Another ESPN Factual Mistake

I watched none and I mean NONE of the NBA finals but taking my mother’s (so many mothers that it is a bromide) advice, that should I have nothing good to say in my subjective opinion of Disney/ABC/ESPN’s coverage, I will say nothing at all.

However, objectively their factual mistakes abound. In the chart below (from the NBA on ESPN twitter, and also linked on their ESPN site) they use the last title season and not the first year of the title drought. Hence while the numbers concerning the number of seasons between titles are correct, if one used the seasons on the chart, they would not be.

Example: Concerning the current champion Warriors, if the seasons involved were (1975-2014) as shown, the number of seasons between titles would be 40 not 39, the latter being the correct figure. The same applies for the other three teams in the chart.