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NBA Draft coming up

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But last night when ESPN was showing NBA Draft Lottery no cover on NBATV know if MLB or NFL have a Draft Lottery MLB and NFL Network would also be covering it to besides ESPN and when Draft happens on the 28 no NBATV set at the Draft and their should be one so people can choose from ESPN or NBATV'S coverage.
 
The lottery's rights are exclusively held by ESPN or in the past, NBC; NBA TV can't carry them because it's mainly an ESPN production, and on NBA TV it would have a small audience because not everyone carries it.

That said, last night's coverage was terrible. Why did they have to make it look like a 'dark room and lasers and fake tension' game show-like setting? It's 14 teams getting random balls picked out of a chute. And it used to be done in ten minutes on NBC during halftime; why stretch it out to a half-hour so you can have the Countdown cast put in their piece (on another note, Jalen 'read...words...off...teleprompter...stiffly' Rose remains the worst sports commentator in television history).
 
NBATV back in it's Altanta Studio could have stayed on to 8:30pm and talked about it and on draft night just a rap up happening and David Aldridge could be the Jay Bilis for NBATV and also on set like a former Coach at NBATV,Matt Weiner and on the floor Craig Sager to Interview and maybe S. Smith to talked Trades happening.
 
mrschimpf said:
The lottery's rights are exclusively held by ESPN or in the past, NBC; NBA TV can't carry them because it's mainly an ESPN production, and on NBA TV it would have a small audience because not everyone carries it.

That said, last night's coverage was terrible. Why did they have to make it look like a 'dark room and lasers and fake tension' game show-like setting? It's 14 teams getting random balls picked out of a chute. And it used to be done in ten minutes on NBC during halftime; why stretch it out to a half-hour so you can have the Countdown cast put in their piece (on another note, Jalen 'read...words...off...teleprompter...stiffly' Rose remains the worst sports commentator in television history).
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I remember that was the way they used to do it, too, when it was on NBC. While the ping pong balls are actually drawn in the back room with representatives of the teams present, they'd simply do the public portion of it as a quick segment during half-time at one of the games in the finals. I didn't see how it was done this time, but what you're describing definitely sounds like overkill.

By the way, once the order has been determined, the only person who is allowed to leave the back room until it's been publicly announced is the NBA commissioner. Since a different team representative is present for the public announcement and can't communicate with the witnessing representative, the suspense of who actually got the #1 pick is preserved for the public announcement.
 
I am in Pittsburgh. Ugandan Soccer has a bigger following here than the NBA does.
 
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