I bet David Stern is so pissed right now. The Grizzlies and Spurs are the two teams in the West that are the least exciting to casual fans, and not only that, but the leading scorer for the Grizzlies in game 1 was some unknown scrub named Quincy Pondexter. How is the NBA supposed to market a guy that nobody’s ever heard of? And he doesn’t even dunk, so all those fancily-edited highlight clips they show on TV would feature nothing but Quincy shooting threes. Kind of like this not-so-fancily-edited highlight clip that you are watching right now. Quincy having a good performance equates to exactly zero dollars in additional revenue.
If I was Stern, I would arrange for an untimely “injury” to take Quincy Pondexter out for, oh, I don’t know, the rest of his life. And I would instruct the refs to lower the rims by six inches so there are more dunks. Nobody wants to watch the Spurs Retirement Home versus the Grizzlies Defense and Hustle Show. They want to see dunks. Get JaVale McGee in there and have him catch lobs all day. Now that’s basketball.