The timing of Games 5 and 6 doesn't make much sense.

[Spurs and Mavs fan]

Games 4 and 5 - both at San Antonio - were separated by three days, while Games 5 and 6 - one at San Antonio and one in Miami - are separated by only two days.


Wouldn't it make more sense to have the San Antonio games take place only two days apart and have three days between Game 5 in San Antonio and Game 6 in Miami?

[Dingle Barry]

Finals are always Tuesday Thursday Sunday.

[CubanMustGo]

Did the same thing between Game 2 (Sun 9 Jun @MIA) and Game 3 (Tue 11 Jun @SA). Pretty stupid planning by the NBA, and if it's "always Tues Thu Sun" then they need to change.

[Beaverfuzz]

The Finals used to also be Wed/Fri/Sun. Games one and two in one city Wed/Fri, then hustle to the other city for game 3 on Sun...then three days off until game four on Wed.

That was a dumb schedule.

[CosmicCowboy]

It's not like they had to walk to Florida.

[Russo21]

You would think

[jimbo]

They're under contract to have a Sunday game, or at least that's what came up when people were talking about the Grizz series.

[Spurs and Mavs fan]

It's not like they had to walk to Florida.

Yes, but given that it's an even shorter trek from the hotel in San Antonio to the AT&T Center, it still doesn't make much sense.

[CosmicCowboy]

The three day break is for TV ratings, not convenience. They don't want to play on Saturday because ratings suck.