Basketball (NBA/BBL)
Posted: April 21st, 2022, 1:29 pm
Does anyone here like watching basketball?
So a couple of years ago NBA 2K20 was dirt cheap on Switch, only a couple of quid, so I snapped it up. I'd kind of enjoyed basketball games in the past, but never really understood how to play them properly and used to run around trying to tackle everyone which of course results in giving a foul more often than not.
So, given we were in full on OG lockdown at the time, I thought I'd learn it properly. Watched a load of tutorial videos on YouTube and ended up getting really in to the game, playing over 80 hours of it in the end.
At some point that year the NBA playoffs were happening, and I watched a game on TV. It was genuinely one of the most exciting sports I'd ever seen. Fast paced and almost always went down to the last few seconds of a game before the result was decided.
Anyway, I decided I liked Miami Heat in that first round of the playoffs because they were the lowest seeded team in the tournament and I wanted to support the underdog. Turned out they ended up getting to the final and losing to the Lakers, but I really enjoyed the whole ride.
It's now a couple of years later, and Miami won the Eastern conference and go in to the playoffs as number one seed. For some reason though they're not showing any of their games on TV in the UK this round, so I ended up getting a week's trial of the NBA League Pass. It's a fantastic app, available on console and mobile, and has HD broadcasts of every game of the season, in full game, highlights and super quick recap. You can choose from three or four different commentaries too. I think I'm going to carry on subscribing for the playoffs at £14.99 a month and probably will do most years now. Best of all, I can pay through my Google Play account which is about £35 in credit at the moment because of doing surveys and stuff (seriously, download the Google Rewards app. I get about £2-3 a week from it, which doesn't sound much but I've not paid my own money for an app in over four years!)
Anyway, all of the above is largely irrelevant, I just wondered if anyone follows the NBA and is watching the playoffs at the moment?
So a couple of years ago NBA 2K20 was dirt cheap on Switch, only a couple of quid, so I snapped it up. I'd kind of enjoyed basketball games in the past, but never really understood how to play them properly and used to run around trying to tackle everyone which of course results in giving a foul more often than not.
So, given we were in full on OG lockdown at the time, I thought I'd learn it properly. Watched a load of tutorial videos on YouTube and ended up getting really in to the game, playing over 80 hours of it in the end.
At some point that year the NBA playoffs were happening, and I watched a game on TV. It was genuinely one of the most exciting sports I'd ever seen. Fast paced and almost always went down to the last few seconds of a game before the result was decided.
Anyway, I decided I liked Miami Heat in that first round of the playoffs because they were the lowest seeded team in the tournament and I wanted to support the underdog. Turned out they ended up getting to the final and losing to the Lakers, but I really enjoyed the whole ride.
It's now a couple of years later, and Miami won the Eastern conference and go in to the playoffs as number one seed. For some reason though they're not showing any of their games on TV in the UK this round, so I ended up getting a week's trial of the NBA League Pass. It's a fantastic app, available on console and mobile, and has HD broadcasts of every game of the season, in full game, highlights and super quick recap. You can choose from three or four different commentaries too. I think I'm going to carry on subscribing for the playoffs at £14.99 a month and probably will do most years now. Best of all, I can pay through my Google Play account which is about £35 in credit at the moment because of doing surveys and stuff (seriously, download the Google Rewards app. I get about £2-3 a week from it, which doesn't sound much but I've not paid my own money for an app in over four years!)
Anyway, all of the above is largely irrelevant, I just wondered if anyone follows the NBA and is watching the playoffs at the moment?