The Hornets/Spurs Series Will Drag On Longer Than The Democratic Primaries

The Spurs defeated the Hornets tonight, forcing a Game 7 in their Western Conference Semifinal series. The deciding contest will be played Saturday Sunday Monday night in New Orleans.
It's stuff like this that makes it so difficult for me to care about the NBA. It's Thursday night. New Orleans and San Antonio could easily finish their series on Saturday - an empty day of the NBA playoff calendar. At the very least, they could play Sunday. But, no, the league has to take the fun out of everything and will play the game four evenings from now.
In that span, Boston will play two games; either the 6th and 7th game of their semifinal series vs. Cleveland, or two separate series against Cleveland (Game 6) and Detroit (Game 1). This really makes no sense at all to me. It's all because of TV; I get that, but why does killing the buzz of the best series of the playoffs make for better TV? Isn't the whole point to drum up interest in the series? And wouldn't the most excitement be surrounding either a primetime Saturday tilt or a mid-afternoon game on Sunday? How can the NBA let an entire weekend - Friday to Sunday - pass without playing what will be the most anticipated game of these playoffs?
By Monday, everyone will have forgotten about tonight's Game 6 and will be thinking more about the Eastern Conference Finals, or how great that Lakers series was or whether that horse will be going for the Triple Crown or how the NFL is continuing to brush the Spygate stuff under the rug and hope nobody notices. It's ridiculous. It's almost as if the NBA is dumping a series it doesn't want into a poor timeslot, only that series is the one everyone wants to watch. It'd be like putting Lost on Saturday nights at 6:00 p.m.
You know what also gets me? When ESPN teases a game by saying "Spurs/Hornets: 8:00 Thursday" and then you turn on the TV to find out that 8:00 only refers to the time of the pre-game show where Stephen A. Smith comes on to complain, and not the actual tip-off the game, which is at 9:00. In that hour we're treated to a bunch of nothingness, including Jalen Rose in a bowtie and at least four paeans to the goodness of Chris Paul's character. That's all well and good (or the exact opposite), but it's not a game. When you say the game begins at 8, it should begin at 8. When it doesn't begin at 8, that's false advertising, brotha! The NBA should get on ESPN and make them say "Spurs/Hornets: Coverage begins at 8:00, Tip-off at 9:00".
I get confused because when I look in the paper in the morning, it says the game starts at 9. Then I ask my cousin who works as a sportscaster and he says it starts at 8:00. So I take his word, not knowing that his word is based on ESPNs word, which is apparently crap. Simply put: If the game starts at 9, say it starts at 9. Pimp your crappy pre-game show however you want, just get me to a TV in time to see the tip.
I'm done now.