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About that Pacers-Thunder NBA Finals ratings talk, plus a wild baseball/softball Sunday - The Athletic
The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Win your regional today. We begin this morning with a narrative you’ll hear parroted across all channels of sports media: This NBA Finals matchup is a TV ratings nightmare. Commissioner Adam Silver must be sick. All those rich executives crying poor about two mid-market teams playing in the league’s biggest event on the calendar. But, as Mike Vorkunov wrote this morning, that’s not accurate — not exactly. Two layers of this...
The Knicks extend the playoffs’ best series, plus the best MLB games of the 2000s - The Athletic
The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! I know it’s surviving in a different form, but we still need to commemorate the coming end of “Inside the NBA.” When you get this deep into the playoffs, LinkedIn phrases start appearing in your head. Perseverance. Mental fortitude. So on and so forth. It’s hard to even describe the mental state of a team facing elimination, with months and months of hard work on the line, with one game to maintain dreams or have it all...