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NBA TV: Hardwood Classics will feature some of the greatest games in NBA history, along with commentary and fresh interviews with some of the key players, officials and league insiders from that time.
The March 6th two-hour debut episode of Hardwood Classics will spotlight Game 7 of the 1988 Eastern Conference Semi-finals between the Atlanta Hawks and the Boston Celtics.
The epic thriller, featuring the classic duel between Larry Bird and Dominique Wilkins, will include new commentary from Danny Ainge, Doc Rivers and Wilkins.
"Watching Larrry and Dominique was incredible -- those two guys were two of the greatest players in that era playing on the court, " said Ainge. "I remember vividly the shots they were making, the jump-hooks, the fade-aways from the middle of the lane, defensive pressure coming at them, double teams running at them. It was just two champions going head to head, two guys with incredible wills to win."
"Bird had a rhythm going during that fourth quarter that couldn't be broken," said Wilkins. "When you got a guy whose feeling that good, and his confidence is that high there is nothing you can do. Try to disrupt his shot or double team him or keep the ball out of his hands and we try to do all of that, and none of that worked."
The show, hosted by Mark Morgan, will also feature games such as the triple overtime thriller between Boston and Phoenix in the 1976 Finals, Magic Johnson’s amazing performance in the 1980 Finals against Philadelphia, and Michael Jordan’s final shot in a Bulls uniform to win the 1998 NBA Championship.
Additional original programs which recently debuted on NBA TV include NBA TV Insiders, an all-access show providing an inside look at the operational and business side of the league; Virtual G.M., an in-depth look at league stats, box scores and news for the fantasy basketball player; and NBA TV: Over Time, a program highlighting the life and times of some of the NBA's greatest players through interviews, historical footage and host narration.
NBA TV, launched in 1999, is the 24-hour television network of the NBA and the deepest resource for basketball, round the clock, seven days a week. NBA TV is the definitive basketball network, featuring live NBA and WNBA games, a package of NBDL games, high-definition telecasts, unique original programming, international coverage, vintage NBA games and will soon have classic basketball themed movies and TV shows from a library of hundreds, coaching and instructional programming, interactive talk shows and additional programming for basketball fans of all ages.
NBA TV is currently carried by satellite operators DIRECTV and Echostar's DISH Network in the U.S. and is carried in 29 countries.
