Unlike previous broadcast partners, ABC has never aired a non-Christmas regular season game after 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time. While NBC had several 5:30 p.m. Eastern start times for games, ABC has only gone beyond that time on Christmas, and for select playoff games, including the Finals. On March 20, 2005, ABC aired a pair of games regionally (between the San Antonio Spurs and Detroit Pistons, and the Phoenix Suns and Memphis Grizzlies) at 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time. After the Spurs–Pistons game ended, the network opted to end coverage for its stations to carry regularly scheduled local programming("ABC" did not always follow this practice for regional games in other sports) instead of switching over to the Suns–Grizzlies game (in which the Suns were up 94–91 late in the fourth quarter, and was being shown on the West Coast and in the state of Tennessee, so the network didn't to delay local programming just for one market, Memphis). NBC rarely committed this practice, as it instead showed the tail end of a game still in progress after the previous game has completed, a prime example was in 1998, NBC switched to the Pistons-Timberwolves game after the Jazz-Rockets game ended, and the Pistons-Timberwolves game went to double overtime, resulting in "NBC Nightly News" being canceled for the East Coast).