By the time you read this column, the first game of the NBA Finals would have occurred, and hopefully it was a close game. However, if the Oklahoma City Thunder, playing in the NBA Finals for the second time in franchise history (not counting their years in Seattle as the SuperSonics), demolished the Indiana Pacers, then this year’s NBA Finals are in trouble.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and the advertisers who bought time for the NBA Finals were crossing their fingers hoping that the New York Knicks would somehow find a way to defeat the upstart Indiana Pacers and make it to the Finals.

The Knicks, after defeating the Boston Celtics in the previous round, had turned their fan base, led by their No. 1 fan Spike Lee into a frenzy. Also being the biggest market in the U.S. and having a nat

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