ESPN’s Game 1 broadcast was unbelievable — for precisely what it didn’t do

Who knew?

We knew. Since Goose Gossage was a gosling, we knew. We always have.

Wednesday’s Knicks-Spurs Game 1 was amazing for how the ABC/ESPN crew — the invisible, unheard crew, from cameramen to tape operators — treated it. It was treated like a basketball telecast, no reason to abandon it to press “look what we can do!” buttons.

Producer Tim Corrigan’s troops — Corrigan is about to become ESPN’s head of all basketball telecasts — answered all our questions, quickly, concisely, clearly.