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Nielsen's top programs for May 23-29

Edit Times Union 02 Jun 2016
NEW YORK (AP) — Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for May 23-29. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership. 1. "Dancing With the Stars" (Monday), ABC, 12.34 million. 2. NBA Playoffs. Golden State at Oklahoma City, Game Six, TNT, 10.81 million. 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... NBA Playoffs ... NBA Playoffs ... NBA Playoffs ... ....

Warriors’ path to the 2016 NBA Finals

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 02 Jun 2016
... City in Games 3 and 4 of the Western Conference finals, the Warriors’ hold on the NBA crown was — at times — tenuous at best ... A classic seven-gamer as the Warriors became only the 10th team in NBA history to come back from a 3-1 deficit to win a playoff series....

fun and games dominate TV ratings

Edit Times Union 02 Jun 2016
"Dancing With the Stars" (Monday), ABC, 12.34 million; NBA Playoffs. Golden State at Oklahoma City, Game Six, TNT, 10.81 million; "The Voice" (Tuesday, 9 p.m.), NBC, 10.59 million; "Dancing With the Stars" (Tuesday), ABC, 10.49 million; "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 10.26 million; NBA Playoffs. Oklahoma City at Golden State, Game Five, TNT, 10 million; NBA Playoffs....

Cavs’ health puts new spin on the title chase

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 02 Jun 2016
The NBA Finals’ logo was on all four sides of the giant videoboard, and attached to its base was a huge cylindrical pad that hovered over midcourt ... The Warriors are champions, a team that felt that target on its back all season and extraordinarily dodged the arrows to complete the best regular season in NBA history....

NBA launches fitness app that links you to your favorite stars

Edit Mashable 02 Jun 2016
In between fits of rage-joy at the success of the Warriors (see GIF below), Apple exec Eddie Cue may want to channel his NBA fervor in another, more productive direction — the new NBA Fit app ... NBA ... Under Armour's biggest star endorser, Stephen Curry, is also the NBA's current MVP, drawing in big ratings for the league during the NBA playoffs in recent weeks ... NBA FIT....

Five keys to the NBA Finals

Edit Sacramento Bee 02 Jun 2016
The Golden State Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 4-2 to win the NBA title last season, but that doesn’t necessarily give them the edge in the NBA Finals rematch that begins Thursday in Oakland ... Here are five keys to this year’s NBA Finals.1 ... Curry and Thompson are two of the best perimeter shooters in NBA history ... Of Smith’s 123 shots in the playoffs, 106 have been from three-point range....

Warriors dominate matchup with Cavs except in one obvious place

Edit New York Post 02 Jun 2016
After winning the 2015 NBA title, the Warriors adjusted their advance-scouting strategy during the regular season and did some work through freelancers. According to NBA sources, the Warriors recently asked a handful of teams to borrow scouting-report material on the Cavaliers ... The game’s best ballhandler outside of Curry, Irving (20-plus points in 12-of-14 playoff games) is also an underrated, improved defender with good hands....

NBA Finals 2016: How Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors match up

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 02 Jun 2016
Smith has been haunted by his dismal showing in the NBA Finals last year when he shot 29 percent from 3-point range and vanished when injuries forced him into a leading role ... Kyrie Irving has scored at least 20 points in 12 of the Cavs' 14 playoff games and three times has scored at least 30 ... Irving's defense has been suspect at times in these playoffs, and he'll be tested again by the Warriors' combination of Thompson and Steph Curry....

Cavaliers’ path to the 2016 NBA Finals

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 02 Jun 2016
A year ago, the Cavaliers met the Warriors in the NBA Finals with one of the greatest players in the game’s history in full bloom ... The Cavaliers won their first 10 playoff games (only the fourth team to do so), are 12-2 overall and enter the Finals having outscored their opponents by 177 points in the first three rounds — tied with the 1984-85 Lakers for the second-biggest margin in history (the ’87 Lakers were a plus-180) ... > ... ....

Individual matchups give Warriors NBA Finals edge

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 02 Jun 2016
Individual matchups give Warriors NBA Finals edge Warriors Cavaliers Edge PG The ankle injury has been forgotten, the sprained knee is a pain-tolerance issue, and the bruised elbow has taken hits in each of the past two games ... Kyrie Irving was lost for the 2015 NBA Finals in Game 1 with a fractured kneecap ... GSW Just for fun, he’s one of the NBA’s postseason leaders with a 4.1 assist-to-turnover ratio....

George continues comeback by earning video game cover

Edit The Miami Herald 02 Jun 2016
After making a remarkable comeback from a broken right leg, the Indiana Pacers' three-time All-Star was rewarded by being put on the cover of the wildly popular NBA 2K17 video game ... Before the injury, George looked like he may be the NBA's next big star ... Four days after Indiana bowed out in the playoffs, Larry Bird announced he would not re-sign coach Frank Vogel, whose contract was expiring....

Source: Knicks plotting gala intro for Jeff Hornacek on Friday

Edit New York Post 02 Jun 2016
Jeff Hornacek will hope to last longer, as his contract will call for three years, according to a report ... The Knicks haven’t won an NBA title since 1973 but made their official naming of a new coach drag on seven weeks and into Thursday night’s start of the NBA Finals ... The last club to finish up was Houston on Wednesday with Mike D’Antoni, but the Rockets started two weeks after the Knicks once they were eliminated from the playoffs ... ....

Jeff Hornacek agrees to coach Knicks, according to report

Edit NJ dot com 02 Jun 2016
Knicks president Phil Jackson also discussed the job with Warriors assistant Luke Walton, who will become the Los Angeles Lakers' coach when the NBA Finals end ... The Knicks haven't been to the playoffs for the past three seasons ... ....
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