After winning the championship four times in eight years, the San Antonio Spurs will host the Portland Trailblazers (without injured top pick Greg Oden) to launch another season of NBA basketball (8 pm/ET, TNT). The Rockets and Lakers (10:30 pm/ET) top off the opening-night doubleheader. Here former Pacers star Reggie Miller, who joins Marv Albert in the broadcast booth for the first game, weighs in on the new campaign.
TV Guide: If you knew on draft night that Oden would be out for the season, how would that have affected the Oden/Kevin Durant decision if you were the GM of the Blazers? Reggie Miller: You're speaking to someone who would have taken Durant anyway. I know it's hard to find true centers, and I do love Greg Oden, but I'm an old-school guy who wants to win now, and Kevin Durant is more re
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The 2007 NBA season opens this week with a quadruple-double: four straight nights of doubleheaders on TNT (Oct. 30 and Nov. 1) and ESPN (Oct. 31 and Nov. 2).Tomorrow night’s opening game sees the Portland Trailblazers face off against the defending NBA champion San Antonio Spurs (Oct. 30, 8 pm/ET). After that, the Houston Rockets will take on the Los Angeles Lakers at 10:30 pm/ET. ESPN’s coverage on Halloween includes the Dallas Mavericks at the Cleveland Cavaliers (8 pm/ET) and the Seattle SuperSonics at the Denver Nuggets (10:30 pm/ET).On Thursday TNT has the Detroit Pistons at the Miami Heat, plus the Phoenix Suns taking on the Sonics. Friday’s ESPN games are the Washington Wizards at the Boston Celtics, followed by the Suns hosting the Lakers.Changes at the broadcast table include ex-Indiana Pacer Reggie Miller assuming a full-time game-analyst role for TNT, and ESPN’s hiring of former Knicks/Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy as an analyst."I was beginning to thin...
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