OFFICIAL AROUND THE NBA: AUGUST 2023

Record games while at work. Been doing it for 20 years. Love this new cheap price.

 

If you want a better bargain? You can opt out. I paid for it last year. This year i cancelled. When i cancelled they asked me to stay and offered 20% off. So essentially $80 for the year. They also gave me the option for monthly which I'm considering for the tournament month and maybe March or April?

 

I have felt, for quite some time now, that there are just too many games and I do not watch enough of them, even tho I had the league pass last year, I preferred to watch a highlight package of a game in many cases. So, I just canceled it.

Too many games, NBA. I understand why you do it, but I think you have too much content out now that some paying customers (like myself) are tapping out.

 

If NBA league pass had the Blazers games I would get it and happily cancel my cable.

 

Pretty sure you can blame Fucking Blazer Broadcasting for that! BAM!

 

Good tip. I'll check it out. Did you email or call?

 

They do. Every single one of them.
Just have to use a VPN to bypass the area blackout restrictions.

 

Not every game if you want to watch them live.

“Games broadcast on ESPN, ABC, TNT and NBA TV will not be available to watch live on NBA League Pass. You can listen to a live radio broadcast or watch an archive of these games 3 hours after broadcast.”

 

I can listen to Travis and Michael call the games for free online radio feed and watch the condensed game for free later on streams .I don't see any advantage to League Pass unless you enjoy non Blazer games which I don't. I only follow Blazer games. I'll watch the TNT games online but I don't watch games on TV at all. No cable at my house, just internet and rabbit ears that'll only pick up NBC, CBS and PBS if I need to check the local news or something. It's very rare we ever turn on TV stations unless there's local news about fires or emergencies..

 

Email.

 

Schedule just dropped FAMS

 

I'm guessing this is one of the biggest days of your year given you find out where you'll be for the next season week to week

 

All you need to do is use a VPN. NordVPN is around $3 a month if you pay for 2 years at the discounted rate.

 

They aren't blacked out if you are watching from "Mexico" or "India"...

 

My wife gets the schedule and plans our next 6 months. Kinda weird, but we're used to it. Haven't even looked at the schedule other than where we'll be on thanksgiving and christmas and any conflicts with my daughters soccer schedule.

 

Yeah I'd be much more interested in games if there were just two of them a week. One weekend game and one weekday game. 82 is way to many games. NFL has 17 games and way more revenue, each game matters a ton. It would take the NBA some time to maximize such a change, but they are losing a lot of money having 82 games.

Think of it another way, would the NBA be better having 120 games a year? No way. If they had 50 games a year nobody would be suggesting they go to 82. They just gave stayed at 82 since that was history. But the 82 games started when guys were on commercial flights with 9 teams in the league, little defense or effort or intensity compared to today's league, and many players smoked cigarettes. It's stupid to stick with the same schedule as 80+ years ago.

 

Bad assumption there. College football drives the wreck known as the NCAA, not college basketball with 2-3x the number of games. The sport of football simply has way more spectator appeal, and much more economic impact (think tailgating). The same goes with the NFL vs NBA. The number of games isn't a direct factor in that.