How about we start today’s newsletter with something not as serious as press freedom attacks and the latest shenanigans coming from the White House or wherever Elon Musk is working these days?

Let’s start with sports. Specifically, basketball.

The NBA Finals begin tonight with Oklahoma City taking on Indiana. (I’m picking OKC in five.) The games will be on ABC (with the ESPN folks running the broadcast). Just a couple of years ago, the broadcasters for the NBA Finals were among the best broadcasting teams in the history of sports. Yeah, you read that right. All of sports history.

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