Special to the Director's Cut Blog
By Michael O'Mara
CLEVELAND -- Long before the Cavaliers and Magic take to the court for Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals, more than 1,000 workers are hard at work to make sure the show gets on the air.
It all starts backstage.
Hours before tip off , the hard work begins.
Workers haul in beer and other refreshments the hungry fans will gobble up.
Tech crew members are busy running huge lines of coaxial cable through a maze of wires to the engineering room while others check and re-check cameras and microphones for the national broadcast.
Tom Sahara, a technical coordinator for TNT, says it takes 22 cameras to bring the Cavaliers and Magic up close in your living room. One of those cameras is devoted solely to every move Lebron James makes.
These workers don't have big paychecks and for the most part go unnoticed. But they take pride in making the Cavs games the best.
"They don't know who's doing all the prep. We are the ones who should be seen because we are the ones doing all the work for our customers," said Beverly Hamilton a Cavs worker.
"When people come down here and say 'it looks great', that means we are doing our job. We don't wait until it looks bad," said Mike Wise of Wise Painting.
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