Petition for NBA TV in Australia

[Mark.]

Sit asked me to post this here,

Im sure a lot of you have already signed it, but would be great to get as much support as possible

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/NBATvAustralia

[peaches]

Signed.

411 Peachy66 I support this petition

[Fitzy]

i signed it too i hope we get it

[arrell]

Signed.

It's hard to believe that despite an Australian being taken at no 1 at last years NBA draft, we still don't have decent NBA coverage.

When Yao Ming got picked 1st a few years ago, China went craazy with the NBA.

[Jugs]

I signed the shit out of it, it'd be great to have NBATV, I'd watch it everyday of the season.

[Stevesanity]

Signed.

It's hard to believe that despite an Australian being taken at no 1 at last years NBA draft, we still don't have decent NBA coverage.

When Yao Ming got picked 1st a few years ago, China went craazy with the NBA.

Thats probably because you have many other sports that have much bigger markets and audiences whereas China has never had a sport they dominate in outright or have great success in (table tennis?), at least sports that are played worldwide.

It would be the same if one of your boys started playing rugby or australian football (is that what its called?) and was drafted 1st overall or became a star, it's unlikely stations are going to make a big deal out of it here and show countless amounts of rugby or australian football games.

But Im all for people getting more NBA games but its pointless for me to sign a petition thats for Australians.

[[L3]1101]

Signed.

It's hard to believe that despite an Australian being taken at no 1 at last years NBA draft, we still don't have decent NBA coverage.

When Yao Ming got picked 1st a few years ago, China went craazy with the NBA.

Thats probably because you have many other sports that have much bigger markets and audiences whereas China has never had a sport they dominate in outright or have great success in (table tennis?), at least sports that are played worldwide.

It would be the same if one of your boys started playing rugby or australian football (is that what its called?) and was drafted 1st overall or became a star, it's unlikely stations are going to make a big deal out of it here and show countless amounts of rugby or australian football games.

But Im all for people getting more NBA games but its pointless for me to sign a petition thats for Australians.

Have you ever watched the olympics? China's medal count has been in the top3 for a quite a while now. It's not really about how china don't dominate in a particular sports, it's that they don't have a big league like the NBA. And you are right about Australia having other sports that they can cheer for like Rugby, i assume they have a pretty big league over there.

[J@3]

Australia has three main dominant sports, those being AFL, cricket and rugby league... then you've got your second tier like rugby union and soccer, then other things people bandwagon like swimming, tennis, hockey, volleyball etc... basketball fits in there somewhere.

Why didn't Sit post it himself?

[Andrew]

That's pretty much the case, basketball doesn't get a lot of respect in Australia primarily because of the popularity of other sports and I think to a certain extent because we haven't had much success in international competition, not to mention our pro league has several problems.

I've signed the petition though I must admit I'm not all that optimistic as I'm pretty sure online petitions don't have a great success rate. But hey, it can't hurt to try and if it helps in the endeavour to get NBA TV as part of Australian pay TV packages, great.

[Unrestrict3D]

I signed it even though I'm not from Australia. I feel the same pain that you Aussies do - the local cable company here doesn't offer NBA League Pass or NBA TV.

[The X]

Why didn't Sit post it himself?

since I haven't been on MSN in a while I'm just assuming this, but I'd imagine he didn't post it himself because some smartass (not suggesting anybody, but no doubt it would happen) would come in & say that they knew Sit would be back & all that garbage & possibly spam up the thread....

on topic, I signed the petition....

[peaches]

Furwick I support this petition because I support this petition. Tony Parker has nice legs

LOL at this on the front page.

GONZALES I support this petition because I support this petition. MAN BRING NBA TV TO OZ!FFS! THERE ARE SO MANY FANS HUNGRY FOR NBA!GRAVING FOR IT! WE NEED MORE NBA IN ANY FORM SHAPEOR SIZE! WE NEED NBA TV ON FOXTEL DIGITAL!!!!!!!HEAR US!!!!!

[Matt]

i'm pretty sure that if this NBA TV venture was profitable enough then it would already be availabale or in the works. I doubt that an on-line petition will have any impact.

Although it'd be great if we had 1 or 2 more extra games a week.

[hammertime23]

yea I'm an American signer because i have nba tv and it's great so i think you guys need it too.

[Stevesanity]

Signed.

It's hard to believe that despite an Australian being taken at no 1 at last years NBA draft, we still don't have decent NBA coverage.

When Yao Ming got picked 1st a few years ago, China went craazy with the NBA.

Thats probably because you have many other sports that have much bigger markets and audiences whereas China has never had a sport they dominate in outright or have great success in (table tennis?), at least sports that are played worldwide.

It would be the same if one of your boys started playing rugby or australian football (is that what its called?) and was drafted 1st overall or became a star, it's unlikely stations are going to make a big deal out of it here and show countless amounts of rugby or australian football games.

But Im all for people getting more NBA games but its pointless for me to sign a petition thats for Australians.

Have you ever watched the olympics? China's medal count has been in the top3 for a quite a while now. It's not really about how china don't dominate in a particular sports, it's that they don't have a big league like the NBA. And you are right about Australia having other sports that they can cheer for like Rugby, i assume they have a pretty big league over there.

The olympics is a mixed bag, medals come in various events and only events that are of public recogntion in terms of domination are probably track and field(our boys) and swimming(shared between our boys and Australia) and then shooting is debatable as a major grouping but I think India does well in that category. Plus none of China's medals come in sports you see having popularity and large scale audiences outside the olympics. They suck in basketball, are near half decent in soccer and well most other major worlwide watched sports. Sure they may win athletics medals, table tennis, badmington and so on but those aren't sports that get huge airplay or have commercial success and are unlikely to attract sponsors and revenue if showed on air frequently due their relatively poor audience in comparison to major sports.

I mean while our domination in track and field is quite clear it doesnt get the same kind of yearly audience and promotion and sponsorship our four major leagues get (You ask 100 kids who they rather be, Michael Johnson or LeBron James and 99 of them will tell you James) . China's following for Yao is more of them being proud of him cause he's probably the most popular and known Chinese person in the world next to only Jacky Chang possibly (but he's from Hong Kong). Plus unlike Australia they don't have any world reknown sportsperson that they can be truly proud of besides Yao and basketball is a team sport and team sports always tend to earn more revenue and have larger fan bases than individual sports.

[jerry]

get TVU Player and u can watch nba for free it comes with TNT and ESPN. if you have fraps then you can even record games...its all free

[arrell]

To all the replies to my comments, "Fair enough."

But think about it, an Australian gets picked at no 1 in the NBA draft. Even though basketball isn't the most dominant sport in Australia, we Australians still like sports of all kinds. I think that any Australian that breaks into a sport in another country gets massive support, whether it is baseball, NFL (Ex-cat Ben Graham is playing with some team) or in this case, basketball.

Wouldn't the NBA be seeking to expand and globalise, as it is doing with China and European countries? My friend says that there used to be a NBA television show a few years back. I'd be more than happy for a half hour NBA show every night or every few nights after the news, or during a non-ratings time slot.

[Nick]

I signed this too. I will spread it around.

You americans should sign it too, just for numbers sake.

[Cable]

Are Canadians not good enough for ya?

[Nick]

Americans, Canadians, same thing

*hides*

[Matt]

My friend says that there used to be a NBA television show a few years back.

not in this century.....last game ever was Spurs v Knicks....and that was a 1hr "summary" of the Final game.

[Buckley]

i signed this thing....

hopefully you guys will get nba tv in australia

[Stevesanity]

Americans, Canadians, same thing

*hides*

Hey watch it!

Petition signed

488 Steve I support this petition

[hipn]

Americans, Canadians, same thing

*hides*

NO!!!!!! CANADA!!!!!!!! IS!!! BETTER!!!!! THAN!!!! THE U.S!!!!!!!

[artestfighttrainer]

Signed it, but they better make sure they dont get Andrew Gaze to commentate or present on it I bet he'll call the Team USA coach Karl Malone again and say Andrew Bogut is the best player of all time in the NBA.

On a similar note I was reading the TV Guide for Sunday Telegraph a couple of weeks ago and they put a review for Like Mike as with all the movies that are being shown on Aussie TV during a week and they said the story is about a boy who finds a pair of magical shoes that belong to Magic Johnson.... when did Magic Johnson have Michael in his name, got to love the knowledge of the Australian Main Stream Media of NBA