NBA League Pass Broadband

Ok I’ll stop doin’ that…..for a while

faroutfaroutfaroutfaroutfarout!!!!! Holy crap!!!!! This is the best news I have ever received in my life. I will now be watching every single game and will be dead tired at work very often, but it will be totally worth it. My neighbours are going to hate my guts for screaming and jumping around like a maniac in the middle of the night whilst watching the game. Let them call the cops though. I’ve got diplomatic immunity, BWAHAHAHA!!

International League Pass broadband (small link at the bottom of the page above, or directly here http://ilp.nba.com/).
Same price, slightly less features on the user interface than the US version (e.g. no live boxscore, you have to get that somewhere else), probably fewer blackouts (only if the game is also on some national TV channel in your region that has the NBA rights). They check IP addresses and don’t allow proxy servers/VPNs, so probably no way to circumvent for those blacked out fans in Oregon and Washington ;-)

Currently available in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, UK. That’s quite a lot. If your place happens to be not included, sorry, yet more countries might be added on request, send them an e-mail to leaguepass@nba.com and nba@rayv.com (maker of the software) to let them know.

Also helpful: League Pass Broadband FAQs/Knowledge base
International League Pass Broadband FAQs: http://ilp.nba.com/FAQ.aspx

I was waiting for such a feature for years (in 2006 something was available), and while the quality isn’t amazing and the interface/software still has some kinks (I would recommend to open the game stream in a separate window if you still want to comment on BE or do something else, it doesn’t work in tabs and the stream will stop) I am happy to finally have a sufficiently reliable source for a ton of NBA games.

I’ll check it out. No black outs for me though! Apparently the Jazz don’t black out games… not that it matters. I’ll be at them.

Last season I watched a great number of games on this site. In order to get around the blackouts you can setup a proxy for your web browser but I also discovered a better way for when you don’t have a proxy fast enough to handle streaming video.

Open up another game and copy its URL from the address bar into notepad. If you look at the Blazer game’s link you should be able to figure out what part to change. Don’t have access to an account at the moment to get all detailed but maybe it’s for the best so they don’t patch it immediately.

Also they may black out games based on physical address you sign up under instead of IP address. If that is the case, sign up under a relative in Washington and until they get another team you shouldn’t have any games blacked out or Utah I guess like ratbastird said.

I live in San Diego, and it told me this game was blacked out. It also told me the LA Clippers game at the same time was blacked out. I wrote to them and complained and they sent me some BS about local games being on blackout…Now, my question to them which was NEVER answered was if I’m in San Diego, how is San Antonio @ Portland Blacked out as both teams are over 1000 miles away from where I live? They’ll not be getting a dime of my money.

tried Firefox too… it was like has been said above, it was horrible. interestingly, it was fairly smooth until there was a lot of action or camera movement. too much rapidly changing information for the viewer to read, maybe..
i dont know, but it was extremely disappointing. does anyone know if this is normal? if they actually sel this product? anyone have it last year. im in Brooklyn, and travel a lot for gigs, and was looking forward to LP this yr…