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Pacers-Knicks ranks as the most-watched ECF since 2014 that did not go seven games (seven series). The three series over that span to go seven — Cavaliers-Celtics in 2018, Celtics-Heat in 2022 and Heat-Celtics in 2023 — averaged 8.57, 6.98 and 7.42 million respectively. Viewership outpaced the five-game Thunder-Timberwolves Western Conference Finals (5.59M) by 25%, the largest … [Read more...] about
Doug Smith on Domantas Sabonis: I’ve never heard his name in a conversation with anybody involved with the Raptors for a year and a half. They’re pretty happy with Jakob Poeltl with two years left in his deal at 20 million a year. Sabonis is a great player. No question about it. But I’ve never heard his name linked to Toronto. Anybody who I’ve talked to in the Raptors front … [Read more...] about Raptors not interested in Domantas Sabonis
Doug Smith on Domantas Sabonis: I’ve never heard his name in a conversation with anybody involved with the Raptors for a year and a half. They’re pretty happy with Jakob Poeltl with two years left in his deal at 20 million a year. Sabonis is a great player. No question about it. But I’ve never heard his name linked to Toronto. Anybody who I’ve talked to in the Raptors front … [Read more...] about Raptors not interested in Domantas Sabonis
Doug Smith: The question is if you think the remaining players will develop, just as that group of Pascal Siakam, Fred VanVleet, OG Anunoby and Jakob Poeltl did. Not to that level — that’s a historic young group no one’s come close to matching — but if it can come close, that’s pretty darn good. Again, the odds of doing a Giannis deal are long but the remnants of paying a steep … [Read more...] about
Brian Windhorst: Naturally any team that wants to make a move this summer, especially a team in the Eastern Conference, you’re going to have Giannis Antetokounmpo on the board… Teams in the league are getting the impression that Toronto is going to try to do something. I had an executive tell me yesterday that he thinks this could be could be could be an explosive summer. … [Read more...] about
