Familiar faces return to the N.B.A. finals. Or you can watch two De Niro films.
What’s on TV
N.B.A. FINALS 9 p.m. on ABC. “The Purge” is getting its fourth installment this summer. “Rick and Morty” was just picked up for a fourth season. And now, the Cavaliers and the Warriors will play each other in the finals for the fourth straight year — something that has never happened in any North American sports league. LeBron James will try to even the number of championships over that span at two apiece — but he’ll need help from an underwhelming and injured supporting cast that was brutally mocked by “Saturday Night Live.” The Warriors looked vulnerable against the Rockets, but hope to enter the conversation to be considered one of the best teams ever. And Jimmy Kimmel’s GAME NIGHT leads in at 8, with celebrity guests like Kevin Hart, Robert Downey Jr., Will Ferrell and Snoop Dogg competing in a three-point challenge.
CASINO (1995) 7 p.m. on VH1. Robert De Niro stars in this crime film from Martin Scorsese, playing a handicapper who oversees a lucrative Vegas casino. Sharon Stone earned an Oscar nomination as Ginger McKenna, his scheming wife.
A BRONX TALE (1993) 8 p.m. on AMC. Chazz Palminteri made his Broadway musical debut this month as the gangster Sonny in the surprisingly durable show “A Bronx Tale.” He probably didn’t have to do too much character work, though: He wrote “A Bronx Tale” in 1989 as an autobiographical one-man show, and then played Sonny in this 1993 film, also starring Mr. De Niro. “Mr. Palminteri gives the kind of coolly magnetic performance that makes it easy to see why Mr. De Niro gravitated toward this material in the first place,” Janet Maslin wrote in her review in The New York Times. “And Mr. De Niro is able to lend toughness to an ending that risks becoming overpoweringly sentimental, and instead succeeds in conveying a strong sense of father-son love.”