NBA Western Conference Finals 2017: Warriors vs Spurs TV schedule

The 2017 Western Conference Finals will be between the No. 1 Golden State Warriors and the No. 2 San Antonio Spurs. So when are all the games being played and where can you watch?

After the Houston Rockets failed to launch in Game 6 at home on Thursday night, the San Antonio Spurs have emerged as the other team that will play the Golden State Warriors in 2017 Western Conference Finals.

Golden State won the Pacific Division title at 67-15 to earn the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference Playoffs. The Warriors completed two sweeps of the No. 8 Portland Trail Blazers in the conference quarterfinals and the No. 5 Utah Jazz in the conference semifinals.

San Antonio won the Southwest Division title at 61-21 to earn the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference Playoffs. The Spurs’ path to the Western Conference Finals wasn’t as easy. They needed six games to best two division rivals to get to this point: the Memphis Grizzlies in round one and the Rockets in round two.

Here is a look at the upcoming television schedule for the 2017 Western Conference Finals. ESPN’s Marc J. Spears tweeted out the tentative television schedule for the best-of-seven series.

Game 1 between the Spurs and Warriors will be on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 14 at 3:30 p.m. ET. It will be nationally televised on ABC. From Spears’ tweet, the entire Western Conference Finals will be shown on Disney channels ABC and ESPN. Conversely, the Eastern Conference Finals between the Cleveland Cavaliers and either the Boston Celtics or Washington Wizards will be seen on the Turner channel TNT.

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While having the tip-off for Game 1 on Mother’s Day on ABC makes some sense, the television executives do realize that this will be a 12:30 p.m. PT start time in Oakland? Though this has been the dream conference finals series out of the West we’ve dreamed of all season, expect Game 1 to be an ugly one due to the early start time on the West Coast.