pacers play is on the city limits of Indianapolis and Target Center, where the Twolves play is located in Minneapolis.

just because the state is funding it or whatever the reason it has the state name and not city, doesn't mean
the team isn't still located in a small market city.
 
SF and Oakland might be same metro area but two different worlds.
 
crandc said:
SF and Oakland might be same metro area but two different worlds.
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No doubt. But then Manhattan is nothing like Brooklyn. Dallas isn't much like ft. Worth. La isn't much like OC. Heck. Vancouver isn't like PDX. :)

Let's say the Seahawks moved from Seattle to Tacoma. I don't think anyone would say that the metro media viewership would have a drastic change.

Point being, media markets don't care what suburb the team actually plays in. It takes a large enough metro area to sustain a professional sports team. The bay area is a huge market, just like the Puget Sound is.
 
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