Lakers/Celtics regular season game did WHAT for ratings?!

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Everything seems to be coming up 'Conspiracy Curt'! Lakers/Celtics regular season game did WHAT for ratings?!  What's your take on the recent ratings? Lakers/Celtics #NBA Finals?

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00:00I hate to do this, but I'm just a slave to facts, so I have a bumper sticker on my car

00:06that says, I'm sorry, I was right and you didn't listen.

00:09And the NBA has the latest ratings for Saturday night's primetime matchup between the Lakers

00:14and the Celtics, averaged 4.6 million viewers on ABC, making it the most watched regular

00:21season game in seven years.

00:23Wow.

00:24Wow.

00:25That's really good.

00:26Wow.

00:27That's 10% over the comparable window from last season.

00:30The game peaked at 5.3 million viewers.

00:36If you don't think that this was done to get the conversation away from the demise of the

00:43NBA and back to the two most preeminent historical franchises of all time in the sport, I don't

00:50know what to tell you.

00:52Oklahoma City's in town tonight.

00:54They're a better team than the Lakers.

00:55But LeBron's going to have some time off and Celtics Lakers NBA finals will be historic

01:02when it comes to ratings.

01:03And you heard it here first.

01:04I did think about you when I was watching Celtic City episode two yesterday, Curtis,

01:10because there's a lot of Jerry West in this one and that Celtics Lakers rivalry.

01:16It's hard not to think that the NBA would love to have something like that.

01:20Of course the NBA would love to have that.

01:22I'm just saying great job by Adam Silver for making sure he was able to pull the trade

01:26off to get Luka to the Lakers.

01:28But now, of course, who doesn't want to see?

01:30Okay, you can do that.

01:33Sick burn.

01:34It's like saying it's the only thing I don't agree with you on.

01:38You believe the NBA did it.

01:40I disagree with that.

01:43Their team is in the NBA.

01:44The NBA benefits greatly from this.

01:46The NBA wanted the Lakers to be reinvigorated in LeBron's potential final year.

01:50Curtis, we get it.

01:52You made it a point that you thought this was something that was done by the commissioner

01:57of the NBA.

01:58Yes, he was tacitly a part of it.

02:00That's where I disagreed with you.

02:02But I think it's great for the NBA.

02:03So you think the Mavericks GM just woke up and said, you know, I'm going to make one

02:06phone call with the most valuable asset I'll ever have and I'll just do it and be done

02:10with it.

02:11Yes.

02:12That's what you think.

02:13No, I think the Mavericks GM, Nico Harrison, is an absolute buffoon.

02:17I don't care about what you think.

02:18I'm asking you.

02:19That's what you believe.

02:20Yes, yes, yes.

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