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The Non-Jazz NBA Thread in the Jazz Section

You can’t watch your local team with League Pass. That’s the accessibility issue. Local Jazz fans are “lucky” because you can buy one streaming service, but for most fans they have to buy an expensive package or multiple of them to watch the team.
You also can't watch nationally televised games, which basically means all playoff games.
 
Its why I dont feel an ounce of guilt using illegal services when needed for those games.

If the NBA could provide a product that you get from the services (simply streaming every game) I would pay handsomely for it. But you cannot buy that from league pass.

People used to download music illegally all the time, now they don't because they can pay for something that has a good UI and accessibility.
 
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.
 
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.
****ers require Windows (or Android, or iOS) to view, though. Assholes.
 
Also, the electricity. Silver should reimburse me for the cost of electricity I spend watching the NBA. And for the opportunity cost of all my time spent watching it.
 
One million PG’s on BKN. I liked Bufkin in the draft, but he is someone I had to learn from. Am much lower on that type of prospect nowadays.
 
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