You also can't watch nationally televised games, which basically means all playoff games.
O yes, you totally can! The nationally televised games are available next morning, the home games in the local market are available in 3 days. And you can watch all of those sweet post-game interviews. And the home and playoff games going back many, many years.
But wait, you want to watch the home games in SLC in real time? You totally can and it's free! They are on your over-the-air TV channel!
- "But I don't have a TV..." People are giving out old TVs for free all the time on the sites like Freecycle.
-"But I don't have a digital antenna..." They were offered for free several years ago but if you missed it you can buy it now for, like, 20 bucks... and, probably, still can find it on Freecycle for free if you are determined enough.
Of course, there are still some weird edge cases like living far away from SLC and not getting the local SLC TV but still being blacked out on the League Pass. Those unlucky ones to fall within this category are by no means "a lot of Americans" and they had an even harder time to get the Utah Jazz games back in the 80s and 90s.
We are living in the incredible times when having access to the unimaginably gigantic amount of the NBA and Utah Jazz content is unprecedently easy and cheap. And yet people still complain.