I've been a long time LP subscriber as well and also felt guilt about it and tried to tune into many of those overseas streams year after year to avoid it(especially in the earlier years when the NBA's service wasn't 100% reliable either)and at some point it gets too frustrating between the ads, the technical glitches, dead links, etc and I just end up buying it because I waste so much of my time trying to do that game after game and the price for the year is effectively the difference these days between going out one less night a year with drinks and food. $100/year is very fair if you are watching most games - between the regular season, the playoffs, and summer league - that's A LOT of Rockets content (especially the way the Rockets are currently treated with almost no national TV games)- probably around 90 games this year. On the plus side, the NBA has mostly worked out the technical glitches from year's past and there is even some content you would have a hard time stumbling on for free that I enjoy like the different gamecast feeds they capture - sometimes they have those "Players only" feeds which can be entertaining, or I particularly like those Microsoft Azure streams(NBA CourtOptix) that overlay the shot metrics on the screen in real time so you get shot quality feedback in realtime. They even have a CourtOptix version that overlays NBA Jams style graphics when players hit big shots and dunks - lighting bolts and fire trails on the ball, etc. I wouldn't necessarily watch a whole game this way, but when I'm doing something else and just want a game on in the background, it's an entertaining feed. Hell sometimes I even throw on the Spanish versions just to help me keep up the language skills I don't practice as much as I should although I wish they had a goofier Spanish speaking version of Ryan Hollins on there saying "Margarita Monday" the right way. The only downside is those extra feeds are sometimes there and sometimes not(maybe arena dependent?) and the NBA does a poor job of setting expectations and marketing around those feeds which is ironic because that's part of the value with subscribing that many people don't even realize exist.
https:// playoffsstream . com It works very well on Bromite (an application) for Android. For some reason I can't get it to work on Windows or Firefox although I'm sure it's something with my Adblock settings. It works with zero stutter which is common on str****a*t and NBA Streams.
trash ass NBA HQ cracked down on International LP and it would’ve taken way too much work to overcome their new restrictions, so no more entire season of ILP for 1500 rupees these MFers got me paying full price for regular LP and I’ll just have to use VPN magic to avoid blackouts
wish I knew that was a thing, but oh well aside from ILP being like $15 for the year, it was great being able to easily avoid blackouts
If you are outside the Houston market and paying for League Pass, it's best to do it through your cable TV provider vs. through the NBA and their POS app. I remember many posters complaining in the game threads about the app crashing repeatedly.
Nba league pass is now super affordable I remember when it used to be like $200. Before I pulled the plug last season on league pass I was using illegal streams and had to deal with ads, streams pausing, or not working altogether. If you are outside the Houston market there is no excuse to not get League Pass
Two years ago in Houston with LP, I was able to get the “VPN Magic” to work, turning vpn off to login, clearing my cookies, then turning it back on just before I hit “Watch” to start the nba.com video player. This worked bc the login would fail if you had vpn On, but the video player didn’t recheck, except for a cookie setting, that you deleted. That didn’t work last year, and same with MLB. I think there is now a 3rd Party vpn checker service that NBA and MLB use, which does a dynamic check of IP addresses (at the point of hitting “Watch”) to figure out if it is a VPN. I even set up my own private VPN server, rather than using known vpn services, and it failed. I spent a great deal of time last year, doing all sorts of tricks, and they all failed. leads me to believe they are detecting protocols typical of vpns. But let us know if you get it to work at nba.com, as opposed to the phone app. All said, LP with vpn works for @Clutch playback, atm. two questions: what do you mean by “app”? The nba phone app? Can you watch last night’s game at nba.com via a browser?
Just to add, playback will blackout LP without a vpn, just like nba.com will, but playback allows it to slip through with vpn … which nba.com is still able to block.
The other thing great about LP is the archive of all previous games. I use that a lot. LP in the US doesn’t offer playoff games, just preseason and regular season. International LP does, though.
I used the nba app, I have an android device. 1. Vpn was on 2. Went to the app setting 3. Went to permission 4. Location 5. Select "do not allow" 6. Open the app then it work for me last night.
It offers replay of playoff games(I think 3 hours after the game is finished) but you are right that you can't watch nationally televised games "live" on league pass. I would have thought they would have advocated for a more coordinated strategy to streaming vs network feeds in this latest CBA but they likely have to fix some of the legacy ad revenue models in streaming before they disrupt that and frankly the league is bending over backwards to take the buckets of money the networks are throwing at them. Side note - it would be interesting if the league ever stops utilizing the networks to create a model where they collect 100% of ad revenue rather than some split with networks. At one point the networks were the only way to get your product into the homes of people but the internet has democratized that. The only place where the NBA is still reliant on networks is in advertising and promotion...and the fact the league's owners have financial interest in traditional TV distribution models but also billionaires always have financial interests in the status quo.
Cool. Now the big question is: Can you get that to work on a TV or computer monitor. Three years ago I was able to install a router-based vpn, then use the NBA app installed on Apple TV to watch on my TV. Two years ago, that stopped working. Casting from my iPad-based NBA app to TV also stopped working.
