THURSDAY’S BEST PICKS
4 PM ( TNT) NBA Basketball A tripleheader of NBA action goes off on TNT, starting with this clash of first-place teams as Jimmy Butler and the Southeast-leading Miami Heat oppose Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Central-leading Milwaukee Bucks. Then, two West playoff hopefuls collide when Luka Doncic leads the Dallas Mavericks against Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers. In the nightcap, two division leaders in the West go at it when LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers challenge James Harden and the Houston Rockets.
4 PM ( ESPN) 2020 PGA Championship In the age of the pandemic, what was the last major of the golf year is now the first, as the PGA Tour’s best tee it up at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco in the 2020 PGA Championship. Brooks Koepka won his second PGA Championship and fourth career major in last year’s tournament at Bethpage Black on New York’s Long Island, leading wire-to-wire to register a two-stroke victory over Dustin Johnson. He’ll return to defend his title here.
8 PM G Killer Camp The campers face even more diabolical camp trials — such as blindly putting their hands inside scary boxes for cash, smacking each other with soaking-wet dodgeballs, and targeting those they don’t trust with buckets of blood — in the new episode “A Killer Twist.” The penultimate campfire sees the killer claiming his or her final victim in a truly epic murder. Bobby Mair is the host.
9 PM ( A&E) The First 48 A new truecrime episode called “Point of No Return” opens in Mobile, Ala., where two friends are found fatally shot in a car parked on a dark dead-end street in the Southern city. As police detectives arrive, the murder scene strongly suggests the twin killings weren’t part of a robbery, but rather execution-style murders. As they sift through clues, the evidence seems to be pointing the police to an unlikely suspect.
9 PM ( DIY) Insane Pools A new episode called “Lake It or Not?” finds Lucas Congdon and his team at Lucas Lagoons undertaking one of the most massive backyard projects of their careers together: a lakeside dream pool and backyard escape that seems to be dedicated to the familiar proposition that everything really is bigger in Texas.
10 PM ( TRU) Tacoma FD Ike’s (Gabriel Hogan) deeply unpleasant twin brother, Mike, pays him an unexpected visit — during which he asks for a favor that, if granted, would be truly life-changing — in the new episode “Ike and Mike.” After the crew takes DNA tests, Granny (Marcus Henderson) is surprised to discover he has a Jewish heritage. Elsewhere, Terry (Kevin Heffernan) is absolutely devastated to learn that Lucy’s (Hassie Harrison) genes are more Penisi than McConky.
10:01 PM ( A&E) Court Cam Host Dan Abrams introduces a new half-hour assortment of real-life courtroom moments, including a judge who winds up losing his job after his temper gets the best of him. In other vignettes, a taser comes out when what starts out as a routine security check turns unexpectedly physical, and a father earns national attention through an unforgettably moving act of forgiveness.
11 PM ( SYFY) SYFY Wire’s the Great De
bate Host Baron Vaughn and his robot sidekick DB-8 wrap up their first season of celebrating geekdom by welcoming a group of panelists to duke it out over familiar horror-movie tropes, and what they consider truly iconic scenes that deliver some scary-good thrills, in “Camp Debate Lake.”