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1981: The series between the Boston Celtics and the Houston Rockets was the lowest rated NBA Finals in history (6.7 rating over six games), until the 2003 NBA Finals drew only 6.5 percent of American television households. Four games of the 1981 series (Games 1, 2, 5 and the climatic Game 6) were telecast on tape delay outside of Boston and ...
2020: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the NBA postponed its regular season from March 11 to July 29, resuming with the seeding games for the 22 contending teams. Consequently, the 2020 Finals were played inside a bubble at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Bay Lake, Florida from September 30 to October 11, the latest date to end an NBA season.
He was replaced by another NBA great, Rick Barry, [91] who held a fairly consistent role with CBS through the 1970s and early 1980s, including calling several NBA Finals. Steve "Snapper" Jones , best known from the NBA on NBC , was part of CBS' broadcast teams, partnering with Don Criqui in 1975–1976 and 1976–1977 .
All NBA Finals have been played in a best-of-seven format, and are contested between the winners of the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference (formerly Divisions before 1970), except in 1950 when the Eastern Division champion faced the winner between the Western and Central Division champions.
ABC lost the broadcast rights to the NBA to CBS [8] after the 1972–73 season, [9] with the network's initial tenure with the league ending with its last NBA Finals game on May 10, 1973. 1970: The first NBA Finals to be nationally televised in full. ABC's coverage of Game 7 was blacked out on WABC-TV in the New York area.
The NBA Finals is the annual ... The 1970s saw ten different teams ... Rookie Magic Johnson led the Showtime Lakers to the 1980 NBA Finals against the ...
This includes is a list of NBA on ABC commentators, sideline reporters, and analysts, through the years. The list covers current and former personnel, and their job function. In addition to the English-language broadcasts, ABC also has Spanish-language broadcasts on SAP using ESPN Deportes audio that began in 2015.
The 1980 NBA World Championship Series was the championship round of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 1979–80 season, and the conclusion of the season's playoffs. The Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Eastern Conference champion Philadelphia 76ers 4 games to 2 to win their seventh championship.