There is no NBA Finals game tonight. None. The Knicks and Spurs split the first two and the league decided the right move was to give everyone a full Sunday off, which is exactly the kind of scheduling decision that makes Stoolies want to throw a remote through the wall. Dave Portnoy called it out, Pat asked the obvious question, and Hubbs went full scorched-earth on Adam Silver.
Portnoy flagged the empty Sunday slot in his usual humble-but-correct framing.
Why isn’t Game 3 of NBA finals today? Seems like a miss. There should always be Finals game on Sundays in my humble but almost always correct opinion
Hubbs piled on a few hours later, and honestly, he's right. The league lives on Sunday windows all season. Christmas, MLK Day, every regular-season showcase — Sundays are the NBA's bread and butter. Then the Finals roll around and somebody at the league office decides the country needs a breather between Game 2 and Game 3? It is genuinely baffling. Rico Bo$co even pointed out there is not a single Sunday game scheduled in the whole series, which feels impossible to believe until you check.
Hubbs went straight at Silver over the missing Sunday Finals window.
It’s outrageous the NBA Finals isn’t tonight. Adam Silver is as clueless as they come. Makes zero sense, especially with how the league loves Sundays.
While the league naps, New York is doing New York things. Somebody set up a folding chair outside Penn Station and started saying "Jalen Brunson" 100,000 times on a livestream. There is a handwritten sign. There is a counter. As of last night the thing was past 39,000 reps and climbing. This is the energy in the city right now, and Game 3 is not until tomorrow night at 8:30.
The actual livestream rig outside MSG, counter ticking up in real time.
Meanwhile the Spurs got the classic NYC welcome wagon when their bus pulled in. Fans hung around the curb and somebody yelled the now-immortal "Yo Wemby, get ready to go golfing buddy!" at the team as they boarded. That is the hospitality Wemby and the Spurs signed up for the second they punched their Finals ticket. There is no soft landing here.
Spurs greeted by a heckler outside the team bus in Manhattan.
On the basketball side, Jason Williams went on camera and said if the Knicks are within 10 entering the 4th quarter of any game in this series, they are winning it. That is the kind of take that ages either incredibly well or incredibly poorly within 72 hours, but the logic tracks — Brunson has been a fourth-quarter assassin his whole playoff career, and Game 2 already showed how thin the margins are. Now everybody just has to wait an extra day to find out. Cool league.