Surprise: ESPN: The Magazine ignores Spurs Finals win

[ChumpDumper]

Yes, they are!!

[Fast Dunk]

Yes, they are!!

[ChumpDumper]

[JustSpurs]

The July 2 edition of ESPN: The Excuse For A Magazine has Oden or Durant on the cover, a full page story about how Lebron is money for Cavs even though he sucked in the championship round, and exactly 67 words on the Finals. I'll save you the trouble of buying it by printing them here:

"LeBron & Co. [surprise, let's start with LeBron] can only watch as Tony Parker drops a layup in Game 4 of the Finals. Parker was a common sight in the lane, splitting the Cavs D at will to earn the Finals MVP award. Later, David Stern handeed the Frenchman his trophy, saying 'Congratulations, and bonne chance!' Nice, but if anyone needed a chance it was Cleveland, which never had one in the series sweep."

The backdrop for the 'story' was the shot we've all seen of TP driving to the hoop early in game 4 as the Cavs stand there and watch him go by.

So here is the flagship publication of the corporation which pays hundreds of millions to broadcast the NBA championship, yet somehow this is the best they can do in terms of print coverage. There's not even the usual one page NBA section in the back this time, either. What a joke.

More proof - as if we needed it - that the ESPN/ABC conglomerate is totally clueless when it comes to promoting the NBA. But, hey, we did get SIX PAGES about some shmuck who got picked to be an AF2 ref-for-a-day.

I'm suprised it wasn 't full of Mighty Ducks coverage due to the fact that ABC/ESPN is owned by Disney.

[MadDog73]

It's just more proof that ABC/ESPN loves wasting money.

I doubt they make a profit on the magazine anyway, to them it's just about getting the ESPN brand out there, not pimping basketball.

[samikeyp]

Who cares?

The trophy still stays.

[SAGambler]

Why would they want to talk about a dirty, old, boring team? The Spurs mine as well be in Antartica as far as the rest of the US goes. Now the Cavs, thats a team that gets a lot of hype, but will never win an NBA finals

There....Fixed it for you.

[td4mvp21]

The only reason the Finals were even televised on ABC was the King, if it had been the Pistons, it probably would have gotten moved to Telemundo. Nobody wants to watch the Spurs, deal with it

Really? Then how come the 2005 Spurs-Pistons Finals drew better ratings then this year's Finals? Probably because the Pistons were actually a good team that didn't suck ass like the Cavs.

[Cherry]

"ESPN: The Magazine ignores Spurs Finals win"

Pop: "I don´t give a sh*t"

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

I'm suprised it wasn 't full of Mighty Ducks coverage due to the fact that ABC/ESPN is owned by Disney.

Disney sold the Ducks to private ownership two years ago.

[703 Spurz]

You mean to tell me, there isn't a single asterisk anywhere in the entire issue? Surely they mentioned the Spurs somewhere.

Ever hear of the phrase "Move the on jackass"?

[Lonestar]

AAHHHHH!! Screw the haters cuz we got ours!!

[ancestron]

maybe because no one watched the finals except spur fans and lebron lovers.

Spurs fans and LeBron lovers....hmmm...so that was probably about HALF of the PLANET.

[mrsmaalox]

Same thing happened in 2005. I thought it was because a couple of issues earlier they had done that "What's Not to Love About Manu and the Spurs?" issue with the adorable pic of Manu on the cover. But I suppose now they are intended slights.

[dbreiden83080]

Really? Then how come the 2005 Spurs-Pistons Finals drew better ratings then this year's Finals? Probably because the Pistons were actually a good team that didn't suck ass like the Cavs.

Exactly it is pretty clear in todays NBA that the public want a good series over just star power. This finals proves that. All the media was saying with the Cavs here in the finals and Lebron the ratings will be good. Well they were awful thanks to most people going in knowing that the Spurs were so much better and then sweeping the Cavs easily.

[Agloco]

The only reason the Finals were even televised on ABC was the King, if it had been the Pistons, it probably would have gotten moved to Telemundo. Nobody wants to watch the Spurs, deal with it

Hard to have a compe ive rating when only one team shows up. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank your Cavaliers for their help in turning this finals into the pile of dog that it was.

Strong work from LeBrick and crew.