ABC and ESPN scored the most-watched NBA Finals since 1998, according to Nielsen Big Data Panel. Saturday’s NBA Finals Game 5 on ABC delivered an average audience of 24.5M viewers and peaked with 33M viewers watching the closing moments of the Knicks Championship victory. It was the most-watched NBA Finals Game 5 since 1998 as well.
Staring down the actual Declaration of Independence before stepping into the octagon as an underdog to beat the piss out of an undefeated fighter in front of the world is an extraordinary level of legendary
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Tyler Kolek is a sturdy 25-year-old backup who tends to get playing time when the Knicks are either up by a lot or down by even more. Kolek is also an unlikely contender for the most stylish man in the NBA. “He has a floppy finance-guy haircut and is perhaps best known by the casual fan for entering barbecue chicken into the basketball-slang lexicon. And yet the former Marquette star has outdressed just about everyone else in the NBA during his squad’s playoffs run,” writes Samuel Hine.
Basketball players have embraced the fashion world ever since the NBA relaxed its pregame business-casual wardrobe in 2020, but it’s a relatively new development for Kolek. Where last year he tended to wear standard-issue Kith and Aimé Leon Dore, now he looks like an off-duty Patrick Bateman with a house account at Lara Koleji, the Lower East Side vintage designer boutique. And he really does shop there. “Right before the Finals, we went to Lara Koleji’s showroom and picked out a bunch of runway pieces from back in the day,” says Olivier Rogers, a designer and stylist who has been working with Kolek to rebuild his wardrobe. “I was like, ‘This is your moment.’ The NBA Finals is like the NBA players’ Met Gala.”
Kolek and Rogers have planned out seven outfits in case the series goes the distance. Kolek declined to share which one he would wear to the trophy matchup, but he feels ready. “Obviously, if it’s a closeout game, you got to come with something that will close them out,” he says.
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Mr. Dolan has now decided to cancel the watch party.
I know this is breaking hearts across our city.
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