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post #201 of 211
6/21/06 at 9:05pm
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Originally Posted by Johnny Daywalker
Well I have a few things to say so i'll keep it short and sweet. DWade was the man. He may have got the calls but thats because he plays like a man and forces most of those plays that could get him those calls. I respect that kind of drive and determination.
Couldn't have said it better myself.


I believe the ratings were up from last year finals in every game of the series. Shaq had to have something to do with it. Here's the ratings for Game 6 from the last two seasons.

2006
"NBA Finals, Game 6" (households: 8.2/14, #1; adults 18-49: 5.3, #1)

2005
The "NBA Finals, Game 6" (households: 7.0/12, #1; adults 18-49: 4.2, #1)

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NBA Finals on ABC Grow by 1.2 Million Viewers and 9% in Adults 18-49 from Last Year, the Second-Highest Numbers for the NBA Championships on ABC

2006 NBA Finals on ABC Qualify as the No. 1 TV Program on Each Night in Adults 18-49, Leading the Network to Victory on Every Evening of Coverage

Tuesday

Broadcasting the 2006 NBA Finals Game 3 (Dallas-Miami), ABC took first place on Tuesday night in Total Viewers (9.2 million) and Adults 18-49 (3.6/11).

ABC produced its strongest summertime Tuesday night performance among Total Viewers and Adults 18-49 in 2 years since 6/15/04, when it aired Game 5 of the 2004 Lakers-Pistons NBA Championship.

As the Miami Heat came from behind to beat the Dallas Mavericks 98-96, cutting Dallas advantage in the series to 2-1, ABCs 2006 NBA Finals Game 3 (9:01 p.m. 12:13 a.m.) qualified as the No. 1 TV program on Tuesday among Total Viewers (12.3 million), as well as across all key adult and men demographics: Adults 25-54 (5.5/15), Adults 18-49 (5.1/15), Adults 18-34 (4.8/12), Men 25-54 (6.8/19), Men 18-49 (6.5/20) and Men 18-34 (6.1/20).

Versus Game 3 of the year ago NBA Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and the Detroit Pistons (on 6/14/05), the 2006 NBA Finals on ABC Game 3 was up by 1.7 million viewers (12.3 million vs. 10.6 million) and by 13% in the key Adult 18-49 sales demographic (5.1/15 vs. 4.5/13).

Thursday

For the second week in a row, coverage of the 2006 NBA Finals helped ABC win Thursday night among Adults 18-49 (3.3/11). The Network again dominated Thursday night across the key men demographics, outpacing its nearest competitors by sizeable margins: Men 18-34 +95% (3.9/15), Men 18-49 +100% (4.2/15) and Men 25-54 +91% (4.4/14). ABC has won all 4 nights among Adults 18-49 with its coverage of the 2006 NBA Finals, as each basketball game has also ranked as the No. 1 TV program of the evening in the key young adult sales demo.

As the Miami Heat beat the Dallas Mavericks by a score of 98-74 to even up the championship series 2-2, the 2006 NBA Finals on ABC Game 4 (8:59 p.m. 12:09 a.m.) stood as the most-watched TV program on Thursday (11.6 million) and also ranked as the No. 1 television show of the evening in the key adult demographics and across each of the key men categories: Adults 18-34 (4.4/15), Adults 18-49 (4.6/15), Adults 25-54 (4.8/14), Men 18-34 (5.8/21), Men 18-49 (6.1/21) and Men 25-54 (6.3/20).

Versus Game 4 of last years NBA Championship Series between San Antonio and Detroit (on 6/16/05), the Dallas-Miami 2006 NBA Finals on ABC Game 4 increased by 6% in Total Viewers (11.6 million vs. 10.9 million) and by 5% in the key Adult 18-49 sales demographic (4.6/15 vs. 4.4/12).

Sunday

For the second straight Sunday the 2006 NBA Finals (Dallas at Miami) put ABC into first place during primetime among Adults 18-49 (3.4/10). The Network beat its nearest competition on the evening by 42% in the key Adult 18-49 sales demographic (CBS = 2.4/7). ABC has been the highest-rated network on Sunday in Adults 18-49 on 20 of the past 21 weeks. ABC also dominated the night across each of the key men demographics, beating its nearest competitor by 42% among Men 18-34 (3.3/12), by 74% among Men 18-49 (4.0/13) and by 63% among Men 25-54 (4.4/12).

ABC turned in its most-watched summertime Sunday night since September 2004 (8.7 million) since 9/19/04.

With the Miami Heat beating the Dallas Mavericks by a score of 101-100 in OT to go up 3-2 in the NBA Championship Series, the 2006 NBA Finals on ABC Game 5 (8:59 p.m. 12:40 a.m.) was Sundays No. 1 TV program among Total Viewers (14.3 million), along with all key adult and men demographics: Adults 25-54 (6.3/18), Adults 18-49 (5.9/18), Adults 18-34 (5.4/18), Men 25-54 (7.1/23), Men 18-49 (7.6/23) and Men 18-34 (6.8/22).

Compared to Game 5 of last years NBA Finals between San Antonio and Detroit (on 6/19/05), Game 5 of the 2006 NBA Finals was up by 1.2 million viewers (14.3 million vs. 13.1 million) and by 5% in the key Adult 18-49 sales demographic (5.9/18 vs. 5.5/16). It was the highest-rated telecast so far for the 2006 NBA Finals.

Through five games of the series, the 2006 NBA Finals are up by 12% among Total Viewers (12.5 million vs. 11.2 million) and by 9% in Adults 18-49 (5.1/16 vs. 4.7/14) over last years five game average. It qualifies as ABCs second-highest-rated NBA Championship Series since it began airing the Finals in 2003.
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post #202 of 211
6/21/06 at 9:14pm
Hey hell Paso, it's me the Mavs fan again. I agree that the Mavs gave up and just started going for jumpers. Here is a Mavs fan taking it to far though.
http://www.ericfolkerth.com//B108261...0060621011743/

He actually put video on there. It's pretty ridiculous but the officiating goes both ways. I am sure in the first 2 games the Mavs won there were wrong calls as well. Don't give me shit for this because I just thought this stuff was interesting. These calls would not have changed the shit play of the Mavs.
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post #203 of 211
6/21/06 at 9:42pm
That guy is seriously pathetic. I'm sure there were even more calls similar to those that went as a advantage for the Heat but does this guy seriously believe the Mavs never got away with a couple of their own? Even so, some of those fouls were inconclusive from what he's show. He mentioned the announcers said "Harris has a legitimate beef" on #2 but somehow omits when they said "Dirk was in the wrong place at the wrong time" for #5. You can't have one side to the story pal! #4 he says momentum forced Wade out of bounds. From the clip it looks like Daniels may have made contact before he even jumped. I can't tell from the angle but it seems this guy assumes you have to be in the air to before you can be called for a foul. #3 was argubaly the worse call in the entire series along with the call on Shaq in Game 1 I mentioned a few posts earlier. Daniels even backed off of Wade as he took his shot.
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post #204 of 211
6/21/06 at 10:12pm
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Originally Posted by Martianman
Ahh...leave it to the officiating in the NBA Finals to make people forget about the officiating in the Super Bowl.
First off, NOTHING the NBA will ever do would make me forget about anything football-related.

That said, I have far from forgotten the laughable officiating from the Super Bowl. In fact, part of me thinks the recent Big Ben accident drama is merely karma on behalf of the football gods. If I were the Steelers, I would be in fear.
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post #205 of 211
6/21/06 at 10:48pm
Well thats certainly a positive the ratings were up. Negative is of course more saw the bad officiating.

Also its nice to see Zo win a ring. A hard working center if ever there was one.
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post #206 of 211
6/21/06 at 10:51pm
I don't think and have never said that the Mavs don't get their share of phantom calls too, especially Dirk in games leading up to the finals. But that doesn't change the fact that that call against him was terrible. Look at the video, Wade moves his arm into Dirk every bit as much as Dirk reaches, that is a no call. Dirk started his reach first but that doesn't matter because he didn't make any contact until Wade forearmed him. It should be a no call at every point in the game but yes I do think that ticky tack fouls like that should not be called with 20 seconds left, let the players' ability decide the game not some wishy washy foul call, that is iron clad logic because like holding in football, they could call a foul for light contact on every single play if they really wanted too since basketball is a semi contact sport and there is grey area there, so it better be really clear for a game deciding call to go down. And who gives a fuck what the announcers say, Hubie is almost always an apologist for the refs because he doesn't want to tarnish the image of the nba.
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post #207 of 211
6/21/06 at 10:55pm
Regarding officiating, comparing last year ratings to this year's is worthless. People viewed the Spurs and Pistons as boring defensive teams, that is the only reason the ratings were worse than this year with Wade, Shaq, Dirk Cuban, Riley.
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post #208 of 211
6/21/06 at 11:01pm
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Originally Posted by heLL pAso
That guy is seriously pathetic. I'm sure there were even more calls similar to those that went as a advantage for the Heat but does this guy seriously believe the Mavs never got away with a couple of their own? Even so, some of those fouls were inconclusive from what he's show. He mentioned the announcers said "Harris has a legitimate beef" on #2 but somehow omits when they said "Dirk was in the wrong place at the wrong time" for #5. You can't have one side to the story pal! #4 he says momentum forced Wade out of bounds. From the clip it looks like Daniels may have made contact before he even jumped. I can't tell from the angle but it seems this guy assumes you have to be in the air to before you can be called for a foul. #3 was argubaly the worse call in the entire series along with the call on Shaq in Game 1 I mentioned a few posts earlier. Daniels even backed off of Wade as he took his shot.
Like I said. He took it to far. More knee jerking by Mavs fans. The funniest thing is I listen to a Sports radio station from Dallas and they were saying how The Mavs blew it as well. The Mavs fans looked like jerks to as they booed the commissioner and D Wade. I almost feel ashamed to be a Mavs fan.
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post #209 of 211
6/21/06 at 11:05pm
This will be my last dig at the Heat. I hate Antione Walker. He is such a spare. Did you like how he looked directly into the camera when he did the shimmy while lieing on the ground? Sickening. I know he did okay last night but he makes me sick. I guess it's true that no one will ever win a title with Van Horn on the team.
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post #210 of 211
6/21/06 at 11:17pm
Yeah after reading that Simmons column i'm gonna have to agree with him. The league is gonna be in worse shape.

I must have overlooked that Wade shot 25 free throws in that game. Thats hilarious.

I'm not sure if there was a conspiracy when it came to the Mavs losing but for sure the softness mixed with the Heats aggressive play and some godawful officials meant you lost.

Honestly though Dirk dissapeared and faded and Jason Terry, Marquis Daniels, Stackhouse nobody else was gonna be able to do it without Dirk playing well. He fucked up. Much like Rasheed did against Miami.
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post #211 of 211
6/22/06 at 8:23am
So if Amare comes back at full strength next year and the Suns win the championship will Simmons write another column declaring the NBA is back? Bill Simmons drives me fucking nuts. Can he ever write something without talking about the Boston Celtics?

Rene, agreed on Walker. Someone on the Mavs should've knocked him on his ass the next time he touched the ball.
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