Exits: Tender traps await

The Second Arrangement's Kelly Dwyer with a ramble back, and the way forward, in New Orleans.

There are many benefits to choosing the in-browser version of viewing the NBA playoffs. For one, the ticker is gone, the ongoing playoff game on another channel doesn’t exist, imperative for those of us who delight diving into a hovel during the Late Game, preserving the entirety of its viewing for some unprogrammable hour (2 AM or 2 PM and 2 late for Twitter spoilers) without our surprises ruined, the human person basketball performance explained away by a creeping chyron. Boo, ticker.

The strongest advantage of the League Pass, in-browser viewing is the in-arena experience. The feed stays with the in-arena scoreboard and all its in-arena highlights, it never throws to commercial. The internet complained over that Chet Holmgren/Shai Gilgeous-Alexander ad earlier in the playoffs and I had no idea what the internet was talking about, it was so pleasant.

¹The New Orleans broadcast is particularly remarkable, most so the jazz bands working the corridors, sneaking up to the seats for some be…