NBA on TV and Online!

soloparadox wrote: »

Anyone stuck for being able to watch games online give me a pm.

younge wrote: »

Wheres it accessible?

ro2 wrote: »

There's 10% off for the Half Season Pass if you enter the code 15LPBB.

ro2 wrote: »

I've had it since the start of the season and the quality is grand most of the time. The RayV software is getting better.

peaceboi wrote: »

Sounds not very good abt the nba LP, at the moment. I dont believe its coz of the broadband connection & our systems. Its just their streaming capability is poor. Tey should giv the money bak, 4 poor service. I used 2 watch games live frm last few years, frm tat myp2p.eu, website. But sadly, found day b4, tat 4 som reason, the site is undergoin legal proceedings:eek:. So, nw really stranded. if nba fix tis buffering issue, please do update us. Thanks a lot guys.

no92strahan wrote:

Let's watch game 7....oh.......we can't!

That's right, tonight its game 7 of quite possibly the greatest Round 1 series in NBA history, and here in the UK we can't watch it. Now I know that some of you may be thinking that the fact I’m an Englishman living in England means that my ability to watch games like this is somewhat restricted. Some of you may even say why the hell do I care about the NBA anyway (I’d suggest you may have clicked on the wrong link if your thinking that), or maybe that its only Round 1 and we'll get to watch every game live from the NBA Finals.

But that not the point!

I’m willing to admit that because of my location we have to accept that some games just won’t be shown here, that we may miss out of some classic games, but surely not a whole series, surely not a game as big as this!!!!!

This series between the Chicago Bulls and the Boston Celtics has been amazing. An over-used word maybe, but one that can without doubt be used to describe what these two teams have served up so far. 6 games. 5 decided by the final play of the game. 4 of those went to overtime. Rondo, Rose, Allen (Ray obviously - I’m sorry I even have to point this out), Gordon, controversy, poor refereeing (standard for the NBA I know) and now a deciding game, winner takes all, well maybe not all but certainly a place in Round 2.

Or it is all? Does anyone out there believe either of these teams can go much further in these playoffs? When it was announced Garnett would likely miss the playoffs, everyone (and I include the rest of the Celtics) knew this put a death-nail in any hopes they had of repeating their 2008 Championship. The Bulls are a young team, quickly developing into one with character, style, and possibly a few real NBA Finals of their own in the near future.....but not this year, not against this LeBron led Cavaliers or Kobe's Lakers.

So what’s left, you can bet that these Celtics want to win this game just as much as they wanted Game 6 against the Lakers last year, and you think for one minute these Bulls won't leave every last inch of blood, sweat and tears out on that TD Banknorth Garden court tonight?!

But instead of sitting down and watching the end of this outstanding series, we'll have to content ourselves with either trawling through the Internet to find an online feed providing us with jerky, blurred pictures or give it up as a bad job and check the score when we wake up. The last one a particularly un-appealing idea because of what you miss out on. Even if you follow the game on the ESPN gamecast, at least you can get a sense of the drama and excitement when there's 2 seconds left and you’re waiting to find out if Ray Allen made the shot. Checking the score the next day you don’t even get that.

It shouldn’t be any surprise that the NBA don’t really care about this issue (after all this isn’t the first season where we've had 1 televised game per week), remember this is the league that allowed the city of Seattle to lose their beloved Sonics.

What makes this issue worse, is that we can’t even say the NBA aren't interested in building a large fanbase in the UK, they go to the trouble of bringing 2 teams across the Atlantic for a pre-season exhibition game, and provide us with far more NBA merchandise in this country than even the NFL does.

The reason they play the exhibition game, the reason the NFL plays regular season games over here, the reason we get a choice of at least 6 live NFL games each week is because these major American sports leagues know how in important it is to take advantage of the sports loving people of the UK and Europe....it’s one of the key objectives for them to tap into this market....you don’t have to have a business degree to see the advantages of being able to do this.

So they go to all that trouble and then they give us 1 televised (I say televised because they aren't even always live) game per week. 1 game. 1 lousy game! Added to that they don’t even give us the best game of the week, it’s not even the 45th best game of the week, they'll give us Sacramento @ Milwaukee - games even the fans of those teams aren’t interested in!!!!!!!

Does the whole blame lie with the NBA? YES. YES. YES. Sure you can say the television companies could do more, but the responsibility to get the product out to the fans lies with the NBA. Maybe they weren't happy with the money on offer but 1 televised game a week is going to lose you a lot of fans....and fast, and all the money that those fans are going to spend on your product.

So tonight we won't be watching game 7, but let's hope that the next time a series like this happens, the sort of series that when you get older you can tell your grandkids that you watched it all unfold, we'll be able to do the same.