Goodbye NBA League Pass free trial. End date is January 8, 2012

[1987_Lakers]

[coin24]

Is that hookup still available???

Ive been loving the free league pass, but im not sure i want to pay $220 for it...

[KBryant24]

I was unimpressed. I understand all the blackout rules and all of that, but we should be able to watch the nationlaly televised games in the archive centers the day after the games aired.

[AirTupac]

Is that hookup still available???

Ive been loving the free league pass, but im not sure i want to pay $220 for it...

Nope. Deal is over.

[EnoughSaid]

It becomes like under a 100 bucks after the all-star break.

[Deuce Bigalow]

Nope. Deal is over.

Why is it over, what happened?

[coin24]

Couldnt they make it cheaper if they showed ads instead of "Game break in progress" black screen for minutes inbetween action??

[AirTupac]

Why is it over, what happened?

He said the offer is over.

[Deuce Bigalow]

He said the offer is over.

That sucks I really wanted that

[Kingwillball]

They Should Give to the All star Break to Pay the Fans back for the lockout !

[KBryant24]

They Should Give to the All star Break to Pay the Fans back for the lockout !

the lockout is the reason why i won't buy it. they don't deserve my hard earned money.

[coin24]

I enjoyed being able to watch whichever game i wanted, but honestly it was only 1 or 2 whole games out of the 7-10 most days.. So many blowouts/shitty teams that are too painful to watch..

$220 for ILP is a little steep, but might have to get it as watching streams is pretty bad. Have to see how much i miss it i guess

[sundizz]

I break it down simply; it costs $160 for the International League Pass where I live (S.Korea)

I watch every day 1 or 2 games when I get home from work. I make sure to stay off my fantasy team, NBA.com, insidehoops forum etc so it also makes me more productive from 9 to 5.

Let's say on average I watch 1.5 games a day from Xmas to mid June. That is about 5.75 months of watching X 30 days a month X 1.5 games/hours a day = 258 games/hours watched over the course of the year. It evens out since obviously I miss some days, but weekends I'l watch 3 or 4 games.

That breaks down to me paying 160/258 = 62 cents an hour that I am paying to watch hoops. I think that is a solid deal. There is almost nothing else I could do that would be even close to that cheap and give me close to that much entertainment. Even GOING to play basketball everyday is more expensive as I'd have to spend about $1.30 on the subway ride.

Do the 'coffee money trick' and spend $7 less a week on something dumb (3 slices of pizza, 2 coffees, etc). You can make up the cost of League Pass really easily. I don't get how people complain spending this minimal amount of money for something is archived, available live, and in really good HD nowadays. The value for your buck is unmatched if you truly enjoy basketball.

[RoseCity07]

It's not worth the money. If they could some how televise these games in 1080i or have no commercials it would be worth it. 220 a year is way over priced.

I wish ISH could coordinate a torrent site where posters record and upload the games for everyone to download.

[AirTupac]

It's not worth the money. If they could some how televise these games in 1080i or have no commercials it would be worth it. 220 a year is way over priced.

I wish ISH could coordinate a torrent site where posters record and upload the games for everyone to download.

Hulk did that last year but it went out of control and eventually the NBA found out what he was doing and stopped it (I don't know the exact details).