Showing playoff games on a niche network, much less elimination basketball, is simply bush league. In a time when the NBA is poised to make huge strides on the king of American sports while they squabble over how to divide their success, David Stern and company completely drop the roundball. All the NBA had to do was put the most competitively balanced playoffs I can ever remember on display for all of the country to see, but instead, they put them on NBA TV.