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NEW YORK — Zach Leonsis, vice president and general manager of Monumental Sports Network, recently traveled to attend E3 and went around asking the sports fans there if they were watching the NBA Finals or Stanley Cup Finals.

If he was looking to find many mainstream sports fans, he had walked into the wrong place — a gaming expo.

“You go, ‘Oh, are you watching the NBA Finals? Do you know John Wall? Do you know Alex Ovechkin? And they go, ‘Nope, no I don’t,” Leonsis recalled Monday at Hashtag Sports.

“But I love Faker. Faker is incredible.