AROUND the NBA:

[F Gump]

Like watching a movie on TNT. The deeper you get into it, the more determined you are to finish and the ads become longer and more frequent because they figure you are hooked until the end.

I don't watch anything except NBA games on TNT anymore.

In my world, DVR (to record, then fast-forward through all the ads and crap) is a mandatory device for watching. I even watch live games that way, by setting the recorder to run and then starting to watch the game when it's about 30 minutes old, more or less, so I can FF each time there's a stoppage. There's way too much junk to wade through.

With the All-Star Game, it's devolved so badly that I don't even bother. It's just not worth it imo.