[paxys]

Good for a tech demo and good for making headlines, but exactly zero people are actually going to watch a game like this for more than 30 seconds. At minimum the players need to be "real", not cartoon stick figures.

The bigger problem of course is that with local/regional blackouts, nationally televised games and other broadcast restrictions there aren't very many games worth watching on NBA's own app for League Pass subscribers. And judging by how massive a media rights contract they just signed with TV networks, the status quo isn't going to change anytime soon.

[Spivak]

I don't envy whoever has to wrangle all the random licensing contracts major sports networks have. My partner is big into fantasy and she's got players on all sorts of random teams and wanted to watch the game so I looked into it.

Me: Can I pay someone, presumably you, any price to watch any NFL game I want?

NFL: no.