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A day before Game 6, the NBA finally let fans know that the Pacers and Raptors will be playing at 7:30 p.m. ET on Friday. Oh, and the league and their broadcast partner ESPN obviously had no contingency plans for multiple Game 6 broadcasts on Friday during ESPN's wall-to-wall coverage of the NFL draft, so instead of ESPN2, the game will be shown on ESPNEWS and NBA TV.

With so little forethought on the matter, I can hear the discussion at ESPN now:

NBA on ESPN Boss: "Um, we are supposed to broadcast the NBA playoffs on Friday and we have three games.