{"id":54684,"date":"2018-10-10T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/?p=54684"},"modified":"2023-09-21T18:04:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T01:04:09","slug":"espn-if-the-nba-were-a-tv-show-here-are-30-reasons-to-keep-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/?p=54684","title":{"rendered":"ESPN: If the NBA were a TV show, here are 30 reasons to keep watching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>This story appears in ESPN The Magazine&#8217;s NBA Preview issue.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> By Bomani Jones and Pablo S. Torre<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a riddle: If the Warriors winning a title is a foregone conclusion, why has the NBA never been more popular? Answer: Because the NBA isn&#8217;t just a basketball league &#8212; it&#8217;s a network of 30 prestige television dramas.&nbsp;<em>The spats! The rumors! The infighting! The subtweets! Whiteboard-smashing! Crotch-kicking! Players-only meetings!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So this year we&#8217;re treating the coming NBA season as what it truly is, by finding the TV drama at the heart of each team and ranking all 30 by how must-watch they will be. Will the Lakers be great? Certainly not! But they&nbsp;<em>will<\/em>&nbsp;be the highest-rated 7-seed ever. Will Houston&#8217;s offense be better with Melo? No way! But, hey, tragedy is the new comedy. Can the Sixers stick to the script? Will OKC&#8217;s buddy comedy click? Will the Warriors jump the shark?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/24949922\/high-noon-pablo-torre-bomani-jones-preview-2018-19-nba-season-dramas\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/24949922\/high-noon-pablo-torre-bomani-jones-preview-2018-19-nba-season-dramas\">With that in mind, we give you the 2018-19 NBA season, TV-guide-style.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bomani Jones and Pablo S. Torre break down the NBA\u2019s biggest dramas. Find out what 30 prestige league television moments made the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":30079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[48,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-blog","category-commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}