Similar to the teams on the floor, ESPN has endured a long and winding road to get to this championship matchup. The network produced game after game in the regular season over the last seven months, and now nearing the NBA calendar's crescendo, it's time to put a fitting end to the league's 76th season.

At the 2023 NBA Finals, Lead Producer Tim Corrigan and Lead Director Mike Schwab explain the challenges that come with two cities separated by more than 2,000 miles, what it's like working with each other in a pressurized environment, how they're tying their new mixed-reality open to the overall creative rebrand that occurred at the start of the regular season, and the responsibility that they have to tell the right story in the right way.