NBA

The last few weeks has renewed my interest in basketball, in the NBA and the New York Knicks in particular. Locally my team the Leopards have reached the National Cup Final and that means a trip to Sheffield later in the month for the Cup Final. However its the NBA that's really captured my interest.

Owing to a "labor dispute" and "lockout" , quaint American terms for when one group of exceedingly rich men row with another group of exceedingly rich men over who has what percentage of the profits, the NBA season didn't commence until Christmas Day. The day when the Knicks took on the Boston Celtics at MSG.

The NBA obviously wanting to relaunch itself offered a two week free trial of NBA TV, meaning that fans like me in the UK could watch any game, any time over the web. The next two weeks saw me develop the habit of catching a game most afternoons. At the end of the trial I succumbed and now have a team subscription for the Knicks. This means I get to see all 55 regular season games plus the play offs and finals. If used to the max I estimate that this will work out at less than £1 a game.

I've felt that the reluctance of Britain to embrace basketball was in no small part down to a lack of media coverage. NBA TV will allow me to get my fill. Game on.