Sicignano said Kaplan got the idea of offering sex to sports figures in 1994, when he overheard a conversation between Sicignano and basketball player LarryJohnson, then a member of the Charlotte Hornets.
And that's with the advantage of nostalgia as an added selling tool, thanks to a matchup invoking memories of the Larry Bird-Magic Johnson battles of the 1980s (the three L.A.-Boston finals of the '80s averaged a 30 share, as did the six Michael Jordan-led Bulls series in the '90s).