The Musers- lots of Game 7's in the opening round of the NBA Playoffs
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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May 4th, 2026
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Sam Slayton, CEO and co-owner at Sante Center for Healing. |
| 0:03.8 | For three decades, Sante Center has been providing lasting recovery for addiction. |
| 0:08.2 | Addiction left untreated is a fatal disease. |
| 0:10.9 | Sante offers treatment-based, clinical excellence, and compassion. |
| 0:14.5 | We're available now at santecenter.com. |
| 0:16.9 | As we go into the NBA playoffs, apparently, it's compelling sports television. |
| 0:23.2 | Because if you've seen that number that it's the highest TV rating in this first round for |
| 0:29.3 | the NBA in 33 years, now some are claiming foul in that it's different because it's on ABC, NBC, and there's the Peacock and Amazon streaming |
| 0:44.3 | factor, which all I know is it's measured this way, and that's the highest it's been in 33 years. |
| 0:52.0 | In other words, the league has its detractors. |
| 0:55.3 | And the fact that they're on some of these games |
| 0:59.1 | have been on high-profile networks instead of TNT. |
| 1:04.1 | I know that's, there's traditionally been a difference |
| 1:08.0 | in the way those things are measured, |
| 1:09.4 | and then you have the streaming factor. So maybe it's not this big jump that, you know, apples to apples kind of comparison, |
| 1:17.6 | but I still think that's a really good thing for the league. And for those who think that |
| 1:23.0 | the league is in a lot of trouble, I think it still shows that they have a lot of really good things going for |
| 1:28.3 | them. Yeah, I don't understand why that would be an argument against these ratings. For example, |
| 1:34.7 | the ticket, you know, let's say we have this little transmitter 1310, and then we get on a bigger |
| 1:42.1 | transmitter, 967, and our ratings go up. |
| 1:46.4 | Well, so what? |
| 1:47.5 | We got a better transmitter. |
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