Saturday, June 16, 2007

The Spurs Win and The...

...World Rejoices. The best part of this story is that one of the smaller influence teams gets the most viewers around the world. I think the US will catch up to the rest of the world... San Antonio SPURS 2007 NBA Champions!

Here from the NBA:

THE FOLLOWING IS A BY-THE-NUMBERS LOOK AT WHAT WILL TAKE PLACE DURING THE NBA FINALS IN BOTH GAME CITIES:
Global Reach

A record 128 broadcasters (breaking last year’s all-time mark of 112) will provide coverage of The Finals in a record 46 languages, including Arabic for the first time.
More than 250 international media members from 23 countries and territories will cover The Finals.

36 international television and radio networks and Web sites will converge in the two game cities.

11 customized international NBA television shows will shoot behind the scenes at The Finals, up from 5 last year, including, among others, Hoopark (China, CCTV), NBA Lin Ju Li (China, GDTV-Guangdong), NBA Zhi Zao (China, 32 telecasters), NBA Magazine (NHK, Japan), NBA Jam (RPN, Philippines), Basketball Tonight (ESPN Star Sports Taiwan, Pan Asia), NBA Time and American Dream (Canal+, France), Espanoles NBA (Canal+ Spain) and NBA Timeout (US, AZN).

A record 9 international players will be competing, including the Spurs’ Tim Duncan (U.S. Virgin Islands), Francisco Elson (Netherlands), Manu Ginobili (Argentina), Fabricio Oberto (Argentina), Tony Parker (France) and Beno Udrih (Slovenia), and the Cavaliers’ Zydrunas Ilgauskas (Lithuania), Sasha Pavlovic (Montenegro) and Anderson Varejao (Brazil).



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