Posts Tagged ‘NBA Playoffs’

The teams are set and ABC gets their “dream” match up for the 2008 NBA Finals, which begins June 5th. The Lakers and Celtics will face in the Finals for the 11th time, but the first time since 1987.

The NBA Conference Finals Schedules have been posted, and games start tonight, May 20th with an Eastern Conference Playoff game between the Boston Celtics and the Detroit pistons. Tomorrow’s game features a TNT Western Conference Matchup between the LA Lakers and the San Antonio Spurs.

With the Detroit Pistons advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals after knocking off the Orlando Magic in Five games, the NBA Playoffs schedule has been confirmed through Sunday.

With two of the NBA Conference Semifinal series set to reach at least Game 6 and the other two guaranteed to go at least 5 games, today the NBA finalized the times and station assignments for more games this week. The NBA Conference Semifinals will air exclusively on TNT through Thursday Night, and this weekend the matches will air on ESPN and ABC.

The NBA Playoffs Conference Semifinals have started and could continue through May 19th. TNT and ESPN/ABC are splitting coverage of the second round, and all games will be available in high definition.

A TNT double header Saturday night kicks off the start of the Conference Semifinals with Game 1 of Magic vs. Pistons at 7:30 PM ET, followed by Game 1 of Spurs vs. Hornets.

UPDATE 5/3/2008: Following Friday night games, the schedule for Sunday has been set. ABC will feature a double header starting with Game 7 Celtics vs. Hawks at 1:00 PM ET, followed by Game 1 Lakers vs. Jazz at 3:30 PM ET.

With two more teams eliminated from the NBA Playoffs Tuesday night (Suns and Mavericks), the schedule for Thursday and Friday night have been finalized. Saturday is also starting to take shape…

UPDATE 5/1/2008: Cleveland at Washington will air at 7 PM ET Friday night on ESPN2

With the end of the two First Round NBA Playoff series on Monday night, the schedule for Wednesday’s games has been set. NBA TV has lost its Game 5 coverage, leaving 2 national games on TNT in high definition at 6:00 PM and 8:30 PM ET.

For the final games of the NBA Playoffs First Round, the league is still taking it day-by-day in releasing their schedule.

UPDATE 4/29/08: The NBA Playoff schedule for Wednesday, April 30th has been finalized. The NBA TV game has been dropped and the TNT games will air at 6:00 PM and 8:30 PM ET.

The 2008 NBA Playoffs National Broadcast Schedule has been released for the first round. ESPN, ESPN 2, ABC NBA TV and TNT will be bringing a ton of HD coverage starting April 19th.