TV Best Bets
NBA Basketball
TNT comes forth tonight with a peach of an NBA doubleheader, which gets underway with a historical rivalry as Julius Randle and the resurgent New York Knicks defend home court from Anthony Davis and the Los Angeles Lakers. Then in the nightcap, it’s a clash of Northwest Division adversaries as Damian Lillard and the Portland Trail Blazers welcome Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets. 4:30 p.m. on TNT.
‘Independent Lens’
In the late 19th century, the U.S. government set up an Indian boarding school system that was dedicated to a dubious goal: “Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.” Accordingly, the program removed tens of thousands of Native American children from their tribal homelands and stripped them of their languages, traditions and culture. The new episode ‘‘Home From School: The Children of Carlisle’’ examines the history of the flagship among those schools and looks at a tribal effort to recover the remains of three children who died there. (TV-PG) 8 p.m. on 7.1.
‘Abominable’
Jill Culton wrote and directed this charming 2019 CGI Dreamworks Animated release, about a teenage violinist named Yi (voice of Chloe Bennet, “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”), who is shocked to find a young Yeti on the roof of her apartment building in Shanghai. She quickly befriends the gentle creature, whom she names Everest, and enlists the help of two young friends (voices of Albert Tsai and Tenzing Norgay Trainor) to return her new friend to his family at the highest point on Earth. Eddie Izzard also is heard. 8 p.m. on FX.
‘Black and Missing’
This four-part docuseries from journalist and activist Soledad O’Brien, which concludes Wednesday, follows the founders of the Black and Missing Foundation as they fight an uphill battle to raise awareness of missing-persons cases involving Black victims, which routinely get downplayed by both police officials and members of the press. Participants include missing-persons activist John Walsh, FBI victim specialist Dr. Renee Murrell; Baltimore chief of police T.J. Smith; and former assistant district attorney Glenn Kirschner, among others. Another episode immediately follows. (TV-MA) 8 p.m. on HBO.
‘Great Escapes With Morgan Freeman’
The new episode “El Chapo” chronicles the almost literally incredible history of the notorious drug cartel kingpin who eluded capture for years despite dogged pursuit from various Mexican and U.S. authorities. Even on the rare occasions when he was captured and sentenced to prison, he invariably was able to use his vast financial resources and famously disarming charm and charisma to pull off one seemingly impossibly escape after another, although at the moment he is incarcerated in a Colorado supermax prison. (TV-14) 10:03 p.m. on HIST.
‘Storage Wars’
In the new episode “Welcome Back Barry: A Real Weiss Guy,” Dan and Laura Dotson join Barry Weiss and Kenny Crossley to discuss the origins of the familiar auction phrase “pay the lady.” Meanwhile, Brandi Passante talks about what it’s like being the rare female in the storage auction world and reveals her favorite sidekick of all time. Another new episode immediately follows. (TV-PG) 9 p.m. on A&E.
Jin (Tenzing Norgay Trainor), left, Peng (Albert Tsai), and Yi (Chloe Bennet) with Everest in DreamWorks Animation and Pearl Studio’s “Abominable,” written and directed by Jill Culton.