and even if you don’t, make it sound like you will, so Comcast panics into lowering their demands with the dish providers.

I tell you, the NBA is by far the best run league. This will ensure in the future that all local fans will have some way to watch their team if say, some greedy bureaucratic cable company wants to hold on to their monopoly for as long it can leaving thousands of hungry fans with no home access to their teams games.

Very sad. I would pay money to watch the Blazers on my computer, but I don’t even have the opportunity to do so. The NBA is missing the boat.

Hate to break it to ya, but this was posted way back in August, and so far nothing new has come from it. I’m forced to believe at this point that such a thing wouldn’t happen this season, since the NBA needs to clear it with cable operators like Comcast who, in many cases, have paid for the exclusive rights to broadcast games in local markets. Considering how long it’s taken Comcast and the dish companies to come to any kind of terms (1.3 years, and counting), I would expect this kind of legal process to take a while.

Until then those of us under contract to DirecTV and Dish will continue to take what we can, pester the hell out of both companies, and go blind leaning WAY too close to our monitors in an effort to make out which player is which because their heads are comprised of exactly four separate pixels.

Bleh.