ESPN Announces Replacement Programming For Lost NBA Games

ESPN has provided its updated schedule to replace lost NBA games due to the lockout. Last month, it gave us a schedule for the first two weeks of the NBA season, but with the league cancelling games for the rest of November, ESPN has to plug some holes. For this week and next, expanded SportsCenters and college football fill the bill. After that, college basketball games will be used in addition to the expanded SportsCenters.

We have a look at the revised ESPN programming schedules which start from tonight going to Thanksgiving weekend. The new programming shows what games it has replaced. Take a look below.

Date Time (ET) New Schedule Previous Schedule
Wed., Nov. 2 7 p.m. *SportsCenter (expands an hour) NBA Countdown
8 p.m. ^College Football: Temple vs. Ohio NBA: Miami vs. New York
11 p.m. SportsCenter NBA: L.A. Lakers vs. Golden State
12 a.m. NFL Live
Fri., Nov. 4 7:30 p.m. *SportsCenter (expands 30 minutes) NBA Countdown
8 p.m. College Football Live NBA: Boston vs. Atlanta
9 p.m. ^College Football: USC vs. Colorado NBA: Portland vs. L.A. Clippers
12 a.m. SportsCenter
Wed.,Nov. 9 7:30 p.m. *SportsCenter (expands 30 minutes) NBA Countdown
8 p.m. ^College Football: Miami (OH) vs. Temple NBA: Houston vs. Philadelphia
11 p.m. SportsCenter NBA: San Antonio vs. L.A. Lakers
12 a.m. NFL Live
Fri., Nov. 11 10:30 p.m. SportsCenter NBA: Denver vs. L.A. Lakers
12 a.m. NFL Live

*begins at 6 p.m. ET

^moves from ESPN2; replaced by a variety of events (^^College Football: Central Michigan vs. Kent State at 8 p.m. on Nov. 4; **College Basketball: Lehigh vs. St. John’s at 7 p.m. and ^^Duquesne vs. Arizona at 9 p.m. on Nov. 9) and taped programming

^^moves from ESPNU; replaced with taped programming

**added from ESPN3


Wed., Nov. 16 7:30 p.m. ^College Football Live NBA Countdown
8 p.m. ^College Football: Teams TBD NBA: Boston vs. Miami
11 p.m. ^SportsCenter NBA: New York vs. Denver
12 a.m. ^SportsCenter
Fri., Nov. 18 7 p.m. NFL Kickoff NBA Countdown
8 p.m. ^College Football: Oklahoma State vs. Iowa State (originally scheduled at 9 p.m.) NBA: Miami vs. Cleveland
11 p.m. ***SportsCenter NBA: Chicago vs. Phoenix
12 a.m. ^SportsCenter
Wed., Nov. 23 7 p.m. *SportsCenter (expands 30 minutes) NBA Countdown
7:30 p.m. ^College Basketball: Maui Invitational (third place game) NBA: L.A. Lakers vs. Oklahoma City

*begins at 6 p.m. ET

^moves from ESPN2; replaced by a variety of events (^^College Football: Teams TBD at 8 p.m. on Nov. 16; **College Basketball from Puerto Rico at 9 p.m. on Nov. 18; ^^College Basketball: NIT Season Tip-Off Semifinal #1 at 7 p.m. on Nov. 23) and taped programming

^^moves from ESPNU; replaced by events (**College Basketball: Princeton vs. N.C. State at 7 p.m. and Long Beach State vs. Pittsburgh at 9 p.m. on Nov. 16; **College Basketball: Siena vs. Georgia Tech at 7 p.m. on Nov. 23) and taped programming

**from ESPN3

***from ESPNEWS

Updated ESPN2 schedule for Friday, Nov. 25:

Date Time (ET) New Schedule Previous Schedule
Fri., Nov. 25 7 p.m. College Basketball (studio) NBA: Houston vs. Minnesota
7:30 p.m. ^^College Basketball: Old Spice Classic (consolation game)

^^moves from ESPNU; replaced by College Basketball: Wisconsin-Green Bay vs. Virginia at 7 p.m.

There you have it.

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