Yeah, I tell lies. What are you even talking about?
Hockey was a more popular game then
Never has been in this country
the NBA didn’t take off until the mid 80s
Then why is it always talked about Bird and Magic bringing it back? They were in the NBA in the late 70s.
finals games on weeknights were tape delayed, CBS showed a rerun of Columbo and Cannon or Kolchak the Night Stalker before the NBA tape at 1:30am, before we had any recording devices
1:30 AM after Columbo? Come on. This is ridiculous.
From 1979–1981, CBS aired weekday NBA Finals games on tape delay if they were not played on the West Coast. Games were televised after the late local news (11:30 p.m.) in the CBS Late Movie time slot. In some cases, games were seen live in the cities whose local NBA teams were playing. In 1981 for example, WNAC-TV Boston and KHOU-TVHouston carried Games 1, 2, 5 and 6 live, although most viewers around the country had to wait until after the late local news to see them.
The 1984 Finals was possibly the first time we got live prime time games on weeknights
"1982: The '82 Finals marked the first time since 1978 that all of the games aired live in its entirely;" - so not only was it '82, but also it was before '78