<< Gotta love NBC Sports. We don't actually care about sports until it's a special event like the Olympics, playoffs or some once a year event. We'll let some other network carry the regular season and provide better coverage where the announcers and analysts get to know the players and teams over the course of the entire year. Then we'll come swooping in at the end, totally change the things you were used to, and get all the ratings to falsely boost our advertising rates. NBC needs to either get totally out of sports or stop doing it half-a$$ed.
I realize they actually carry some of the NBA regular season games, but NBC just gets in my crawl when it comes to sports. >>
The teams make their own tv deals with local stations - NBC "graciously" offers to give national coverage to a few games nearing the end of the season to give them some exposure. If you want to b1tch about it, go b1tch at your team's PR office