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OKLAHOMA CITY – Given the Finals matchup of teams from two or the league’s smaller markets, it’s been inevitable that NBA commissioner Adam Silver would get asked about that – in media exchanges or even by fans on the street – in the days leading up to this championship series.

Silver’s position essentially is that size does not matter.

Not like it used to, anyway, in the NBA’s formative years. And not now as technology has shrunk the world even as the league has grown globally.

“It seems a little unusual how much discussion there is around ratings in this league,” Silver said Thursday in his annual news conference about an hour before Game 1 of the Finals tipped off.

“Even for me sort of w

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