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A spokesman for the N.B.A. said it had turned down several requests for teams to be in “24/7.” But a Major League Baseball spokesman said it would be interested in exploring opportunities with the network.

In earlier incarnations, the “24/7” franchise has followed boxers like Floyd Mayweather in training camp leading to bouts. Only one edition before “Penguins/Capitals” ended with coverage of an event — last year’s “24/7 Jimmie Johnson: Race to Daytona.” HBO’s other sports reality series, “Hard Knocks,” has been about N.F.L. training camps, most recently that of the Jets.

So far, viewership of the hockey series is just below HBO’s average of about three million for all showings of its boxing “24/7” shows. For the first episode, the only one that HBO has full numbers on, 2.8 million total viewers watched in a week, including 555,000 for its initial play on Dec. 15 and the first repeat. The second episode had the same number and the third fell to 549,000.

The Jets’ “Hard Knocks” series averaged 4.6 million viewers a week for all its showings.

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